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Homeopathy as an Instrument of Precision -- Elizabeth Wright Hubbard, M.D. (Read before Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society, Oct. 17. 1939) |
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The true Homoeopath may not merely be accurate with the most common hundred or so remedies, but must enlarge his knowledge systematically by daily study of the material medica in myriad books and magazines. He must search into remedy relationships and let his mind play on the free association principle: How revealing to realize that Opium, Chelidonium and Sanguinaria are of the same family, or that Apis is the animal counterpart of Natrum muriaticum! It must be remembered that where medicine depends upon mechanical aids, whose perfection is fallible in direct ratio to the fallibility of the interpreter of the data, precision is impossible. The best instrument of precision that I have ever encountered is true homoeopathy in skilful and devoted hands. As an example: Miss X., fifty-ish, with double pneumonia when first
seen, lying rigidly still, rusty sputum, temperature of 104, marked
herpes on the lips and below the nose, stitching pain in the chest
on breathing, hard cough, thrust for great quantities of ice water.
Bryonia 10 M., one dose and Sac. Lac. Temperature descended by lysis
on the third day, but the patient complained of a lumbo-sacral backache,
which bothered her much more than the pneumonia. No characteristic
symptoms were forthcoming. Aesculus and later Kali carb were tried
in succession with temporary but not lasting relief. Finally she
said how strange it was that the backache was much more severe after
urinating (urine negative). On repertorizing in Kent only one remedy
had this peculiar symptom: Syphilinum. In looking for corroborative
symptoms I noticed corneal scars and the patient said she had had
keratitis and iritis some years before. She had certain characteristics
of the syphilitic miasm and the backache was troubling here most
from dark to down. Syphilinum 1M, one dose, produced a two-hour
violent aggravation followed by swift and permanent relief.
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