Indispositions and the second best remedy: ...Cntd...

- Stuart Close

Objection has been made to this mode of dealing with cases, by certain individuals with *very delicate consciences, on the ground that it was not strictly honest! To practice even such a mild deception upon patients would violate their fine sense of honor! Besides, it tended to engender in patients a *habit of dependence upon sac. lac. and to demoralize the physician who followed the practice!

Recall the words of HIM who said: "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the *weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel!"

He who said that, anointed the eyes of a blind man with "clay mixed with spittle," bade him go and wash in the pool of Siloam, and he recovered his sight-healed by *faith; awakened by the therapeutic suggestion of a *clay placebo and an order to take a bath!

Any harmless measure which tends to arouse the curative reaction of the organism through the awakening of faith and confident expectation, is not only right but legitimate and sometimes indispensable.

But what shall we say of the men who have been so pained at the thought of using the placebo, when we find them violating every fundamental law and principle of the art whose name they profess before the world, by using powerful drugs in such a manner in their treatment of the sick, in both public and private practice, as to do irreparable injury?

Or what shall we say of men prominently before the public as official representatives of homoeopathy in colleges and hospital, who herd patients in a Metropolitan Hospital ward, arbitrarily denominate them a "class," without regard to their individual symptoms, and give them all, indiscriminately, hypodermic injections of "a preparation of digitalis" for their hearts?

This is indeed neglecting *"the weightier matters of the law." It is the irony of fate that makes it possible to say such a thing of men who conduct a great hospital which was specifically founded and financed for the purpose of dispensing the blessings of homoeopathy to the poor of the great city.

And what about the young men who have come from far and wide to the colleges connected with such hospitals, and pay their money in good faith for such instruction in the methods and principles of homoeopathy, who are called upon to witness such perversions of all true therapeutic principles, to say nothing of homoeopathy? Should they not be considered ?

President Cleveland immortalized himself by declaring that "Public Office Is a Public Trust."

President Roosevelt endeared himself to the people, and will go down in history as the great exponent of "The Square Deal."

These two great leaders, each in his own way, have thus voiced the principles of *common honesty in the conduct of public and private affairs. The people have listened and responded. The world is waking up, for, as President Lincoln said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time; you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time."

When homoeopathic colleges teach homoeopathy in every appropriate chair; when homoeopathic hospitals and homoeopathic clinics are conducted on homoeopathic principles; and when homoeopathic physicians make at least a sincere *attempt to prescribe homoeopathic remedies for their patients; then, and not before, will the principles of *common honesty find their application in the homoeopathic medical profession.

It is a breach of trust to do otherwise. The *moral obligation is upon every man who is affiliated with a homoeopathic institution, and upon every physician who professes the name of homoeopathy, to be true to homoeopathic principles.

It is not many years since the late Judge Barrett, of the Supreme Court, in a decision which he handed down in a certain case, declared that the *legal obligation rested upon every professedly homoeopathic physician to practice according to homoeopathic principles; and that he was liable at law if he did not do so. The people who give their money to found and sustain homoeopathic institutions have some right in this matter which should be respected.

We have now a "pure food law" which requires that all goods shall be "true to label." The time may come, and perhaps is not far distant, when we shall have a "pure practice law," which will require that a man who represents himself as a graduate of a homoeopathic school and a practitioner of homoeopathy, shall be required to practice in accordance with the principles of that school or suffer the penalty of his misrepresentation - in other words, that *he shall be "true to label." He will not be able in that day, as he is now, to advertise, "57 varieties!" There is but *one variety of homoeopathy, and that is the homoeopathy of Hahnemann, the principles of which are plainly laid down in the Organon. All other varieties are fraudulent, concocted of impure materials and injurious to health, like the inferior canned good of the manufacturers, which they try to preserve with antiseptics. If some of the fraudulent homoeopaths were compelled, like the food manufacturers, to state on their labels the names and percentages of the foreign ingredients in their wares, it might be better for the people, but they would have to enlarge either their labels or their packages in order to make room for the list.

With all this there is no need to be pessimistic. The leaders of the homoeopathic profession are awake to the true state of affairs. They are demanding of their colleges and teachers that homoeopathic principles shall be taught, and the colleges are responding as rapidly as they can, hampered as they are by the presence of some men in their faculties who are antagonistic to everything homoeopathic. They recognize that the future of homoeopathy depends upon the *young men who are coming up; upon the classes now within college halls; that the long neglected principles and methods of homoeopathy must be restored to their true place in the college curriculum and taught by men who love the art of healing and are imbued with the *spirit of homoeopathy and the love of it! We may know the principles - the *science of homoeopathy - but unless we love the art, and practice it, we will fail in the highest department of our calling. Never was there such need as there is today for pure homoeopathy, nor such opportunities for young men of enthusiasm and earnest purpose, who are thoroughly trained in homoeopathic methods. The colleges need them as teachers. The hospitals need them as internes and visitors, and in other official positions. The people need them as practical healers. Prepared for *that work, *"The world is our oyster.

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