Were it not for the selfish blight of commercialism this monstrous practice would not flourish as it does now, but manufacturing chemists and political and industrial doctors permit their insatiable greed to blind them to wholesale suffering and impoverishment among their hapless victims.
Homoeopathy observes the order and pace, direction and development in the symptoms and changes of disease, whether it be an artificial drug disease (proving) or a natural disease. Some of the observations are highly interesting and of great value to both patient and physician. One of the outstanding observations is that chronic diseases first attack the centers of the organism and then proceed to manifest at the periphery (the externals).
Thus both acute and chronic diseases have periods of so-called incubation central action later to show forth in their characteristic symptoms. Thus eruptions that have been driven from the surface with powerful salves in apparent cure which is only suppression, because the activities manifest on the internal skin or mucous membranes of the lungs, intestines or some other mucous lining. Asthmatic difficulties or chronic intestinal complaints frequently appear after such treatment.
Another important observation is that symptoms get well in the inverse order of their coming, that is, the last to appear are the first to go, under the action of the homoeopathic remedy. The reverse of this takes place when nature, unassisted, brings about recovery, the last symptoms to come being the last to get well.
CHICAGO, ILL.
DISCUSSION.
DR. ROGER A. SCHMIDT: I think we homoeopaths would have a wonderful time if we could handle people who havent had any allopathic treatment before they come to us. It is surprising what kind of things we can do on animals, for example, or people who never went to any other physician, when we just have to fight a natural disease, but when we have to fight suppressions and drug disease it is generally the greatest and hardest fight we have to carry every day.
DR. SHERWOOD: I had the good fortune to be in college at the same time. Dr. Grimmer was, and since then I have watched him through all the years of his development. I have tried to go along with him, and have done the best I could.
The regrettable thing today is to think of the many who were in college at that time who had the same teaching, the same opportunity to perfect themselves and to go to a higher plane, but who have remained where they were or have gone backward since those days. Many of those young men and women who had very, good teaching under some of the very masters couldnt grasp it. It is regrettable to look back and think of those wonderful opportunities those men had, all the patients they have had, but who have renounced homoeopathy, it is something terrible to consider!.
DR. GRIMMER: There isnt much further to say. I see we are all quite unanimous. We had no opposition. I am glad to see that, because that means we have gotten on that plane where we can grasp the true nature of sickness and the true requirements for its treatment.
In his book The Collected Works of Arthur Hill Grimmer, Grimmer spoke out against the fluoridation of water and vaccinations. Grimmer wrote prodigeously, Gnaphalium, Homeopathic Prophylaxis and Homeopathic Medicine and Cancer: The Philosophy and Clinical Experiences of Dr. A.H. Grimmer, M.D.