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The Ever Present Truth of Homeopathy -- J.W.Waffensmith, M.D. (Read by title before I.H.A. Bureau of Clinical Medicine, July 27,1939) |
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The activity of life are either higher or hypo. There is a happy medium, but the continuous maintenance of the same is a chimera, a dream of the philosophers. Action and reaction, being equal and opposite, find a logical counterpart in the law of Similars. Hahnemann, the medical genius of all time, using these facts as a basis of reasoning, devoted his efforts to the elaboration of a constructive system of therapeutics, which fundamentally meets the need of all time. He geared his mental mechanism with the flashes of truth along the pathway of the masters who preceded him. He built upon a substantial background, which at the time may have seemed of small value by his skeptical colleagues; nevertheless it became the center for an unlimited expansion in curative possibilities. With an ever-widening application of the law of Similars in many fields of science there comes back to his followers the echo of the substantial value of his contribution to a sick humanity. The medical scholar, irrespective of the particular flare he may express in his treatment approach to disease, experiences at times an intriguing sense of satisfaction from some curative result obtained. The Law of Similars in some way has been met and recompense of mutual satisfaction results. Hahnemann demonstrated his uncanny genius by concentration upon
a known fact, although not clearly understood in his time. He proved
that a definite approach to the universal law of similars in some
particular channel would bring results. He may not in the beginning
have suspected the range of action to be as broad as it later proved
to be with clinical verification of his proving of remedies. We
all recognize that the success of homoeopathy was due to the provings
on the healthy and the This duality of facts opened the way for unlimited advance in the treatment of the sick, solely dependent upon the individual ability and study hours devoted to acquiring knowledge of it. It demanded patience and industry to an exceptional degree to find the indicated remedy. Homoeopathy uses man as a subject of proving, differing from the common form today, which is upon animals. It gives particular attention and makes notation of the mental symptoms, and thereby offers a superior facility for remedy diagnosis in the attack upon disease. It gives a sense of reliance, which never can be attained by crude pathologic or organic prescribing. A young woman became obsessed with a loathing of life, and continuously reproached herself without any definite reason, no pathology being in evidence. Like all these cases, no amount of reasoning made an impression. Psychotherapy was a waste of time and effort. The condition grew progressively worse and was affecting metabolic balance. Thuja 1M and 10M cleared the complex and again brought a love of life, social adjustment and physical balance. Here was a dual expression of psychic symptom, realistic as a severe pain to a patient, and equally as distressing to the members of the family as any physical illness may be, which subsided under the dynamic action of one of our major miasmatic remedies. We hear much today of the high cost of medical care, of the lack of clinical facilities for the treatment of the lower third. How easily this problem could be handled with the least cost to the tax-payer through a general knowledge of homoeopathic philosophy and training in the use of our remedies. Hospitalization would be reduced to the minimum, the extensive and expensive equipment would be unnecessary, the need for operative interference reduced, and the ambulant chronic cases become economically more productive. |
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