To have funds sufficient to establish a home for miasmatic children, so that there will be a place where homoeopathy will shine in their development and do a trick that the old school or the ordinary physicians know nothing of.
DR. C.A.DIXON: Why didnt little Johny Baryta carb. have lumps in his neck?.
DR. D. MACFARLAN: Baryta carb. is a very valuable remedy. I remember making a proving once. One of my provers looked very much like a Chinese. He developed a peculiar swelling of the face and the eyes seemed to develop a Chinese-like expression. I used the remedy in the 30th and developed a peculiar ulceration around the finger mils, something like Silica. It didnt have that than sinus discharge that Silica has, but it had a festering around the nails. It produced-and Hahnemann corroborates this in the Chronic Diseases-a swelling of both legs. Both legs were quite swollen, from the toes right up to the groin.
CHAIRMAN J. HUTCHINSON: Does Hering have those symptoms. in his Guiding Symptoms?.
DR. D. MACFARLAN: I really dont know.
DR. H. A.ROBERTS: Hering has it.
DR. A. H. GRIMMER: Of course, like all the rest, I want to congratulate the doctor on her inimitable style of presenting these remedies. It is so life-like. It helps to picture the remedy without burdening the memory too much. This remedy is most wonderful, as the doctor has just stated, in the undeveloped and arrested development of children, children who go only a short way and then stop developing.
I brought out another remedy, Thallium sulphide, in a case where Baryta carb. failed to function. This remedy might be compared with Baryta carb., although we have very few symptoms for its use. It lacks the glandular features that belong to Baryta carb.
This girl was seventeen years old. She could not even feed herself. Under Thallium she was able to take care of her ordinary wants and was even beginning to read and take on mental development.
CHAIRMAN J. HUTCHINSON: Was that remedy one of the potashes?.
DR. A.H.GRIMMER: No, Thallium sulphide. Thallium I think is a distillation from selenium. But it is worth considering and I think we might suggest to Dr.Macfarlan-he is our great prover- that he study Thallium sulphide sometimes.
CHAIRMAN J. HUTCHINSON: It has been very pertinently said that when we get picture of the remedy, by whatever means it may be, that picture remains in the mind and is there for any immediate use. Dr. St. Chair Smith, of the New York College, years ago in one of his lectures urged the class to carry that idea in their minds always: Try to picture a drug. Make its personality so emphatic and impressive in the mind that it cant leave, and that picture will aid selection at the proper time.
DR. C.M.BOGER: Dr. Macfarlans reference to the Chinese brings up the thought of the placidity of Baryta carb.
So many Baryta carb. patients are excessively placid. They dont seem much impressed by things. This is especially true of the children. They are not interested. This coincides exactly with what we think of the Chinese from the morphological standpoint, the Chinese being the next lowest to the Caucasian race being the furthest developed. It has been pointed put that the Chinese themselves, however prolific they may be, never will advance and attain the heights that the Caucasian race has because genealogically they are one step behind us.
DR. H.A. ROBERTS: They may take a sprint afterwards.
DR. C.M. BOGER: They wont do it until they get new blood.
She was one of the first students to graduate from the Philadelphia Post-Graduate School of Homeopathy and served at the school as Clinician, Professor of Children's Diseases and Professor of Repertory. She taught from 1933 until her health failed. She also taught Pierre Schmidt how to use the repertory.
Her accomplishments include being one of the founders of the American Foundation of Homeopath. She was a frequent contributor of articles, many of which are printed in the Homeopathic Recorder. She died on May 7, 1931.