EDITORIAL


Each man who succeeds, even against heavy odds, makes success easier for his neighbor; each man who persists in the struggle for success based on principle brings success nearer for his brother, even though he himself fails to reach his goal. So the man who acknowledges easy failure tears down the house of success about his ears and undermines the very path forward success.


 THE HOMOEOPATHIC DEPRESSION.

To many it seems that homoeopathy has passed into a state of depression as definite as the financial depression which has been upon us for so long a time. Yet we may point out that many have achieved competence even in these days when hundreds of thousands of people are unemployed, and when there have been no opportunities for those who did not hunt assiduously. If success in the business world has been achieved, even occasionally, against heavy odds, is it possible that we may investigate the reason for the failure of homoeopathic influence, and find like causes ?.

We are not speaking now of the failure of the individual homoeopathic physician in individual cases, although that plays its part in the result; we are speaking definitely of the loss of prestige suffered by the homoeopathic school as a whole and the loss of homoeopathic institutions over a period of years.

Let us look at ourselves from an outside viewpoint.

In 1880 A.B. Palmer, A. M., M.D., Professor of Pathology and Practice of Medicine in the College of Medicine and Surgery in the University of Michigan, wrote a serious resume of homoeopathy under the title, Homoeopathy, What Is It ? This monograph shows thoughtful consideration; much time was spent in interviewing physicians, medical schools and institutions in this country and abroad. The conclusions are unbiased and stated gravely, without bitterness. Dr. Palmers serious mistake was that he investigated largely from the non-homoeopathic point of view; those homoeopathic sources which he consulted were not from the unwavering few of Hahnemanns followers.

In his closing pages Dr. Palmer remarks:.

We are often accused of not examining this subject, and of prejudice and intolerance in regard to it. That we do examine t, these pages may afford evidence. Our prejudices, if they may be so called, are certainly founded on rational convictions; but how is it possible to be tolerant of a system so utterly absurd, and of men who denounce with such bitterness the principles to which we adhere, and the fraternity of which we are members; and yet in practice, repudiating their own pretended infallible dogmas, so often follow our methods, and use our measures?.

Could any evidence state more clearly the reason for the downfall of homoeopathic influence? Could there be a clearer demonstration that the lack of appreciation of the possibilities of homoeopathic treatment has come, not from our enemies, but from our weak friends?.

Each man who succeeds, even against heavy odds, makes success easier for his neighbor; each man who persists in the struggle for success based on principle brings success nearer for his brother, even though he himself fails to reach his goal. So the man who acknowledges easy failure tears down the house of success about his ears and undermines the very path forward success.

It is the professing homoeopathic physician, who in moments of panic reverts to popular drugging, who has defeated homoeopathy as he himself has been defeated by lack of knowledge and lack of adherence to the principles he avows. The enemy has been within our ranks; and the pain to failure has been that old path, paved with good intentions. -H.A.R.

Rabe R F
Dr Rudolph Frederick RABE (1872-1952)
American Homeopathy Doctor.
Rabe graduated from the New York Homeopathic Medical College and trained under Timothy Field Allen and William Tod Helmuth.

Rabe was President of the International Hahnemannian Association, editor in chief of the Homeopathic Recorder, and he wrote Medical Therapeutics for daily reference. Rabe was Dean and Professor of Homeopathic Therapeutics at the New York Homeopathic Medical College.