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Kents Repertory is surely a valuable book to carry with you in your car. Recently I was called to see a young man who had a severe pain in stomach > lying on his back. He was told that he had ulcers in his stomach, so I gave him a dose of Calc.c. 1M. and pain vanished in less than a minute.


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To the Editor:

Dr. Alfred Pulford is surely a deep thinker and better prescriber than I am, but I cannot agree with his theory that replacing a missing “cell” by our various remedies is the sole means whereby patients are cured. How does Dr. Pulford know that it is one cell missing and not a dozen or more? How does he account that a patient is practically cured instantly at times as soon as a dose of our potencies is placed on a patients tongue? We all have had instant response that way at times.

Once a patient came to see me who had a tumor in one of his breasts caused by an ejected rifle shell. He had intense pain in his breast but the instant Con. 1M. was placed on his tongue the pain vanished, much to his surprise and mine. So this must have been a cure by an electric force, I believe.

Are the “cells”, if there are any, met in our remedies the same as our bodily cells? I can hardly believe this. What about a dose of medicine given by olfaction or a patient made sick thereby, such as a whiff of poison oak?.

Kents Repertory is surely a valuable book to carry with you in your car. Recently I was called to see a young man who had a severe pain in stomach > lying on his back. He was told that he had ulcers in his stomach, so I gave him a dose of Calc.c. 1M. and pain vanished in less than a minute.

I sure would like to see someone elses opinion regarding this missing cell replacement idea to cure patients.

Allan D. Sutherland
Dr. Sutherland graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and was editor of the Homeopathic Recorder and the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.
Allan D. Sutherland was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1897, delivered by the local homeopathic physician. The son of a Canadian Episcopalian minister, his father had arrived there to lead the local parish five years earlier and met his mother, who was the daughter of the president of the University of Norwich. Four years after Allan’s birth, ministerial work lead the family first to North Carolina and then to Connecticut a few years afterward.
Starting in 1920, Sutherland began his premedical studies and a year later, he began his medical education at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia.
Sutherland graduated in 1925 and went on to intern at both Children’s Homeopathic Hospital and St. Luke’s Homeopathic Hospital. He then was appointed the chief resident at Children’s. With the conclusion of his residency and 2 years of clinical experience under his belt, Sutherland opened his own practice in Philadelphia while retaining a position at Children’s in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.
In 1928, Sutherland decided to set up practice in Brattleboro.