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| Hpathy Ezine, March 2004 | ||||
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Do Homeopathy Medicines Make Functional Changes? -- E. A. Farrington |
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At a regular monthly meeting of the Society held on May 11th, 1876, A.R.Thomas, M.D. President, being in the chair, the following interesting papers were read by E.A.Farrington M.D.: “ Do medicines make functional changes? Being a reply to an article of Dr. Lippe in the May number of the Medical Advance, entitled, “The last departure of Homoeopathy in the Physiological Livery,”and by Pemberton Dudley, M.D. “On the Cimex Question.” In the May number of Medical Advance, Dr. Lippe contributed an article “ The last Departure of Homoeopathy in the Physiological Livery.” So far as the charges preferred in this article apply to me personally, they demand no reply. But so far as they compromise the integrity of the college in which I hold my professorship, I am bound to inter the contest in her defence. In the early part of the winter. I issued syllabus containing some questions, arranged in sections. These questions comprised a good portion of the Materia Medica, certainly such portions, as the beginning practitioner ought to thoroughly understand before he commences the practice of medicine. To this syllabus Dr. Lippe raises several objections, Viz:- First, he considers that it reaches Schusslerism; Secondly, that it is contrary to the teachings of Hahnemann; Thirdly, that it is false because the answers to many of the proposed questions are impossible –can not be true. The words, which seem especially obnoxious to him, are these: “ The intelligent application of Materia Medica requires the knowledge of the changes medicines make in functions and nutrition.” For example, I asked, “ What changes does Lachesis make in the blood?” This Dr. Lippe terms Schusslerism. He asserts, and misapplies Hahnemann to confirm his argument that it is impossible to know what changes medicines make in function and nutrition. The reply to his argument comprises three questions:- First, what is Schusslerism? Secondly, can we learn what changes medicines make in functional and nutrition? Thirdly, if he can, of what uses such information in the application of drugs? First, if Schusslerism means the law, which Dr. Hering discovered some thirty years ago, then I plead guilty to the charge. If it means floundering about with untried remedies, basing their symptomatology on their supposed physiological action, making a cure all of twelve substances---then I most emphatically deny the charge. Every question propounded in the syllabus is answered either from provings or from clinical experience. If Schusslerism means that medical substance act on tissues producing changes in function and nutrition, then again must I plead guilty. |
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