The California Homeopath
Journal of the California Homeopathic Medical Society

My colleague, Dr. Hayward, last session asked me to bring before the Society a good and substantial case of disease cured by high potencies. By a good and substantial disease, I presume he means a case where the scalpel of the pathologist would find, post mortem, such an amount of “tissue change”, such a disorganization of the natural structure of the parts, as would entitle it to be called a substantial disease … I trust Dr. Hayward will agree with me in considering caries of the dorsal vertebrae, with Pott’s curvature, and two psoas abscesses, a substantial disease, and a sufficient test of the value of Syphilinum and high potencies.

So far as Allopathy is concerned, the medical treatment of this wasting and terrible disease is barren in the extreme, and is limited to what is called constitutional treatment. Which means, cod liver oil ad nauseum, and quinine and iron, and such like, ad libitum. How different is the treatment in the hands of the homeopathic physician, who in the language of Hahnemann, feels that, “The highest aim of healing is the speedy, gentle, and permanent restitution of health, or alleviation and obliteration of disease in its entire extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and safest manner, according to clearly intelligible reasons.”

By Thomas Skinner, MD