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In the young the similar acts in a pleasant manner. Slowness in
the mental process. Malnutrition and the long line of defects, which
develops in its train, are corrected. In fact, prenatal treatment
brings such rounded results in the mother that the child becomes
outstanding in any group of children. I have yet to find any one
of these children to become a problem child. There is something
different about them, which commands attention, and I leave it to
you to explain.
There is much discussion and appeal for government subsidies to
handle the problem of juvenile deficiency. There is a growing propaganda
for extension of sports and to end of suggestions for this and that
diversion in courses of studies to keep up with the rapidity of
changing moods in the young. I wish to protest against this superficial
approach to a basic problem. I fully agree with a program of sports
and study diversion in moderation. I further wish to state that
the stepping up of these activities to meet the morbid changing
moods of the juvenile does not cure the condition but adds to instability.
Quietly the homoeopathic physician, without extra efforts, in an
inexpensive and practical manner through the medium of the indicated
remedy, is meeting the problem in his daily practice. Perverse and
antisocial tendencies are being ignored out by treating the internal
cause. Harmony and peace of mind again come into family life.
Some nine years ago a boy was brought to me with the following
picture: staring eyes; jealousy; defiant, rude, strikes, anger,
resentful; destructive; restless and moving all the time. Father
had a sister with recurrent attacks of excitement. The boy was a
definite antisocial type with a characteristic tubercular head formation,
and I assure you the prognosis for medical or any other kind of
treatment was discouraging. Mercurius, Sulphur and Tuberculinum
in the higher range of potencies has changed this unruly boy into
a splendid and successful high school lad.
Not to take up too much of your time, but I wish to refer to another
beneficiary of homoeopathy. This boy was a member of a family of
students, parents and family being mentally alert with no patience
for dullness. He was sensitive and had a definite inferiority complex
on account of his schoolwork; especially his spelling was deficient.
A relative, understanding the value of homoeopathy, paid for the
treatment under protest of the family, who as is often the case
with educators, were skeptical of what they cold not understand.
Medorrhinum has this particular symptom, around which grouped other
characteristics, and
justified administration. The lad forged ahead after a time and
today is a college student, improved in his spelling and earning
his way. The remedy was given in a series of potencies ranging up
to the highest (and I assure you we need to climb to the highest
in these difficult-to-cure cases).
It is my opinion and experience in practice that a systematic homoeopathic
treatment to an individual who needs medical attention will improve
the morale and stabilize productive capacity. The potentized remedy
will rehabilitate within reasonable bounds when stereotyped welfare
or palliative measures fail. I am not so optimistic as to think
that homoeopathy will come into general use in our distorted social
and medical world of today. I fully realize the small minority who
know and practice this great truth in medicine need have no fear
of being overwhelmed by any great change of attitude in the immediate
future.
Nevertheless, as our hair grows grayer and our experience with homoeopathy
lengthens into a broader and more mature grasp of the possibilities
at our disposal, we feel the mellowing influence of the greatest
means for the cure of the mentally and physically sick.
May we quietly at this moment search our inner selves for a review
of the many persons whom we have benefited by conscientious homoeopathic
treatment? Have we not gently carried them along in their difficulties
with the remedies, and helped them to adjust to and manage their
problems? Year after year passes and they continue on their feet,
much to our amazement. Some of these folks have spent considerable
sums for diagnosis, in consultation, in hospital observation, laboratory
fees and what not, solely to have an obscure diagnostic tag put
upon their sickness. Others have been informed there was no evidence
of pathology, to be sent away with some mental complex more firmly
fixed, which drives them
from one palliative measure to another without relief, but disgust
for medical ability.
These are the cases in which we secure remarkable results by integrity
in handling and industry in study. We fully realize that in some
cases we fail to find the proper remedy, in others we cannot eliminate
the exciting cause, which irritates the symptom complex; again we
find those who have reached the incurable stage, whether natural,
environmental or post palliative
After a rational. Understanding with the patient, we may seek to
bring about necessary correction, which, if possible, still leaves
us in the position of not having done any additional violence in
treatment to the patient who in confidence has come to us for relief.
Have not the many years of therapeutic nihilism produced a serious
loss of public confidence in the custodians of medical knowledge?
Our lack of knowledge of the use of many remedies in the storehouse
of nature has opened many channels of attack against our well-established
method of treatment. We have simply gone astray and lost our balance.
In time to come we will see that mechanical, chemical, surgical
or any other form of palliative approach as routine practice leads
to chaos, whether it be social, financial or medical. We can freely
accept the offering of science to meet the needs of our day, but
when it comes to treatment of the sick there is, in my opinion,
nothing to equal the wisdom, which has accumulated in our materia medica
during the years from the time of Hahnemann.
Courtesy----- The Homoeopathic Recorder, December
1939.
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