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Dr. John Henry Clarke, M.D.
(1853 - 1931)
Dr. Clarke was one of the most eminent homoeopaths of England. He had his famous Clinic at 8 Bolton Street, Piccadilly, located in London.
Anyone who met Clarke even once must have been impressed with the feeling of an exceptional human being, a forceful personality, a man apart. He was so busy in his studies that he had very little time to mix with others. He was a prodigious worker, as his published works testify, to say nothing of the host of private patients from all parts of the world. He was also a consulting physician to the London Homoeopathic Hospital. He was the editor of the 'Homoeopathic World' for twenty-nine years. His famous publications are as follows:
The Prescriber - A Dictionary of the New Therapeutics
...with an essay on 'How to Practice Homoeopathy.' This little book has helped thousands of lay practitioners to prescribe successfully and carry the message of homoeopathy to far off lands. It is one of the 'must-have' books for every new practitioner of Homoeopathy. Its indications of remedies are based on personal experiences of a number of reputed homoeopaths like Burnett, Hughes, Cooper, Ruddock, Neatby, Salser, etc.
The Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
...consists of 3 volumes. In it he has given the synonyms, the source, the provers' experiences, clinical indications, temperament, keynotes and characteristics, modalities, pathological, sensational, locational and causational indications of each drug. He has also given the provings of the drug. In addition, the relationship of the drug to other remedies.
A Clinical Repertory to the Dictionary of Materia Medica
...was specifically designed by him for the study of his huge Materia Medica. The Repertory is very helpful for individualization of the simillimum from other similar remedies.
Dr. Clarke belongs to the band of provers of Nosodes, the products of disease used as homoeopathic remedies. The chief stalwarts among them were: Swan, Fincke, Clarke, Burnett, Hering, Stearns, Wheeler, Bach, Patterson, Grimmer and others.
He has the credit of introducing the following remedies to the Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Pertussin, Carcinosinum, Epihysterinum, Baccillinum Testicum, Morbillinum, Parotidinum, Scarletinum, and Scirrhinum.
Source: http://www.wholehealthnow.com/homeopathy_pro/john_henry_clar....
Murthy
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
John Henry Clarke
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
Clarke graduated in Edinburgh in 1877 and then studied homeopathy in Liverpool, under Berridge.
Source: http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/clarke/prefacemorrell.htm
********
He is an M.D.!!
People have the nerve to call him a lay homeopath, and equate themselves with him.
What a pity.!!
Murthy
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
and this is what Clarke says about homeopathy.
HOMOPATHY EXPLAINED
By John Henry Clarke, M. D.
What are 'LIKES' ?
The Homopathic Law says that 'Likes cure likes.' Therefore it becomes necessary to make it clear just wherein the likeness between case and remedy lies. The cases already quoted from Hahnemann's practice have given readers an idea of the points of resemblance which the prescriber has to look for, but it will be useful to look at the matter more in detail.
Not long ago it was announced in the daily press that an assistant of Edison's had lost his life through cancer set up by X-ray burns. This fact made some impression on the public mind, since at the present moment the treatment for cancer most in vogue in the profession (if the case is beyond the reach of the surgeon's knife) is by these same X-rays. 'Is not this homopathy ?' asked several inquirers ; ' X-rays have caused cancer, and they are also used to cure it.' Once wise allopathic medical man replied to the query that ' he could not see any resemblance between X-rays and cancer.' Very likely he could not ! But then Hahnemann never said that the likeness was to be sought between the physical characters of the remedy and the appearance of the disease from which a patient may be suffering. And it must be remembered that it is Hahnemann's definition of 'likes' which counts, and nobody else's. The 'likes' of homopathy is resemblances between drug-effects and disease-effects. The effect of X-rays on some persons is to cause cancer ; therefore, says Hahnemann, under favourable conditions, and in suitable persons, X-rays must prove a cure of cancer. That X-rays will not cure all cases of cancer is certain ; the suitable cases must be found out by future observation of both the causative and curative effects of the rays themselves.
The 'likeness,' then, which homopathy looks for is resemblance in effects. There are some drugs which produce such complete pictures of natural diseases that cases of poisoning have been mistaken for them. The annals of poisoning are full of instances of this kind : the medical practitioners in attendance have given certificates of death from natural disease, when later investigation has proved that the death was caused by poisoning. An instance of this kind occurred not long ago in America, when poisoning by Cyanide of Mercury was certified as death from diphtheria. Again and again cases of Belladonna poisoning have been mistaken for scarlatina. When the resemblance between a drug disease and a natural disease is so close as this, it can be inferred with absolute certainty that the drug which manifests the 'likeness' will be a remedy of wide usefulness in the treatment of cases of the disease. Accordingly Mercurius cyanatus is a remedy with homopaths of proven usefulness in diphtheria ; and Belladonna not only modifies the course and symptoms of scarlatina, but it also acts as a prophylactic against infection. If Belladonna in the 3rd centesimal potency were given to the healthy members of a household when scarlatina breaks out in it, the epidemic will not spread. Were this fact generally known among school proprietors, and enormous amount of trouble, anxiety, and loss might be saved to them. This is one small point in the immense importance of a knowledge of homopathy to the community at large.
But it is necessary to guard against the idea that because certain drugs produce a more or less perfect facsimile of certain natural diseases, that every disease must have its natural counterpart and cure. The instances in which a single drug produces such a perfect picture are rare ; and when they do occur, it must be understood that many cases of the disease will require other remedies for their cure. Homopathy has no cut and dried remedies for cut and dried disease.
Wherein, then, are we to look for the likeness ? It lies in the character of the symptoms produced by the drugs, corresponding with the character of the symptoms present in every case of disease.
Hahnemann quickly discovered that symptoms observed in providings did not all posses equal value. He noticed that when any peculiar or out-of-the-way effect came out in a proving, this had especial value in prescribing when the same symptom was met with in a case of disease.
This peculiarity need not be in the actual symptom itself, it may be in the conditions under which it manifests itself ; or it may be in some concomitant, which is found associated with it. It is in being able to discern and utilise these points the most of the art of homopathy lies, and it is on this that success in treatment largely depends.
To give one or two illustrations. A patient who suffered severely from headache complained that one for her sensations was 'as if woollen were wrapped round the head inside the skull.' Now that is a most peculiar sensation, and to cure the case it would be necessary to find a symptom somewhat like it accredited to some remedy. In my search, by the aid of repertories, I found this : 'Sensation as if a cold cloth were wrapped round the brain.' This was produced by the salt of the American spring named Sanicula. I gave it to my patient in the 1000th potency, and it rapidly removed the entire train of symptoms, which also corresponded to other effects of the remedy. In this case the sensation of there being something wrapped round the brain was the peculiar feature in which drug and disease were 'like.' And although the sensation of the wrapping material was different, the likeness was close enough to effect a cure.
In other cases the point of correspondence that it is essential to match lies in the conditions under which they symptoms appear, or are either better or worse. An octogenarian patient of mine, of very fine physique, a devotee of the morning cold bath, was troubled with a rheumatic pain in the right arm and elbow, which annoyed him very much, as it interfered with a favourite occupation, namely, driving a spirited pair of horses. Now the drugs which produce pains in the arms are legion. It was necessary, therefore, in this case to ascertain if there was anything peculiar in the time or circumstances under which the pain occurred. I elicited that the pain woke him in the night, and the only way in which he could get relief was by getting into his cold bath ; after this he could return to bed and sleep.
Now here was a marked peculiarity-relief from cold bathing. Most rheumatic conditions are worse from contact with water of any king, and especially cold water. Among the drugs which cause rheumatic pains which are relieved by cold baths there is one which stands out pre-eminent, and this is Ledum palustre. Ledum Palustre 30 was given and quickly cured the patient. (It may interest some of my readers and enable them to tack this characteristic condition to their memories, if I mention that the plant flourishes in cold water-that the marshes are its home.) I instance this case to show the usefulness in homopathy of noting peculiar conditions, all repertories to the Materia Medica must, to be complete, include in their indices a list of CONDITIONS under which symptoms are better or worse, or appear or disappear.
Another class of conditions which are of great importance to watch in prescribing a Conditions of Time. It is well known that some complaints are worse at certain hours of the day or night, and very often this condition is of as much importance from the prescriber's point of view as the symptom itself. A very common symptom in connection with many diseases is a 'sinking,' 'empty' sensation, occurring at times when the patient should not ordinarily be 'hungry. Now many remedies have caused this sensation, and among them is sulphur. But the time when the Sulphur sensation is most marked is from 11 a. m, to noon. Other medicines have the same peculiarity but not so markedly at this hour ; when a 'sinking' sensation is complained of at about 11 o'clock, Sulphur will be the most likely remedy to relieve the whole condition.
A very characteristic time of aggravation has been noticed in connection with Lycopodium, and this is from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m. or to 8 p. m. When this particular time of aggravation appears in any complaint, the likeness to the time-aggravation of Lycopodium will give a very strong point, indeed, in favour of that remedy being the right one ; and if other symptoms correspond it must be given.
Conditions of motion or rest, of heat or cold are other points of importance in the 'likeness' between remedies and cases, which the homopath has to take into careful account in marking his prescriptions.
Another point of 'likeness' lies in accompanying conditions, or 'concomitants,' as they are called. Some patients manifest certain morbid symptoms as a regular accompaniment of other complaints. For instance, a patient has neuralgia, and every time the pain comes on it is accompanied by an attack of sickness and vomiting. Now of all the remedies which cause sickness, Ipecacuanha is one of the first which will be thought of. We all know Ipecacuanha wine, and most of us have experienced its effect at one period or other of our lives. The nauseating property of Ipecacuanha dominates, in senses, all its other effects. If it causes pain, the pain is accompanied by nausea or vomiting. If it causes fever, the chill is accompanied by nausea or vomiting. Thus it comes about that any kind of illness which sets up as a concomitant effect nausea or vomiting may find in Ipecacuanha its 'likeness' or counterpart, and hence its remedy. In a similar way the sleep-causing power in Opium dominates its effects and whenever excessive drowsiness accompanies other complaints it will very probably be found that Opium will prove the remedy most like to the case.
These are a few of the points of 'likeness' with the homopath must look for if he is to make successful prescriptions. This is the 'likeness' which Hahnemann referred to when he formulated his law that 'Likes cure Likes.' To the unprofessional observer it might seem a more desirable thing to find pictures of entire diseases, and thus find a remedy for each ; but in practice that would not work so well. Hahnemann has by the art he revealed liberated by materia medica and the prescriber. Any remedy is thus available for use in a case of any disease, and the prescriber is free to select his remedy throughout the entire range.
Source: http://homeoint.org/books5/clarkehomeo/likes.htm
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Where do we stand with reference to him?
Murthy
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
List of books by Clarke
A Birds Eye View of the Organon
A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine and Homeopathic Treatment
Catarrh, Colds and Grippe
Cholera, Diarrhea and Dysentery
Clinical Repertory
Clinical Repertory (Indian edition)
Constitutional Medicine
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 3 volumes (British edition)
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 3 volumes (Indian edition)
Diseases of Heart and Arteries
Grand Characteristics of Materia Medica
Gun Powder As A War Remedy
Hahnemann and Paracelsus
Homeopathy Explained
Indigestion-Its Causes and Cure
Non-Surgical Treatment of Diseases of Glands and Bones
Prescriber
Prescriber (Indian edition)
Radium As An Internal Remedy
The Revolution in Medicine
The Therapeutics of Cancer
Therapeutics of the Serpent Poisons
Tumours
Un Diccionario De Materia Médica Practica (3 volumes)
Whooping Cough
Murthy
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
Clarke
For those who don't have time to go through all the above, this is what he says..
'But it is necessary to guard against the idea that because certain drugs produce a more or less perfect facsimile of certain natural diseases, that every disease must have its natural counterpart and cure. The instances in which a single drug produces such a perfect picture are rare ; and when they do occur, it must be understood that many cases of the disease will require other remedies for their cure. Homopathy has no cut and dried remedies for cut and dried disease.
********
I repeat
'Homopathy has no cut and dried remedies for cut and dried disease.'
I hope the message is clear to all boisterous, egoistic, self glorifier prescribers.
Murthy
(1853 - 1931)
Dr. Clarke was one of the most eminent homoeopaths of England. He had his famous Clinic at 8 Bolton Street, Piccadilly, located in London.
Anyone who met Clarke even once must have been impressed with the feeling of an exceptional human being, a forceful personality, a man apart. He was so busy in his studies that he had very little time to mix with others. He was a prodigious worker, as his published works testify, to say nothing of the host of private patients from all parts of the world. He was also a consulting physician to the London Homoeopathic Hospital. He was the editor of the 'Homoeopathic World' for twenty-nine years. His famous publications are as follows:
The Prescriber - A Dictionary of the New Therapeutics
...with an essay on 'How to Practice Homoeopathy.' This little book has helped thousands of lay practitioners to prescribe successfully and carry the message of homoeopathy to far off lands. It is one of the 'must-have' books for every new practitioner of Homoeopathy. Its indications of remedies are based on personal experiences of a number of reputed homoeopaths like Burnett, Hughes, Cooper, Ruddock, Neatby, Salser, etc.
The Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
...consists of 3 volumes. In it he has given the synonyms, the source, the provers' experiences, clinical indications, temperament, keynotes and characteristics, modalities, pathological, sensational, locational and causational indications of each drug. He has also given the provings of the drug. In addition, the relationship of the drug to other remedies.
A Clinical Repertory to the Dictionary of Materia Medica
...was specifically designed by him for the study of his huge Materia Medica. The Repertory is very helpful for individualization of the simillimum from other similar remedies.
Dr. Clarke belongs to the band of provers of Nosodes, the products of disease used as homoeopathic remedies. The chief stalwarts among them were: Swan, Fincke, Clarke, Burnett, Hering, Stearns, Wheeler, Bach, Patterson, Grimmer and others.
He has the credit of introducing the following remedies to the Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Pertussin, Carcinosinum, Epihysterinum, Baccillinum Testicum, Morbillinum, Parotidinum, Scarletinum, and Scirrhinum.
Source: http://www.wholehealthnow.com/homeopathy_pro/john_henry_clar....
Murthy
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
John Henry Clarke
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
Clarke graduated in Edinburgh in 1877 and then studied homeopathy in Liverpool, under Berridge.
Source: http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/clarke/prefacemorrell.htm
********
He is an M.D.!!
People have the nerve to call him a lay homeopath, and equate themselves with him.
What a pity.!!
Murthy
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
and this is what Clarke says about homeopathy.
HOMOPATHY EXPLAINED
By John Henry Clarke, M. D.
What are 'LIKES' ?
The Homopathic Law says that 'Likes cure likes.' Therefore it becomes necessary to make it clear just wherein the likeness between case and remedy lies. The cases already quoted from Hahnemann's practice have given readers an idea of the points of resemblance which the prescriber has to look for, but it will be useful to look at the matter more in detail.
Not long ago it was announced in the daily press that an assistant of Edison's had lost his life through cancer set up by X-ray burns. This fact made some impression on the public mind, since at the present moment the treatment for cancer most in vogue in the profession (if the case is beyond the reach of the surgeon's knife) is by these same X-rays. 'Is not this homopathy ?' asked several inquirers ; ' X-rays have caused cancer, and they are also used to cure it.' Once wise allopathic medical man replied to the query that ' he could not see any resemblance between X-rays and cancer.' Very likely he could not ! But then Hahnemann never said that the likeness was to be sought between the physical characters of the remedy and the appearance of the disease from which a patient may be suffering. And it must be remembered that it is Hahnemann's definition of 'likes' which counts, and nobody else's. The 'likes' of homopathy is resemblances between drug-effects and disease-effects. The effect of X-rays on some persons is to cause cancer ; therefore, says Hahnemann, under favourable conditions, and in suitable persons, X-rays must prove a cure of cancer. That X-rays will not cure all cases of cancer is certain ; the suitable cases must be found out by future observation of both the causative and curative effects of the rays themselves.
The 'likeness,' then, which homopathy looks for is resemblance in effects. There are some drugs which produce such complete pictures of natural diseases that cases of poisoning have been mistaken for them. The annals of poisoning are full of instances of this kind : the medical practitioners in attendance have given certificates of death from natural disease, when later investigation has proved that the death was caused by poisoning. An instance of this kind occurred not long ago in America, when poisoning by Cyanide of Mercury was certified as death from diphtheria. Again and again cases of Belladonna poisoning have been mistaken for scarlatina. When the resemblance between a drug disease and a natural disease is so close as this, it can be inferred with absolute certainty that the drug which manifests the 'likeness' will be a remedy of wide usefulness in the treatment of cases of the disease. Accordingly Mercurius cyanatus is a remedy with homopaths of proven usefulness in diphtheria ; and Belladonna not only modifies the course and symptoms of scarlatina, but it also acts as a prophylactic against infection. If Belladonna in the 3rd centesimal potency were given to the healthy members of a household when scarlatina breaks out in it, the epidemic will not spread. Were this fact generally known among school proprietors, and enormous amount of trouble, anxiety, and loss might be saved to them. This is one small point in the immense importance of a knowledge of homopathy to the community at large.
But it is necessary to guard against the idea that because certain drugs produce a more or less perfect facsimile of certain natural diseases, that every disease must have its natural counterpart and cure. The instances in which a single drug produces such a perfect picture are rare ; and when they do occur, it must be understood that many cases of the disease will require other remedies for their cure. Homopathy has no cut and dried remedies for cut and dried disease.
Wherein, then, are we to look for the likeness ? It lies in the character of the symptoms produced by the drugs, corresponding with the character of the symptoms present in every case of disease.
Hahnemann quickly discovered that symptoms observed in providings did not all posses equal value. He noticed that when any peculiar or out-of-the-way effect came out in a proving, this had especial value in prescribing when the same symptom was met with in a case of disease.
This peculiarity need not be in the actual symptom itself, it may be in the conditions under which it manifests itself ; or it may be in some concomitant, which is found associated with it. It is in being able to discern and utilise these points the most of the art of homopathy lies, and it is on this that success in treatment largely depends.
To give one or two illustrations. A patient who suffered severely from headache complained that one for her sensations was 'as if woollen were wrapped round the head inside the skull.' Now that is a most peculiar sensation, and to cure the case it would be necessary to find a symptom somewhat like it accredited to some remedy. In my search, by the aid of repertories, I found this : 'Sensation as if a cold cloth were wrapped round the brain.' This was produced by the salt of the American spring named Sanicula. I gave it to my patient in the 1000th potency, and it rapidly removed the entire train of symptoms, which also corresponded to other effects of the remedy. In this case the sensation of there being something wrapped round the brain was the peculiar feature in which drug and disease were 'like.' And although the sensation of the wrapping material was different, the likeness was close enough to effect a cure.
In other cases the point of correspondence that it is essential to match lies in the conditions under which they symptoms appear, or are either better or worse. An octogenarian patient of mine, of very fine physique, a devotee of the morning cold bath, was troubled with a rheumatic pain in the right arm and elbow, which annoyed him very much, as it interfered with a favourite occupation, namely, driving a spirited pair of horses. Now the drugs which produce pains in the arms are legion. It was necessary, therefore, in this case to ascertain if there was anything peculiar in the time or circumstances under which the pain occurred. I elicited that the pain woke him in the night, and the only way in which he could get relief was by getting into his cold bath ; after this he could return to bed and sleep.
Now here was a marked peculiarity-relief from cold bathing. Most rheumatic conditions are worse from contact with water of any king, and especially cold water. Among the drugs which cause rheumatic pains which are relieved by cold baths there is one which stands out pre-eminent, and this is Ledum palustre. Ledum Palustre 30 was given and quickly cured the patient. (It may interest some of my readers and enable them to tack this characteristic condition to their memories, if I mention that the plant flourishes in cold water-that the marshes are its home.) I instance this case to show the usefulness in homopathy of noting peculiar conditions, all repertories to the Materia Medica must, to be complete, include in their indices a list of CONDITIONS under which symptoms are better or worse, or appear or disappear.
Another class of conditions which are of great importance to watch in prescribing a Conditions of Time. It is well known that some complaints are worse at certain hours of the day or night, and very often this condition is of as much importance from the prescriber's point of view as the symptom itself. A very common symptom in connection with many diseases is a 'sinking,' 'empty' sensation, occurring at times when the patient should not ordinarily be 'hungry. Now many remedies have caused this sensation, and among them is sulphur. But the time when the Sulphur sensation is most marked is from 11 a. m, to noon. Other medicines have the same peculiarity but not so markedly at this hour ; when a 'sinking' sensation is complained of at about 11 o'clock, Sulphur will be the most likely remedy to relieve the whole condition.
A very characteristic time of aggravation has been noticed in connection with Lycopodium, and this is from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m. or to 8 p. m. When this particular time of aggravation appears in any complaint, the likeness to the time-aggravation of Lycopodium will give a very strong point, indeed, in favour of that remedy being the right one ; and if other symptoms correspond it must be given.
Conditions of motion or rest, of heat or cold are other points of importance in the 'likeness' between remedies and cases, which the homopath has to take into careful account in marking his prescriptions.
Another point of 'likeness' lies in accompanying conditions, or 'concomitants,' as they are called. Some patients manifest certain morbid symptoms as a regular accompaniment of other complaints. For instance, a patient has neuralgia, and every time the pain comes on it is accompanied by an attack of sickness and vomiting. Now of all the remedies which cause sickness, Ipecacuanha is one of the first which will be thought of. We all know Ipecacuanha wine, and most of us have experienced its effect at one period or other of our lives. The nauseating property of Ipecacuanha dominates, in senses, all its other effects. If it causes pain, the pain is accompanied by nausea or vomiting. If it causes fever, the chill is accompanied by nausea or vomiting. Thus it comes about that any kind of illness which sets up as a concomitant effect nausea or vomiting may find in Ipecacuanha its 'likeness' or counterpart, and hence its remedy. In a similar way the sleep-causing power in Opium dominates its effects and whenever excessive drowsiness accompanies other complaints it will very probably be found that Opium will prove the remedy most like to the case.
These are a few of the points of 'likeness' with the homopath must look for if he is to make successful prescriptions. This is the 'likeness' which Hahnemann referred to when he formulated his law that 'Likes cure Likes.' To the unprofessional observer it might seem a more desirable thing to find pictures of entire diseases, and thus find a remedy for each ; but in practice that would not work so well. Hahnemann has by the art he revealed liberated by materia medica and the prescriber. Any remedy is thus available for use in a case of any disease, and the prescriber is free to select his remedy throughout the entire range.
Source: http://homeoint.org/books5/clarkehomeo/likes.htm
**********
Where do we stand with reference to him?
Murthy
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
List of books by Clarke
A Birds Eye View of the Organon
A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine and Homeopathic Treatment
Catarrh, Colds and Grippe
Cholera, Diarrhea and Dysentery
Clinical Repertory
Clinical Repertory (Indian edition)
Constitutional Medicine
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 3 volumes (British edition)
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 3 volumes (Indian edition)
Diseases of Heart and Arteries
Grand Characteristics of Materia Medica
Gun Powder As A War Remedy
Hahnemann and Paracelsus
Homeopathy Explained
Indigestion-Its Causes and Cure
Non-Surgical Treatment of Diseases of Glands and Bones
Prescriber
Prescriber (Indian edition)
Radium As An Internal Remedy
The Revolution in Medicine
The Therapeutics of Cancer
Therapeutics of the Serpent Poisons
Tumours
Un Diccionario De Materia Médica Practica (3 volumes)
Whooping Cough
Murthy
Re: Congrats ABC From gavinimurthy on 2006-11-18
Clarke
For those who don't have time to go through all the above, this is what he says..
'But it is necessary to guard against the idea that because certain drugs produce a more or less perfect facsimile of certain natural diseases, that every disease must have its natural counterpart and cure. The instances in which a single drug produces such a perfect picture are rare ; and when they do occur, it must be understood that many cases of the disease will require other remedies for their cure. Homopathy has no cut and dried remedies for cut and dried disease.
********
I repeat
'Homopathy has no cut and dried remedies for cut and dried disease.'
I hope the message is clear to all boisterous, egoistic, self glorifier prescribers.
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
-Applaudes-
And it is worth repeating here that Hahnemann himself first said the exact same thing ;)
-Jacob.
And it is worth repeating here that Hahnemann himself first said the exact same thing ;)
-Jacob.
Hahnemania last decade
In context to this topic, This was observed by 'ripas' in the following link :
http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/94264/1
Re: How Dr.Luc made Joe's medicines rather harmless From ripas on 2006-12-04
I don't think using a medicine even in solution is 'harmless' (though you have qualified that with 'relatively'). Some patients are very careless - someone is going to read that and decide wet dose is safe and try any and everything.
Then again is the situation when a medicine is acting palliatively or to suppress, but the initial relief gives the patient so much hope - and so much belief in the prescriber - that even when the problems appear, they are still reluctant to leave the medicine - or else, will follow some equally inadequate advice from the prescriber. So the 'harmless'ness is no longer so harmless.
http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/94264/1
Re: How Dr.Luc made Joe's medicines rather harmless From ripas on 2006-12-04
I don't think using a medicine even in solution is 'harmless' (though you have qualified that with 'relatively'). Some patients are very careless - someone is going to read that and decide wet dose is safe and try any and everything.
Then again is the situation when a medicine is acting palliatively or to suppress, but the initial relief gives the patient so much hope - and so much belief in the prescriber - that even when the problems appear, they are still reluctant to leave the medicine - or else, will follow some equally inadequate advice from the prescriber. So the 'harmless'ness is no longer so harmless.
Nesha-India last decade
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