WHAT S A MENTAL SYMPTOM? WHAT IS MENTAL DISORDER?



If we will do these things, and then give our remedies to their clear-cut inductions,we can indeed almost revolutionize society.

DR.C.L.OLDS: I think we should differentiate between those mental conditions that are caused by a diseased vital force and those that a new caused buy something higher than that, that is, the soul. You can;t do anything with homoeopathic medicines in something tit is actually spiritual. Our drugs are not spiritual. They are spirit like. they do not read into the realm above the vital force. The treatment for those conditions that are of they soul is not medicinal.

DR.P.L.BENTHACK;Let us clearly understand if it is actually a moral or willful,single disorder before we use our Homoeopathic medicine. If we have a clean, noble person who in a shameful way uncovers himself or herself,we will know our Homoeopathic remedy is Useful had a patient whom I knew to be a good,clean, moral person, but when delirious we always uncovered herself. Right away it came to me that I should give her Hyoscyamus, and I did, and it stopped in trouble. But there are some others who are physically healthy but do these things on account of sinful ways.

If a man physically healthy but do these things on account of sinful ways. If a man physically healthy but do these things on account of single ways. If a man physically healthy but do these things on account of sinful ways. If a man physically healthy but do these things on account of sinful ways. If a man physically healthy but do these thing on account of sinful ways. If a man absolutely wants to embarrass society, out HOMOEOPATHIC medicine will not help.

DR.B.C.WOODBURY: I would like to call the attention of those who do not know of it to a book by Gallavardin on The Homoeopathic Treatment of Alcoholism. This book also contains the homoeopathic treatment of many of our physical and mental a delinquencies. It is a very remarkable and valuable book.

DR.C.M.BOGER: It seems to me you are mixing up a little bit. the soul isnt sick; it never is, not in the ordinary sense of the word-sickness. It is the physical body, through which the soul speaks that is sick,. the best pianist in the world cannot play a piano if the notes are all disarranged, and if your vital force is out of order, the soul cant speak through the vital forces in an orderly way. We want to get this matter clear in our minds. There is a regular graduation-will want to get this matter clear in our minds.

There is a regular gradation-will (including the soul,mind and vital force) and the boy. Keep that order in your mind and avoid all this confusion and void making a lot of mistakes. Now what the sick, body may do to he mind is a n entirely defiant question. What the sick body may do to the will is a different question also. But after all, it comes back to that fundamental fact the will which controls the whole situation considering it from that point of view.

CHAIRMAN DIXON: Thank you, Dr.Boger, we have all had our problems in telling what was a mental symptom.

DR.JULIA M.GREEN: In closing I only wish to say that we have treated patients and had the family come back and say that that patient seems to be all made over now, mentally, physically,and spiritually,which shows that our HOMOEOPATHIC remedies have a wonderful power.

I am very glad to hear Dr.Bogers discussion. That one sentence clears up the whole question.

The principle of potentization is intimately connected with the fundamental of our science, similia similibus curentur, but it is not superior to it: the potentized drug would be of little avail unless administered agreeably to the fundamental law, whereas the lowest potencies of the drug will frequently restore the patients health. . . We knows as yet too little of the inmost relation of our drugs to the vital laws which given the functions of he animal economy. too little of the inmost nature of temperament, idiosyncrasies, too little of the thousand influences which are all the time modifying he play of the vital forces, to be exclusive in our adherence to one potency in preference to another.

We are bound to believe in the principle of potentization, because we know that the breaking up of the material body homoeopathic practitioners into low and high dilutionists is is absurd; those who consent to be ranked among either class exclusively are not philosophical artists,and their opinions in matters refereeing to the healing art must necessarily be one-sided- HOMOEOPATHIC Examiner, 1847.

Julia M. Green