During the epidemic, a 10,000th will surely take them through. I tell the patients if they get a cold or treat themselves during that time, their protection is very much impaired.
Dr. Hubbard asked about why I employed Belladonna rather than Scarlatinum. I dont know. I found Belladonna so useful in a typical Belladonna type of that disease–it has been perfect for me, and I suppose that was the reason it was Hahnemanns remedy.
I dont know but what Scarlatinum would be a good remedy. I think it would, but I have obtained perfect results with the smooth variety. In epidemics of the type that has the coarse rash, you will have to go to the epidemic remedy. Belladonna will not protect. Scarlatinum might, in those cases. I dont know; I havent used it.
One year in Chicago, we had a very, very malignant type of epidemic. Phytolacca was the remedy and Phytolacca was the perfect protection.
Dr. Codd, a child specialist teaching at Hahnemann, had the habit of alternating Belladonna and another remedy. He lost a lot of his cases. I had several hundred cases. I did not lose any even before I got onto the epidemic run. But afterwards, I had no trouble. We got a very quick result with Phytolacca.
DR. HUBBARD: I would like to ask one question. I am confronted by people going to Africa or Palestine who have to have prophylaxis against typhus and cholera and yellow fever. What is the homoeopathic prophylaxis against any of those.
DR. GRIMMER: Baptisia against typhus and typhoid, Arsenicum against yellow fever, Cuprum metallicum or Veratrum album or Camphor against cholera.
DR. SMITH: We have cases going to the South Pacific and before they are able to go, they require ten or fifteen vaccinations. If they give them internally, one will antidote the other, wont it? How are you going to do it?.
DR. GRIMMER: I think there is a lot of confusion that sets in with all those numerous vaccinations at one time. I do think there is some interference. I dont think there is a perfect protection from that. I generally antidote that with a dose of Pyrogenium. I did that in World War I. I found Pyrogenium to be very effective.
DR. WILBUR K BOND. [Greensfork, Indiana]: What is this going to lead to? There are so many mothers bringing their cards in from the school. The child before he enters the school has to have his tetanus shots, small pox vaccinations, diphtheria shots, and then on top of that, they have to have their booster doses.
DR. GRIMMER: I give them what I think is needed–the protection for the epidemic prevailing–and give them a certificate that they are protected against all things. If they are on a good strong antipsoric and doing well on the constitutional remedy, that is all the protection I give them and give them a written certificate that they are protected.
DR. HUBBARD: Dr. Bond, in my practice, I ask the mothers to bring in their children if they are going to camp–to bring them in the spring. I give them the homoeopathic tetanus and then their homoeopathic something else in another two weeks, so that they are not together. If they are going to school in the fall, I do it during the summer. DR. H. A. NEISWANDER: Dr. Hubbard, might I ask you one question? When you fill out the reports to the powers that be in the embarkation camp, do they accept your immunization in that method?.
DR. HUBBARD: They dont know what they are accepting. I always buy the current orthodox thing–for instance of the cholera vaccine, Indian strains, if somebody is going to India, or East Asiatic strains, if they are going somewhere else, or the typhus or the typhoid. On all of those there are biological numbers. The passport slips require you to put down the maker and the number of the biological.
They do not say “used.” They just say “make and number of biological.” I put down the make and the number and the date, put the thing away for record somewhere, and give my Baptisia and give them a certificate and have the darned thing notarized, which impresses people in Suez or some other place, and so far I have had no kick and nobody knows I dont do it the conventional way; but I am careful, believe me.
Dr. Grimmer shamed me. He made me feel I ought to stand up in the middle of Broadway and say, “Hi, hi, you are not doing right in the board of health.” I believe that but I dont believe for a single doctor it is really worthwhile to battle with them alone. I think we ought to battle with them as a group; alone, I aim to keep out of trouble.
A wise old lady once said to me, “Never pick a bone unless you know you are going to get what you want off it.” That has saved me a lot of trouble.
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.