And in the following paragraphs from 106 to 145 inclusive, the Master with all exactness points out a series of wise rules in relation to form, method and line of conduct which must be followed in each and every one of the cases in carrying out a true proving upon the organism of a healthy man. In the same way he established the method for carrying out a minute analysis of the symptoms, signs, mental and functional troubles, anatomical lesions, etc., etc., and among other things he recommends us to avail ourselves of the teachings on toxicology, dwelling upon the fact that we must gather a knowledge of the unalloyed effects of the remedies, avoiding the mixture of substances, as it is very slightly beneficial to know the action of the remedies upon sick persons, in virtue of the alterations of any one pathologic state prevents us from knowing the effect and genuine and true action that each and every one of the remedies have.
In conclusion: After numerous investigations and provings upon the healthy body of man, during a period of twenty years, carried out by the founder of homoeopathy and his adepts and pupils Drs. Franz, Hartmann, Stapf, Gross, Hornburg, Wislicenus, Teuthorn, Ruckert, Langhammer, Gutman, Hempel, Kummer, Rosazewsky, Mossdorf, Wenzel and others we can categorically affirm that: TO SAMUEL CHRISTIAN FREDERIC HAHNEMANN BELONGS THE MERIT OF HAVING BEEN THE FIRST TO RAISE PHARMACODYNAMICS AND PHARMACOLOGY TO THE CATEGORY OF SCIENCE AND OF HAVING TAKEN THEM OUT FROM THE CHAOS IN WHICH THEY WERE SUNK UNTIL HIS EPOCH, BY INTRODUCING INTO MEDICINE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ACTION OF REMEDIES UPON THE HEALTHY MAN BY THE RIGOROUS EXPERIMENTAL METHOD OF INDUCTION.
Nowadays that the field of medicine is richer in acquisitions of human knowledge, but notwithstanding that the physicians of the traditional school dont concede to the study of the action of remedies upon the body of the healthy man all the importance that it deserves, and even at the present day most of the pharmacologic products are only prescribed from a knowledge of them through laboratory experiment and the study of their action upon animals, which as I will demonstrate farther on, constitutes according to the ideas of the founder of homoeopathy, a wrong source for their correct indication.
Claude Bernard (1813-1878), the most conspicuous physiologist of modern France, considered by physicians of the traditional school as the founder of a new pharmacologic doctrine, introduced the experimental method while availing himself of the knowledge and doctrines of Magendie, Gallini, Flandin and others, realized studies and investigations first upon animals and afterwards upon sick men with curare, strychnine, nicotine, ether, atropine, etc. One must take special notice that pharmacology from this date on finds a wide scope of investigation that is taken advantage of by an infinite number of physicians all over the world, but always basing their observations and provings upon sick men and animals.
We have not subtracted merit from these new orientations given by Claude Bernard to the field of pharmacology, because the proving upon animals permits of the verification of the pharmacodynamic and toxic effects of the remedies, that can be proven by means of the laboratory, but its importance is totally annulled by the necessity of knowing the action of the remedies upon the healthy body of man in order to be applied in therapeutics as was affirmed by the talented founder of homoeopathy, as experience and wise observation in the most severe field of logic show us the truth of the biologic axiom of John Paul Tessier (1811-1862), a conspicuous French physician, who affirms that: “EVERY ANIMAL IS MADE SICK ACCORDING TO HIS SPECIES, AND IN EACH SPECIES THE INDIVIDUAL SUFFERS ACCORDING TO HIS OWN NATURE”.
Furthermore, even the animal the nearest to man on the biological scale is different from man in its physical form, kind of life, in its organization and principally and fundamentally in its psychical manner; and if that is not enough there exist facts as irrefutable proofs of that which constitutes a food for certain animals is a toxic for man that will kill him within a few hours as can be verified with the hog, which with impunity can ingest the roots of henbane (hyoscyamus niger) and the nux vomica. The dog does not feel at all uncomfortable on eating the flowers, leaves or fresh seeds of aconitum.
The stramonium (datura stramonium, toloache, thorn-apple, etc.), a most toxic plant for man and which is capable of producing in him mental troubles, even death, can be eaten without any consequences by the monkey, donkey, dog, guinea pig, rabbit and snail.
The goat eats poison so much (rhus toxicodendron) without showing any symptoms of intoxication and the rabbit ingests leaves of belladonna without revealing phenomena of poisoning.
Cyanhydric acid, also called hydrocyanic acid and more commonly known as prussic acid, is a most active poison for man whom it kills instantaneously; it is also toxic for inferior animals and plants and is considered as a protoplasmatic poison; on the other hand the horse presents a certain immunity to it (Trousseau and Pidoux), the hedgehog and porcupine are affected only in a slight way.
White cazahuate (ipomoea arborescens, Humboldt and Bonplandii), a plant native to America which vegetables spontaneously in the states of Mexico, Morelos, Michoacan, Jalisco and Oaxaca, is highly poisonous to drinking water when it runs near the roots of these shrubs, it produces effects of imbecility, notwithstanding that it constitutes an inoffensive food for goats.
Peyote (peyotl, jicore, lopophora Williamsii), a plant of the cactus family which vegetables in the Mexican Republic in the states of Oueretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sonora and Coahuila, has the particularity that when man ingests the plant roasted or raw, it produces the phenomena of drunkenness, diverse psychic alterations with visual troubles and increase of sensibility in the teguments, followed by insensibility which may reach anaesthesia.
In moderate doses it exerts a tonic action that makes the individual insensible to fatigue, to sleep and to hunger, affording an extra-ordinary resistance to muscular work. Among the native tribes and especially the Tarahumaras and Huicholes it enjoys great popularity and fame, to the degree that it is considered a sacred plant. Several studies have been made of this plant and at the present time Dr. Robles, a Mexican physician, proving in 1928 its action by the alkaloid chlorhydrate of peyotina in subcutaneous injections in doves, rabbits, cats and dogs, coming to the conclusion that only doves and cats are sensitive to the action of pevote.
Regarding pathogenic agents, there equally exists a difference of immunity and receptivity between man and animals according to the cases and in regard to animals determined effects are obtained in the laboratory by subjecting them to abnormal conditions of life as happens with the hen in which the phenomena of carbon infection (carbon bacillus, bacillus anthracis) are obtained by reducing the animals temperature by means of cold baths or by injections of antipyrine or quinine sulphide (Pasteur and Wagner). An adult dog is refractory to this infection, a rabbit is very sensitive and a ram is also ultrasensitive to natural infection, to subcutaneous inoculation and to ingestion, dying in a fulminating manner.
The Koch tuberculosis bacillus, that embraces three varieties: 1st.–that of the mammalian (human and bovine type); 2nd.–that of birds and 3rd.–that of fishes, offer to our appreciations the following characteristics: its pathogenetic action is more marked in man and the ox, a goat is seldom tuberculous, the guinea pig and rabbit are not spontaneously tuberculous and are only made tuberculous by means of repeated inoculations. The dog is very sensitive to human or bovine inoculation, the donkey is absolutely refractory to tuberculosis.
The bacillus of typhoid fever, discovered by Eberth on Peyers patches, in the mesenteric ganglions and in the spleen of a patient attacked by this disease is only pathogenic to man. THE INOCULATION IN MAN DOES NOT PRODUCE ANY DISEASES RESEMBLING TYPHOID FEVER. (Courmont, Bacteriology, page 590. 1930). Instead these experiments are employed upon guinea pigs and rats. The goat is extremely perceptive to Eberths bacillus.
Upon the macaque and chimpanzee, it is possible to reproduce alterations resembling typhoid fever by ingestion of exalted cultures. Upon the dog it is only possible to produce ulcerous enteritis by injecting a virulent culture into the intestinal tract (Thirty). Atlassoff was able to produce typical typhoid phenomena in a young rabbit, introducing typhic bacillus directly into the intestine; and in this way quotations can be profusely multiplied bringing us to the conclusion that the body of the healthy man is the only source from which all provings should start for therapeutic purposes, as a man differs from all other animals because of his psychical element, his perfect organization distinct from the animals and by his special manner of reaction to all agents hostile to health.
