From time immemorial a good physician has stood out from the mass of medical men with the declaration that the patient is first to be considered and not his disease, and there is increasing need of this reminder and perhaps always will be.
I abandoned the practice of old physic in which I had educated forty-six years ago and have in no case resorted to its methods since.-W.G. BROWNELL, M.D.
Homoeopathy today refutes by its genuine principles much of current medical teaching. The homoeopathy of today. Whatever differs from this original and sound product is not homoeopathy, however its guise and nomenclature may assure otherwise. And the reason for this is very important. It is, that a counterfeit is bound to work harm to those who are its believers. The man who as a physician affirms that he practices both ways or either homoeopathically or allopathically, as desired by the patient, may be put down as no good in either, certainly not as a homoeopath.
In medicine, individual service is the sine qua non. the service of homoeopathy stresses this fact. It is the keystone of the whole structure. No other factor will displace it in the way of success. And when other items are emphasized as the dominant ones to be favored, any patient may be sure they are false notes in the great harmony of rational medicine. For rational medicine does not comprise a foundation of bacteriological causation, serological contamination, and a thousand and one subsidiary gestures in the name of disease annihilation, all of which from the standpoint of homoeopathy are baneful and not legitimate at all, regardless of their origin.
Homoeopathy is still too little understood. Its nominal ranks are made up of practitioners many of whom have not quite grasped the central homoeopathic idea-that elusive essence which in the alembic of therapeutic thought distils most quickly, hence is most easily lost to the casual materialistic thinker. JOHN B. CAMPBELL, M.D.
After the lapse of years beyond a century homoeopathy stands today an indispensable entity. It is one of the greatest blessings vouchsafed to man, and, fortunately, so esteemed by hosts of mankind. Its availability extends to remotest lands and to peoples who can know little about it except through its service that has won both their satisfaction and respect. For the educated classes homoeopathy carries a meaning tenable and permanent. The meaning will never die. Opinions may differ, understanding waver, and popularity wane, but homoeopathic truth will liver. More than this, its significance will persists in direct relation to the intelligence of persons or people.
The fact the homoeopathy has imprinted itself in many minds is an evidence of the stability of the subject ; that it has come to stay even with those who fail fully to recognize its power and worth.
This actuality of a system of medicine that permeates where drugging, mechanistic therapy, vaccination, serology, Freudism, are also rife, widespread, and falsely rated-the actuality of homoeopathy is to be remarked. It dominates a world of its own. Homoeopathy has no sympathy with the “new discoveries” that are promptly out dated.
Homoeopathy came into the world just made enthusiastic by the early development of exact science. Homoeopathy has remained apart because there has been no point of mutual understanding between it and materialistic science.
-GEORGE F. LAIDLAW, M.D.
