Learn to contact life, not through artificially devised media, which must always lack the constructive impulse, but by taking in its whole movement and import, from the cradle to the grave; for each vital spark follows its own course and cannot be safely turned very far from it by your crudities. Only by meeting it on its own plane can it be beneficially influenced. This at once forces you into the realm of imponderables where action is measured in degrees of disharmony and the similimum shows but the least dissonance.—C. M. BOGER.
The 10th annual session of the Post-Graduate School of the American Foundation for Homoeopathy was held in Boston, Massachusetts from July sixth to August fifteenth. The school sessions were held at the School of Fine Arts on Beacon Street, facing the Charles River, and even during the unusual hot spell a cool breeze from the river made the hours comfortable. The principles of philosophy were covered by Dr. Charles Dixon, but all the lecturers stressed the underlying philosophy through their discussions.
Dr. Ray Spalding of Dedham, Mass., gave a splendid, logical course on case taking, and worked out many cases with the students, showing the evaluation of symptoms, and the finding of the similimum by the Kent method. Dr. Green lectured for two weeks on the Kent repertory, and familiarized the class with the finding of the rubrics. Dr. C. M. Boger clearly defined the meaning of the vital force, health, disease and the interpretation of symptoms. The Boger method of repertorizing, both by card and by Repertory, was demonstrated, in theory and actual practice. The Boenninghausen system was clearly interpreted by Dr. Roberts and illustrative cases worked out by the class.
The chronic miasms were presented for one week by Dr. Waffensmith. Materia medica, clinical therapeutics, diet, and the care of the remedies were discussed by Drs. Roberts, Stevens, Edwards, Underhill, Jr., and Sweasey Powers. Mr. G. H. Taefel gave one special lecture on homoeopathic pharmacy and the preparation and care of the homoeopathic potencies. Clinical work was supervised by the different lecturers at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital Medical Out-Patient Clinic and at the Dover Street Medical Mission Clinic. A number of cases were followed long enough to show the practical value of the homoeopathic treatment.
The school closed with a banquet, attended by twenty-four guests, professors and students, at the Hartwell Farms, an old historical farm house in Concord, Mass., built over two hundred and fifty years ago.–E. B. L. You cannot depend upon lucky shots and guess work; everything depends on long study of each individual case.– J. T. KENT, M.D.
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.