If the homoeopathist had only to cure his patients of disordered health, instead of the incalculable morbid disasters from unscientific drugging of all descriptions, his work would be done with infinitely greater ease.
Homoeopathy has no use for an artificially prepared serum that is unproven, nor for the hypodermatic administration of medicine. Such agents and such methods are too coarse and brutal for vital employment. There is nothing in the vital integrity, to say nothing of the delicate complexity of the complete human organism, that gives license to brutality of of treatment. Homoeopathy is never clumsy nor crude, but it is perfectly adapted by the preparation and application of its agents to the correction of disturbed health, whatever be the grade or intensity of disturbance. It cures the sick.
Its remedies are proved as received through the mouth into the laboratory of homoeopathy, the man himself. Here affects are produced in a manner entirely safe, from dosage never hazardous, and the organism gives free expression to these effects in manner that is fully intelligible.
Whatever the ingredients of a serum, or the manner of its elaboration, its mode of exhibition is highly open to objection. The method is a most artificial one, by means of which the substance is forced directly into the organism itself without actual regard to that organisms resistance. This alone is against the spirit of science and rationality. Such is not the case with remedies entering an orifice of the body, applied to the mucous membrane, or when introduced even directly into the stomach. In a sense the remedy is still outside the body. It has not reached the circulation. It has by no means secured lodging within the organism. There yet remains to the latter power to reject it, or, at least, a discretion as to the best disposition that is to be made of the foreign element.
Two of the important factors in taking the case of any patient are injuries in childhood and medication during childhood. The latter may be difficult to determine. It is imperative that all be learned about it that is possible.
As to injuries received in play or by accident of one kind or another, usually something has been kept in the memory of the patient or his family.
Imperfect human organisms from hereditary causes are the rule. And no doubt every human being requires some constitutional remedy. Remedial care of this order belongs strictly to Homoeopathy. Cod liver oil, Blauds pills and strychnine tonic or aspirin will not do the trick.
When we analyze the effects of long continued drugging with opium, quinine, compound laxative pills, aspirin, et al., we find all varieties of disorder, indeed, all varieties of disorder from one and the same drug in different individuals, according to the nature of the particular individual. This chronic affect has nothing what ever to do with diagnosis. In one case the outcome may be bronchitis, in another gastritis, and in another carditis. This fact furnishes in itself a substantial, and in another carditis. This fact furnishes in itself a substantial argument for the truth of Homoeopathic reasoning. We know that no medicine is curative unless it is capable of producing the symptoms of that given disorder. We know further that every medicine wrongly applied, but continued, produces permanent effects that should be recognized in their true light, but seldom or perhaps never are. Metabolic disturbances are sometimes delayed in giving their evidence.
There was an epidemic of diphtheria in this city. The general mortality was forty percent among the allopaths, and the general mortality among the homoeopaths was fourteen per cent. There were two hundred and forty cases under the care of Doctors Lippe, Hering, and Farrington, and they did not lose a single case – s. w. LEHMAN M.D.
In spite of constantly heralded progress in medicine, the average person is prone to the experience of fear lest an invading disease reach him. This is a manifestation of the slight or negative confidence placed in the skill or power of medical care. A more piteous state of things after all these centuries of research and experience is not to be found. In fact the average medical man may unfortunately keep his patients mindful of the possibility that the worst may be expected.
In recent years, while new disease nomenclature is regularly springing up, there may be mentioned a few derived from the lower animals that receive much attention, as undulant fever, tularemia, and psittacosis. Rabies has occupied the fears of the public for long. All the disease are viewed from the standpoint of bacteriology, and different bacteria have been isolated. Viewing the fatalities as they are described in reports, it is difficult to say whether death has occurred as a result of the disease or of the treatment.
In typhoid fever vaccination cannot replace sanitation, it is admitted.
And, further, it is a pity that sanitation now so well accomplished in all highly civilized countries should have become such a commonplace, that in general we fail to give it the credit to which it is entitled. It would quite and profitably get along very well without all the chemical germicides and other products relating to a sanitary habit of living. In fact, if the general public placed full reliance on soap and water, generously used, the proprietary lotions for the personal use could well be eliminated.
With our present systems of plumbing, of water supply, of clean streets, and every kind of cleaning apparatus for the home there is no need whatever of defiling the body and blood with so- called immunizers against disease.
The following statistics illustrate some things about vaccination.
On the 31st of March, 1899, the chief surgeon of the United States troops in the Philippines reported that all danger from smallpox was over. This statement was based on the fact that there had been extensive revaccination of the troops following a fatality of over 32 percent in the previous seven months, it being clearly assumed that the original or previous vaccinations were no longer protective.
Following the revaccinations, when “all danger was over” the following table shows what took place;.
April to December, 1899, 107 cases, 22 deaths, 20.6 percent fatality.
January to December, 1901, 85 cases, 37 deaths, 43.5 percent fatality.
Such facts as these give one pause when in own liberty – loving United States of America there is constantly being forced on the people measures to promote compulsory vaccination, from which latter procedure innumerable deaths have been occasioned.
An American physician, speaking to an English colleague, says ” Now in Vienna theyre first rate at diagnosis, but then, you see, they always make a point of confirming it by postmortem. ” – MAURICE WORCESTER TURNER, M.D.
Hahnemanns phrase for the diagnosis a “species” of typhoid fever, a “species” of pneumonia, is impressive as the acme of exactness in diagnosis.
Some remedies of our materia medica are being rediscovered and crudely applied by the old school; say Apium in good punishing doses for rheumatism, mistletoe (Viscum album) for the heart that goes wrong somehow; Crotalus for sciatica that defies surgery. Bufo for epilepsy, wherever and however seen, et cetera ad nauseam. This is a bad imitation of Homoeopathy.
The published errors in diagnosis remind us that we are bound to excel such statistics. In a leading hospital outside our school, with every facility for diagnosis, in only 22.5 per cent of the autopsies was the diagnosis confirmed. In 14 per cent it was partly correct, and in 34.1 it was entirely wrong or not made at all. What shall we say of the diagnoses in non-fatal cases? It is probably safe to estimate that in 10 per cent only could the diagnosis be depended upon if taken. American Medicine said this; “So lets get to work in the matter of finding out what kills so many people prematurely”.
That sentence is astoundingly suggestive. Further, it points a certain moral. Let it be remembered that we are confronted with drug diseases and worse toxaemias. Every day there are cases that have been coolly prognosed hopeless after having received the course of treatment that may have made them so. Probably fifty per cent of the cases of sudden death in supposedly vigorous men in middle life are the direct result of improper medication.
I abandoned the methods of the regulars (?) thirty – five years ago, and never since have I in one single instance had occasion to other than homoeopathic remedies to relieve the sufferings of the dying – W. A HAWLEY. M.D.
It is urged by the heavily endowed research laboratories that the great progress in medical science would get along far better if there were more cooperation from the public, and fewer obstacles thrown against that progress. That is, if people in general would recognize the implied fact as to the wisdom of all the dicta of men of science, and in particular submit to whatever experiments are offered for the invasion of the human organism by foreign elements promising protection or cure. The arguments begin with emphasis laid on bacteriology as promulgated by the laboratory. There is no loophole left for the opinions objecting to and rejecting most of these conclusions. The fact that there is logical protest to many of them does not alter the situation nor change “science”.
