CASCARA: The Cascara-Senna group produce skin eruptions quite similar to Phenolphthalein (Di-Hydroxyphthalophenone) consisting of a dermatitis covering the entire body, some cases bullous in form.
Many of the patent medicines are claimed to be non-poisonous because some animals tested do not succumb, for instance, Goodman & Gillmans work on Pharmacology, published by MacMillan Company as recently as 1941, in speaking of Phenolphthalein, page 803, claim it was impossible to poison animals with the drug. It is impossible to judge of the toxicity of a drug on humans by animal experiments.
Again, the innocent appearing drug may produce no pathologic effect. However the same continued over a prolonged period and in increasing doses will sooner or later produce profound effects just as a very small dose of Sodium chloride, frequently repeated, will in the course of time produce pathogenic effect for which Nat. mur. works beneficially in the CM. potency.
BROMO SELZER AND ASPIRIN SENSITIZATION: The patient I am thinking of in this connection is a man 42 years of age, was referred by Dr. E.H., a graduate of an old school college. The condition for which he was referred was vertigo which dates back 4 years. There was associated with it dullness of hearing and buzzing noises in the left ear. This triad of symptoms, hearing loss, tinnitus aurium, and vertigo constitute Menieres syndrome often misnamed Menieres disease.
The patient gives the history of having had gall bladder trouble, severe pains in the head accentuated in the occiput. I made a preliminary examination on April 21, 1944, on a day when Dr. H. could be present. By arrangement the three of us, the patient, Dr. H. and myself, met at my office on April 28, 1944, when the patient reported he felt the same as on the previous visit. Functional hearing tests were made. The hearing was found to be quite shy on the left side, normal on right. Pulse 57, regular, temperature 98.4. There was spontaneous nystagmus to the right when looking to the right; to the left when looking to the left; more pronounced to the left side when looking to the left than to the right side when looking to the right. He was given intracutaneous tests with Bromo Selzer and Aspirin.
I met Dr. H., who referred the patient, on May 7, when he reported that the patients condition had entirely cleared up. I suggested bringing the patient in again, and he replied the patient was so satisfied with his present condition he saw no need for reporting again.
As to which of the two drugs did the more good it is doubtful but it looks as though it was the Bromo Selzer, for the skin reaction to the Bromo Selzer was definitely more pronounced. May I ask anyone interested, would they consider this improvement due to the action of the homoeopathic or isopathic principle?.
Instead of presenting a separated set of summary and conclusions for each of the two papers on Drug Sensitization and Desensitization, I have decided to append the to the final paper, particularly in view of the fact that they would be identical in both.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.
1. Natural diseases are due to specific infections, to be sure faulty regimen including improper diet, insufficiency in the required vitamins, excessive carbohydrates besides improper clothing, lack of sunshine, fresh air and other vitality-robbing factors play a part but less important than the infection itself.
These claims have been substantiated again and again.
Homoeopathically for fifty-one years during which time I have witnessed cures that seemed impossible. You have all witnessed cures just as striking, and yet on rare occasions we have met with failures not because of the failure of the principle but rather of its application.
Isopathically with the use of vaccines in homoeopathic doses about which I have freely written in the past. Confirmation of successes along this line have been reported by many doctors both in and out of the homoeopathic ranks. There has been a relatively small number of failures, all of which are explainable by inaccuracy in applying the principle and, too, by the presence of undiscovered drug dyscrasias.
2. The natural diseases in their acute form tent to recover without assistance from a physician. He as often as not hinders the natural recovery process.
3. The natural diseases of the chronic form do not tend to recover but rather become progressively worse aided by inappropriate treatment. Eventually the patient becomes sensitized to the bacterial toxins of the natural disease plus those of inappropriate drugs which have been taken in excessive doses.
4. Both the acute and chronic forms of natural diseases are curable even when far advanced by specific desensitization provided every causative factor is taken into consideration.
5. Desensitization has been successfully accomplished by the prescribing of similar acting sensitinogens in sufficiently small doses (homoeopathically), by the prescribing of the same sensitinogen as that which produced the natural disease when the dose has been sufficiently small (isopathically). Neither of these methods alone can effect a complete cure. In those that have been meddled with through the administration of inappropriate drugs resulting in a combination of natural and drug disease the treatment of the natural disease alone leaves the drug disease remaining uncured.
To make a complete cure it becomes necessary to treat both the natural and the drug disease. The claims made of the cure of the natural disease with the homoeopathic remedy have been substantiated by all sincere homoeopathic physicians. As for my own experience of fifty-one years I have never seen it really but have witnessed apparent failures due to the presence of drug dyscrasias.
6. Rarely if ever is a patient sensitized to but one infecting microorganism. Experience reveals sensitization to no less than 8 infections. To be sure the patient is more sensitive to certain organisms than to others; however, the variety and intensity of the sensitization is not the same in all cases. For instance, Brucelline mel. sensitization is present in fewer individuals than streptococcus. Again, we find the relatively few individuals who are sensitive. Again, we find the relatively few individuals who are sensitive to Bruc. are generally more so than they are to other infections. In short it is impossible to find any two individuals who are sensitive to exactly the same germs and to the same degree.
7. Speaking of drug sensitization, rarely if ever is a patient sensitized to but a single drug. Patient were found who had been sensitised to as many as fifty and sixty different drugs as told in the body of the paper.
Finally, concerning those chronic disease “so commonly met with artificially produced.. by the prolonged use of violent heroic medicines in large and increasing doses by the abuse of calomel, etc., etc.”, about which he further says in Section 75, “are of all chronic diseases the most deplorable, the most incurable and I regret to add that it is apparently impossible to discover or to hit upon any remedies for their cure, etc”.
All of this was true when Hahnemann wrote it but not today, for today they are really curable. Please note than Hahnemann said “that it is apparently impossible to discover,” etc. I know of no one else who has investigated this important question except myself, as the two companion papers on Drug Sensitization and Desensitization prove.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
