PRONOUNCE OR PERISH


In conclusion I wish to read a short poem-the preface to The Grounds of a Homoeopaths Faith, by Samuel A. Jones, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Homoeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan, published June 23, 1879-sixty years sag:.


Pronounce or perish! How clearly this Biblical quotation bring anew to the advocates of homoeopathy the warning that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”. We are confronted today with the same problems of ancient biblical times.

After over 100 years of homoeopathic teaching in the United States, we are amazed to find the following, taken verbatim from the dramatic story, Devils, Drugs and Doctors, written by Dr. Howard W. Haggard, Associate Professor of Applied Physiology, Yale University.

Hahnemann was successful in introducing homoeopathy, and because of its success it was accepted and practiced by many physicians. The secret of its success lay not in the effects of the drugs that were used, for these drugs were administered in amounts too infinitesimal to have any effect. Homoeopathy practically gave no medicine at all for Hahnemann advanced the belief that the smaller the dose the greater the effect. If he had said, not “the greater the effect”, but “the better the results”, he would have been right, for then most of the medical profession were giving accessibly large doses of potent and often poisonous drugs.

They were thus doing positive harm to their patients. The small doses used by the homoeopaths did not good, but neither did they do any harm. The patient stayed in bed and, as Pare would have said, “God healed him”. The distinction between the homoeopaths and allopaths-the name applied to the regular medical practitioners by the homoeopaths-has been summed up satirically, thus: The patients of the homoeopaths died of the disease and the patients of the allopaths died of the cure.

The vogue of homoeopathy was brief; it was soon replaced by scientific medicine, which showed that only a few drugs are of value in treating disease, but that these few are indispensable and must be used in effective amount. [ Italics ours C.P.B.].

what an astounding statement in view of the comparative death rates between allopathic and homoeopathic treatment! In what a pitiable position this sage of Yale is placed-there is nothing left for him to learn! He disposes of one and all treatments, except his own-with a grandiloquent gesture. He sits in his tight cocoon of ignorance and self-satisfaction, feeling himself competent to attempt to annihilate, without proper investigation, a therapeutic treatment whose comparative statistics, should he take the time to digest them, would make ridiculous his smug seat of pseudo-knowledge of the arts of medical science.

How could a Professor of Yale University feel justified in making such ignorant statements? He knows, if he will but admit it, that there is no crude drug given in any amount that ever cured anybody of anything, for this is contrary to Arndts Law, which specifically states that crude drugs destroy life processes; less concentrated drugs are toxic; diluted drugs stimulate, while highly diluted drugs are curative.

What and who is to blame for a physician of the standing of Dr. Haggard publishing such a diatribe against the immortal Hahnemann? the lethargy and lack of ethical publicity of the homoeopathic profession itself! The advocates of homoeopathy have given not even a meager understanding to the world at large of the true principles on which homoeopathy is founded.

Homoeopathy is STRONGEST IN NUMBERS in the United States but is WEAKER IN PROGRESS today than in many countries of both Europe and Latin America.

STARTLING COMPARISONS.

The following startling comparative statistics should be brought sharply before professors, physicians and the lay public:.

For example: Influenza mortality statistics (compiled in 1921, following the fatal epidemic period of 192801919) show that of 24,000 reported cases treated by allopathic physicians, the mortality was 28.2 percent, whereas of 26,000 reported cases treated by homoeopathic physicians, the mortality was 1.0 percent.

E. Rodney Fisk, of New York City, presented in the Journal of The American Institute of Homoeopathy, October, 1928, the following statistics of the value of homoeopathic treatment of lobar pneumonia, including 17,669 cases, as follows: Pure Homoeopathic Treatment.

(11,526 cases), mortality rate 2.8 percent.

Mixed Treatment (homoeopathy and vaccines) (6,143 cases), mortality rate 6.2 percent.

Treatment with sera or vaccines.

(609 cases), mortality rate 12.2 percent.

The low mortality rate of the homoeopathic treatment stands the same today as it has in the past.

Bearing in mind that the above statistics are representative of various curable diseases, is it not deplorable that a college would fail to perfect itself to the highest degree in advancing the practice of homoeopathy?.

An interesting instance is the statement of Charles Edward Russell, of the regular school. In a lecture he said:.

When I was Sunday Editor of the New York Herald, I sent a reporter around to thirty of the most eminent physicians in the City of New York with the instructions that the reporter was to mention the same symptoms of an ordinary, common everyday complaint, and have each doctor write a prescription. The reporter brought back thirty prescription and when we spread them out on the table, no two were the same or would go together. And, a little later, I sent a reporter around to thirty other physicians and asked them what they thought of a person who would prescribe these remedies for this disease, and they said they thought he was crazy.

How different was the result from a homoeopathic standpoint in a similar test cast abstracted from a medical magazine by the British Journal of Homoeopathy, March, 1932. A case was sent for consultation and prescribing to twenty physicians, ten homoeopaths and ten of the so-called allopathic or regular school. Outstanding men, as far as possible teachers in their own schools, were picked for the test. The regular fee was sent and the doctors were not informed that they were taking part in a test question.

To the homoeopaths was added a request for the name of the remedy with the statement that he was studying homoeopathy. The ten allopathic physicians prescribed ten different remedies, while the ten homoeopaths each prescribed LYCOPODIUM. What better proof of the uniform application of a true science could be set forth?.

RESULTS OF MODERN MEDICAL PROGRESS.

Alexis Carrel, in Man, The Unknown, published October, 1939, discussing present-day scientific medicine, makes the following statement, pages 114-115:.

Medicine is far from having decreased human sufferings as much as it endeavors to make us believe. Although modern hygiene has made human existence far safer, longer, and more pleasant, disease have not been mastered. They simply changed in nature.

Again, on page 178:.

A man of forty-five has no more chance of dying at the age of eighty years now than in the last century. This failure of hygiene and medicine is a strange fact. In spite of the progress achieved in the heating, ventilating, and lighting of houses, of dietary hygiene, bathrooms, and sports, of periodical medical examinations, and increasing numbers of medical specialists, not even one day has been added to the span of human life.

On page 20 Carrel makes this statement:.

Injection of specific vaccine or serum for each diseases, repeated medical examinations of the whole population, construction of gigantic hospitals, are expensive and not very effective means of preventing diseases and of developing a nations health. Good health should be natural. Such innate resistance gives the individual a strength, a boldness, which he does not possess when his survival depends on physicians.

At this point it is interesting to note statement of William R.P. Emerson, M.D., author of Diagnosis of Health, in an article for the American Medical Association, in the December, 1938, issue of Hygeia, entitled, A Call to Life:.

Death from old age is so infrequent as to be almost a medical phenomenon. Usually, the life processes collapse prematurely under the weight of preventable disease. True, human life on the average has been prolonged 20 years during the past century, but that record is due almost entirely to the reduction of infant and child mortality.

The four diseases in which the dominant school claims the greatest advance are: Diabetes, pneumonia, diphtheria and syphilis.

Yet, in Tices Practice of Medicine, Vol. 9, page 870, we find the statement:.

Diabetic mortality is rising rapidly throughout the civilized world. In the United States the death rate for 100, 000 was 11.0 in 1900, and 22.0 in 1932.

Any claim made for advance in pneumonia mortality rate is controverted by the fact, through established statistics, as shown above, that the the pure homoeopathic treatment of pneumonia has shown and still shows a lower death rate than any other known therapy.

DOES ORTHODOX MEDICINE CURE SYPHILIS?.

Referring now to the supposed advance in the treatment of syphilis: most pertinent are the following quotations from Treatment of Syphilis, Modern Clinical Syphilology, by Strokes, 2nd edition, 1936:.

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C. P. BRYANT, M. D.
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