Lest it be thought that all my cancer cases are a success, let me hasten to add that I have many failures. But the conviction is gradually forcing itself upon me that operation is always a mistake, and that failure is due to one of two causes; either the patient no longer has the vitality to respond to the remedy, or the doctor fails in his choice of remedy. I remember a lady of 60 or thereabouts to whom I was called. Her abdomen was a hard nobbly mass, and pain was insistent but not intense.
Carcinosin 200 was my choice because of an almost complete lack of symptoms. Two days later an apparent miracle had happened; the abdomen was soft and flaccid, never a knot to be felt. The lady died in peace and comfort less that 48 hours after that. Dr. Le Hunte Cooper, Sr., laid it down as an axiom that in bowel cancers homoeopathic remedies cannot act once the bowel has been incised. As for radium, I have seen one case in which it was used and repeated every three months or so for carcinoma uteri, and I never want to see another. The patient was on my hands when the hospital could do no more, and at the end it took 3 grains of morphia to relieve her pain. The carcinoma had involved the whole right hip and was extending in all directions.
I believe all homoeopaths will agree that the more actively malignant the growth, the greater is the likelihood of cure because pain forces the patient to seek advice at once, before vitality is sapped and mental and general symptoms cease to exist. My general experience is that the patients seek homoeopathic advice because of a desire to avoid operation if possible, and my usual but not invariable practice is to treat malignant cases by diet and the homoeopathic remedy. I believe it should be invariable; that one has recourse to surgery only through lack of confidence in ones ability to find the right remedy.
After all, the raison detre of operation is the belief that the growth is the whole of the cancer, whereas homoeopathic philosophy teaches us that the growth is secondary to a general constitutional condition and operation therefore can only remove the local manifestation but cannot touch the underlying cause. Cancer is one of the best examples of the constitutional action of disease. Watch its progress in a slow growing type.
See how all the lesser ailments which formerly afflicted the patient disappear and, in the later stages, how even mental and general characteristics fade out and the patient becomes merely a cancer cosmos. What possible use other than palliation can surgery serve for a disease which thus takes possession of mind and body and destroys them? Until the remedies have been tried, who will venture a decisive opinion as to what is curable or incurable? In all curable cases, we ought not to have recourse to surgical interference but only to the remedies which accomplish far greater results.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.
