DR. O.O. SINK [Smithfield, Ohio]: If you have ever been burnt by this tubercular process you have had more experience than the fellow who has never had it.
I come from a tubercular family. The first help, really, that I got for that was Tuberculinum. As Dr. Grimmer has so well demonstrated you can diagnose early incipient cases of T.B. and correct them before they amount to anything.
I know of nothing that will unlock the cases and make them available to treatment as a proper dose of Tuberculinum bovinum.
DR. ALLAN D. SUTHERLAND [Brattleboro, Vt.]: I was rather interested in Dr. Schmidts remarks that it was thought in some quarters that tuberculosis was essentially a manifestation of psora, and in Dr. Grimmers remark that by the electromagnetic method it seemed probable that tuberculosis was a precancerous manifestation.
Dr. Roberts always told me that tuberculosis was a marriage of two miasms, psora and syphilis. He also told me that cancer was a marriage of three miasms, psora, sycosis and syphilis.
So the reason in my mind why tuberculosis might be evidence of a precancerous state is because of the syphilitic miasm involved. They occur in both. Syphilis tends to ulcerate, as does tuberculosis, and that also is a manifestation of cancer.
DR. BOND [closing]: Or course, it is part of our duty in being good homoeopaths, to get the cases early and to recognize the early rumblings on the horizon, of the distant storm that is approaching.
As you go through medical college and study pathology and see these cases in the laboratory, from the anatomical standpoint, it is too late then.
We are interested as good homoeopaths in detecting those early signs and symptoms which lead us toward nipping the thing in the bud.
Demineralization is a word, I think, which just about hits the nail on the head. I feel that the relationship of tuberculosis to mineral deficiency is that the body is not, for some reason or other, due to its inherent miasm, able to retain the necessary minerals in the blood stream, and they are excreted through the kidneys at too large a rate. So that in that way we become mineral-starved, something like the diseases of nephrosis where the protein is eliminated through the kidney at an abnormal rate.
As to Dr. Roods question, experience with Alumina phos., I have had no experience with that, but I see no reason why that couldnt be added to our list of most wonderful remedies, possibly through Dr. Grimmers help, and I think he has done some work along that line.
In bowel tuberculosis with enlarged lymph nodes, of course there comes the matter of differentiating the different kinds of Tuberculinum. I have found that Tuberculinum bovinum helps more when there is tuberculosis of the lymph glands and bowel tuberculosis. I believe too often we draw in our horns and are licked before we start, by declaring a case incurable. We somehow get buffaloed and dont put up the effort we really should put into a case, by assuming it is incurable.
If you roll up your sleeves and go to work and give it all you have got, these so-called incurables become curables.
