1. OPENING ADDRESS
Homoeopathy provides a method of approach, and a method of dealing with cancer which no other system known to me does provide. And I have not found any other system which gives proportionate results….
The Therapeutics of Cancer by J.H. Clarke
The Therapeutics of Cancer by John Henry Clarke (1853 – 1931).
This book tackles tumor and cancer conditions with ease by discussing role of homeopathic medicines in curing them.
The first part provides a glimpse into the case notes of Robert T. Cooper, and pertains to his experience in treating cancer patients using what he termed “arborivital treatment”. By this he meant prescribing a single dose of a plant mother tincture prepared from a fresh, living specimen.
Cooper was of the opinion that living plants have an inherent curative action that does not require trituration or succession to bring it forth. In his introductory notes, Cooper draws an analogy between a seed which, in favourable soil will sprout, and grow into a plant, and the seed of cancer in a human being which, again, only in favourable conditions, will develop into a cancerous tumour.
In using arborivital tinctures, Cooper suggests that it is possible to combat the “growth force’ of a malignant tumour with the growth force of a suitable plant — undoubtedly an ingenious variation on the principle of similars!
2. THE CANCER PROBLEM: SOME DEDUCTIONS BASED ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Homeopathy proved that a rapidly advancing Cancer or tumor mass could be changed into an equally rapidly receding one by the exhibition of an internal remedy, at the same time greatly prolonging life, removing all pain, and changing the patient’s despair into happiness and renewed hope….
3. CANCER AND HOMOEOPATHY
The author suggests that it is not easy to treat cancer with homeopathy, in the classical way. You need isopathic remedies and nosodes too to deal with the cancer problem….
4. ON THE PARASITIC THEORY OF CANCER
Opponents of the parasitic theory invariably content that tumours produced experimentally by the introduction of parasites obtained in pure culture from cancerous blood or tumours, in most cases do not conform of the conditions recognized by pathologists….
5. A FEW FACTS ON THE PROBLEM OF CANCER
One factor is now fairly generally recognized, viz., the factor of local irritation. Evidence of this is found in chimney sweep’s cancer, cancer of the lip in clay-pipe smokers (probably due to heat), cancer of the tongue starting at the site of tooth irritation, cancer arising from continued exposure to X-rays….
6. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE TREATMENT OF TUMOURS BY NON-SURGICAL METHODS CHIEFLY BY MEDICINES
It is but rarely that tumour formation depends upon a single factor, more usually upon a combination of them, which may be constitutional, aetiological, or pathological, or all of them. And in treating cancer, wee need to consider all of them….
7. REMARKS ON THE NOSODES AND “SPEEDING UP” THE TREATMENT OF CANCER
The nosodes of cancer, sarcoma and tuberculosis should be applied from the positive pole, those of staphylococcus, streptococcus, &c., from the negative pole…….