SIT DOWN, DOCTOR, AND WRITE US YOUR ANSWER TO THESE.
QUESTIONS.
9. If the vital force of each human being is paced within certain limits and must remain within those limits, why is it so often necessary that a patient, instead of receiving a single constitutional remedy, must have a series or succession of two, three or more?-J.N.HAZRA.
10. A patient, who all of her life has been cold blooded, when taken ill becomes warm blooded. Which is to be considered in treating this case the original constitutional general, cold blooded, or the new symptomatic general, warm blooded?-J.N. HAZRA.
ANSWER TO QUESTIONS IN THE JUNE ISSUE.
Will our readers please analyze this case and suggest treatment: Dull, hard pain in the left side of the head, sometimes worse in the vertex, at other times in the occiput, and for several years this pain has been present in some part of the left side of the head; worse at midnight and in the early morning; vertigo on sitting up from a reclining position; much pain and soreness and stiffness of the muscles of the back of the neck, worse in the early morning, relieved by walking around; hissing noise in the left ear; weakness and numbness in the left hand and arm. These above symptoms have been present more or less for twenty years. The history of the case would indicate syphilis as the probable cause. Recently he has complained of a tickling sensation in the larynx and pharynx which, at times, causes a physical exertion, talking and laughing always brings on a wheezing cough which continues for some minutes and brings up a slight amount of tough mucus with some relief.
-I would suggest Thuja very high in potency.-R.E.S. HAYES.
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.