EDITORIAL


EDITORIAL. Homoeopathy not only heals mans physical body, it strengthens his moral fibre, and brightens his mental processes; it touches that which is deepest and best in his nature, the divine fountain of love. Love and gratitude for the Giver of all Good, love, understanding and charity for his fellows regardless of race, color or creed.


HOMOEOPATHY

In a world torn by war, and ruled by anarchists and dictators, where millions are enslaved, tormented and broken, and where millions more are gathered in contending groups and forced to destroy each other in mass, homoeopathy as an expression of immutable law and orderly sequences shines forth with all the beauty and the power of Bethlehems historic star, symbolic of hope for the future, even though the present be overcast with black ominous thunder clouds of war, famine, and disease, all the inevitable harvest of mans selfish desire to rule and destroy his fellowman.

It has been wisely stated that all reforms of the race must begin with the individual. Accepting this statement as true we can easily see why homoeopathy is so broad in scope and has the power effect and change racial trends. In fact why it is world wide in its beneficent application, because it acts on, and effects the unit of all social orders, the individual. The individual, the family, the state, the world are the successive steps by which all progressive changes come, in human nature.

Reviewing the history of man back to his primitive time, we must be impressed by the forced of philosophy in leading his advanced in spiritual and intellectual progress from the abyss of ignorance and superstition to the pinnacle of knowledge and achievement, so typical of this time.

Though the brute in may run riot awhile, to ravage and destroy in a world gone mad, he will but succeed in the destruction in a world gone made, he will but succeed in the destruction of his own kind and only on the material plane; he is impotent to blot out spiritual and intellectual energies that have been built up and developed through ages of pain, toil, and sacrificial love.

Like the cyclone and the earthquake the lords of war may wreck and ruin cities and monuments of men in a short time that took to build, yet they cannot change, inhibit or evade any law of nature, and when their mad efforts are spent, equilibrium is established, and the processes of repair and growth will continue on to fruition and new accomplishment, impelled by the inherent spiritual and intellectual forces evolved through generations of progress.

Homoeopathy not only heals mans physical body, it strengthens his moral fibre, and brightens his mental processes; it touches that which is deepest and best in his nature, the divine fountain of love. Love and gratitude for the Giver of all Good, love, understanding and charity for his fellows regardless of race, color or creed. All this is true because the homoeopathic remedy operates on the three planes of mans being, from innermost to outermost, the spiritual, intellectual and physical forces of man are brought into a state of harmony or health.

And homoeopathy will abide even in a world gone mad, because it rests on the indestructible foundations of philosophic truth; madmen may destroy the physical in man and his works and in so doing destroy themselves, but they are powerless to hinder or change irrevocable laws of nature or prevent the operation and advance of philosophic truth and goodness, vouchsafed by The Divine Will for mans regeneration and redemption.

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.