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Answer: If the patients condition is not alarming, wait a little before doing anything. The proving may be mild and of no consequence. If an antidote is really needed, the best way to proceed would be to take all the symptoms the same as for a new case, and select the remedy on these symptoms. As soon as the picture becomes clarified and orderly the next remedy will often do excellent curative work.

If a patient appears to be failing under a proving of Tuberculinum, Psorinum is one of the medicines to consider as an antidote. However, to name a single drug as an invariable antidote for another is entirely too dogmatic and routine for a true Hahnemannian. Let the prescription be based always upon the symptoms and not upon a rule of remedy sequence.

Question: HOW WOULD YOU TREAT A PATIENT HOMOEOPATHICALLY WHO HAS TAKEN AN OVERDOSE OF ANY POISONOUS DRUG? A young man took an overdose of an active poison and collapsed in five minutes. Blood pressure, systolic, fell to only 40; heart muscles became almost inoperative and nervous system seriously affected. He was brought around by allopathic treatment with much difficulty. IN WHAT WAY COULD HE HAVE BEEN HELPED BY HOMOEOPATHY?.

Answer: When a poisonous drug has been taken in dangerous dosage, any physician, whether homoeopathic or allopathic, should proceed at once to induce vomiting if possible, and to antidote the poison chemically. It is impossible to nullify completely the effects of massive doses of a drug with any attenuated or potentized remedy. However, any lasting ill effects following such poisoning can often be relieved or overcome by prescribing on the symptoms of the patient the same as for any case of illness.

Question: WHY ARE HOMOEOPATHS SO AFRAID TO GIVE DRUGS TO RELIEVE PAIN, HEADACHE AND OTHER SUFFERING?.

Answer: There are two ways of giving relief by the use of drugs. One method ignores everything but the present suffering and hence there has arisen the suppressive forms of treatment by the use of anodynes and a host of depressing medicinal agents. This method practically guarantees recurrences of the trouble and plenty of future suffering by suppressing the symptoms. It is even possible to prescribe homoeopathically for the acute manifestations to the ultimate detriment of the patient. The totality of the case must be included in the prescription.

In the best grade of homoeopathic practice the aim is to correct the constitutional state so that these acute sufferings will become less frequent, less severe and finally disappear altogether.

The first two questions were asked by Dr. F. B. Patel, Gowalia Tank Road, Bombay, India.

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Eugene Underhill
Dr Eugene Underhill Jr. (1887-1968) was the son of Eugene and Minnie (Lewis) Underhill Sr. He was a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. A homeopathic physician for over 50 years, he had offices in Philadelphia.

Eugene passed away at his country home on Spring Hill, Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, PA. He had been in ill health for several months. His wife, the former Caroline Davis, whom he had married in Philadelphia in 1910, had passed away in 1961. They spent most of their marriage lives in Swarthmore, PA.

Dr. Underhill was a member of the United Lodge of Theosophy, a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He was also the editor of the Homœopathic Recorder.
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