If the later result is obtained that patient will inevitably develop in the course of a few months or years, according to his constitutional soil inheritance, a cancer in some of his vital organs. We have few remedies that can antidote this kind of mischief, because the capillaries are obliterated by those destructive agents. Cad.iod., Fluor. ac., and Phos, are the only three remedies I have found helpful in such cases: X-ray and Radium preparations in potencies may be found useful in some cases after further study and trial. For the anaemia and cachexia that often follows radium abuse, Phos. is the best antidote. For the ulcerating areas of necrosis that seemingly defy all healing agents, Cad. iod. is the only remedy I have ever known to help. For the X-ray burn Fluor. ac. is the remedy that yields the best clinical results.
Industries of a certain type predispose workers to cancer, preferring special parts or organs, as shown in the cobalt miners tendency to cancer of the lungs. The workers in aniline dyes are more often affected by vesical cancer. These observations may suggest the proving and trial of these substances in potency as possible remedies for the disease localized in the parts that cobalt and the aniline dyes each affect.
No paper on the treatment of cancer, even though it be strictly remedial, would adequately impart the necessary knowledge for the most successful results without a complementary diet as an adjunct to the prescribing. And the diet, like the remedy, should be selected for the individual patient, noting susceptibilities and reactions after food selection, with as much concern and interest as is shown by the skilled prescriber of the homoeopathic remedy. Also foods compatible with the nature of the indicated remedy should be used.
The chemistry of food and its relation to the blood chemistry of the patient is a mighty aid or a great hindrance to the action of the curative remedy, depending upon the degree of intelligence shown in food selection. There is great need of more experimental work n the chemistry in its relation to cancer. So far this work is largely empirical and far form scientific; the only near unified opinion being the baneful effects of a meat diet, at least in advanced cases of disease; other proteins may be carefully admitted only varying in amount with individual cases.
The mental or psychic phase of cancer must not be ignored if our best success is obtained. The terror, and hopelessness, concerning the incurability of cancer prevailing today in the ranks of allopathy has made the problem more difficult. The public is told by these bombastic sons of egotism that there is no cure because they have failed to find it.
Anyone claiming to cure cancer is branded by them with their favorite anathema, quack. Anyone having the temerity to criticize their methods of surgery and radiation with the attendant mutilation and torture and the high death rate occurring in a shorter period than occurs to those untouched by them and left unhampered to nature, is not only a quack but a public menace. It is claimed by competent observers that ninety per cent of those operated and treated for cancer after the approved methods of the up to date modern medical scientist are dead after two years.
From its incipiency, homoeopathy has always inspired hope and courage in its practitioners and patients alike, because they are taught the advantage of working in harmony with the laws of nature, of which the therapeutic law of similars is but one. Because of these facts homoeopaths are better equipped to combat this sinister and implacable force, that threatens to destroy the race.
To summarize, the homoeopathic treatment of cancer consists, first, in the selection of some specific remedy found in the Hahnemannian group that includes all three of the miasms in their symptomatology, together with the group specially related to trauma in its numerous forms; second, in the removed of any and all irritations that may act as exciting or activating causes; third, in the homoeopathic selection of the proper diet, avoiding foods that irritate the patient and giving those that agree with and nourish him, such foods to be based on the needs of each patient rather than for a diseased condition; and last, the buoying up of the patients moral and mental status, appealing to his intelligent cooperation in all things, inspiring courage by explaining the certain but orderly processes by which disease comes under broken law, and goes under restored law, the latter brought about with the homoeopathic specific and the intelligent effort of the patient to live in harmony with all the lawful processes of nature. Armed with these forces and the knowledge that we work in unison with the resistless throb of universal order inspires us to face with confidence this baffling medical problem agitating the world today.
CHICAGO, ILL.
DISCUSSION.
DR. A. PULFORD: Dr. Grimmer, in his masterful manner, has given us the superiority of homoeopathy in the curative side of cancer. May I relate a case and give the superiority of homoeopathy in euthanasia.
We had a case of moribund cancer, abdominal sarcoma, said to be, turned over to us, and I turned it over to Dr. Dayton Pulford. He carried that case on with homoeopathy to the last three days when the remedy would not work any more. Then he turned to Tarentula cubensis, and the son-in-law told me that the patient died the most peaceful and painless death of anyone he had ever seen. I bring this up in contradistinction to those who use narcotics.
DR. D. COLEMAN: There is one point I would like to call attention to for fear that someone night try this remedy and not succeed and that is that we cant potentize an X-ray. An X-ray is a vibration. You cant potentize X-ray any more than you can the gas light.
DR. BENTHACK: I can absolutely corroborate everything Dr. Grimmer has said. I have used the same remedies and have cured more than a dozen cases of cancer in my town. With regard to X- ray and radium, both of them are misused, but Radium in the 30th potency has always served me very well there.
DR. A.H. GRIMMER: I wish to thank the members for their cooperation and encouragement and to answer Dr. Colemans statement that X-ray cannot be potentized. A great many of us have been using what is purported to be potentized X-ray and with some astonishing results. Whether that simply imparts its force to the sugar of milk in its, we might say, crude or primitive form, or whether there is a potentized effect going on, I do not say but I do know that very high potencies of Finke and others have produced tremendous therapeutic effects.
In his book The Collected Works of Arthur Hill Grimmer, Grimmer spoke out against the fluoridation of water and vaccinations. Grimmer wrote prodigeously, Gnaphalium, Homeopathic Prophylaxis and Homeopathic Medicine and Cancer: The Philosophy and Clinical Experiences of Dr. A.H. Grimmer, M.D.