DR. HARVEY FARRINGTON: (Glenview, III.): Just about ten words. I have had no experience with Atabrine, although I have used a high potency of Quinine many times, and with good effect. As these medicines multiply, I imagine we will have to keep Ehrhart or Boericke & Tafel busy.
One of the point that was raised by this suggestion by Dr.Hubbard that you have to be careful how you give Phosphorus, Silica, and Sulphur. I can tell you one recipe which never fails. In kents clinic years ago, a man appeared giving quite a clear picture for sulphur in malaria. You would think that was unusual, and it is still, and that was many years ago, actually about fifty-years ago.
I dont remember the potency or the indications, it is so many years ago. We took a powder, probably the 55M, and said, “Take this,” and dumped it in his mouth, and it lit in the midst of a big quid of tobacco. He had no aggravation, but he never had another chill. (Laughter).
DR. DONALD G. GLADISH (Glenview, Ill.): I had an interesting case of malaria after the war, a man who had had no active malaria or practically none, during his service, but he had taken a lot of atabrine when in the Philippines. He came back home. He was originally a homoeopath. He developed chills, as they often did when they got back to the States. I told him I could cure him in a little time with a homoeopathic remedy, and treated him for some time.
There were two interesting points about the case: one, that under the remedy we had various blood counts, looked for the plasmodia, and he would have a high concentrate of plasmodia in the blood even when feeling well, as long as he was under the actual remedy. It was a surprise to the laboratory. They never expected to have anyone walking around with a high concentration of plasmodium in his blood and within symptoms at that time.
A year or so later I saw him. H e moved to California after he got cured of this. I didnt take one remedy or one dose. It took one dose one and several remedies. He had Arsenicum and Apis one time, and the last remedy-I forget which-apparently cleared it all up, according to the laboratory, and clinically. I saw him a year ago. When I saw him, he had been keeping in touch with the Veterans Administration our there. I turned over to him the laboratory reports I had received when I treating him.
He expected to get some remuneration from the Veterans Bureau, and also to get listed on their books as a malaria case, and I turned over the reports from the laboratory about the various tests that were positive, and then when he came back a year or so ago, he said that the Veterans Bureau claimed he never had malaria, because they found no evidence of it in his blood.
I dont know what tests they could find now which would indicate whether he ever had malaria, but the said according to the present tests he never had malaria.
A DOCTOR: I live in a country where there is a lot of malaria, on the coast, on both sides, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific, and in a place where I hadnt access to medicine. They have had black water, which is worse than malaria. I had n access to medicine but I used Mazine, which is just the juice of tincture of the cornstalk, and since I had no means or way of potentizing it, I put a few drops in water and kept it up every time until it got to half, so they were doing the potentizing.
DR. SUTHERLAND: Did it work?.
DOCTOR: It did work. That is all I had, but it did work very well.
DR. GLADISH: Black water is malaria mistreated with quinine.
DR. EIKENBERRY: There are several types of malaria.
DR. GLADISH: I thought it was a severe case mistreated with quinine-the blood returning the iron.
DR. HUBBARD: It is only the quartan kind that reaches as black water.
DR. F.K. BELLOKOSSY (Denver, Colo.): I once 340 cases of malaria before I ever practiced medicine. I gave sodium thiosulphate. That gives Natrum sulph. in the body, and I cured every case without exception and never took any symptoms, never took any cases, and they were all cured with Natrum sulph., and not potentized.
DR. WILBUR K BOND. (Greens Fork, Ind.): Malaria officinalis has three forms, No.1, No.2, and No.3. I do not recall the name of the man who potentized this, but he started out by exposing decaying plant material to various hours of decomposition. I think in the first container the substance was allowed to standout in the sun for about four or five hours, and the next group, the No.2, it was allowed to decompose for twelve hours, and the next one for forty-eight hours.
As I understand it, in the more malignant cases you would get quite a few more signs similar to the animal counterpart, Pyrogen, so I would like to know the associations experience with the various indications for various degrees fermentation and putrefaction that take place in Malaria officinalis. Pyrogen, as you know, is the exact counterpart in the animal part of our remedies.
DR. HUBBARD: May I ask Dr. Bond where, if anywhere, the differential between Malaria officinalis 1,2, and 3, is to be found?.
DR. EIKENBERRY: “New, Old and Forgotten Remedies”.
DR. VIRGINIA M. JOHNSON: This Malaria that I gave was from Clarks original case, and it isnt marked other than “Malaria”.
DR.JIMENEZ (closing) I am glad my little paper brought on so much discussion. In closing I may that it is important to keep in mind that, when we have a case with a history of malaria, no matter what the complaints are, if we dont treat the background of malaria, we dont get too the far in helping the patient.
Allan D. Sutherland was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1897, delivered by the local homeopathic physician. The son of a Canadian Episcopalian minister, his father had arrived there to lead the local parish five years earlier and met his mother, who was the daughter of the president of the University of Norwich. Four years after Allan’s birth, ministerial work lead the family first to North Carolina and then to Connecticut a few years afterward.
Starting in 1920, Sutherland began his premedical studies and a year later, he began his medical education at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia.
Sutherland graduated in 1925 and went on to intern at both Children’s Homeopathic Hospital and St. Luke’s Homeopathic Hospital. He then was appointed the chief resident at Children’s. With the conclusion of his residency and 2 years of clinical experience under his belt, Sutherland opened his own practice in Philadelphia while retaining a position at Children’s in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.
In 1928, Sutherland decided to set up practice in Brattleboro.