COMPLICATING FACTORS IN CHRONIC PRESCRIBING



DR. F. K. BELLOKOSSY [Denver, Colo.]: I completely agree with Dr. Whitmont and Dr. Schmidt, but nevertheless, they are not completely right, that is, they have not completely reached the bottom of the problem. What makes these allergies? People get allergic because they eat wrong, and they eat wrong when they eat sugar, devitalized sugar, and when they cook things, boiled milk, or boiled butter, boiled cream. Nothing gives more cholesterol in blood than boiled or cooked cream, cooked butter, cooked milk, and surely cooked meat also. If those things are eliminated from the diet, the patient will immediately get better and his allergies will diminish.

In Europe where people eat a very modest and primitive diet, usually not so rich and so complicated as in America, they have no allergies except in big cities. In small towns, in villages, you will never find any hay fever or any other allergy. This is because their diet is so much simpler. They eat plenty of vegetables. You can eat cooked and raw vegetables, but cooked animal foods are not good. Animal foods must be raw armed up, but not really cooked. As soon as you eat cooked animal food, you will develop allergies.

DR. WHITMONT: I do not care to open now a battle about eating, but I think there is a danger if we nail ourselves to a panacea approach. I fully agree with the dangers of wrong eating and I do also say many of the things we eat are not fit for human consumption, and I am in the bad graces of my patients, because I am supposed to be a devil on diet, but lets not put all the human ills just on eating.

May I point out that the diet of the European farmer is notoriously low in vegetables.

DR. BELLOKOSSY: In some countries. In Hungary they eat too much meat, but in other countries it is not so.

DR. WHITMONT: I havent met a farmer yet in Europe who didnt eat potatoes and meat, who had a miserable diet and miserable teeth, yet they are also meat-eating farmers. Their diet is notoriously bad. DR. BELLOKOSSY: They are not allergic. DR. WHITMONT: They have allergies.

DR. BELLOKOSSY: They do not.

DR. WHITMONT: You just cant put everything on sugar and potatoes and meat.

DR. BELLOKOSSY: I say potatoes can be cooked– all the vegetables, but you cant cook the animal foods.

DR. MOORE: You seem to be almost in exact agreement, you two. (Laughter).

DR. BELLOKOSSY: We would get together if we would talk long enough.

DR. UNDERHILL, [Closing]: I am disappointed that this didnt develop into a real scrap. It looked quite promising for a while. There are one or two words more about the nutritional preposition.

A great many people, even in so-called well-fed districts, are suffering from one of two things, mild multiple nutritional deficiencies because of eating too much along certain lines, and avoiding certain other essential food elements through habit, preference, and so forth, and the other is mild, often multiple, food toxemias from a surplus of this, that, and the other thing, and also the preservatives, adulterants, and so forth, used in foods which are definitely poisoning our systems to a greater or less extent, and it is too bad we happen to be allergic to them.

I had Dr. Merrill Miller, of Philadelphia, do a great many tests for me, sometime with much help, but more often with confusion worse confounded. The way it worked out, as someone pointed here, the allergies are for a certain set of foods and substances one year, and the next year they change, like the seasons.

When it comes to giving a remedy to overcome an allergy, I hope no one ever gives me anything that will make me tolerant to hormones and vitamins, and any of these “miracle” drugs, but according to one theory expressed here, the homoeopathic remedy is supposed to build an immunity and the question is, How far can it go?.

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.