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JOURNAL OF
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Vol. 3
JANUARY—MARCH
No. 1
1961
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That which restores health is the proper medicine, he who cures the
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Lif is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous
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The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health
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JANUARY-MARCH
Vol. 3
No. 1
CONTENTS
1. Editorial :
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2. Homoeopathy and Mental disorders .... Dr. H. L. Laudenberg, m.d.
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3. Actual Problems of Homoeopathy
.. Dr. Hans Ritter, m.d.
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Dr. Wolff Frankfurt, m.d.
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Dr. P. Sankaran, l.i.m., d.f.
Hom. ( Lond.)
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.. Dr. A. U. Sriram, m.b., b.s., m.f.hom.
(Lond) .. .
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4. Homoeopathy in emergency cases
5. FROM OUR CASE BOOKS :
(i) Pyoderma
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(ii) Two petroleum cases
.. Dr. K. R. Sethna, m.b., b.s.
(iii) Coronary Thrombosis
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.. Dr. S. R. Wadia, m.b., b.s.
m.f.hom.( Lond.)
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6. Skin Deseases
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7. Phosphorus
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8. Natrum Muriaticum
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9. Reflex Irritations
.. Dr. E. R. Mclntyer, b.s.,m.d.
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10. Book Review
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(iv) A case of convulsions
11. Dr. L. D. Dhawale, b.a.,m.d.
* The views expressed in the various papers represent those of the respective authors.
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EDITORIAL
ASSESSMENT
EFFECT
OF THE
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MEDICINE
It may appear strange and yet it is true that one of the most difficult tasks
in the field of medicine is to correctly assess the effect of a medicine administered
to a patient. A medicine is administered to the patient and the patient im
proves; the improvement is naturally attributed to the medicine. Yet, in many
instances such a conclusion is neither irresistible nor easily warranted. In
so deciding, we often forget or ignore the innumerable other factors
which are simultaneously operating on the patient. The patient being
a biological organism is necessarily and constantly exposed to a wide variety
of influences and impulses, exteroceptic and interoceptic, arising both from outside
the body and from within. And as these influences are changing from time to time,
naturally therefore, the condition of the patient is also likely to change from time
to time. Claude Bernard, the famous medical scientist has enunciated the axiom
that if a particular result is to be attributed to a particular cause then it is essential
that every Qther influencing factor in the experiment should remain unchanged.
Therefore, to correctly credit a medicine with a particular beneficial effect each
and every other influence to which the patient is exposed should be eliminated or
should remain unchanged; then alone we may claim that the benefit was due to the
medicine. But this is almost impossible to achieve for as already explained, man
is a living organism and the process of living itself consists of being acted upon
and reacting to a variety of influences such as air, water, food etc. And just as
it is impossible to eliminate these influences, so also it is impossible to control them
all or even to retain the living body in a static condition, while an experiment is
in progress.
Added to this is the difficulty that diseases themselves do not take a
uniform course and, therefore, we are unable to exactly predict how a particular
disease may progress or regress, had the patient been unaided by medicine. To
give only one example, we all know very well how much a patient is influenced by
the personality of the physician. The same medicine administered by different
physicians sometimes produces different effects in the same patient. Analysing
even this single entity viz., the personality of the physician we find that it is again
composed of numerable small factors like knowledge, ability, confidence, courage
tact, manners etc. etc. Similarly again the mental outlook and attitude of the patient
may also differ from time to time and he may, therefore, react in different ways to
the same dose of medicine. In this connection the experiments of Dr. Bykov1
in the field of physiology should prove an eye-opener to all medical men. Among
the various experiments he has conducted, is one in which he has observed that
the oxygen consumption of an individual varies not only with the amount of work
he does but it also increases while he is merely watching others exerting I He has
also described numerous other such experiments which will show the bewildering
influence of the cerebral cortex on the functions of the body. If conditioning of
the mind alone can produce such surprising changes in the results of experiments,
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it can be imagined how much change can be brought about by a combination
of different factors.
Therefore, in any system of treatment, a method of assessment which does
not give fullest consideration to these factors will necessarily reach unwarranted
conclusions. Therefore, we must be clear that in claiming a particular effect for
a medicine we are supported by the law of averages of probabilities.
Again we may give the example of the make-up of the observer or recorders.
It is a fact though not so well -recognised that all of us are influenced and our outlook
coloured to varying extents by our beliefs and hopes, by our fears and prejudices.
Our expectancy leads us even to distort our observations and to interpret them to
our advantage, however unwittingly. We all say that a true scientist should be
free from prejudice and bias but this attitude is easier conceived than developed.
Objectivity everywhere is difficult to achieve, particularly so in the field of medicine.
Elsewhere in this issue is a very illuminating and masterly paper on the scope
and limitations of homoeopathic medication written by Dr. Ritter. Whether we
may agree or disagree with his conclusions, and whatever may be the degree of
agreement or disagreement, less or more, we must all welcome the objective assess
ment of the effect of homoeopathic medicine that he has attempted. Far too long
we have had no objective analysis and such assessment is bound to be helpful to
the progress of our science. Homoeopathy is indeed an extraordinary system
of medicine for it produces results which cannot often be explained and which are
sometimes beyond our utmost expectations or wildest hopes. The greatness of
homoeopathy is thus assured on the basis of what it is able to accomplish. And
therefore, it is not necessary to claim for homoeopathy what it is not able to do;
but unfortunately this is being done and, when such claims on analysis are found
to be uncorroborated or untrue, it brings the system into disrepute. Therefore,
we would appeal to the adherents and followers of homoeopathy to be precise in
their claims and only claim such results which they are able to accomplish through
homoeopathy.
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ORIGINAL ARTICALES
HOMOEOPATHY AND MENTAL DISORDERS *
by Dr. H. Laudenberg, Ph.D., W. Germany.
In order to illustrate §§211, 212, 213 of day, or even changes it every three hours.
the “ Organon ” I should like to tell you The creases in his trousers must be beyond
a case of neurosis which is apt to demon reproach. Besides, he is obsessed by the
strate how vital it is for the patient’s state idea of suffering from a bad heart disease.
of mind that the doctor should recognize He would like very much to smoke cigarettes
the mental symptoms.
but is prevented from doing so by his great
For one year a 23 year old young man fear of any heart trouble. It took him a
had been suffering from heart trouble together long time before he made up his mind to
with feelings of oppression, difficulties of see the doctor (Arnica).
breathing and at last even heart attacks.
Kent’s repertory says under mind:
fastidious! : ars.9 nux. v., graph
As it was not possible to make out more
characteristic symptoms I gave the patient
carefulness : ars., bar.c., iod., nux. v.
some doses of arnica 30 ( Ha ) and 200 ( Ha)
Suspicious : ars., bar.c., graph., nux. v.
within four months.
Starting on falling asleep : ars., arn., bar. c.
nux. v.
Perceptible improvement, no heart attacks
from the fourth or fifth day on after the
GENERALITIES
first dose of arnica; for the next weeks,
Electriclike
shocks on going to sleep : ars.
the next three months
respectively,
Jerking
on
going to sleep :
ars.
there is continual change for the better,
Wine agg. : ars., nux.v.
at least on the surface. For two months
the patient is without any complaints.
Initially the state of health of the patient
At the end of that period new heart badly deteriorated after arsenicum 200
troubles occurred together with the following (Korsakoff). Some days later however
symptoms: Electric like shocks on going the shock on falling asleep ceased completely.
asleep, jerking of the arms, starting in bed. For three months the patient had no comp
Not the slightest quantities of wine can laints whatsoever. Then there was again
be drunk without unpleasant effects.
some heart trouble with stitches during
At that moment I learnt some revealing the day and in the evening.
details about the patient’s behaviour from
A single dose of arsenicum M (Korsa
his mother :
koff) removed all symptoms. More than
Her son is suspicious, very careful, three moths later another dose of arsenicum
even pedantic. Very particular about his XM (Korsakoff). No subjective symptoms
clothes. PulsionT cleanJ;dress shirt every ever since.
* Paper presented on July 1960, XXIV Congress of The International Homoeo
pathic League, Montreaux.
f According to Foubister, carcinosinum (highest degree) must also be ranged
under “Fastidious”. I should like to mention in this context that remedies made of
diseased matter particularly ought to be considered from a psychiatric viewpoint.
May I remind you, for instance, of the fact that syphilinum feel obliged to wash hands
continually. Doesn’t that throw a revealing light on the origin of psychoses!
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What I found most surprising were the
things the patient’s mother told me much
later :
Her son’s character has undergone a
complete change. The patient does not
show any sign of anxiety any longer though
he had been uneasy and scrupulous all his
life. He is no longer the cheeky fellow he
used to be. He had always been in an un
pleasant mood, morose, only reluctantly
and partly giving his mother any answers.
Whereas he had been a morose fellow full
of oppressions in former times he has now
become a happy and serene person knowing
no complexes any longer. For the first time
since early childhood he gets on well with
his father.
It may throw some light on the young
man’s situation when I state that his father’s
attitude of mind is marked by downright
positivism whereas his mother may be called
a delicate, sensitive woman 'taking a great
interest in all things spiritual.
I do not think I am wrong in putting it
like this. The patient may have found him
self in a position of unmitigated contrast, of
of anxiety personified between his parents.
The patient put on ten kg. (about 21
pounds) during the treatment.
tree had been totally uprooted. It is in the
same words that Hahnemann speaks in strong
conviction about the final and eternal anni
hilation of disease.
Comparing the different forms of anxiety
we may call calcarea the remedy for the
great original natural fear, the cyclothymic
panic of childlike man whereas arsenicum
is the remedy for the quiet schizoid religious
fear, for mortal terror, ennui and disgust,
despair ending in suicide, in a word, it is
the remedy for the great metaphysical fear
of modern man faced with the problems
of our times.
Age-old wisdom of the Far East says:
Calm is greater than storm.
This is the way we put it :
The gentle power is boundless 1
Indeed, Samuel Hahnemann’s gentle power
is boundless !
§211.
It is in the first place the patient’s frame of
mind that determines the homoeopathic
choice of remedy. It is the characteristic
symptom that cannot remain concealed from
a close observer.
§212
The patient’s changed frame of mind is
particularly taken into: account, this being
Concluding remarks :
the most important essential in all diseases.
Whereas arnica was at best a simile, ar£eni- There is no potent remedy in the world that
cum was similium : it completely changed the does not affect the patient’s state of mind, as
patient. If we take the patient’s state even the frame of mind of a healthy person
of mind into proper consideration we con is most likely to be strongly affected by any
centrate attention on the “ essential point remedy. It goes without saying that every
in all diseases ” as Hahnemann puts it in 212 remedy has a different effect.
of the “ Organon ”. Doing so we can com §212
pletely remodel and change a person. We
It is impossible to cure a patient naturally
can achieve cures that seem incredible and i.e. homocopathically unless the changes in
miraculous.
his frame of mind are taken into considera
This is how an initiate of the Far East tion. This is even true, in cases of acute
speaks about the removal of suffering: diseases. A remedy must be chosen that
Suffering has been vanquished as if the palm is apt to produce a similar frame of mind in
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permanent recovery in a patient of a calm
and serene mind. Nux won’t do for a
mild phlegmatic character, nor pulsatilla
for a happy and obstinate character, nor
ignatia for a stoic mind.
itself without regard to the other symptomsAs a matter of course those other symptoms
of the disease in question should also be taken
into account when selecting the remedy.
So aconite will never effect a quick or
ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF HOMOEOPATHY
*
by Professor Dr. Hans Ritter, M.D.
Chief Physician, Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, W. Germany.
journal about the special trend of homo
eopathy in Russia.
, Since its inauguration by Hahnemann,
homoeopathy has followed two trends; the
so-called natural-scientific trend with its
beginning in the teaching of earlier Hahne
mann himself and a number of his first
adherents :Moritz Mueller, Griesselich, Rau
and—in otur time—Wapler and Stiegele; and
the dogmatic trend with its origin in the
later Hahnemann and a great number of his
so-called true followers, for instance V.
Boenninghausen, Jahr, Gross, Hering and a
long continual line until its culmination in
the Kentianism of the Anglo-American world
and of India.
This article was inspired by my recent
meeting with some Indian homoeopathic
colleagues. It is with great pleasure that
I remember my discussions, both in the
office and at home, with Dr. Shuka Khan
and Dr. Ghose of Bombay, Dr. Patel of
Kerala State, Dr. Sahu and last but not least,
with the venerable Sri Swami Athuradas,
the founder of the Homoeopathic College of
Kerala State. I was greatly impressed by
the deep homoeopathic conviction of all
these men. They gave me the best illustra
tion of a passage 1 later read in an article of
Dr. Sankaran in the journal ( 1959), where
he wrote :
“ The concepts of homoeopathy fits
in very well with our own ancient Indian
medicine and with our knowledge and
belief in the efficiacy of immaterial ()
entities. We are easily able to accept the
idea of homoeopathic potencies, while our
colleagues in the West have to struggle
against their own disbelief. ”
A profound separation under the same
flag of the law of similar under the name of
Hahnemann ! A separation in the face of
the modern materialistic world of science,
where unity would be needed most. But
also is needed a clear insight in the fate of the
whole mankind as seen in the global scientific
development- in good and bad !
In fact, here is the reason for the rapid
spread of homoeopathy in India, and also
for the special spiritual direction it has taken
I found all colleagues I met convinced adher
ents of the high potency-Kentianism. I
saw the differences from my own standpoint
which, however, correspond with that of
Dr. Verkhowsky, who has written in this
In this aspect we see the future task of
homoeopathy : not to deny the immense
progress that medical science has made in
saving human beings from early death, that
which Hahnemann called our only destina
tion as physicians, but also not to deny the
dangers to health and even life which are
* Reprinted from The Athurasramam Homoeopathic Medical College Magazine, October 1960.
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It was especially Kotschau, who outlined the
difference. “ Law ” is only to be found in
the physical world; it declares what will
happen under given conditions without ex
We have much to say about this turbulent
way into an unknown but dangerous future. ception. “ Rule ” is to be found in the
Here we must act but on the basis of clear biological world. It declares what should
insight into the abundant work of all these happen under certain conditions, but may
men who are the stars in the medical firma not, because of the always changing condi
ment of our time. We must agree that a tions, which can never be known completely
single man, Fleming, has saved innumer and which cannot be restricted in experiment,
able men from death by the invention of as they can in physics. “No rule without
Penicillin; that he has intiated an enormous exception ” is an old German proverb.
trend of investigation and that the reason We must therefore keep in mind that every
able use of these remedies does not fall exception would break our “ law' ”. So
with the unreasonable and dangerous one-’ let us speak, in the future, of the “ rule ”
still more dangerous to future than to present and never of the “law” of the similar. Other
time. I have also seen in the Indian papers wise we cannot exist in the face of criticism.
that there is an underlying conviction that
A most important rule indeed 1 It is the
different methods are indicated when cir predominating, if not the- only real content
cumstances so demand, but I have not seen of the widespread branch of therapy, which
a clear method of handling this * problem, was formerly called in Germany the “ sti
in order to give homoeopathy what belongs mulating therapy ”, but what is now better
to it and to give allopathy what it, with the called “ regulating therapy
Regulating
same right, demands. Let me try to demon therapy of every kind always appeals to the
strate in a birds eye view how to manage self-regulation of the organism, to its vital
this problem in a manner which does not force. The opposite is “ artificial therapy ”
close, but opens the way to a homoeopathy assuming-in general—that the self-regulation
as reasonable as possible before a general and the vital force is insufficient in the case
medical forum.
to be treated, and therefore forcing them
into its way, a way found by clear experi
THE “LAW” OF SIMILAR.
The first duty is to find a convenient place ment, which means, by interrogating nature.
for our leading sentence in the broad spect We have thus two headings of medical
rum of modern therapy that includes all treatment :
the- price of progress under a never-ending
flood of drugs with their disutrbing effect
on physicians and patients.
possible remedies, diet, physical applica
tions, surgery and specialised measures of
all kinds.
Artificial therapy (in general without
the help of self-regulation because
self-regulation is not active enough
or cannot be stimulated sufficiently).
2. Regulating therapy (always with the
^self-help of the organism and accord
in to, but never against the direction
it has taken itself.)
1.
We must first note that homoeopathy is
a method of treating by remedies, and that
it therefore competes only with other kinds
of drug therapy. It differs from other drug
applications by managing cases according
to a special law, the law of similars. But
wait ! In Germany we don’t speak of
the “ law ”, but of the “ rule ” of similar.
Here we find the innate sense of the rule
of similar : according to the direction that
life power has taken itself. This direction
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we find in the symptoms and signs it offers.
How remedies act in the same direction,
we find by drug proving and in toxicology,
and also by the symptoms and signs they
produce.
To return to the first point of thera
peutics :—
Artificial Therapy. Here we distinguish three
sub-divisions :
(a) Palliative-symptomatic therapy (the
“ contraria contraris ” of Hahne
mann ).
(b) Substitutive therapy (vitamines,
hormones, enzymes ).
( c ) Parasiticide therapy (antibiotic, che
motherapeutic remedies ).
(a) Palliative-symptomatic Therapy:—
Here we find since Hahnemann’s time,
the greatest abuse. Without doubt this
principle of therapy can be of profit in many
acute cases and in incurable diseases, especia
lly before death. But to make constipation
chronic by using laxatives or to continue
in treating a chronic constipation by them
this we call real abuse and lack of true,
medical sense. There are many similar
ways of abusing palliatives. Here homo
eopathy has an obligation to the present and
future. But, it is limited in this realm of
therapy, and it was an error of Hahnemann
and of many of his successors not to re
cognize it. We should not allow people to
cry in great pain, when we have palliatives
for relief.
Take the example of gallstones or kidneystone-colic ! I cannot understand homo
eopathic authors who write : give in these
cases colocynthis, belladonna or chamomilla
according to the particular condition, every
five minutes or quarter of an hour ! How
long has this patient to cry, when we have
the power to deliver him from his pains in
two minutes by the intravenous injection
of an alkaloid ? Let me call this a nearly
absolute indication of the contrarium princi
ple. It is the purpose of my table of princi
ples to emphasise that it would only be a loss
of insight into the real nature of homo
eopathy, but not its failure, not to act
sufficiently in such cases. Let us also not
overlook many relative indications of the
contrarium principle, where it can be of
welcome benefit in special situations; but
let us vigorously oppose all exaggerations
and contra-indications—this meant in our
own justified, but not too narrow sense !
( b ) Substitutive Therapy
What about this principle, completely
unknown to Hahnemann and his contem
poraries ? Let me use the example of per
nicious anaemia ! We lost all these cases
in spite of homoeopathic treatment, until
the B12-substitution therapy was found by
Murphy’s ingenuity. Now most of these
cases can reach a normal age by continual
substitution.
Consider a serious case of diabetes 1
The merits of Banti cannot be overestimated.
Millions of diabetic men in the whole world
owe him their lives and productiveness. We
cannot judge this in favour of homoeopathy
on the basis of a small number of well treated
or even cured cases, particularly without
speaking of the cases where we have failed.
Imagine a whole hospital full of diabetic
cases. Could we treat them as well as with
insulin or modern sulfonamide (Nadisan
etc.) ? It is true, most of these cases are
not completely cured by these remedies,
but they are brought into a nearly permanent
state of control which is compatible with an
almost normal life. Can we do better in
every case? Can we prove this in a Convin
cing manner and can we give advice which
can be followed with the same success by
every physician of the world ?
This is the decisive question in the matter
of diabetes’. I was told by my Indian friends,
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that they are able to treat even grave diabetes
without insulin; that I, for one, cannot do.
It would be worthy of a whole monograph
written in an absolutely scientific manner.
Let me add however, that we cannot speak
of our successes to the other world, before
this monograph is written. Here we stand,
charged with the responsibility of which
Dr. Sankaran spoke in his cited paper “ Hie
Rhodos, hie salta ” ! India seems to have
an extremely high incidence of diabetes.
The homoeopaths of this country must have
a great experience, for they have more
opportunity to go their own way than do
their colleagues in the Western world. Per
haps, you have better native remedies—for
instance Gymnemna—which we do not know.
We would be content to prove them accord
ing to your recommendations.
What about Addison’s disease? Formerly
these cases died quickly. Now they are
maintained in active life by cortison therapy.
What about Beri-Beri, about Scurvy etc. ?
Take the special vitamin and you will
completely cure these diseases, when the
future diet is normal.
In all such cases we find many absolute
indications of the substitutive principle
and seldom only relative indications of the
homoeopathic principle. Only in the field
of sex hormones, especially at the beginning
and at the end of female sexual life, we can
find fruitful indications for homoeopathy.
We can also treat many cases of achylia
without substituting the missing acid—but
not every case 1
Let us always keep this in mind. Let us
recognize the limits of our principle and let
us give the honour to each investigator on
the route of progress !
(c) Parasiticide Therapy
The previous principle dealt almost com
pletely with chronic diseases. Here we en
counter an apute problem of highest res
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ponsibility. A therapy that proposes to.
destroy the invading micro-organisms in the
body itself is the classic idea of the “ therapic
magna sterilisan ” of Ehrlich, the inventor
of the salvarsan. It is always justified and
of extreme value in cases, where the self
regulation, the immunizing power of the
organism is not able to destroy the invader
without irreversible damage to health and
life. Here are to be found the, often abso
lute, indications of this principle. Cases
of septicaemia, peritonitis, gravest pneu
monia, bacterial endocarditis can be saved
by antibiotic therapy in a very happy high
degree. Therefore one assumes an almost
unbearable responsibility by renouncing these
remedies in favour of homoeopathic treat
ment. It is also a misunderstanding of its
kind. In case of death one never could
certify that all possible had been done in
treating only homoeopathically.
We find the same situation in cases of
gonorrhea and especially of syphilis, where
the future of the single patient, of his family
and of other people, is given into our hands.
We must also see in these cases absolute
indications of the parasiticide principle,
which performs far more than best regulating
therapy. Besides such absolute indications
we have many relative ones, for instance,
in common cases of pneumonia and of ton
sillitis. But as in these cases danger and
complications are possible too-even in best
homoeopathic treatment—our responsibly
lity is also great, and, often a real burden
under the conditions of the Western world.
Only when based on impartial judgment
are we right in emphasizing the contra
indications of the parasiticide principle, so
often abused in the world. Most of the
abuses we find in the countless common in
fections of adult life arid of childhood. To
give antibiotic remedies in every case is a
danger for the whole population. We cannot
see, how this will end. Here we are not
only allowed but even obliged to protest
against the abuse of this principle which
may possibly lead to a complete failure of so
fruitful and beneficial a therapy. There
are many allopathic physicians in the Western
world, who also see this danger clearly and
try to prevent it. But they stand in mino
rity against the general opinion and act
nevertheless in practice and public as we
ourselves do. 1 think, that Indian physi
cians, on the threshold of the inevitably
advancing general “ civilisation ”, will be
in a more hopeful position than are we.
I think also, that Indian homoeopathy is
worthy of standing in the front-line of this
reaction—providing it does not pour the
child out with the
* bath !
2. Regulating Therapy.
Speaking of this principle I am speaking
of homoeopathy in such treatment of uni
versity medicine, where nobody is aware of
it. Digitalis-therapy can and must also be
interpreted homoeopathically, and so are
many other managements of drugs. But
it would be a misunderstanding to include
the modern hypotensive remedies (for in
stance Rauwolfia) in the regulating therapy
and to interpret it also in our science. Here
we are standing before the fleeting transition
from the contrary principle to the regulating
one. In any case the artificial character is
predominant. Therefore, the indications are
there, where the self-regulation of nature has
lost its power and cannot be led to a suffi
cient improvement of the disturbance.
It would exceed the competence of this
article to enter into further details. The
similar principle is able to control the realm
of regulation, because it is acting in an ab
solute clear degree. It is the development
of the therapeutic aim of the scientific re
gulating principle into a kind of individualisa
tion almost unknown to it. This is much.
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It is the reason for its domination in daily
practice. Nevertheless we must manage it
without neglecting the special indications of
the other principles I have described in
favour of a sovereign medicine in a true
Hippocratic manner.
II. DRUG PROVING
MATERIA MEDICA.
AND
OUR
I cannot mention too much in this paper.
Drug proving is a very responsible and diffi
cult affair. There are many possibilities of
deception. The drugless period at the
beginning Qf each proving and the double
blind technique during the proving have un
covered the great number of “ido-symptoms”
of almost each prover. Formerly, most
of these symptoms were considered to have
been caused by the remedy and were there
fore taken to its symptom-picture. This was
a mistake and not according to the ideal of
a true “ pure ” materia medica.
The most important objections to the
Repertory of Kent were provided by this
knowledge. The symptoms of toxicology
must be considered in the same manner.
Having strong effects, the chance of error
is not so great. On the other hand we have
the disadvantage of too great a loss of
individuality.
Provings and toxicology are the two first
pillars of our materia medica. The third
would be the experiment on animals. In
the so-called “ Wolfsche Thesen” of 1831,
the Central Association of Homoeopathy in
Germany stated that the mere superficial
similarity of symptoms is not sufficient for
the choice of the remedy. There must also
be a harmony according to seat, kind and
character of symptoms. That was in re
ality an early conception of a future ex
perimental pharmacology, which, however,
has only been practised and led to a high
degree by academic medicine. We should
profit by this work, wherever it may be
useful for our purposes, especially to un
derstand better the dignity of our subjective
symptoms and to recognize and to confirm
their organic origin.
The last pillar of our materia medica are
the symptoms observed by clinical observa
tion. I would prefer to speak of clinical
indications in the whole, for a single symptom
abstracted from a clinical case is often falla
cious. Also a vulnerable point of the Kent
Repertory is that there are too many clinical
symptoms included. In other words : there
is too much personal, subjective opinion of
a single author, dependent on the state of
science of his time only partly balanced by
the great significance of this man. The
value of his monumental work is also re
stricted, because a congenial person has never
been found, who will bring it up to date by
including later provings and new clinical
experience.
Whatever may be the truth and whatever
may be the critical objections of my readers,
we must keep in mind, that each problem
I mentioned is a demand of science to us,
and that in the Western world we cannot
avoid giving convincing answers to these
demands.
their successes, if true, are caused by equal
concomitant factors, but not by the remedy.
Nevertheless, the- low potencies are not a
problem of decisive importance. We there
fore need not speak of them in detail. The
high-potencies preferred by Kentianism are
quite another thing. There are several
points to be touched upon :
( 1 ) What is the matter with C 30, 100,
1000 ? Are these preparations made accord
ing to the prescription of Hahnemann ?
Are these potencies made by the “ moreglass methods ”, i.e. are they made step by
step passing 30, 100, 1000bottles? Cert
ainly, they are not.
( 2 ) Are these potencies Korsakoff po
tencies^ made by the one-glass method, i.e.
made in the same bottle by emptying and
filling it 30, 100 or 1000 times ? Or was
the more-glass method administered first,
and only from a certain potency the “ oneglass method ” ? I know, that this last way
is often preferred.
( 3 ) Or it is a preparation^, only shaken
from a certain more-glass or one-glass
potency 30, 100 or 1000 times further ?
It can be easily understood, that these
three
possibilities produce quite different
III. The potency problem
This is the most critical problem of homo states of dilution or potencizing and that
eopathy. One and a half centuries have it is confusing for each of them to be given
not been sufficient to clear it in our the same designation. Each paper dis
own ranks. This indicates the difficulty cussing high-potency treatment must there
of our problem. It cannot be denied that fore contain a completely clear declaration
the high-potencies have often damaged the of the kind of preparation of the highreputation of homoeopathy in the medical potencies used. Otherwise such an article
world and that it has always been is without real value even to us.
our vulnerable spot for the attacks
When this is arranged we are face to face
of our opponents. They like to say : if with the most delicate problem of highhomoeopathy has up to this time the two potency. It is given by the “ Loschmidt
branches of low and high-potency adherents, number”.* This is that degree of dilution,
of whom both boast of successes, then this at which we have the last drug molecule in
is a clear sign, that both are wrong, because our bottle. It can be calculated that this
* Loschmidt number
*
= Avagardo’s number — Ed.
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state is reached at about the 20th decimal
potency, and that in consequence higher
patencies are completely immaterial. This is
the effect, at least, of the more-glass method.
Having a one-glass potency, we must suppose
that there is a constant diffusion from the
bottle-wall, impregnated by the low potency
at the start. We have quite the same, when
we have potentcized by shaking. It is there
fore quite possible, that many supposed
high-potencies are in reality still material
potencies, but then falsely denoted !
There are many adherents of rthe highpotencies who say that the consequence
of the Loschmidt number may be true,
but that this does not disturb them.
They see the secret and the peculiarity of
the high-potency in the special process of
proceeding from step to step and in the
transfer of the material drug power to the
diluting medium. How can this be proved ?
To date we have not found a promising wayPerhaps we can say, that there may be an
unknown secret of material which will be
discovered in future. We may also hope,
that then at last homoeopathy will find the
acknowledgement of having first offered
this miraculous effect to an incredulous
medical world.
Primarily, we are insisting only on the
therapeutic effect, of which we do not doubt.
I was told by my Indian friends, that they
think the high-potency effect to be a magic
one. Let us keep this in mind, but let us
also face the consequences ! Using the
example of a patient cured from a chronic
disease during the administration of a highpotency remedy, we have no reason to doubt
qf the cure itself. But just on this point
we meet the decisive question Iswariah
had visualized in this journal : Was it
“ propter hoc ”, or was it “ post hoc ” ?*
Or in other words : Was it really the drug
potency which had the effect, or was it one
of the numerous concomitant factors : the
personal merit influence of the doctor on
the patient, the stone-moving trust of the
latter, a changing climate, the diet, the re
gulation of the whole life or whatever else ?
To the believing and enthusiastic physician
only that he has cured his patient is of im
portance. It is the same with the latter.
Nobody is able to diminish the merit of the
physician and his allround glory. But
science demands more. It is now demanding
analysis and seeking the high-potency effect
alone, the proof of its existence. Even the
most surprising single case cannot satisfy
this demand, especially in our present time
of placebo-experiments.
It is the great task of Kentians, to add
stone to stone, in order to procure a body
of careful observation, sufficient at least to
give a certain degree of probability—not
for us, who believe without really knowing,
but for the members of the other so predo
minant, medical world.
Let us return to low potencies at the end
of our discourse! The abovementioned
doubts of science are also valid here. We
can see many astonishing occurrences by
placebo administration. I myself cure most
cases of gastric ulcer by bed-rest in hospital
by diet and placebo alone ! Only when
they have not lost their symptoms after
several days, do they get the indicated remedy.
Had I given the remedy on the first day—
whether in low or in high potency what
would J. have proved ?
Questions after questions! There are
many other problems of homoeopathy that
could be spoken of, but these I must leave
to future articles. In this paper I have
only tried to give some material for a
teaching of homoeopathy on the basis of
♦ Post hoc, ergo propter hoc = After this, therefore because of this (a fallaci
ous reasoning) — Ed.
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the science of our time. It has been blamed
in the Western world, that homoeopathy has
nsisted on a point of view what was justi
fied a century ago, but not justified in the
light of changing conditions. We are obliged
to give facts, not only philosophy and belief.
Disbelief which Sankaran blamed in his
quoted sentence is only to be vanquished
by facts. Facts alone are the leaders of
progress. Keeping this in mind, and being
always aware of the necessity for a scientific
foundation of homoeopathy, the advanced
and perfectly initiated homoeopath may go
farther in complete freedom and responsi
bility. He can go into a region, where
modern science must fail, because nothing of
this can be taught, but all must arise from
spirit and personality. This is the way to
unity in our ranks and to corresponding esti
mation of all who devote their labour for the
work of Hahnemann.
HOMOEOPATHY IN EMERGENCY CASES *
by Dr. med. vet. Wolff, M. D. Frankfurt
I shall describe to you two cases taken
from my practice on small animals. In both
cases, the classic homoeopathy of Hahne
mann has been the salvation.
Hopeless, a patient came to join me at
my holiday place with a male Setter, five
years old, which was to have an eye extracted
in a veterinary school clinic. The dpg had
a struggle with another dog and the issue
was to him nearly fatal. A terrible bite
tore off the left inferior eye-lid. A colleague
made the first stitches, but they did not
hold, so that the dog’s master went with
him to a veterinary school clinic, where the
stitches were done again. The dog had an
apparatus round the neck, so that he could
not scratch himself. He was put in a narrow
box.
Megaphene was given. But in a
word, all was useless. The stitches went off
again and as a last resort, the dog’s master
was advised to have the eye removed so
that the wound could heal. The eye itself
had not suffered much.
It was in this state that I undertook to
treat the animal and I prescribed Arnica in
the 6 LM potency, three times 10 drops in
♦ Papei
*
the day, and in addition, 15 drops of mother
tincture of Calendula in a glass of boiled
water, for external compresses. This was
carried out with care for some days, this
remaining my sole prescription. After 8
days, the treatment was successfully finished
and thanks to an ointment containing
Vitamine B put on the scar, the latter dis
appeared completely.
The second case concerns a shepherd dog,
12 years old, coming from the same clinic,
where as a moribund animal, he was to be
destroyed. He was in a very bad state.
The prostate chronically enlarged was, in fact
of a crisis, in such a way distended, the
size of an apple, that it obstructed the in
testinal lumen completely. It had become
impossible to expel the excrements and the
dog suffered very much. It seemed truly
indicated to destroy the animal by a painless
death. The case was very urgent and only
an immediate help could have changed the
situation. The anamnesis allowed to esta
blish that this animal presented the pure
and rare type of Calcarea carbonica. He
digests milk badly—he does not tolerate
read at the International Homoeopathic Conference held in 1960 at Montreaux.
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bones,—is predisposed to convulsions, is
greedy for eggs and crude potatoes, - was
never fond of meat,—likes fish-bites and
licks the front paws, is afraid, particularly in
the evening, seeks for indigestible things,
chalk, saltpetre, hen-excrements and sweet
I things.
I prescribed Calcarea carbonica 6 LM,
■ giving up categorically all specific remedies.
The effect of this medication, corresponding
I to his constitution, was impressive. Three
' applications in the day had this result, that
i the dog had his first evacuation the first
evening, although with difficulty and in a
' liquid form. The second day, the evacuation
came like a pencil and the third day, it was
almost normal. The appetite reappeared,
■
I
j
I
I
the dog got gay and keen under the effect
of “ his ” remedy. During 20 days, he re
ceived the same medication, afterward the
12 LM.
As for other reasons, I saw the dog again
lately, I examined per rectiim the prostate
and to my great amazement, I found the
hypertrophy quite reduced and the gland
of normal size, the size of a nut.
These are wonders in our daily life that
we owe to Hahnemann’s genius. These
wonders are not only of human interest
but also for animals, by favour of remedies
experimented on man. Nothing can prove
more obviously the universality of homo
eopathy.
FROM OUR CASE BOOK
SEBORRHOEIC DERMATITIS
Dr. P. Sankaran, L.I.M.,D.F.Hom (Lond.)
Hon. Physician, Govt. Homoeopthic Hospital, Bombay.
The patient, Mr. G. A., aged 33 years,
consulted me on 10th February 1958, for
suppurating crusty eruptions all over the
body, especially marked on all hairy parts
such as the beard, scalp etc. He had been
suffering for the last two years and was
usually worse in summer. The itching
was very severe, agg. on sweating, and agg.
at night, His body generally felt hot.
Appetite was poor, thirst less. For past six
months he had burning in abdomen, one to
one and a half hours after dinner, amel.
cold milk. Patient was very irritable. He
also complained that the organ becomes
relaxed during coition. He had also in
flamed cervical glands. B.P. was 130/90,
Wt. : 111 lbs.
Family history : not married.
Prev. history : Syphilis.
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He had consulted eminent skin specia
lists but their prescriptions had proved in
effective.
His condition when I saw him was quite
bad; so bad that each night his pillow had
to be changed three or four times as each
pillow got soaked with the pus that poured
out from the eruptions in the scalp.
Pathological investigations revealed the
following:
.
RBC : 4-04 m.
Hb = 14-5 gm.
WBC total : 15,800
Diff: Neutro : 80 %
Eosino :
4%
Lympho : 73 %
Monocytes : 3 %
Kahn = Positive.
Stool : Ova of round worm.
Urine = N.A.D.
First, one dose of Sulphur 30 was given
on 10-2-1958 as it covered the suppurating
eruptions and the deficient erection, but as
the response was poor, the case restudied
and repertorised as follows : in Kent’s
Repertory.
Eruptions on hairy parts ( p. 1312 )
Calc., Lach., Lyc.,
Eruptions, suppurating ( p. 1319 )
Merc., Nat.m., Nit. ac., Pho.ac.,
Rhus.t., Sil.
Eruptions, itching at night (p. 1314) =
Merc., Rhus. t.
(p. 13107) =
Merc., Rhus.t.
He was given one dose of Merc. sol.
which resulted in a radical improvement in
his condition. Within 2 months, and with
only one more dose of Merc, sol (200)
he was very much improved. Then he
failed to respond to Merc, sol, but when
put on Mez. there was further rapid progress
which went on to complete recovery. He
remains well now for over two and a half
years. His Kahn has become negative.
Eruptions, crusty
Comment.
Though Kent does not mention it under
the rubric “ Eruptions on hairy parts, ” I
have found Mez. one of the most valuable
drugs for this condition.
TWO PETROLEUM CASES.
by Dr. K. R. Sethna, M.B.,B.S.,
Hon. Physician, Universal Health Institute Hospital, Bombay.
In April 1957, a male child aged 31 years
was referred to me by an allopathic physician
for the following complaints :
The child is healthy in every respect but
gets up with a scream at 12 o’clock in the
night and sleeps again within 5 minutes on
being laid on the back. This peculiar process
is repeated every half an hour till 4 o’clock
in the morning. Duration one year.
Physical Examination : N.A.D. Look : heal
thy. Normal intelligence, takes food and
liquid in normal quantities.
No previous illnesses.
Laboratory Examinations : of stool, urine,
blood count etc., showed N.A.D.
Several allopathic medicines had been
tried including tonics and sedatives during
the last one year. The child had been seen
by a Pediatrician and a Psychiatrist often
but they could not account for the above
disorder as every test and physical examina
tion had revealed nothing abnormal.
As there were no other symptoms, Ars.
alb. 200, one dose daily at bed time was
given for 7 days, taking into account: the
mental restlessness. They reported after
seven days that the child got up only once
on the first night, 2 or 3 times the next two
nights and then again started as usual getting
up about 8 times, screaming, for the next
four nights.
Once again the case was taken up in detail
and this time parents gave a very valuable
history. About 15 months back the child
had drunk Kerosene oil accidentally and
had been removed to the hospital in a pre
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carious condition. The child had recovered
but yet 1 felt that this might have been the
cause of the present disorder. So I gave
as an antidote to the Kerosene, Petroleum:
200, one dose daily at bed time for 7 days.
From the very first night the child slept
well and was restored to sound health.
On one such unhappy occasion, she had
tried to commit suicide by taking Kersoene
oil internally, for which she had been ably
treated and set right.
After the above incident, however, there
has been some change in her nature. She
now behaves well with all including the
husband. But the sleeplessness and rest
Now these symptoms of:
lessness after midnight has started, about
( 1) Agg. midnight
(2) Screaming and restlessness in the 3 to 4 weeks after the accident. She has
been seen by a consultant, given sedatives,
night
tranquillisers and strong hypnotics but no
( 3 ) Disturbed sleep
change in symptoms was noted.
are not found under Petroleum in any of
This was ultimately thought to be a psy
the usual Materia Medicas. But imagine chological trouble, something to do with
my surprise when in Hahnemann’s Chronic her previously unhappy married life and her
Diseases on page 1208, I found under quarrelsome nature, but the psychiatrists
Symptom 720 : “ He tosses about all night who were consulted could not help her.
in bed and only sleeps a quarter of an hour
Once again, basing my prescription on
at a time. ”
my previous experience reported above,
Again symptom 741 : “Restless sleep” I sought to antidote any possible ill-effects
Also 734 ! “ At night no sleep, but only of the Kerosene, by Petroleum. I gave
fantasies over one and the same disagreeable her Petroleum 200, one dose daily at bed
time for seven days. By the end of the
subject. ”
On February 11th, 1960 a young Gujarati week she was normal and till now, one year
lady, aged 25 years, consulted me for sleep later, she remains well.
Comment.
lessness and restlessness in the night from
12 o’clock onwards, of 3 months’ duration.
When a symptom is not traceable under a
She gets up at midnight and walks up and drug, I would suggest that it would be
down in the room. Previous history : She worthwhile referring to the original provings,
has been quarrelsome, and has not been particularly of the drugs proved by Hahne
getting on well with the husband. She is mann. Dr. Tyler has brilliantly proved
very irritable and gets offended very easily. this with reference to Drosera.
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CORONARY THROMBOSIS
Hom. (Lond), Tiruchirapalli.
by Dr. A. U. Sriram,
I was lately called in to see a case of
“ heart attack. ” As I entered I found the
patient lying propped up with 3 or 4 pillows.
The picture was one of anxiety though
without restlessness. He had had all avail
able allopathic treatment but with little or
no relief to the stitching pains in the heart
region. However he had no fear of death,
even at death’s door. He, in fact, expressed
a loathing for life.
He complained of stitching and drawing
pains in the precordium while lying on
his right side. There was very little feeling
of constriction. His head was warm but
covered with cold sweat. There was an
attendant fanning him. Asked if he felt
thirsty, he said that he neither had any
thirst nor any appetite. He was retching
but with inability to vomit. As he answered
he sat up and wanted the attendant to stop
fanning. I was reminded of Borland’s
description of Ant. tart cases of acute cardiac
failure : that they do not like a stream
of air circulating round them, they want
the room fresh, but they like it still. The
cyanosis was marked and the pulse almost
imperceptible. Hence, for the loathing of
life, retching without vomiting, cold sweat
over the face, thirstlessness, anxiety and
cyanosis a prescription of Ant. tart 200
was made.
15 minutes later: Though soon after
the medication he felt more anxious, he now
has 10% relief. That is the patient’s ex
pression. Repeated Ant. tart 200.
30 minutes later : Soon after the second
dose he was very definite about another
aggravation but now has 25% relief. Re
peated Ant. tart 200.
45 minutes later : Another bout of aggra
vation after the third dose of Ant. tart 200,
followed by increased relief. 50% better.
Pulse is now perceptible but low in volume.
Ant tart 10 M.
After another quarter-hour the patient
said “ I feel greatly relieved ”. The pulse
too was almost normal except for the in
creased frequency.
The next day he was very much better
but had intense cough and every time he
coughed, he was reminded of the pain that
had occurred the previous evening. Cough
and the attendant dyspnoea were worse on
sitting up. Turning over to one side in bed
also caused a vague pain over the precordium.
So he had to be lying on his back all the
time. Laurocerasus is one of the remedies
where there is amelioration of difficult
breathing on lying ( Dig., Nux., Psor. etc.)
Digitalis was of course not indicated since
the pulse was still fast. Laur. CM one dose
was given.
On the third day : The cough was a little
better and apparently Laurocerasus had not
done him the good I expected. Baryta
carb being the complementary to Ant.
tart, was given in 10,000 potency and that
made him completely well.
Comment. Here is an instance when
all ‘ life-saving ’ remedies of the allopathic
system had failed, the patient was rescued
by invoking the law of similars. Dr. Tyler
calls the Ant. tart one of the “ last-gasp ”
remedies and the above case is just an exa
mple. The usual rattling in the chest which
is generally very much associated with Ant.
tart is conspicuous by its absence. Other
drugs that are said to be indicated in cases
of acute cardiac failure, (Borland) are,
When there is pallor of face : Ars., Carb
veg.
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Homoeopathy is soul-satisfying always, and
when a miracle is worked in a serious case
like that it is indeed soul-elevating; reminding
one of the power that rests in nature’s womb
ready to manifest when the law of similia is
observed. ” It is indeed extremely grati
fying to apply the law and find it being
quickly confirmed again and again. There
need be no doubt about the quickness of
action. Within 60 minutes the patient
was relieved of all agony. * Could it be any
other way ?
When there is cyanosis : Ant. tart and Ox.
ac (Mottled Cynosis )
When there is collapse : Carb. veg.
When there is thirst and restlessness : Ars.
Carbs veg., Ox. ac.
Where there is coldness : Ars., Carb.U.,
Ox.ac.
and when there is sense of numbness : Ox ac.
When I reported this case to my father,
a senior member of the Faculty of Homo
eopathy, London, he commented “ Yes,
A CASE OF
CONVULSIOZS
by Dr. S. R. Wadia, M.B.,B.S.,D.F.Hom. ( Lond. ),
Sr. Hon. Physician, Govt. Homoeo. Hospital, Bombay.
Patient’s Name : Baby M-. Age : 9 years.
Complaints : 1. The patient has fits of
convulsions during the last one year, five
a day. When the child is at school or at
play, she suddenly stops doing so, makes a
gyratory movement on the left three to
four times, looks blank and comes out within
a minute or two. In the night the child
has delusions that somebody is following
her or catching her. She says that she sees
ghosts in the night. There is fear at heart
which subsides very soon and she falls off
to sleep.
The parents state that the attacks are
worse after a severe attack of small pox
which she had had about a year back.
The child has also been vaccinated three
times. The parents had consulted several
allopathic
physicians, including Child
Specialists who had only prescribed sedatives.
2. Thrist 4- 4-; stool normal; urine normal;
3. The child prefers delicacies, but likes
to take raw salt at times. As a baby she
used to eat wall-plasters and pencils.
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4. Perspiration 4- 4-,
5. She is a hot patient; summer agg.
6. Has car and sea sickness.
7. According to the parents, the patient is
very obstinate and disobedient. Very easily
excitable.
8. Past history of thread worms.
26-1-1959 : Thuja 200, two doses morning
and evening, as an antidote
to effects of small pox and
vaccination.
2-2-1959 : Condition same. Thuja 1,000,
three doses
9-2-1959 : Condition same; Gyratory mo
tions continue. Stramonium 30,
tios doses
11-2-1959 : Slightly better. The frequency
of attacks was slightly less.
Stramonium 30, nine doses,
three times a day.
13-2-1959: Patient became worse. Number
of attacks increased to nine
in the day. Stramonium was
stopped and three doses of
Nux vomica 30 were given as
an antidote.
6-2-1959 : The case was at a standstill.
Attacks occurred as usual.
Then, the following cards were selected
from Dr. Sankaran’s Card Repertory for
working out the case :
314 — Convulsions ( Spasms)
298 t—Side Left
369 — Vaccination aggravates.
and 117 — Fearsome.
Sulphur was the only remedy seen through.
As such, Sulphur 30 in three doses were
prescribed to be given on the first day.
Cards :
23-2-1959 : Attacks fifty percent less. S.L.
28-2-1959 : Still better.
S.L.
6-3-1959 : No attacks during the day, but
three attacks at night... Sulphur
30, three doses.
23-3-1959 : No attacks at all, for last ten
days. Patient better. Appetite
good, fearless
S.L.
26-4-1959 : I am in touch with the patient
and she is enjoying good health
and has had no attacks at all.
Schooling is regular.
10-1-1961 : Remains well.
Comments. Normally, I might not have
thought of Sulph. in this case.
SKIN DISEASES *
Dr. Wadia opened the discussion on
Skin Diseases. He mentioned that skin
disease was suspected for centuries to be
only a superficial and ■ local manifestation
and treated by local measures. Only re
cently it is being recognised as an external
manifestation or part of a systemic disease,
for instance, pruritis, urticarias, warts etc.
Local and other measures such as antihista
mines give only transient relief. We get
very good results with homoeopathy in
cases of acne, urticaria, herpes etc. Cases of
eczema are generally difficult because they
are very chronic and have been drugged or
suppressed much. He then qoted some
cases :
1. Allergic skin manifestation for 25
years : eruptions itching, in folds and flexures,
of skin, agg. undressing, agg. during men
ses, agg. milk, amel. ice-cold applications, v.
irritable; thirst + + » agg. heat; face greasy.
Vaccinated four times, sleep disturbed due
to itching, dreams of robbers; history of
asthma. Thuja : 200, three doses were given.
After two days felt worse. Later Sul:
IM, 10M and 50M were given and he felt
much better. In six months, he was normal.
2. Raised eruptions on legs, bluish,
itching amel. hot appl., amel. covering;
pt. chilly; M.P. scanty, black; car sickness;
stiffness in back in morning. The following
rubric cards were selected in Sankaran’s
Card Repertory :
Skin
Eruptions
Chilly
Menses, during, Agg.
Swaying Agg.. car sickness
Sepia alone showed through all these
symptoms : So on 26-9-1957, Sep. : IM
was given. By 12-10-57 : Skin was much
better. A dose of Sep. 10M was given now
and within a month and a half she was
normal.
♦ Discussion held in the Govt. Homoeopathic Hospital Clinical Society, January, 1961.
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3. Girl aged 10 years had eczema behind
ears with sticky discharge, itching amel.
hot appl., started after wearing an ear
ring; averse to sweets; constipated-; fear
of robbers. On Grap : 30, 200 and IM,
felt much better in 2 months. Whenever
she relapsed, Grap, was given.
Then Sul. 200 was given, and again Grap.,
later. Petrol. 30., T.D. for 7 days. Every
drug helped and ultimately she became O.K.
(Classification of patient as hot and cold,
I find, cannot be strictly adhered to in
practice.)
1 have also had many unsuccessful cases
of skin diseases.
Regarding external applications, I feel
it better to give either a bland medication
or Calendula ointment in order to satisfy
the patient’s psychology. Otherwise the
patient starts using some medicinal oint
ment by himself.
Dr. Pai : I had a case of leucorrhoea which
was much better on Calc.c. She then got
back an old suppressed skin eruption.
They even alternated. But it was cured
ultimately.
A case of asthma : Ars. was indicated
and he felt better. The attacks became mild
er but a number of dry eruptions appeared;
for the last 2 years he is now quite well.
I have had success with 3 cases of pem
phigus, one with Cantharis. He had burning
in urethra with scanty urination. I have
found Herpes cases improve with Rhus
tox, Merc, or Ars. In small pox except
in the haemorrhagic type, we get success.
I have not found any relief in actual attacks
with Variolinum.
In skin diseases, it is belter to report
cases only when they remain well for 2
years or longer.
There was a case of urticaria agg. in hot
weather, agg. 9 to 10 a.m. He was relieved
by Nat. mur.
I wonder if any one has been able to
entirely eradicate allergy through homo
eopathic medication.
I would like to ask whether the so-called
mango boils are caused by the heat of the
season or by the mangoes. I personally think
that cold and heat modalities are very im
portant symptoms. Disappearance of skin
symptom and appearance of asthma, is it
not a reversal order or cure, Dr. Wadia ?
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Dr. Wadia : Yes, but reappearance of old
symptoms is also a good sign.
Dr. Nijasure : What is the convenient medi
cine for external application ?
Dr. Wadia : Olive oil or vaseline.
Dr. Sheikh : Calendula, is it allowed ex
ternally ?
Dr. Wadia : Yes.
Dr. Pereira reported a case of sweat on
occiput which was given Sul. The sweat
was relieved but it provoked eruptions.
Dr. Sankaran : mentioned that the homo
eopath sees numerous cases of skin diseases,
since the patients find no relief with other
treatments. There are numerous jokes about
skin specialists. For instance, it is said that
the skin specialist prescribes a tablet and
an ointment; the tablet to be taken internally,
the ointment externally, and both to be
used eternally;
There is no doubt that some skin condi
tions at least are never cured by external
medication. I may quote an early experi
ence. Once, before I turned to homo
eopathy, I had to see a nephew of mine, a
boy of 6, who had Cancrum Oris. There
was severe ulceration of the lips. I advised
sulfonamide ointment externally and the
whole thing cleared up. Soon after this the
boy became very cantankerous and un
manageable, quarrelsome, finding fault with
everything and always very dissatisfied.
Of course, nothing ever seemed to please
sing with me pursuaded me to have them
cauterised. ' Accordingly one was cauterised
and the rest were kept for another day.
Meanwhile I took one dose of Syco.co.
and all of them shrivelled or dropped away
within one or two days. The surgeon was
amazed and took some doses for his wife
too who was having warts !
him. This went on for 3 years or so.
Meanwhile 1 had picked up some homoeo
pathy and I gave him some drug. This
cleared up the mental imbalance very nicely
but the original eruptions reappeared in
the lips. But these also later on cleared
off by themselves.
In asthma alternating with eruptions, dis
appearance of eruptions, with reappearance
of asthma is not a good sign. It is the re
versal of the order of cure. I am treating
just now one case in which both conditions
are improving under Rhus tox.
I have treated numerous cases of skin
disease successfully but there is no time to
day to describe them.
I would like you to remember to enquire
if aluminium vessels are being used. They
are prone to create skin diseases. Two
symptoms particularly remind me of alumi
nium viz. itching of eyelids', and con
stipation with straining even for soft stool.
I have recently seen one case of itching
eruptions in both ankles of 3 months dura
tion clear up almost completely in one month
as soon as the aluminium vessels in the
kitchen were discarded. One dose of Mor
gan (Bach) 30, removed the vestiges.
As regards the modality cold and heat,
I have seen Calc. carb, patients who were
worse by heat and Sulph. cases who were
worse by cold. It is better not to use this
in the beginning as an eliminating rubric
but in the end to choose between a few
remedies.
In intractable skin cases, not responding
well to the apparently indicated remedies
the bowel nosodes are extremely useful.
To quote my own case, last year I developed
a number of warts on the face. No remedy
helped me. The surgeon who was practi
Cases of psoriasis are most difficult and
I shall be glad to hear of cases which were
cured by homoeopathy and remained cured.
I may quote my experience here. I was
treating three cases of Psoriasis all of which
seemed to improve well under homoeo
pathy. Particularly one case responded very
well to Lyco., becoming almost cured with
a final dose of lyco. DMM. Then 1
1 went to U.K. and there proudly informed
Dr. Alva Benjamin, the Dermatologist at
the R.L.H.H. “ Well, my boy, ” said the
genial Dr. Benjamin “ Psoriasis cases have
their ups and downs. As we prescribe dur
ing the ups, we might fail and think
our drug is wrongly selected, and when we
prescribe during the downward phase, we
might feel that we have succeeded in choosing
the correct drug. Actually the disease pro
cess might be uninfluenced by our drug
I returned from U.K. much chastened,
and I found that the “ almost-cured ” case
had relapsed almost to its ,original state
and was uninfluenced by my prescriptions.
For acne on face with no other symptoms,
I have found Mag. mur. help in girls and
Kali brom, in boys.
Dr. Desai (summing up) thanked Dr.
Wadia, and mentioned that in the London
hospital they do not take hot and chilly as
eliminating rubrics.
Cases of ringworm are very troublesome.
Sul. and Calc, are useful. S.S.C.
*
is also a
very useful remedy for acne.
* Potentised combination of Sulph., Sil. and Carb. veg.
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Thuja given in 3rd week of Small pox
may prevent scarring. Sarracenia is also
praised.
Alopecia is also very troublesome. One
case was helped by Phos., Syph. and Sele-
neum. The patient had liking for salt and
fish.
Loss of hair is difficult to treat, also
because there are usually no associated
symptoms.
PHOSPHORUS *
Dr. C. C. Desai initiating the discussion
mentioned about the research conducted
by Dr. Noel Pratt of U.K. in which he
had gathered information from a number
of homoeopaths about the commonest in
dications met with in their practice for
some polycrest remedies. Such research
can add much to our knowledge.
He then described some cases of Phos
phorus he had treated.
( 1 ) “A girl aged 10 was getting attacks,
of coryza and asthma on taking bananas,
aggravated by change of weather, with
liking for cold drinks (even coffee must
be cold ) but which aggravated; constipated;
scanty menses; backache during menstrual
period. I gave her Phos: 200, straightaway;
next week I gave her Phos : 1M and in the
third week Phos. 10M., interposed with
doses of Tub. bov. She became completely
well.
(2) Girl aged 21, had metrorrhagia
for past 6 years; M.P. used to continue for
10 days; was diagnosed as a case of fibroids.
She was thin, emaciated and anaemic, dis
gusted with medicines. I gave her Calc.
phos. This did not help. Then one dose
each of Phos. 200, IM, then 10M., were
given during the first, second and third
inter-menstrual periods respectively. These
did much good. Then a dose of 50M and
and C.M. put her all right.
(3) Man aged 40; oedema both legs,
diagnosed as nephritis; excessive thirst for
cold water, scanty urine. With Phos.
200 in 10 days the oedema went down.
( 4) A boy of 19 said that whenever he
stood up he felt as if his leg was broken
( as if dislocated ) at the knee joints. Kahn
test was negative; Syph: IM gave no
relief.
Under “ Extremities ” in Kent’s Re
pertory “ bones broken ”, I found Phos.
This gave
*
much relief.
( 5) In advanced cases of Rheumatioid
arthritis, there was not much relief with
Phos., though it was indicated by desire
for salt, fish, and cold drinks, and aggra
vation at approach of stormy weather.
( 6 ) A case of chronic diarrhoea worse
after hot drinks was admitted in a mori
bund condition in the Royal London Homo
eopathic Hospital. Phos. relieved but the
patient died; Post-mortem revealed that it
was a case of cancer with extensive secon
daries.
Tub. bov. often helps the action of Phos.
as an inter-current remedy.
* Discussion held at the Govt. Homoeopathic Hospital Clinical Society, Bom
bay, October 1960.
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Dr. Narayan : Thirst for cold water alone
cannot be a good indication.
Dr. Pai : Do you permit the use of coffee
in your cases ?
Dr. Desai : I am not very particular.
do not prohibit coffee.
I
Dr. Pai : It is difficult to follow up cases
when they improve, because they
stop coming.
I have not found coffee antidqting our
medicines.
3. V. excitable and easily upset by any
kind of emotion; excitement causes pal
pitation.
4. Very sensitive to everything, e.g.
strong odours may even cause fainting.
The Phos. patients tended to have more
low blood pressure than high.
Phos. has liking for cold drinks as well
as ice, though under “ desire fdf ice ” in
Kent’s Repertory Phos. is not mentioned.
We may add it here.
Incidentally Phos. is one of the drugs for
continence and suppression of -sexual desire
like Conium. I may quote a case of asthma
I may quote one case. A case of Pneu where the patient suffered for over 3 years.
monia with cough amel. by lying on right during the period when he was separated
side, was relieved by Phos. I have found from his wife and observed continence.
good results in rheumatoid arthritis. A One dose of Phos. 30 gave him freedom from
symptom I rely upon to indicate Phos. attacks for two and a half years, though he
is amel. lying on right side. There was still remained separate. Here again Phos.
a case of infective hepatitis with jaundice, is not found in the rubric “ Sexual passion,
vomiting, etc., amel. lying on right side. suppressing the complaints, from ” in Kent’s
In cases of cough,
With one dose of Phos., he recovered in Repertory (p. 711).
when the cough is worse from going out
15 days.
into the cool air from a warm room, Rumex
Dr. Pereira : Phos., is valuable for ill effects
often helps. When the cough was agg.
of chloroform.
whether by going out from or re-entering a
Dr. Sankaran : (summing up) said that warm room, ( change of temperature ) Phos.
Dr. Pulford after patient and painstaking was one of the drugs. The Phos. patients
study has distilled all the essential features with chest troubles may have hoarseness.
of some of the drugs in his books. Many Hoarseness painful was like Phos; painless
homoeopaths find these indications most hoarseness resembles Caust.
reliable.
In peptic ulcers, Phos. was often indicated
The frequent indications for Phosphorus when the patients were relieved by cold
that I have met with in my practice, what foods and drinks.
Phos. is one of the bleeding remedies.
ever the nature of the illnesses, are :
One case of haemophilia had lost his bleeding
1- Aggravation lying on the back and tendency under Phos. If proved well the
on left side (sometimes right side too)
leech ( Sanguisuga) may prove, like Phos.,
2. Full of fear; fear of darkness; disease, to be one of the good haemorrhagic
remedies.
thunder, being alone, robbers, ghosts etc.
A chilly patient with desire for ice cold
drinks is an indication for Phos.
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NATRUM MURIATICUM
Dr. Pai : opening the discussion related
some cases he had treated with Nat mur.
He mentioned that very warm patients,
craving for salt, perspiring profusely and
being constipated, generally remainded him
of Nat. mur.
1. A young girl, a jewess, was in love but
could not marry as her parents objected.
She was much depressed, full of fears,
avoiding company, wanted light and wanted
to be held. I gave Stram. She felt better.
Then she had fits of laughing alternating
with weeping, constipation and oligomenorrhoea. Nat. mur., helped.
2. A boy with recurrent tonsillits, cer
vical glands + 4-, thirsty. Nat. m. put him
all right.
3. A child with Tub. adenitis, diagnosed
as Primary complex, eating salt. Nat. mur.
set him right.
4. Young girl with falling of hair, no
other indications, improved on Nat. mur.
5. Urticaria, worse 10 P.M. and 10 A.M.
worse warm weather. Nat. mur. was the
drug.
He mentioned that he had also success
fully treated cases of folliculitis, hangnails,
late learning to talk etc. with Nat. mur.
Dr. Pereira : I have treated a number of
cases of urticaria and one case of late learning
to talk having a craving for salt with Nat.
m. : 10M.
Dr. Shaikh : I have treated several cases
of headaches with 10 A.M. agg.
Dr. Moolji : I have cured with Nat.m. a
case of headache amel. by sweating.
Dr. Havewala : Thirst with great agg.
heat is not so peculiar. Here Nat.m. re
sembles Sulph. 10 A.M. agg. is covered
by Sulph. also. The case of Stram. of
Dr. Pai probably actually needed Nat.m.
from the very beginning.
I have helped one case of late learning
to talk with Lyco.
Dr. Ansari (Poona) : 1 hav.e cured several
cases of bilious headaches with Nat.m. : 6X.
Dr. Wadia : Table salt, such an innocuous
substance produces brilliant results in pote
ncy. At times, it causes a severe aggravation.
After giving Nat.m., if there is aggravation,
I find it difficult to antidote. From
experience, I have treated many cases of
Malaria accompanied by blinding head
aches with Nat.m. I have found them
thirsty with the chill. Desire for salt is
often found in children. In the mental
sphere, our books say that sympathy agg.
in Nat.m. and amel. in Pul. But I
have found that Nat.m. patients often are
not averse to sympathy though they may
weep alone, as they have some sort of
superiority complex. They may like sym
pathy, though they may not like being pitied.
In such things, we should be guided by
experience also and should not blindly go
exactly by what is written in books. I
have found many cases of Puls, with thirst.
What is uncommon is more useful. Thirst
is not a rare symptom, unless it is marked.
In Nat. mur. there is an actual craving for
salt, not a mere liking.
Dr. Pereira : I have seen one case where
the temperature went up to 106 after a dose
of Nat.m. given during the fever.
Dr. Shaikh : There was a case of Malaria
with chill in afternoon with thirst and Puls.
cured. Cases of noctural enuresis associated
with great desire for salt are cured by Nat.m.
* Discussion held at the Govt. Homoeopathic Hospital Clinical Society, December 1960.
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Dr. Pai (replying) referred to Dr. Havewalla’s
remarks. Of course I do not advise precribing
on keynotes. Sulph. has more diarrhoea
or diarrhoea alternating with constipation.
Regarding the case ofStram., I think the
symptomatology as well as the cause should
be considered.
I have never found a single case of agg.
in my practice. In Late learning to talk :
Calc. c. which has also had desire for salt,
may help.
Dr. Sankaran : mentioned that Nat. mur.
like Carbo veg. and Silicea illustrates the
effects of potentising and the power re
siding within apparently inert substances.
Of course Nat. mur. like any other re
medy is able to relieve cases wherever it is
indicated by the symptoms but cases of
of thyrotoxicosis, psychoneurosis especially
of the depressive types, hypertension, sinu
sitis, neuralgias and even pains due to
spondylosis seem to work out to Nat. mur.
often.
Nat.mur. is often described as a drug
agg. by heat but it is better to remember
that (like Silica, achesis etc.) it may be
agg. both by cold and heat.
Dr. S. R. Phatak had recently described
a case of a lady who became mentally un
balanced. On the history that when she
had lost her child she had not wept, she
was given Nat. mur. which cured her.
Another such case was a boy who had
continuous attacks of asthma since child
hood. On the history that the boy did
not cry well after birth, Dr. Phatak again
prescribed Nat. mur. and this gave relief
to the boy for several months.
To me it appeared to be a strange in
terpretation of a common rubric. (Sad,
but cannot weep : Kent’s Repertory, p 78.)
The more we study and practise homo
eopathy, the more we realise in how many
thousands of ways a drug could be mani
pulated. Proceeding on this line of thought
a little further, I may say that one might
never be able to master all the possibilities
of a single drug in one’s lifetime. This
is a very sweeping and perhaps a depressing
remark but I think it is true.
ABSTRACTS
REFLEX IRRITATIONS *
by E. R. McIntyre, B.S.,M.D.
Most students and practitioners know establishing truth than building or proving
something of the importance of some re theories. Hence we must first ascertain
flex irritations, but fewer in number rea what are the possible sources of irritation,
lize the full extent of the influences of these by the nerve connections existing between
causes of different symptom-groups (disea the parts or organs and the functions of
ses or their importance in both diagnosis those nerves. So we turn to anatomy
and physiology for our diagnosis.
and treatment..... ....
In order to arrive at definite knowledge
Headache, that hydra-headed monster
of those conditions, it is necessary for us
to prosecute our investigations rather toward whose manifestations are as various, vague
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and mysterious results so frequently from potencies, all to no avail. Finally, in sheer
some reflex cause.
desperation, the patient falls into the hands
Some authors have gone so far as to tell of some one who believes in examining
us that the location of the pain alone, will his patients and interpreting the symptoms.
point to the source of the reflex irritation. On testing the eyes some error of refrac
But a somewhat extended experience of tion or muscular insufficiency is discovered.
some twenty years has led me to the con This is corrected and the patient given Sac.
clusion that such information is absolutely Lac. and no more pains in the intestine.
useless and impractical.
This is not an impossible case by any
Our first duty in dealing with a case of means. How does the irritation reach
headache is to ascertain whether it is re the intestinal tract ? There are two
flex in its nature. And when we are satis possible nerve routes, the pneumogastric
fied that it is, the location of the pain alone and the sympathetic. But since there are
is no index to the location of the primary no symptoms of disturbance in any other
cause. Frontal or occipital pain, alone, organs supplied by the pneumogastric, we
can never tell us whether it is from eye are justified in excluding that nerve. This
strain or rectal disease, from decayed teeth leaves us only the sympathetic. to study,
or an adherent prepuce, from wax in the fibres from which give motive power to the
ear or ovarian disease, from gastric trouble radiating fibres of the iris. These are traced
or vaso-motor paresis.
back to the lenticular ganglion, the caverBy reference to the anatomy we may rnous and carotid plexuses, to the superior
easily see how a pain either in the one or cervical ganglion, thence through the cer
the other region of the head can result vical and dorial ganglia and splanchnic
from any of these causes or from numerous nerves to the solar plexus and semilunar
others. We can only locate the primary ganglia, from which fibres are given off to the
cause by a careful and thorough examination mesenteric plexuses, and from there to
of the whole patient, and a knowledge of the Auerbach’s plexuses situated between the
full history of the case, and then by ex muscular coats of the intestine throughout
clusion reach our final diagnosis.
its entire length. These control peri
Not infrequently the physician is consulted stalsis, and the irritation consequent on
.for persistent intestinal pains. There is the continued efforts to focus the eyes so
scarcely another condition that so frequently as to get clear vision is reflected to the other
results from some reflex trouble, or that may extremity of these fibres, causing irregular
have its causes in so many different parts 'peristalsis, resulting in the spasmodic pains.
of the body. Since it is so troublesome in
Another set of ganglia, the Bilrothsome cases, and so prone to yield to no Meisner plexuses, lie immediately beneath
ordinary treatment, we must find and re the mucous membrane of the intestine
move its cause or our best efforts will fail and are derived from the same source, and
to cure our patients.
control intestinal secretions. These may
Suppose a case of spasmodic entcralgia receive some irritation at the same time,
that has baffled the skill of every old aunty resulting in irregularities in the secretions,
in the neighbourhood, and been prescribed either diminished, increased or defective.
for by our brightest homoeopathic prescri This explains the alternation of constipation
bers, has had high, low, jack and the game and diarrhoea so prominent under Nux
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vom., Sulphur and some other remedies.
But neither Nux nor Sulphur has ever
produced any irregularities in the shape of
the eye-ball, and could not cure it or any
reflex conditions caused by it. Therefore
we can only hope to cure our patients by
removing the cause, even should we select
the remedy covering every superficial symp
tom, real or imaginary.
This same irritation may travel on down
through the hypogastric plexus to the rec
tum, involving its vasomotor supply, re
sulting in congestion and almost any ab
normal conditions in the rectal mucous
membrane. This may explain why rectal
operations sometimes fail to cure diseased
rectums. The operation is done at the
wrong end of the nerve.
Again, the irritation may start in the rec
tum, and travel upward over the same route,
causing the same symptoms in the abdo
minal organs, to finally produce cerebral
hyperaemia and consequent disturbances
in the eyes. Such a case cannot be cured
or even benefited to any great extent by
attempting to correct any fancied eye
strain.
An irritation consequent on an adherent
puepuce or a hooded clitoris can cause epi
lepsy and other functional brain troubles
in the same manner, the irritant travelling
over the same nerve fibres,. and possibly
causing many disturbances at the different
way stations. Epilepsy has been cured by
removing this source of irritation with no
other treatment. But failure awaits him
who attempts to cure all cases in this way,
because all are not caused by this condition.
Irritable sphincters are not infrequently
reflex from some irritations in some other
organ, but the irritant must travel over
another route, since these sentries that
stand guard at the orifices of the body re
ceive their motor power from the cerebro
spinal system. Therefore the irritant must
travel over this to reach them and cause
spasmodic contracture, even though the
primary lesion may be in the sympathetic.
There are many other sources of reflex
irritation, but enough has been said to em
phasize the importance of thorough work
in examining patients and properly inter
preting all the symptoms or manifestations
of disease.
It is not always easy to determine what
organ was first attacked, but this fact is no
excuse for slack work, but rather makes
our duty more imperative to use all possible
means at our command in our efforts to
arrive at correct conclusions. A superficial
observer would hardly expect to cure a
case of suppurative adenitis in the glands
of the neck by extracting a decayed tooth.
But this has been done. And it is not diffi
cult to trace the irritant over the dental
branch of the inferior maxillary to the
auriculo-temporal branch of the same nerve.
The auricular branch of this supplies the
external auditory canal, and the irritant
produced suppuration at this point, the pus
being absorbed by the lymphatics about
the ear to light up an inflammation in the
cervical glands. But it would be difficult
to see how the best selected homoeopathic
remedy could cure it without removing the
primary cause.
There are men who read the manifes
tations of disease much as they do a novel,
beginning with the last chapter, and believing
that when they know how the story ends
they know the whole plot. But, in fact,
they do not know even where the plot
was laid or who was the hero.
For this
reason they attempt to do the impossible
with the indicated remedy in not a few
cases, and thereby bring our school into
derision. And for this reason not all rec
tal treatments succeed any more than
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do circumcision or the correction of de remedy cannot remove the symptoms
fective vision.
(disease) that depend on a mechanical
Finally a careful study will reveal that : irritation while the irritant remains.
( 1 ) An irritant in any organ or tissue may (6) Since the primary cause may be far
cause trouble in any or all organs or parts.
removed from the location of the symptoms
( 2 ) Reflex causes of disease are not con scientific diagnosis becomes necessary to
fined to any organ or tissue of the body.
proper treatment.
(3) An irritation may travel in either (7) An irritant may first involve either
direction over the sympathetic nerves.
the cerbrospinal or sympathetic nerves and
(4) We can never cure the patient until be reflected, so to speak, to the other.
we remove the cause.
(5) The best selection of the indicated —( From ‘ Stepping Stones to Neurology ’)
BOOK REVIEW :
Some Constitutional Remedies : Psorinum, Thuja and Mercurius, published by
the Homoeopathic Study Centre, Chittur
Road, Ernakulam-1; pp. 96, price Rs. 2-50
Dr. C. V. K.. Menon has compiled the
symptoms of Psorinum, Thuja and Mer
curius from various sources. The book
will give to the beginner an idea of the
vast range of symptoms of these drugs and
to the experienced it will serve for refreshing
the mind. This is no doubt a useful
compilation.
Dr. Kamthan has collected therapeutic
hints about various disorders from a variety
of sources—books and journals. Many
of these hints are not easily available to
ordinary practitioner and to that extent
Dr. Kamthan is to be thanked for the pains
he has taken in compiling this little volume.
The use of very small types in print can
however be avoided.
A Treatise in homoeopathic Surgery tty
Drs. • Ramanlal Patel and P. Elias, pub
lished by Dr. P. Elias, near Rly. Station.
However, in the arrangement of the Kottayam; pp.l 18. Price Rs. 2.50.
This is an excellent booklet which traces
chapters, some peculiar order seems to
have been followed. For example, the the relationship between homoeopathy and
chapter on ‘ Mind ’ is followed by ‘ Nervous surgery and quotes from the homoeopathic
and Physical ’ and then by ‘ Sexual Organs ’, literature surgical cases, both apparent annd
then ‘ sleep, ’ then ‘ hunger and thirst ’ and real, wherein homoeopathic medication had
so on. A more traditional and easily either supplanted or supplemented surgical
comprehensible arrangement is possible.
procedures. The booklet also gives the
leading surgical indications for some homo
Marasmus and Rickets by P. S. Kamthan; eopathic drugs.
The authors are to be congratulated for
published by the Author, from Hospital
Road, Mainpur, (U.P.); pp. 150, price their efforts and the book deserves to be
prescribed in all homoeopathic colleges.
not mentioned.
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Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy
but was unfortunately out of print. M/s.
Roy & Co. have to be thanked for re
printing and making it available to us.
The Art of Interrogation, by Dr.
Pierre Schmidt, M.D. pp 32; price Rs. 1:25
Study of Kent’s Repertory by Dr. M.L.
Tyler; pp. 16, price 00-75; nP. both pub
lished by Roy & Co., Bombay. 2.
Dr. Schmidt’s booklet is quite wellknown, being referred to as “ an excellent
questionnaire ” by Dr. Roberts in his book
Dr. Tyler’s booklet also reprinted, is
too well known to require any commen
dation.
OBITUARY
his care whatever treatment he found
fittest, and successfully administered homoeo
pathic treatment to his patients in the K.E.M.
hospital, whenever he felt that the patients
failed to record satisfactory progress under
the accepted methods of treatment. This
immediately met with resistance and after
his retirement the authorities saw to it that
subsequent appointments to the staff
*
were
made only after the prospective candidates
gave an undertaking that they would not
use forms of treatment other than those
accepted.
Dr. L. D. DHAWALE, B.A., M.D.
We deeply regret to record the sad demise
of Dr. L. D. Dhawale, B.A.,M.D., who
passed away on the 10th December 1960
after a protracted illness.
Dr. Dhawale was born on the 21st July
1884 at Bhandara and was educated at the
Morris College in Nagpur. x He graduated
in Medicine in 1914 and straight off became
a Tutor in Pathology. He established gene
ral medical practice in the year 1916 and
pursued his postgraduate studies in Medi
cine. He obtained his doctorate in the
year 1921, and soon thereafter in 1926
he was selected and appointed Hon.
Physician and Hon. Lecturer in Medicine
at the K.E.M. Hospital and Seth G.S.
Medical College, where he soon earned a
reputation as an outstanding clinician and
teacher. He was later also appointed on
the Hon. Staff of the B. J. W. Hospital for
Children.
His interest in homoeopathy dated quite
early, when as a boy he had watched his
father, a Middle School Government teacher,
helping the poor and the needy with homo
eopathic medicines. The thought must have
run through his mind that if a layman
could bring about such remarkable results
through homoeopathy, how much more
can be done by a well-trained physician !
In 1931 he brought together a small
band of physicians who were interested in
the practice of homoeopathy and thus esta
blished the Homoeopathic Postgraduate
Association of which he continued to be
the President and guiding spirit. He was one
of the Members of the Homoeopathic
Enquiry Committee appointed by the Gov
ernment of India in 1948 and later on was
He set quite high standards and con
tributed with his other zealous colleagues
towards building up the institutions to their
present state of eminence. By nature he
was uncompromising whenever principles
were involved and pursued the point to its
logical termination. He insisted on his
right as a physician to give the patients under
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a member of the Homoeopathic Advisory
Committee.
TRIBUTES
It is with a sad heart that we heard of
the demise of Dr. L. D. Dhawale.
Much of what we know, in homoeopathy,
we owe to the guidance and teaching of
the late Dr. Dhawale. He was a master
and his grasp of the principles was thorough.
There were very few to equal him in stature
in the homoeopathic world. His scien
tific interpretation of the homoeopathic
principles backed by his vast reading was
a pleasure to follow. Firm and unflinching
in his life like the Rock of Gibraltar, both
in homoeopathy and in general he sought
to advance the interests of homoeopathy
in his own way and in this attempt arose
misunderstandings with many; but he went
on unruffled and earned respect both for
his knowledge as well as for his doggedness.
The void created by his departure cannot.
be filled.
—P.S. & S.R.W.
He was chiefly responsible for shaping
the policy of the Govt, of Bombay when it
took the decision to establish
a
*
30 bedded
homoeopathic hospital in Bombay for the
purpose of establishing proper facilities
for postgraduate teaching and clinical re
search in Homoeopathy.
His literary contributions were not many
but the few things he presented had great
intrinsic merit and were acclaimed by the
homoeopathic profession. His Introduc
tion to Boger’s General Analysis helped
to popularise the Card method of Repertorization, of which he was a great ex
ponent.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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The following journals were received :
The Homoeopathic Bulletin, (Eng.) Calcutta.
The Homoeopathic World ( Eng.) London.
The Pakistan Journal of Homoeopathy ( Eng.Homoeopathy ( Eng. & Bengali), Dacca.
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The Indian Journal of Homoeopathy ( Eng.) Bombya.
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Homoeopathic Magazine, (Eng. Urdu), Lahore.
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The Hindusthan Medical Magazine (Eng. & Hind), Bihar.
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The Homoeopathic Sandesh (Eng. & Hindi) Delho.
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The Madras Homoeopathic Journal, (Eng.), Madras.
10. The Karnataka Homoeopathic Journal (Eng. & Kanada) Bangalore
12. Homoeopathy ( Eng.), Kumbakoam.
13. Homoeopathy (Tamil), Kumbakonam.
14., Athurashram Homoeopathic Medical College Magazine (Eng.) Kerala.
15. Klassisghc Homoeopathic (German), UlnrDonau.
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20. Samuel Hahnemann (Eng. & Malayalam), Quilon.
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