Why do foundations like the Rockefeller and kindred ones, avowedly organized for the purpose of advancing medical science, ignore the claims of pure homoeopathy?.
Isnt it strange that the moneyed men who support these institutions with their CASH would turn its control over completely to men who are so biased that their prejudices will close the doors to what they call a sectarian branch of medicine ?To me it would seem that the first requirement of a research man should be one without prejudice.
It is now well over a hundred years since organized medicine began to tell the world that homoeopathy is dead, yet we live and still function. It seems to me that it is about time that some bright mind in the scientific ranks would consider it worth while to investigate as to just why we are not dead and buried long, long ago. You know there has to be a reason why homoeopathy still keeps on an “even keel” when it is being attacked on all sides, and especially from within.
There is a real need for some one to be disagreeable. Most men have the courage of another mans convictions. . . Let a thing be said loud enough and repeated often enough, especially if it be backed by a large majority, and it is too often accepted as the last word on the subject.
Sometimes the ideas put out by these self-appointed and mass- elected leaders are pure propaganda, sometimes they are honest convictions, but they all need to be carefully examined for germs, and tested for high blood pressure.
It is the easy and agreeable thing to accept the ideas handed down from on high and to go along without bothering to test them with fact and experience. It is hard to think things out for ones self, and disagreeable to be off-side. Duties interfere with pleasures, so one by one we have shed the duties.
Isnt that one answer to my WHY ? Of course there are many other angles and I could reel them off to you for the rest of this session but I am not going to be that prosaic.
Why does the great medical trust, known as the A.M.A., if they are truly endeavoring to advance medical science, arbitrarily close the press to all homoeopathic papers? If you dont think this is a statement of fact, just try to get an acceptance of your homoeopathic papers in any magazine of importance.
Why do the “holier than thou” F.A.C.S. still persist in making their “X” with the scalpel on the back of the necks of their patients who are suffering with carbuncles (thereby marking them for life), instead of letting a good homoeopath show them how to treat the condition without disfigurement?.
Why do the nose and throat specialists persist in their spray and packing for the local treatment of sinus infections, instead of learning from the homoeopath that this is a local manifestation of a constitutional condition, which clears up under the carefully selected constitutional remedy?.
Good homoeopathy is curing a much better percentage of pneumonia today with the same remedies that they treated the disease successfully with back one hundred years ago, yet allopathy has changed their treatment many, many times in that same length of time without reducing their mortality, which has never been as low as ours. You would think that the significant fact that our Acon., Ant. tart., Bry., Phos., is just as efficient now as it was one hundred years ago ought to convince the most skeptical that diseases do not change and truth does not change.
With such a glorious background as homoeopathy has, why do so many of our graduates persistently endeavor to convince their public that they are regular ? I am convinced that the real reason is a mercenary one, but according to the law of supply and demand, that alone should cause them to reveal their homoeopathic background, thereby qualifying for the patronage of the public who are seeking out the man who dispenses the mysterious and magical little sugar pills. There is a demand for the right kind of homoeopathy.
Good homoeopathy has a better way of treating gonorrhoea and syphilis that is safe and does not suppress the disease, even if they have quite treating it homoeopathically in our two alleged homoeopathic colleges.
There are enlightened laymen who know these facts that are trying to find homoeopathic physicians who are trained and experienced. The field is enormous; why dont more of our young graduates grasp the significance of this fact and equip themselves by postgraduate instruction, which is the only way for the new graduates to be taught pure homoeopathy.
The American Foundation for Homoeopathy is conducting each summer a six weeks postgraduate course in Boston; if the new graduates could only realize the value of this vast field open to them without any competition they would keep that Boston school open the year around.
AKRON, OHIO.
DISCUSSION.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT: I would like to reply to what Dr. Dixon has said. There are many reason WHY, I believe. One in the City of Seattle, we had forced upon us, and it came about in this way: After being the Secretary of the State Society for seventeen years, I was humiliated one day by being called by one of the assistant editors of the Seattle Times who asked me if there were any homoeopathic physicians in the City of Seattle.
I said there were, and he said, “Would you mind supplying me a list?” I said I would be very glad to do that.
Just as Dr. Dixon has stated, we have kept our light under a bushel. That interview with the Times representative led to something, and I want to offer this as a suggestion to some others here who may some day suffer the same humiliation. We brought it up our next county meeting, and we decided that we would get into the limelight, if possible– the proper limelight, however.
In looking through the classified section of the telephone book in Seattle, we discovered a very interesting thing there, that the regular school of medicine was advertising to the public the qualifications necessary for membership in their organizations. So I was appointed a committee of one to interview the telephone company to see if we couldnt put something in that telephone book that would give the public some idea of who the homoeopaths were and what they were, with the consequence that the following went into the classified section of the Seattle telephone book. by the way, that book has some 400,000 subscribers.
I had some difficulty when I interviewed the telephone company and told them what I wanted to put in. The an drew his brows together a little and said, ” I know very little about homoeopathic physicians. Are you sure that you can qualify according to the statements you hand me ?”.
I said, “I wouldnt dare put them in otherwise”.
This was placed at the head of a list of homoeopathic physician in the classified section of the telephone book, so that in looking for the physicians of the city of Seattle, they could read just what our qualifications were:.
“Physicians qualified for membership in the respective homoeopathic societies of the State of Washington must be:.
“1. Physicians who are members of the oldest national medical societies in the United States.
“2. Physicians and surgeons whose school of practice is the first one in the United States to introduce a six-year medical course added to the regular four-year university pre-medical course.
“3. Physicians and surgeons who earned the degree of M.D., Doctor of Medicine.
“4. Eight to ten years of special work and study of practice homoeopathic medicine and surgery.
“5. Doctors who, by their preparations, qualifications and moral character have been approved for membership in their county, state and national homoeopathic organizations.
“6. Each member must conform to the ethics and requirements of the national organization of homoeopathy or lose his membership.
“7. This standard is maintained solely to insure the highest possible quality of service to the public”.
I want to tell you something else. That cost money, and when we put it up to the men in our little organization– our county society is small– we said, ” Are you willing to back that?” They all said, “Yes.” It cost us dollar 19 a piece to put it in for one year.
I think there is another reason, too, why, if we stick closely to the practice of homoeopathy we are bound to get results, and that was demonstrated to me not very long ago when one of the most prominent regular school physicians surprised me by appearing in my office, I opened my reception room door, and there sat Dr. Fick, who was one of our most prominent men in Seattle. I was so shocked and so surprised, instead of calling the next patient in, I said to Dr. Fick, “Wont you come right in?”.
He stepped in. That was four oclock in the afternoon. He said to me after he got in, “You have cured four of my cases of frontal sinus infection that I have struggled with for months and have accomplished nothing. I want to know how you do it”.
I said, “If you give me the names of the patients, maybe I can tell you”.
He told me, and the first one was a patient I had cured with Arum triphyllum.
Akron, Ohio
President, I.H.A.