HOMOEOPATHY IN THE NURSERY



But these are the evil days of small families – or none – and the modern young woman knows little of the joys and anxieties of a big nursery – that “heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord.” They little realise how much they forfeit – not only in happiness, but in health, by their self-imposed limitations.

For statistics show that, among married women, it is the mothers of large families who are not only the healthiest but the longest lived. Nature is not kind to those who flout her. She has her own way of settling with them.

For their own sakes, women who do not wish for children should not marry.

I think of our merry, wholesome, happy young days. I see these wretched “only children.” Their normal childhood has been denied to them. It is in the home that one learns to give and take, that the angles get rubbed off, and that one learns to face the world. And then, the anxiety of an only child! A rich, childless man told me once that what he wished for his worst enemy was – an only child!.

Then how do you women know that your husbands will not seek elsewhere the home you deny them? It is not the fathers and mothers of happy nurseries that crowd the divorce the courts!.

And then – for the sake of the nation. How is this grand race of ours, with its amazing mission of peace and prosperity for the world, to be continued in the face of race-suicide? – for that is what it amounts to! And the first child is, even, seldom the best child!.

It is the nurseries of England and Scotland that have built this might Empire: without the nurseries the race must deteriorate and the Empire pass.

But it will not! It is the craze that pass-always. The nursery will reassert itself: and the Homoeopathic Nursery is the Nursery of Survival, and of People.

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.