The startling fact that we must look for, expect, and learn to treat cancer in little children is unmistakable. When acute diseases are followed by chronic glandular swellings, listlessness, etc., then the homoeopath may think of his gold, his arsenicum, and the cadmiums, not to forget that most helpful nosode, Carcinosin K, which will often confirm the dark suspicion, when no other method of proof is available.
Here, only a true and tried homoeopath, who is at home with the high potencies and the whole system of homoeopathic philosophy can give the victims of our bungling civilization restoration to health easily, quickly and painlessly. LAPEER, MICHIGAN.
DISCUSSION.
DR. RALPH S. FARIS: I remember a little fellow I was called to treat two or three years ago. He had been given “shots” for whooping cough, or to prevent whooping cough, and within about a week or ten days following these “shots” he developed eczema. That was before I was called on the case.
The eruption extended over the entire body, and at bedtime and sometimes during the day, too, the mother had to tie him spread- eagle in his little crib to keep him from tearing himself to pieces, the itching was so intense. The expression in that little fellows eyes was simply pitiful. She tried, I think, the whole galaxy of pediatricians we have in town there, and we have a pretty good supply of them, and, finally, someone suggested homoeopathy, and that was where I entered the case, but it took more than a year to clear that child up. We got him out of his spread-eagle position in two or three weeks, probably, but it took more than a year, between a year and a half, to overcome the effects of that lovely immunization.
DR. C.P. BRYANT: I am sorry I had to part of Dr. Roods paper. I heard enough so that I want to add a little more information to what I have already heard.
Some years ago probably some of you remember reading the statistics from the Metropolitan Asylum Board in London, in which they decided they were going to find out how beneficial diphtheria antitoxin is. Over a period of about six years they persuaded all those patients whom they could to have treatment for diphtheria without the antitoxin-I cant recall the number of cases now.
Over the period of years they tried to make it so there would be the same number of those who had antitoxin as of those who didnt have it, and the shock that the medical profession got was that of those who had no antitoxin-and that doesnt mean they had any homoeopathic treatment, because they didnt they had nothing but good nursing, plenty of fresh air, and very light diet-6 per cent died and 14 per cent died who did have it.
DR. DAYTON T. PULFORD: I feel that the Bureau of Pediatrics is really the best place to sell homoeopathy to the public. You can do more in the childs developing than you can after a certain amount of pathology has been established, and not only make friends of the children, but also make grateful parents, and through the child, bring more of the older people to homoeopathy than you can probably in any other way.
DR. MARION BELLE ROOD (closing discussion): I thank you all for your kind criticism. There is only one thing to add to it, the source of the remedies. When homoeopathy becomes an obsession, as it has for me, there is nothing in heaven or earth that cannot be of use. I take whatever I can get whenever I can get it, and use it homoeopathically if there is any way to do so.
I have hunted high and low among all whom I know who practice homoeopathy and I still want to search for more, to learn something, and anything I learn, I use. I learned homoeopathy from every homoeopath, especially the late Dr. Harriet Knott, of Saginaw, as preceptor, and lately from Dr. Bryant and Dr. Morgan, and from all of you. You are my teachers.
