I should like to know what is the opinion of the very learned doctors about Dr. Dixons remark about the miasms, psora, sycosis, and syphilis.
DR. CHARLES A. DIXON [Closing]: I may say I am very much gratified at the discussion that this paper has brought out, and I am not going to attempt to answer it all.
Dr. Waffensmith mentioned a former paper of mine and, for his information and that of the rest of you, it must have been after I had the postgraduate teaching that I wrote that paper, because that is where I learned that kind of homoeopathy and that kind of case-taking.
I will add a little bit to Dr. Moores story. I think I reported it to the meeting before this. The father and mother brought the little boy in, possibly two and a half years old, and it had been treated twice weekly by the home specialist, and they had run up an enormous bill. The man was a shop worker and couldnt afford that kind of treatment. They were very skeptical about homoeopathy, not knowing anything about it, but a neighbor who did know something about homoeopathy and about my treatment, persuaded them to come to me. You know you can see resentment in your new patients oftentimes when you get taking the case, and I could see that Mister was resentful at the questions I asked, and, finally, before I had prescribed, he said, “Doctor Dixon, what was the cause of this childs having asthma? Is it inherited?”.
I said, “Absolutely it is”.
“Well, whom from?”.
“Well, I said, “I will leave that to you and your wife, but one of you has had gonorrhoea”.
Of course, you can guess that my first prescription was Medorrhinum in that case, and the father was resentful at the way I handled his question. They went away and the next day the madam came in and she said, “It is me. I am the one that had gonorrhoea.” Gods truth I am telling you!.
Now, you can imagine from the discussion that we have had, that it is not an easy job to cure asthma. I have had failures and I have had cases that went beyond the time when it would be reasonable to expect a cure. I can always get a lot of comfort by going back to Dr. Kents Lesser Writings, where he made the statement that it was often necessary to take five years to cure asthma, because of the piling up of these old miasmatic suppressions that have to be taken care of; and let me tell you that I have cured a cast and it took me five years to do it, and brought out an old suppressed eruption on that girl, who is now a grandmother, and she is still treating with Dr. Dixon.
I have had experience with Dr. Farringtons Blatta. I sometimes read Anshutz New, Old and Forgotten Remedies, and I know he does. I found out some time ago about that incident, where he was curing a rather interesting case with one of those old remedies. Cockroaches are prevalent in Akron as well as in India, but I think they are impotent. I have never been able to get anything out of Blatta yet.
DR. FARRINGTON: You have got the wrong Blatta. You use mine and you will have results.
DR. DIXON: I will go to Chicago and get a cockroach!.
I was very glad to get that slant of Dr. Morgans on Sabina, and I am going to add that to my armamentarium and see what we can get, because, I am not bragging about it, I have asthmatic cases in every day, I believe, in my office, and a lot of them I cure.
Akron, Ohio
President, I.H.A.