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DR. MOORE: Dr. Hubbard may feel badly about her repetition. Dr. Dixon here has just got a wagon load of books from Texas, a most wonderful layout of homoeopathic literature, and anything he has I get for the asking, so I am delving into all of these things. Lately I have been going over the homoeopathic literature for 1873 and 1874. Through all of this reading-and I have had to do a lot of it for a long time- there is no one except Boenninghausen and Dr. Dixon that use nothing under the two hundreds-just those two fellows. I dont know of anyone else. You will find all sorts of irregularities all along the line in our best prescribers in curing cases.

I got from Dr. Boger once the idea of giving Merc. cor.; give it 200 three days and wait a week and give it 203 for three days.

Certainly Hahnemann didnt do it, but his friend, Boenninghausen, and his later friend, Dixon, have been at it.

DR. DIXON: I dont have to take that mans abuse if I dont want to. I can answer him. (Laughter).

DR. ENGLE: I feel as if I am in the hall of science. Dr. Hubbard invited us to “jump on her”. I dont feel I am able to jump on her. All I am asking for is knowledge and a little information as to whether when she prescribes Crataegus 30 in those doses, she considered Crataegus 30 the divided dose or whole potency.

Furthermore, I would like to know why she repeated Crataegus 30 so often.

DR. STEVENS: May I say that, through the influence of somebody who was a good deal older and knew more about homoeopathy than I, I have tried Crataegus in what is approximately the 1x., and sometimes I give one dose a day of that, in cases especially where there was breathlessness. I think that is one of the special indications, the very difficult breathing. Usually I give just one dose a day of the 1x. for a time. As it gets better, I stop it.

DR. HUBBARD: Dr. Engle delights me by putting me on the spot. I must confess that to me a 30th is a very low potency. I dont think I own anything less than 30, except Phosphorus, which I own in 12, in some cases. I may have been influenced by the fact that Crataegus 30 is the lowest I have in my special collection which I got from Dr. Kent.

I was give it is one dose. It seemed to me he was not getting well on the one dose and was immensely pathological, he wasnt throwing out symptoms as well as he should, and possibly he needed something more nearly physiological than I had been giving. It may have been entirely wrong.

I am afraid I was just plain experimenting with that 30. I went to see him carefully. After he had had the four doses, if he had been worse, I would have stopped it instantly. He appeared to get better. I told his wife to stop it instantly if he appeared to get worse at any moment, but he fooled us and got gradually better, so I am afraid I have no reason for it except God-given despair.

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Elizabeth Wright Hubbard
Dr. Elizabeth Wright Hubbard (1896-1967) was born in New York City and later studied with Pierre Schmidt. She subsequently opened a practice in Boston. In 1945 she served as president of the International Hahnemannian Association. From 1959-1961 served at the first woman president of the American Institute of Homeopathy. She also was Editor of the 'Homoeopathic Recorder' the 'Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy' and taught at the AFH postgraduate homeopathic school. She authored A Homeopathy As Art and Science, which included A Brief Study Course in Homeopathy.
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