This process may be continued for a considerable time, emptying the water and refilling the container with fresh water and algae; but so long as drops of water have been left on the edges of the container, there is sufficient copper in an imponderable state to kill the algae. This process will continue almost indefinitely unless the container is wiped dry before refilling, when the destructive action ceases. (Homoeopathic Recorder, Feb. 1932).
The limit of the divisibility of matter, or perhaps it should be said, the limit of the supposed divisibility of matter, is being ever pushed upwards.
Prof. Carl Oppenheimer, of Berlin, and Herman Junker, of Hamburg, in their experiments with very weak solutions of metallic salts have made some interesting discoveries. Solutions so weak that they cannot contain any molecules, nevertheless are able to affect the rate of growth of protozoa. The rate of concentration is one part of metallic salt to ten sextillion of the diluting menstrum, or written homoeopathically, the 22x.
In the matter of rhus poisoning without there having been any contact with the rhus plant itself, there is evidence in such abundance as to the truth of these observations that it is well established. I quote from H.C. Allen in the I.H.A. Transactions for 1901:.
A very sensitive friend of mine, is particularly sensitive to the action of Rhus rad., and its poisonous influence is particularly virulent during a damp spell of weather. Although there was a distance of at least ten feet between him and the plant, he was poisoned severely, so that he was confined to his room six weeks. Another patient was poisoned by Rhus on the 4th of July while fishing. On the 5th of July at 12:30 a.m., he was attacked by intense itching and burning of the upper lip and nose.
In a few hours his face was so swollen that he could not open his mouth and the nostrils were closed. Every 5th of July at 12:30 a.m. for four years, he would have that characteristic burning and itching. What was the size of the dose that caused this permanent effect? The dose was imponderable, invisible, tasteless, impalpable, and yet there was the positive effect that none but a blind man could avoid seeing.
Further, in the same volume, there are cited the experiments of Darwin, showing that the one thirty millionth of efficient matter when absorbed by a gland of Drosera transmitted a motor impulse down the length of the tentacle.
A gold coin was put into a glass of water and allowed to stand for 24 hours. This water was given in tablespoonful doses three times a day; there were five experimenters, scientists, not medical men. At the end of a month they compared results and published them, and lo! and behold! it simply verified Hahnemanns proving of Aur. met. Gold is an insoluble metal according to science, and because it cannot be explained, science will not believe this.
There are also records of salivation having been produced by placing a salt of mercury in a tightly corked bottle and hiding it beneath the patients pillow.
Science is slow to accept what she cannot explain; and how can these phenomena be explained on her material basis? Even that tiny particle called the “atomerg” can push upward the accepted limit of the division of matter a comparative trifle.
But when we turn to The Chronic Diseases of Hahnemann and read that “homoeopathic dynamizations are the true awakening of the medicinal properties, latent in the natural bodies during their crude state, which then are enabled to act almost spiritually upon our life, that is, upon our sentient and irritable fibre”, then should we not conclude that our high and highest potencies are something real on their own plane, and not figments of our imagination; that they have individual substance and activity, just as truly as does the vital force; and that though imponderable, invisible, tasteless and intangible, still they move and have being in their own world, and affect the world of gross matter only as that which is vital affects that which is of itself dead. To the philosopher divisibility is infinite, because to him all things have their origin in the Infinite.
DISCUSSION.
DR. CHARLES L. OLDS: I should like to have an expression on the point I brought up about the force being transferred to something else.
DR. A. H. GRIMMER: I think you can tell it, doctor, better than any of the rest of us.
This is a very valuable paper in many ways. It brings out the idea of the continuous effects of our potencies as they step higher and higher up to the menstrum of alcohol or sugar of milk, and the idea that by contact this material imparts its energy. There is no end to what that is. As far as we know there could be no end to that divisibility, that ability of the medicine to impart its energy to new menstrums. It is something like what we recently heard of from the astronomers. They have discovered carbon dioxide planted in Venus, through the medium of the reflected light of the sun passing through the Venusian atmosphere, and they are able to tell that Venus now has carbon dioxide. These potencies are probably much along those same lines, merely something that is imparted by contact with this force or energy.
Is that what you wanted to bring out?.
If you give a new remedy when not needed, you spoil your case. Never prescribe for a moving image; wait till it rests. It is your duty to understand before you attempt to do. J. T. KENT, M.D.
