It is done by the patients reflexes. The patient is connected with the instrument only on the forehead and in the hand, and the remedy can be put in between the hand and the instrument or it can be brought near the patient. You can poke it at him. You can do it almost any way, or you can take it in one hand and lay the hand on. You can try many remedies, and the indicating finger of the instrument will pick out the right one. Then you can take the concordance and materia medica and satisfy yourself that you have the right remedy. That is the way I am doing it.
CHAIRMAN UNDERHILL: Will this instrument select the potency, too?.
DR. MILLER: It will that is, it wont select the low potency if it is not indicated; if a high one is not indicated, it will select the low one. I have already used the instrument in this way. I have given that medicine and watched in the next day three tests to see whether it was still the right remedy and found that it was not. In some cases it continues to be the right remedy for perhaps two weeks and even longer, and every test you make will still show that that is the right medicine. It will put the vitality up to normal. It will reduce the polarity to its normal condition.
The two tests that we make up are really vitality and the intensity, polarity and intensity. About 40 per cent. of all the people are negative when you put them on the machine. The rest are positive. When you are negative you are not well. I mean by that that you have not sufficient stamina or you are not well enough balanced to be well. You may take a nights rest and you may have a restless night from some cause in your body or from some diseased condition and down goes your polarity, but if you put the patient on the machine and give a treatment for six minutes, the polarity will go back to normal provided you get the right setting from the intensity.
We get the setting from the intensity and the blue print shows exactly how to set the machine and give the treatment. It does not take long to give a treatment. Go slowly and take your time if you feel like it. Give the remedy with the treatment or without the treatment; you can take your choice about that. I prefer the treatment and then the remedy in case it is necessary.
I often examine people and give the treatment and leave the medicine alone. I select the remedy but do not give it for twenty-four to thirty-six hours until I see that the treatments are not improving them as fast as they should. Then I add the remedy because I know the remedy helps to do the work.
I have treated patients without ever seeing them by simply taking my test on the old. Abrams reflexes and examining them and sending them the remedy selected from the reflexes.
But all this time I have been working at something else. I am like Dr. Stearns. He is trying to get down to simply one little thing to do the work, and so am I. I now have a spot on the human body that I select as the medicine and when you find the medicine that destroys that reaction, that spot shows the right remedy. You can work that out yourself, if you know the spot. If you had somebody here lie down on the table, I could show you. If the remedy for that patient is in the house, we can find it in about two minutes. If the medicine is not here, then we cant find it. If the patient doesnt need any medicine, you cant find it, either.
CHAIRMAN UNDERHILL: We are game for a demonstration.
DR. MILLER: Get somebody on the table.
DR. OLDS: Do you have to have the right potency as well as the right remedy?.
DR. MILLER: Sure. There is only one right remedy for the patient. Sometimes two work together, but they are only supplementing themselves. The only way to do is to have somebody lie on the table undressed around the navel.
DR. OLDS: I will lie on the table if there is room enough.
Dr. Miller demonstrated his method.
CHAIRMAN UNDERHILL: We shall have to proceed with the discussion and then close the Bureau for luncheon. Has anyone else any remarks he wants to make?.
DR. A. H. GRIMMER: I have been long interested in this work and I have been working with the same reflexes with a little different texture. I use the blood in the Abrams hook-up. I am no longer using the live subject for that. I am using a glass or earthen jar covered with chamois and into that is suspended a photo-electric cell. I get the same reaction as I did on the live subject, using the same areas and using the same vibratory rates on the Abrams hook-up, and with polarity a little different.
I think there is probably some confusion in the use of the term “polarity”. I use the Abrams polarity for magnetism and we find that, conversely to what Dr. Miller stated, shows patients who are highly positive. All our tonsil cases are positive, and those who are negative to a certain degree can be over-negative of course, but those who are negative are nearer well and that is consistent with what we know about the normal patients from a chemical test.
Transcribed, these terms positive and negative, we get acid and alkali. The normal fluids of the body are all alkaline, blood, saliva and so forth, and it is the excretions and waste materials that are acid.
The way we select the remedy is to restore the negative polarity first. There are two other polarities which are not mentioned, and I have classified them in four groups: negative, positive, bi-polar, and neutral. The neutrals are not exact but they are very, very closely so, so that you may get a slight reaction on one or the other side. They come into a class by themselves and for that reason it simplifies our work.
When you have determined by the blood of the patient the polarity that he requires, you can select the remedy. For instance, if the patient is positive, he will require a negative remedy. If he is bi-polar or neutral, he will require a remedy in one of those groups, neutral or bi-polar. It will be the opposite. If he is negative, it will be the opposite.
In that way we are able to sweep away with one test, one process, three-fourths of our remedies. We can discard at once and get into the group to which that patient belongs and then we begin individually and much after the methods that we have stated. We may got only two, three, or four reactors that will come through at first, and later on, by putting more resistance into the path of these three or four reactors, we will reduce it down to one or two and find that from our books and repertories we are able to select the better of those two.
CHAIRMAN UNDERHILL: Do you use the Boyds Classification?.
DR. GRIMMER: No, but I think it fits in very well. We have a great many more remedies than Dr. Boyd has classified, but it is remarkable how his classification fits in.
CHAIRMAN UNDERHILL: Which polarity does an anastomosed condition take?.
DR. GRIMMER: Acidity. It corresponds to a positive condition and increased negative condition; from that the intensity of the negative ray will be shown.
DR. CHARLES L. OLDS: I should like to ask Dr. Stearns if he has made any additions to these groups.
DR. STEARNS: No, no additions. Those were made by Boyd and I havent added to them.
DR. A. H. GRIMMER: I think that I am using the vital wave. Boyd hasnt the vital wave. I think our polarity really corresponds to the polarity wave that I use for the selection of remedies. I think that corresponds to his vital wave, though I dont know.
DR. HARRY B. BAKER: I work mine out a little differently. I work out the names of the remedies, that is, not a hundred per cent, but it is quick and it certainly has helped me a great deal in my prescribing. I work the names out and then down to the totals.
DR. C. R. MILLER: I should like to correct a misunderstanding. When I said that the patient negative was sick well, when positive they are sick, too, but that is intensity and not polarity. Polarity may be positive or it may be negative. In either case, it may be sickness or health, as far as that is concerned, but the intensity is sometimes called polarity by some people.
DR. GRIMMER: That is where I confused your statement.
DR.. MILLER: That is where you misunderstood me because the intensity is on the machine which positively measures and shows it. When you get to the higher points, we reduce that intensity by dividing it by seven and bringing it down into the lower scale because the machine is made to set on a certain center of 43,000 resistance and every machine Ellis puts out has its own measurement so you might buy one and it would be 40,000 and everything that goes above 40,000 would be set by reducing to bring it down to the blue-prints. So you can set your machine according to intensity.
Carcinomas and sarcomas run high but the vitality test runs highest of all.
DR. CHARLES L. OLDS: I should like to ask if Dr. Barker is using McRoberts machine. I use it for diagnosis and for selecting the remedy in certain cases only. If there is a fair picture in taking the case, that may indicate any one of half a dozen drugs and I simply take a short wave, that half dozen drugs, and test them out on the machine. I find that the less the number of drugs you have, the less liable you are to error. In a complicated case if you go over all of your remedies, you have a big chance of error.
