EMOTIONAL CONFLICTS AND THE PROBLEM THEY PRESENT TO THE PHYSICIAN



If there is no improvement mentally and emotionally following the remedy either the prescription was incorrect or considerable pathology is present. If the latter, one or more of the nosodes or a deep antipsoric may be required to arouse the vital force.

Recurrence is the word in many chronic conditions, especially in mental and nervous disorders. Progress toward recovery appears to stall before the goal of cure is reached. In some cases one or more of the underlying causes of the trouble may have remained undiscovered or uncorrected and is still feeding the diseased state. Again, some of the obstacles to recovery may not have been successfully and permanently removed and this may include more or less concealed emotional factors or environmental circumstances beyond the patient’s ability to modify.

Homoeopathic treatment of emotional conflicts and complexes is far superior to any other therapeutic approach. It lacks two important essentials to popularise it–a sufficient number of well qualified homoeopathic physicians and the all persuasive power of modern advertising. Unfortunately many of the real Hahnemannian practitioners are content to jog along on the basis of an occasional brilliant prescription which helps to offset the seventy or seventy-five percent errors made in daily practice. What does the average practitioner really know about diet and nutrition? Almost nothing. What progress is he making in the study of modern psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine? Perhaps he is awaiting the opportunity to take a special “refresher” course in the subject at some uncertain time in the future.

There is nothing but himself to prevent any physician from keeping up with the times and as for clinical material every patient is in some degree both a psychotic and a somatic problem.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Eugene Underhill
Dr Eugene Underhill Jr. (1887-1968) was the son of Eugene and Minnie (Lewis) Underhill Sr. He was a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. A homeopathic physician for over 50 years, he had offices in Philadelphia.

Eugene passed away at his country home on Spring Hill, Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, PA. He had been in ill health for several months. His wife, the former Caroline Davis, whom he had married in Philadelphia in 1910, had passed away in 1961. They spent most of their marriage lives in Swarthmore, PA.

Dr. Underhill was a member of the United Lodge of Theosophy, a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He was also the editor of the Homœopathic Recorder.