These represent waste products of the body, and were found present in the gastric juice in some considerable degree; whereas these materials are usually conceived of as being eliminated only by the kidneys. What is more, it has been demonstrated that these substances were converted into innocuous substances as compounds of ammonia. It was also found that even when the kidneys were in a healthy condition, the stomach loaned itself in the job of eliminating urea and converting it into less harmful substances in such conditions as overloading of the stomach when the kidneys had an extra amount of work to do. These facts were also demonstrated by Romanian investigators.
It is a very great step forward that the physiologists of today have gone beyond the idea that special cells were specialized only for certain work, and that no other part of the body could make up for the loss. No greater advancement can be brought forth at this time than the proof that while certain groups of cells have certain tasks to perform, that others groups can be used to carry on the work if the first group is unable to perform the duty assigned to them.
This discovery of the physiologists serves to augment and abet the teaching of our system of medicine more than any other that has been demonstrated since the time of Hahnemann, that all parts of the body are affected by conditions and drugs, and that the totality and unity of the whole personality must be considered; this has been solely the province of the homoeopathic physician.-H.A.R.
Allan D. Sutherland was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1897, delivered by the local homeopathic physician. The son of a Canadian Episcopalian minister, his father had arrived there to lead the local parish five years earlier and met his mother, who was the daughter of the president of the University of Norwich. Four years after Allan’s birth, ministerial work lead the family first to North Carolina and then to Connecticut a few years afterward.
Starting in 1920, Sutherland began his premedical studies and a year later, he began his medical education at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia.
Sutherland graduated in 1925 and went on to intern at both Children’s Homeopathic Hospital and St. Luke’s Homeopathic Hospital. He then was appointed the chief resident at Children’s. With the conclusion of his residency and 2 years of clinical experience under his belt, Sutherland opened his own practice in Philadelphia while retaining a position at Children’s in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.
In 1928, Sutherland decided to set up practice in Brattleboro.