The cough is deep, hollow, shattering, strangling, concussive and paroxysmal, with an empty sensation in the chest. It may be dry but more characteristic is the profuse expectoration like egg white. It is salty, sweetish, sour, putrid, musty, yellow or green and purulent. There are knife-like sticking pains in the chest, with soreness and oppression. The constant desire to cough comes from an irritation in the trachea, and is aggravated by speaking, laughing, singing and from warm drinks. The hoarseness is relieved by expectoration and by coughing. In spite of the state of weakness there is an urging restlessness, but soon exhaustion compels him to lie down. NEW HAVEN, CONN.
DISCUSSION.
DR. SUTHERLAND: Many of us are not aware of the relationship between remedies and the reason for that relationship. When we have such a paper as this, that situation is considerably clarified. I know as a result of it I am going to be able to pay more attention to the comparative materia medica, which is very important.
DR. PULFORD: I was just wondering if it every had occurred to any of us that all elements were composed of identically the same thing.
A number of years ago I wrote a little book, and I guess you got one of the books, that all forms of substances were gas in various stages of condensity or density. There are but two elements that compose the entire universe. I got my information out of the garbage can and the ash dump. It took science eighteen years later to find out the same thing by the aid of the spectroscope.
The elements that compose the entire universe are a substance that we call material, you can feel it and see it, the contents are bipolarized magnetism, and not force. The two elements are divided into cells, the material forming the cell wall, and the bipolarized magnetism the cell content. The bipolarized magnetism will either attract or repel according to the way the cell is directed. These cells contain no “spirit-like-force or vital energy.” It is simply the combinations, differently arranged, that create the different objects our senses feel and vision.
One combination will produce diamonds, another iron, another glass, another water, and so on down the line, but ALL, on disintegration, revert back to that universal reservoir, THE AIR. We talk about elements as if each was something apart, and composed of entirely different substances basically. Nothing is either lost or wasted, only the combination of those basic cells is lost to us, and Nature alone can reassemble them. The things that appear disgustingly offensive to our sight and taste today, become in their changed combinations a delight to our eyes and delicious to taste tomorrow, as well as to our smell. The fluidity or solidity of the object depends entirely on the amount of attractive energy of the cell content forming the object.
