Examining still further into laws governing the production of artificial disease states, we find there is laws governing the various states or types of substances which we desire to prove. As yet we may find these laws crudely phrased, but they follow closely the law of mutual action, the law of least action, and the laws of quantity and quality.
1.ANY DRUG WHICH IN ITS NATURAL STATE EFFECTS THE VITAL ENERGY BUT LITTLE WILL DEVELOP A PROVING ONLY IN AN HIGH POTENCY.
2.ANY DRUG WHICH IN ITS NATURAL STATE DISTURBS THE VITAL ENERGY TO FUNCTIONAL MANIFESTATIONS ONLY MAY BE PROVEN IN A CRUDE FORM.
3.ANY DRUG WHICH IN ITS NATURAL STATE DISTURBS THE VITAL ENERGY TO DESTRUCTIVE MANIFESTATIONS SHOULD BE PROVEN ONLY IN A POTENTIATED FORM.
It has been demonstrated that planetary movements have a definite relationship to life. The power of the moon over the tides is an ancient and constant observation. The relationship of the earth and the sun offers an irrefutable argument in favor of the correlation of he planetary influences. the influence of the phases of the moon on some mental conditions and nervous complaints has been noted from the earliest times.
For instance and appellation lunacy designated a mental disturbance definitely related to moon phases epileptic conditions also have shown some response to the cycles of the moon. In other words, through these abnormal conditions of mental and nervous disturbance we have perceived dimly from time to time the outlines of a great truth.
That cyclic manifestations have been demonstrated in other fields than medicine is easily seen from the most cursory glance at the science of astronomy. In its earlier states astronomy suffered from the same blind groping, ignorance and superstition that has hampered the intelligent observation of all natural phenomena;nevertheless it has emerged as a true science of mathematical exactness. It is still true that the deductions from the most careful measurements and computations very between different schools, yet it is the most closely measurable of all the sciences today.
Let us quote from The Concise Knowledge of Astronomy: History, by Agnes M. Clarke, pages 12, 13:.
The subjection of the moon to known law was completed by the dispersal of the mystery surrounding a slight, continuous acceleration of her orbital velocity detected by Halley in 1693.
It had been in progress since the earliest recorded eclipse in 721 B.C., if not longer; there was no sign of its cessation or reversal, and the grave question arose, Was the principle of universal attraction, elsewhere unreservedly obeyed, her fatally complicated by the action of a resisting medium involving the eventual collapse of the earth moon system? Laplace gave the answer in 1787 by proving the observed quickening of pace to be a necessary and simple consequence of a secular diminution in the ellipticity of the earths orbit.
This, however, will not go on forever in the same direction; after many ages the tide of change will turn, and a complete restoration to status quo ante will ensue. . . Ruinous disturbances were shown to be excluded by the overwhelming disparity of mass between the central body and its attendants, no less than by the regularity and harmony of their movements and distribution. Thus only slight oscillatory changes can occur. Millions of year will elapse without producing any fundamental alteration. The machine is so beautifully adjusted as to right itself automatically through the mutual action of its various parts. And it is the force which perturbs that eventually restores.
Let us repeat the last lines of this quotation in the light of our observation into the relation of homoeopathy and the fundamental laws: The machine is so beautifully adjusted as to right itself automatically through the mutual action of its various parts. AND IT IS THE FORCE WHICH PERTURBS THAT EVENTUALLY RESTORES.
This last observation, acknowledged by the most exact of all sciences and a deduction from observation of the most observable of all cyclic phenomena, is equally pertinent to homoeopathy and our belief in the lawful flow of vital energy. This deduction so fundamental that it might well be called a law, is closely allied to the law of mathematics; The quantity of action necessary to effect any change in nature is the least possible.
These are but a few of the laws which we, in our ignorance, have assembled from the vast resources at our command to demonstrate that homoeopathy is governed by laws that are universal, and that homoeopathy, therefore, is a part of the fundamental lawfulness and orderliness of the universe. If we can apply a known law of biology, a known law of mathematics, and a known and accepted deduction of astronomy, we can as surely apply the tested laws of any other sphere of universal activity.
At some future time we will be able to formulate definitely those laws which given the vital force and its action in the human economy. This vital energy, which is the sun of our individual human economy, has a distinct relationship to universal vital energy.
It is vital energy in the individual which offers homoeopathy its scientific demonstration of healing. Of this mystery we now comprehend but this: The state of the disordered vital energy is that state in which homoeopathy offers the greatest hope of regaining the lost balance of power in each individual, and that not by coercion of the vital force, but by so stimulating it that the equilibrium is restored by the same force that disturbed it; that the vital energy in itself is capable of disturbance and of self-restoration under the proper circumstances. We have used the laws of homoeopathy half blindly, as it were, yet we recognize their tremendous significance and their possibilities; we have observed their action in countless cases of human misery.
Let us be alert to observe and accurate to correlate the plain facts before us, that we may recognize, formulate and work in accord with the fundamental laws that govern homoeopathy and all nature.
DERBY, CONN.
DISCUSSION.
CHAIRMAN PULFORD;This paper has quite a wide scope. I have always felt if homoeopathy couldnt be correlated with the rest of the sciences, it had better stop altogether.
DR.RAY W.SPALDING;Just to make it easier for the next one to speak, I want to say that a paper like this certainly will find added and more forceful value in its printed form. It is difficult to discuss and yet will be exceedingly helpful in reference and is, I think, one of the most progressive papers that I have heard in the Association, dealing with the fundamental laws upon which homoeopathy is based.
DR.C.A.DIXON; The thought occurs to me that this would make a mighty fine thing to have in ones library. But he has just scratched the surface, and I think Dr.Roberts should be encouraged to go in and add chapter after chapter to that, for our guidance. I like to tell my patients that the cause for disease is breaking the natural laws, and the thought occurs to me that when disease overtakes us and we apply for relief, we are just piling up more trouble for ourselves unless we adjust ourselves to natural laws.
My thought back of that is that action and reaction, as the doctor quotes, have to be equal, and if force is used to adjust disturbances which are the results of breaking natural laws, we have only chaos following.
When we are in trouble, we dont think about breaking the law. We like to take a general view of infractions along those lines. We like to think we will break the law and get by with it. Nature doesnt work that way at all. W are all amenable to these natural laws. That is the reason we become that Dame Nature keeps a ledger just like your banker does. or your business man, and after you have broken about so many laws, says: Here is an account to be settled. Come on pay up!
Well, now, the best way to pay up is to square yourself with the law again, and I dont see how force, such as is being applied by our scientific men, squares with that program at all, meaning active doses of medicine, or crude drugs, or sera, or what-have-you.
I should like to have Dr.Roberts write a paper along the same lines he started there, oh, once a month anyway, until he has nice book.
DR.GRIMMER;This is indeed a marvelous paper. the doctor has brought to out attention the relation between the mighty and the infinitesimal. Man, after all, is but a miniature universe, if you will analyze him, and, being such, is subject to the same laws that regulate these vast bodies swinging through the heavens.
Recent experiments and discoveries of the physicists have shown that everything from the minutest infinitesimal bacterium up to one of these immeasurable suns, carries proportional charges of electricity. They are electro-magnets, if you will, and that is why we are all subject to the same force; and that is why, as the doctor has stated, and that proves that his statement is true, these planetary bodies do have effect upon health and disease, upon vegetation, upon even the mighty tides of the ocean, and it is all in accordance with law.
