QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT

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he latter by all means. The tapering off process is the hard way and usually results in failure to achieve the end desired. It is always easier to break a habit entirely once and for all than to keep a string tied to it. Any unfavorable results from the abrupt discontinuance of harmful things is purely imaginary in most cases.

Question: Lachesis has aggravation after sleep as a prominent symptom. In Lycopodium the 4 to 8 p.m. aggravation is equally characteristic. HOW SOON SHOULD THESE AGGRAVATIONS DISAPPEAR AFTER PRESCRIBING THE RESPECTIVE REMEDIES?.

Answer: In general the last appearing symptom in a case is apt first to disappear under the remedy and if the time aggravation has been a recent complaint it should clear up or be one of the first symptoms to go. Progress of a case is judged by the general trend and especially by the interest and ambition of a patient, his general sense of well being, strength, energy, appearance, etc.

Question: WHEN NECESSARY TO HAVE A PATIENT DISCONTINUE THE COFFEE DRINKING HABIT OR THE TOBACCO HABIT DO YOU ADVISE TAPERING OFF OR IMMEDIATE TOTAL DISCONTINUANCE OF THEIR USE?.

Answer: The latter by all means. The tapering off process is the hard way and usually results in failure to achieve the end desired. It is always easier to break a habit entirely once and for all than to keep a string tied to it. Any unfavorable results from the abrupt discontinuance of harmful things is purely imaginary in most cases.

Question: I have a patient with all the symptoms of Selenium except that he is cold and chilly and prefers a warm weather and is not aggravated by being in the sun. I felt so sure of the remedy and prescribed it in potency but without any results. WHY SHOULD THIS BE WHEN HE HAD ALL THE SYMPTOMS EXCEPT THOSE MENTIONED WHICH CAN ALL BE CLASSED UNDER ONE HEADING?.

Answer: The trouble is that your patient is definitely in the cold classification and not in the warm. His heat and cold modalities are just the reverse of those of Selenium. Your remedy therefore does not cover the totality of the case in that it lacks some of the essentially characteristic and outstanding features.

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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.