Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-21
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your news lLem on tine
closing of Hahnemann Hos
pital points up some errors
due, no doubt, to a lack Of
understanding your staff has
of homeopathy both as to
its existence and its usage.
Naturally, the closing of
Hahnemann brings deep re-
grets to all who have had
occasion to use its facilities.
The family atmosphere plus
the fine corps of nurses
added much to the comfort
and well-being of each pa
tient, especially those fortu-
nate enough to receive good
homeopathic treatment as
well.
The natural law of cure
was first proclaimed by Hip
pocrates, the father of
medicine" in 400 BIC, but
it took Samuel Hahnemann,
after many years of investi-
CATION and experimentation
to formulate and put it into
practice in 1876.
Perhaps your readers do
not know he was a physician
who felt compelled to give up
his practice because he knew
he was doing his patients
more harm than good. With
a vast knowledge of many
languages. he then turned to
translating for a livelihood
and. through this came upon
Hippocrates' staten t.
Since medical practice in
those days land true today
for the most part) empha-
sized larger and larger doses,
Hahnemann experimental
with smaller and smaller
doses, discovering that when
brought down to an infini-
tesimal amount - that is,
from the material realm into
one of force or energy, which
is compatible to the vital
force or energy each indi-
vidual haS-the remedy has
even greater and more deli
cate curative powers, as
revealed in his provings on
humans. These provings
showed him that each rem
edy has its own symptom
picture. BY selecting the
remedy whose symptom pic
ture most closely resembled
the symptom picture of the
sick patient, he discovered
that the bodily processes
reverted from one of sick
ness to one of health.
Thus homeopathy is based
on two Laws: Similia Simili-
bus Curentur, cLet Likes Be
Cured BY LikesD and the
Arndt-Shulz Law of Drug
Action, (High concentrations
inhibit cellular activity
whereas low concentrations
stimulate cellular activity
Do not think that remedies
come only from roots and
herbs" Anyone glancing
through the homeopathic
Materia Medica would soon
discover remedies from all
kingdoms of life-animal.
vegetable and mineral, even
by-productS of diseases.
What can be more scienti-
fic? Only now can the ma
jority Of people begin to
understand what our modern
scientists say, Matter, as we
have thought of it, does not
actually exist, but resolves
itself into force" Such has
come out of the development
of atomic energy. Only now
are laboratory methods even
beginning to approach the
state where force and energy
can be ascertained. Clinically.
throughout all these $50
years. force or energy within
homeopathic potentized
drugs has been proven over
and over again.
Homeopathy is much bet
ter appreciated in our Eu-
ropean, Asiatic and South
American countries where it
finds its rightful place In
medicine. This is true even
in Russia.
Anyone who wishes to in
vestigate homeopathy with
an open mind will not find
it lacking. Many of our best
homeopathic prescribers to-
day are those who did just
that because they found the
medicine they were using
lacking. But it takes study.
lots of it. all through ones
life. Our materialistic world
has forgotten each one is an
individual and needs individ-
ual treatment for his entire
self. his vital force as ex-
pressed through his emotions,
his mind and his body.
Margery B. Lavelle,
Secretary. American Founda-