DEAR EDITOR:.
I have been requested to send you this translation The Editors assume no responsibility for the opinions expressed in this department. as if shows how the appreciation of the value of true Hahnemann homoeopathy is beginning to find a foothold in the homoeopathic circles of Germany.
Dr.F.Gesivius, the author of the article, is one of the best known homoeopaths of Berlin, Germany, He has always been a most careful prescriber, using all of the modern technique of the physiological and chemical laboratories to assist him. Knowing this, one can appreciate his trepidation in presenting such a paper, and he expresses it in his words, “The things which I bring to your consideration in the following remarks are partly such as one does not willingly speak of.”.
We read his article with a deep appreciation as to how the subject, so dear to a Hahnemannians heart, is being promulgated to wider circles of usefulness when he says: “In spite of this (i.e., reluctance to speak of high potencies-Translater), I venture to do so, because, owing to this very reluctance to speak of such things the ignorance concerning them is very great. Due to my own ignorance in these matters, I can only hope to inaugurate an interest in the subject.”.
Let us hope that this in this interest will spread and that our German brethren will devote their scientific minds to the true Hahnemannian therapy. It is a good omen that the true Hahnemannian philosophy should have returned to its original home. May it prosper and develop into a completely perfect therapy for the welfare of mankind.- W.J.SWEASEY POWER.
The Editors assume no responsibility for the opinions expressed in this department. See page 914 of this issue.
Klay, Liberia, Africa, October 7,
1931
To the Editor of The Homoeopathic Recorder:.
In The Homoeopathic Recorder for the month of August there occurred an article from the pen of Dr.A.Pulford supporting potencies. I want to add my everlasting AMEN to the quick and permanent action of high potencies.
May I say, however, by way of introduction, that I am an american citizen of African blood, and am of the class of 1911, Hering Medical College, Chicago. Drs. J.T.Kent and H.C.Allen were my instructors.
When I entered Hering in October 1907 I had spent four years and five months previously in independent mission work in the jungles of Liberia, Africa. I arrived at Hering College with quinine in my pocket, taking it daily. The first lecture I received from Dr.H.C.Allen was on Puls. nigh. As he outlined Puls. he simply drew a picture of my condition.
I went to his office that afternoon and told him just how he had painted my picture, and how I was taking quinine daily. He pointed his finger at me and said, “It will never cure you, Jones.” Then he put a high potency of Puls. on my tongue and from that day until this, 24 years, I have not had another grain of quinine. Do high potencies work?.
I cured my cases so fast wit high potencies, until I saw I was not getting any money. So I had B.& T. send me some low potencies hoping to get something for my work.
I have a patient now who had chronic anaemia, and had been the rounds of the hospitals and the old school men ang got worse. On taking her case I found that a sun-stroke seemed to be the beginning of her troubles and Glonoine stood head. I gave Glonoine 200; the patient improved but very slowly. I sent to Dr.J.H. Clark in London and he sent Glon. 1000. I gave it and the patient improved beautifully and is now teaching day school.
Another case, of man 63 years of age, with chronic diarrhoea. For twenty years he had only been able to sleep three hours at a time; had to get up for stool. On inquiring I found that when his teeth began to decay the crowns decayed first. mercurius stood out. I gave Merc. 1M. In 90 days he was sleeping seven hours at a time and had gained nine pounds.
A severe casc of pneumonia Bryonia 75M wiped out, to the surprise of the patient.
To my mind, one who says high potencies wont work has not tried them, or does not know homoeopathy.- H.H.JONES.
Is it forgotten that the tracing of pathological alterations of structure to a remedy is very uncertain? There might be some certainly in this if men and animals could be dissected after they had been poisoned, in which case many things are found which are either useless or doubtful, inasmuch as we cannot know with certainly whether some of them had not existed previously. Compared to such uncertain phenomena, the subjective symptoms of an intelligent man are golden truths.- C. HERING, M.D., 1847.
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.