How long must we wait for society to demand that those who propose to make our laws for us, shall first prove that they have cerebral equipment?.
Legislative committees, in our state associations are at present our only protection, and they would seem ineffective enough in the face of a major calamity lie state medicine.
The practice of homoeopathic medicine today faces a challenge greater than it has ever done before; but the challenge is not alone to the homoeopathic school. The very basis of the practice of medicine is threatened as it has never been before.
It is necessary for us to make the most of our sectional societies, forgetting personal antagonisms, and band ourselves together to protect the practice of homoeopathic medicine. In union there is strength; this is our urgent duty.- H.A.R.
It is not often that we find two homoeopathic organizations side by side who produce such remarkably good Hahnemannian homoeopathy at their semi-annual meetings as did the Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society and the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society. In October the Connecticut Society program showed an unusually large number of good homoeopathic papers, strictly Hahnemannian in type. probably the outstanding paper at this meeting was the paper on Poliomyelitis by Dr.Jeremiah T.Simonson, which was of great interest in general, and to the homoeopathic physicians in particular, as giving a solution of the situation from the homoeopathic view point where the ordinary school of the medicine admitted their defeat.
In the Massachusetts Society meeting, under the leadership of Dr.Benjamin C.Woodbury, a symptom was presented on pneumonia and influenza. This was ably conducted and showed the marked superiority of the homoeopathic treatment over other methods, as was borne out by statistical reports from carious hospitals. The paper by Dr. Plumb Brown dealing with five cases of pneumonia that were brought into the homoeopathic hospital, practically moribund from various forms of treatment, all unhomoeopathic, being promptly cured by the homoeopathic remedy, was of particular significance.
It was interesting to note that of the number of physicians present at the Massachusetts Society meeting, eleven were members of the I.H.A.
Reports from the recent meeting of the Texas Homoeopathic Society, in which come of our I.H.A. members are active, show a wonderfully good meeting, and that papers were Hahnemannian in type. The several states which have flourishing homoeopathic societies are centres which have the opportunity to disseminate homoeopathy and there is increasing call for them to use their influence to give the best type of homoeopathy. There is a demand of late for papers dealing with Hahnemannian homoeopathy, and these state societies are arising to the occasion in a most satisfactory way.- 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.