SOMETHING ABOUT AGGRAVATIONS

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DR. HAYES: I think some aggravations are caused by the effects of external vital force, too easy susceptibility, and still other are provoked by ill fitting prescriptions either of remedy or of potency.

The discussion seem to uphold all these ideas. It has been suggestive.

Dr. FARRINGTON: To say that homoeopathy is “impenetrable” is true if by it we mean that we are unable to solve the mysterious process following the administration of the potencies. We have at least penetrated the surface to the extent that the potency must not be too high or too low; that it must not be repeated too soon; that there is such a thing a as homoeopathic aggravation, etc.

I believe that Dr.Solan’s observation is correct-only the similimum can be followed by an aggravation of symptoms already present. But, unless the patient was a “susceptible” the potency was too high. For instance, I have a lady patient 46 years old who gets a marked aggravation from anything above the 30th. A single dose of the 30th acts promptly and its effects continue for two to three weeks, sometimes longer, with no initial exacerbation. I have a notion that Dr.Hutchinson’s “blunders” occured, only when, in rare instances, he gave the wrong potency of the right remedy.

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Royal E S Hayes
Dr Royal Elmore Swift HAYES (1871-1952)
Born in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA on 20 Oct 1871 to Royal Edmund Hayes and Harriet E Merriman. He had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Miriam Martha Phillips. He lived in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1880. He died on 20 July 1952, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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