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Malandrinum and Variolinum are used widely as prophylactics for smallpox. In India, and especially northern India, we always face the epidemic mostly at the end of the winter season and to some extent after the rains at the approach of winter. This is especially true on the plains. Malandrinum has proved very useful in localities which are damp, due to excessive winter rains, or where the summer rains are short.


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Malandrinum and Variolinum are both recommended as prophylactics for smallpox, but in any given epidemic how is one to know which to give? And re potency, should a prophylactic be given in low potency often repeated or in a single dose of the high potency?.

-Malandrinum and Variolinum are used widely as prophylactics for smallpox. In India, and especially northern India, we always face the epidemic mostly at the end of the winter season and to some extent after the rains at the approach of winter. This is especially true on the plains. Malandrinum has proved very useful in localities which are damp, due to excessive winter rains, or where the summer rains are short. It seems more effective when used for the type which is stout, healthy, fair colored, neat and tidy, non-vegetarian. Variolinum has been more successful in localities where the climate is dry during the summer, with sufficient rain during the rainy season and a winter which is not very cold. It seems more useful in the type with a medium or weak constitution, dark, skinned, and vegetarian.

Malandrinum has proved more successful as a prophylactic in those localities which have severe epidemics every year, while Variolinum serves the purpose in localities with the average type of smallpox. As Malandrinum is a very deep acting remedy I always use the 200th potency, once a fortnight. Generally 2 or 3 doses are sufficient. I use the 30th potency of Variolinum once or twice a week for a month, according to the constitution of the patient and the locality in which he lives.- G. S. VARMA.

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Allan D. Sutherland
Dr. Sutherland graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and was editor of the Homeopathic Recorder and the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.
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.