Through the kind offices of Dr. Jacobo Gringauz, Secretary of the Association Medica Homoeopatica Argentina, the Recorder has received word of the recent death of one of Argentina’s most eminent homoeopathic physicians, Dr. Armando J.Grosso. Accompanying Dr. Gringauz’ letter was the following summary of Dr.Grosso’s accomplishments which the Recorder is happy to publish: The Directive Committee of the Argentine Homoeopathic Medical Association and the members of its Center of Homoeopathic Therapeutic Research have the sad duty of announcing to the medical profession in general the death of a founding member, presiding chairman, director of the Postgraduate School in Homoeopathy and of the journal Homoeopatia, Doctor Armando J.Grosso.
Dr.Grosso was one of those eminent physicians who have marked a fundamental stage in the scientific conception in homoeopathy. A mature spirit for the great generalizing synthesis, he was great as a doctor, researcher and master.
As a clinician, nothing related to medical and biological science was indifferent to him. A student of the laboratory and of pathology, skillful surgeon, famous pediatrician, his universal vision of illness as a phenomenon of modified biology, necessarily drove him to the homoeopathic field. Here he kept on as an extraordinary clinician. Rejecting the artificialness of the erudite, he remained above all things a physician, a man who, mastering the principles of homoeopathy, cured the sick man and earned the love and admiration of thousands. The name of Grosso meant for his patients hope and the certainty of being understood and brought to health.
As a researcher he went deep into homoeopathic problems. He divided into every field of modern science in order to put homoeopathic empiricism on a strictly scientific basis. Without boasting, he created around him the atmosphere of scientific work, winnowing out deceit and fighting against routine.
As a master, that mixture of paternal kindliness, modesty and wisdom outlined him with distinctive features. To his home came those who were in search of reorientation in medical thought. And when the development of the Argentine Homoeopathic Medical Association allowed the establishment of regular courses for graduate physicians, one of his dearest hopes was fulfiled. There were educated dozens of new homoeopathic physicians to whom Dr. Grosso gave the best of his knowledge and experience.
Dr. Grosso centered his effort on a scientific homoeopathy which could be understood as such by every scientific mind. He realized that this could mean the doing away with old patterns, the starting of thought on new routes and to cease holding to a strict interpretation to the words.
This is the great legacy that Dr.Armando J. Grosso has left to us.
The Second Homoeopathic Congress of Brazil will be held on the 10th of April, 1950, first in Rio de Janeiro and then in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Homoeopathic visitors are asked to remember that meetings are usually held on the 10th of April every year and they are cordially invited to take part in any of the programs. Dr.Amaro Azevedo, Past President of the Pan American Homoeopathic Medical Congress, is President of the Brazilian Congress this year.
