IS HOMOEOPATHIC PHILOSOPHY PRACTICAL



DR. C. M. BOGER: There is one practical point I wish to emphasize. It may not have as large a bearing as one might think, on the paper, but we are accustomed to look on certain remedies as being particularly dangerous in some diseases, such as Phosphorus and Sulphur in tuberculosis, and so forth.

After the pathological process has reached a practically incurable stage (or you think it has) or possibly after you have given a short-acting remedy in such a case and are afraid to take the next step with the remedy which seems indicated to reach to the roots of things because you are afraid it will tear things up and put the patient on the brink, give that patient a rather low potency of Lycopodium. Use a twelfth or a thirtieth, and give it by olfaction, and only one dose.

DR. CHARLES L. OLDS: Without the philosophy of homoeopathy, we would have nothing. It would be very much like having a bill passed by a legislature without an enabling act, without any financial support. Nothing could be done, and so it is if we do not have a philosophy that tells us what to do and what not to do. Except for the law we would have nothing, and we couldnt use the law.

DR. DAYTON T. PULFORD: I think the greatest misunderstanding about practical homoeopathic philosophy is that people think Hahnemann wrote his philosophy first and built homoeopathy on it. He discovered and developed his homoeopathy and the philosophy is an outgrowth of that.

Margaret C. Lewis