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| Hpathy Ezine - Jan., 2004 | ||||
Cures of Animals with High Potencies-- C. V. Boenninghausen |
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In science dependent on experience, only experience can solve doubts and establish what is true and correct. Where experience speaks with decision, and everywhere brings before our eyes facts in the same way, so as to be clearly seen, there human reason must humbly bow before it and would only become ridiculous in its egotism by obstinately denying or upholding the opposite. Such experiences, however, in order to avail, must be founded on pure observations, without the influence of artificial systems, and without hunting for hidden causes. the resulting lack of scientific precision is only evident, and can well exist by the side of rational empiricism; wherfore already 250 B. C. the then existing coryphei of the emperical school ( Herophilus, Serapion, Philimes) accepted epilogism; as we have been endeavouring since the time of Bacon, to enlarge pure experience through Induction. Homeopathy binds itself in all strictures to pure experience and excludes everything lying on the one side or the other of its border line. Its therapy is therfore exclusively based on the actual effects on patients. With the latter it therfore equally rejects epilogism and induction, and everything in its teachings that has been recieved in this respect, within the rubrics of small doses, attenuations, dynamizations and potencies is nothing more and nothing less than the bare results of pure experience and of carefully conducted experiments. Great as is the unanimity of all true homeopaths in by far the most essential of its principles, there is neverthless a considerable dispute as to doseology, as well with the respect to the potentizing and the smallness of the dose, as with the respect to the repetition of the same. in this point, therfore, we especially need yet the pure experience of many and reliable investigators, to bring to an agreement the dissenting views and opinions; so as to produce also on the plane of this more technical application of the remedies the desirable harmony. In order that such experience and such experiments may utter nothing more and nothing less than the truth and may give the perfectly pure and indubitable, excluding every kind of skeptical interpretation, and may nowhere offer an excuse for ascribing the results to the other, perhaps foreign influences, the cures on animals seem of all to be the most appropriate and reliable. The possible influences of imagination and of diet, which are so often objected to, are in such cases especially lacking, and in this respect they much surpass the cures of little children, though these probably stand next to them, since much that is told about the influence of mothers and of nurses on children belongs to the realm of fables and fairy tales. When I first began twenty years ago (in 1843) my experiments with the 200 potency, I limited these experiments both for these reasons (and also for others) exclusively to animals, but by the most surprising success I soon gained the courage to transfer them also to men. The success were of such kind, and they still remain of such a kind, that I at this day never decend as low as the 30th potency, while I only rise to Jenichen's highest potencies when compelled by necessity. The material carefully collected in this long series of years in my carefully kept records shows much that is curious and convincing, but I shall leave it to my successors later on to make a use of them which will benefit science, if it should be deemed best. |
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