NEW BASIS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCE


The diagnostic side of medicine has emerged as an orderly science. Its processes are easily standardized once the appropriate instruments are made and the technique of their use mastered. However, since no two people are exactly alike, therapeutic standardization is not so simple.


Reprints of this article will be made, but in order to know how many reprints will be needed those who wish copies should notify the Editor promptly. Anyone who wishes to use these groupings should order several copies, because it will probably be a long time before another printing of the groups is issued. An average of probably fifty drugs will be added each year until all the drugs have been grouped.

A REPORT FROM THE FOUNDATION FOR HOMOEOPATHIC RESEARCH.

The diagnostic side of medicine has emerged as an orderly science. Its processes are easily standardized once the appropriate instruments are made and the technique of their use mastered. However, since no two people are exactly alike, therapeutic standardization is not so simple.

Each individual has his illness in his own way, and the diagnostic factor is neither accurate nor safe as the guide to therapy. George Starr White and Albert Abrams intuitively recognized this and sought for more helpful methods of diagnosis and treatment. Both finally reached the conclusion that the autonomic activity of the body is the field in which all curative effort originates and is the spontaneous source of all constructive and reparative efforts.

White used the autonomic reactions of the patient himself, comparing the response to light of various colors in healthy persons and in patients. Abrams found that a substitute for the patient could be arranged if a healthy person were properly connected to a tuning circuit, in which case energy from the patient passed through the circuit and manifested its presence by exciting reflexes in the healthy person connected to the opposite terminal of the circuit.

Abrams went a step further when he discovered that a drop of the patients blood connected into the circuit was just as good a source of the patients energy as the patient himself, each drop of blood literally epitomising the radiation or energy complex proceeding from the patient. Apart from the blood under test, the most important element in the setup thus became the healthy person in the circuit, for by responding to factors associated with the patient he acted both as a detector giving articulation to the circuit and as a substitute for the absent patient. The extent of this substitution is apparent from the fact that the reflexes in the healthy detector can be shown to take place at the sites of the patients pathology.

This phenomenon permits of localization of the illness even when the diagnostician is purposely kept ignorant of the patients condition. This mirroring of the patient by the healthy detector is new to science. But is uncovers the deep interrelatedness of all material things and the extraordinary responsiveness especially of living creatures.

A great step forward was taken when Wm. E. Boyd of Glasgow, Scotland, straightened out Abrams confused theories and constructed a new tuning circuit similar to the circuits used in radio receivers but adapted to energy which Boyd felt to be of high frequency compared with wireless waves. Boyds circuit became known as the Emanometer. As a result of its enormous increase in sensitivity over Abrams instruments, the Emanometer made two cardinal contributions.

(1) For the first time potentized drugs could be detected by other than purely clinical methods. Boyd found that drugs emitted an energy which could be detected by and analyzed on the Emanometer much like the energy from patients blood. Under suitable conditions, the energy from drugs seemed to mingle and interfere with the blood energies, giving a resultant different from either the blood or the drug energies alone. Because of this interaction it seems probable that the drug energies detected by the Emanometer, despite their origins in inanimate material, are akin to the energies emanating from blood.

Boyd now worked out a technique on the Emanometer for finding the patients similimum. Only a brief summary of the technique can be given here:.

Blood from the patient passes energy, representing illness, through the circuit and to the healthy person who acts as detector in the manner explained above. Drugs are now placed in the circuit with the blood, one at a time, until the disease- indicating energies from the blood disappear as the result of a particular drug being in the circuit. This phenomenon has been interpreted to mean that the correct drug gives out energy of just the right character to interfere with and annul the abnormal energy from the patients blood. If the drug is removed from the circuit, the abnormal blood energy reappears, but disappears once more as soon as the specific drug is replaced. A drug having this effect will always bring clinical improvement when administered, unless the patient is too far gone to respond.

For fuller descriptions of this technique consult the literature.

(2) The second great contribution of the Emanometer resulted from improved methods of analyzing energy from the blood of patients. Boyd discovered that all persons, ill or healthy, presented eleven basic variations in one very fundamental physical characteristic. This characteristic could be obtained by using the Emanometer in conjunction with patients blood as the source of energy and a healthy person as detector in the setup previously described. Neither Abrams, nor any other known technique, serves as indicator of these eleven variations, or groups. Through its ability to discriminate amongst crude and potentized drugs, the Emanometer next showed that all drugs exhibit the same eleven basic variations as do human beings. Furthers clinical work brought to light the most important single generalization ever discovered in remedy selection:.

The best remedy will always belong to the same Emanometer group as the patient.

Thus, Sulfur in the eighth group will do its best work when given to a patient also from the eighth group. Any drug remains constantly in one group, but patients may change their group from a variety of causes to be discussed later. If the group factor is regarded as interwoven with physical characteristics and relationships, then living creatures perhaps show group variations as a consequence of electrophysical disturbances in the organism; inanimate material, with its fixed physical constitution, is freed from such disturbances and their consequent group variations.

Whenever the patient changes his group, the remedy must be sought for amongst the drugs of the new group. Furthermore, when the grouping factor in the drug energy bears a certain very precise relationship to the grouping factor of the patient, then the total energy of the drug will be so related to the patient as to exert maximum curative stimulation. These facts have been confirmed by thousands of Emanometer tests. We are now in a position to state the following important axiom:.

IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO EACH OTHER THE GROUP FACTOR IN THE PATIENT AND IN THE DRUG IS THE PIVOTAL POINT AROUND WHICH OTHER FACTORS ROTATE AND MAY BE LIKENED TO THE CENTER OF GRAVITY OF A BODY. IT IS ONLY WHEN THE PATIENT AND THE DRUG ARE IN THE SAME GROUP THAT A PERFECT PRESCRIPTION RESULTS. SIMILARLY, REGARDLESS OF THE IRREGULARITY OF SHAPE OF A FREELY SUSPENDED BODY, ITS FINAL EQUILIBRIUM DEPENDS ON ITS CENTER OF GRAVITY.

Every aspect of drug and patient relation bears out the importance of the grouping. Every perfect homoeopathic prescription can be shown on the Emanometer to belong to the patients group. Sulfur in the eighth group would have only a transitory effect on a patient from the sixth group. Working from the opposite end, if a patients blood were tested on the Emanometer to find a drug which would cause maximum curative intensification in the strength of the group factor, that drug would be found on further test to cancel all the abnormal energy emanating from the blood. By analyzing the effect of the drug factor on that of the patient, none of the rest of the energy need be examined in detail; nevertheless, the drug thus selected will cure or improve the patient to whom it is given. Thus the grouping factor stands in a reciprocal position toward other energy in the patient.

Note that the Emanometer classification is not related to other physical groupings such as the periodical table of the elements. The kind of rhythm observable in the periodic table is not duplicated in the Boyd groups. However, the distribution of drugs in the groups is at times highly suggestive in its own way.

Despite the apparently random distribution of minerals in the groups, study of these reveals that, in general, where two elements from different groups unite to form a substance, the heavier component influences the grouping of the combination. Thus, Ferrum occurs in the first group along with the chloride and bromide of that metal; but the iodide will be found in the eighth group, the position for the element Iodum, which has a heavier atomic weight than Ferrum.

Sometimes the more chemically active component of a salt dominates the combination, as when Ferrum phos. falls into the fifth group, the natural home of Phosphorus, despite the fact that Phosphorus is atomically lighter than Ferrum. From this it is clear that a relation exists between the occurrence of the Boyd groups and the physical structure of drugs, and that certain rhythms and an orderliness may be traced within the confines of the groups. But no correlation is yet perceptible between these groups and the physical and chemical characteristics discovered by orthodox science.

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.