Letters

I refer to the item "The Germ Theory" NJH Vol 3, No 2 page 92 and the summarized version of my letter published therein. The edited version as published has deleted some very vital information tending to give a distorted idea and hence I summarize the points I had made -

1. Burnett had held that the itch cannot be cured by dynamic medication and therefore the ascari must be killed - a forerunner of the Pastuerean theory of the bacteria causing disease and the latter day orthodox method (allopathic) of killing microbes by sulphas, antibiotics and synthetic chemical compounds. This is shocking.
2. But Kent in his Lectures held that
   1. Bacilli are not the cause of the disease.
   2. Allopaths take the sequence for the consequence, leading to the false bacteria theory.
   3. Bacteria may be destroyed but not the disease.
   4. Bacteria have a use.
   5. Hahnemann did not adopt any such theory as bacteriology.
   6. After a cadaver has remained for some time and become infected with bacteria, a dissector who pricks himself would face no danger from the wound while it would be serious if the body is recently dead.
   7. The more the bacteria the less the poison.
   8. The bacilli from a purulent tubercular fluid can be continuously processed until no microbe can be found and if the extract is administered to a healthy man, it will establish the nature of the disease in the economy which is prior to pthisis.
   9. Thus the cause of the pthisis is not in the bacteria but in the virus which the bacteria are sent to destroy.
   10. If we could succeed in destroying the bacteria (TB) that consumptive patient would die soon.

Beauchamp whose research went far beyond Pastuer and Koch discovered that -

1. In seemingly totally inert chalk, there existed life in its lowest state called microzymes with its vitality intact.
2. When the cells of the living organism were diseased it meant the microzymes are diseased and they give rise to what is erroneously called pathogenic bacteria.
3. The pathogenic bacteria are not the cause of the morbid condition but the result thereof.
4. When a clot of fresh blood was kept in a practically airtight container - the microzymes died after some time and bacteria appeared about the margin of the clot, while in the centre microzymes were found perfect.
5. That bacteria evolve through the death or degenerative process in the organism such as acute or chronic miasms.

Dr. John Paterson, a trained bacteriologist homoeopath of the UK said

1. Pastuer was only 50 percent right and Beauchamp was correct.
2. Tylers lecture on "Microorganisms being the cause of disease was erroneous.
3. Tylers translation or interpretation of Hahnemann was equally erroneous.

Dr. Rene Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute in US - a foremost scientist in the field of antibiotics held that -

1. Every person carries in his body throughout life a host of a supposedly deadly microbes which live in blood and tissues as harmless guests until something happens to start them on a rampage.
2. The right organism is necessary for the particular disease, the real cure is the "something" or the combinations of the "something" of which the present day physicians are ignorant of.
3. Elimination by drugs of one supposedly malignant microorganism leads to an increase of some worse kind.
4. In volunteers fed with the bacillus causing bacillary dysentery not a single case of bacillary dysentery was produced.
5. Similarly the common cold virus, the cholera virus and the tubercular bacilli could be manifest their respective disease symptoms when volunteers were fed these in separate trials.
6. The next generation will concentrate more on the equilibria outside forces with forces within every living cells than on germs.

Dr. M.L. Kothari, a post graduate in medicine and surgery corroborates all the above observations in his lecture on Man, Microbes and Antibiotics (Medicina Futura Homoeopathy - Vol 4, No 1 page 8-9.

It is a fact that except for Hahnemann, Kent, Dr. Jaisoorya and Dr. Paterson - who were all allopaths but abandoned their orthodoxy and never looked back - others, notably the English species from Burnett to Tyler, the jacks, the Campbells and modern conglomerates everywhere could not wholly forget their allopathic training and regress now and then to their parent concepts in a kind of mixed marriage - a hybrid therapeutic technique - antibiotics first for the acute stage followed by homoeopathy - Cavities in the lungs - no, no homoeopathy, take antibiotics, that is the approach of our own Indian species of homoeopaths. Everything that Tyler said need not be considered the sacred cow.

DR. LAKSHMINARAYANAN Ph.D.
Gagan Mahal Road
Hyderabad - 500 029.

*1. Congratulations for proving up to date interesting articles in NJH. However it fails on two fronts

1. It is regularly irregular.
2. The main article viz Some secretions on the Kidney lacks the depth and upto date advanced information. Such articles should be written by a specialist and that too with seriousness and sincerity of the topic. It seems this particular article is written in a lighter vein with stress on literature and not much substance. One can do without such articles and more Homoeopathy instead.

Dr. Sushil K Vats BHMS

*The letter from Dr. K. Chimthanawala NJH Vol III No.3 p;age 165 penning down his views on Bowel nosodes vis-a-vis the Editorial comment on page 75 ibid cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. If Dr. K Chimthanawala reads either Medicine Futura Homoeopathy or Dr. D.E. Mistry's HCCR October 94 an article on Bowel Nosodes - An Introduction" authored by me is available for his perusal. The editorial note in the NJH which provoked Dr. K Chimthanawala is balanced and non controversial. However Dr. K. Chimthanawala is can feel happy that he is in distinguished company of the late Dr. Jost Kunzli who emphatically ignored Bowel Nosodes.

A persual of Dr. Elizabeth Patersons survey in 1963 (BHJ) has given clinical evidence to everyone of the Dr. Patersons Clinical inferences on these Bowel Nosodes. The BHJ (1988) carried a number of articles on these nosodes and these grudgingly admitted the clinical validity of Dr. Patersons formulations.

Could I draw Dr. Kasims attention to the fact that out of the hundreds of drugs in the original Kents repertory and the even larger number in Boerickes Materia medica, the drugs "discovered by our master" constitute only a small portion. so do we to use the rest - say Aconite ferox, Lycotonum to Zingiber, the double salts of Aurum, Kalis, Natrums the well known nosodes from Psorinum to Morbillinum, Carcinosin? Were all homoeopathic drugs assessed on the basis of Herings Law or were all the drugs proved on healthy human beings (eg. Drosera in bone TB, Symphytum in colitis, Kali-carb in 3 a.m. aggravation - only one prover had developed this symptom in proving Kali-carb? Are we to throw out all purely clinical symptoms and if we do, how do we treat pneumonia, cancer, peritonitis, breech presentation, uterine bleeding and so on - an almost endless list of cured and curable conditions.

The highest and only mission of a physician is to restore health to the sick to cure as is called. If a bowel nosode cures gastric ulcer or temper tantrums, has the physician got a right to refuse to prescribe Bowel Nosodes to his patient because they were not discovered by the "Master" or were not according to Herings law? Dr. K Chimthanawala may kindly ponder.

Dr. LAKSHMINARAYANAN Ph.D.
Hyderabad

* Plague phobia has returned back in India especially in Surat. Plague may spread again ion human race. Kindly devote one issue to this topic.

Many physicians cannot collect and read all the periodicals published from India and abroad. So your Synopsis gives us an idea of our colleagues thoughts. I appeal you to reprint the articles which are informative.

Dr. Pran Gobind Chowdhury
Nabadwipdham, Nadia
West Bengal.

* With reference to the article in Fish Issue by Dr. Parinaz, I would like to bring to your attention the fact that the case cited by her under Sepia is actually of Bryonia (The Prescriber - J.H. Clarke - Page 50). Kindly be careful about citing cases of old masters.

Kuldeep R. Tater
Madras.

EDITOR:

1. NJH is not irregular - last 4 issues have come out precisely at 7 weeks periodicity. It is steadily gaining and will soon be on time.
2. Doctors, as someone said are a "pompous and a serious lot. To educate them to look at the other side would be most profitable."

From that point of view, Dr. Manu Kotharis education system is invaluable. Please refer my comments in Editorial in Fish issue. Today in all fields it is a recognised fact that education imparted with simplicity and a touch of humour, makes greater impact. Recently a peruse of a top ranking financial journal Asia Money. The cover had all their stories presented by a cartoon.

Of course you dont have to agree with me. But I request you to read all the articles without prejudice for a year. After that write to us again. Meanwhile there is enough Homoeopathic material in the NJH (the largest Homoeopathic journal in the world today) to keep even a serious die-hard critic happy.

Editor:

Please note: The case sited is in Dr. Gunavantes article. The critic also should exercise similar case even if it is of present authors!

*Thanks for the excellent Fish Issue. Dr. Sarlabens poetry on fish is praise worthy, prize worthy - and classical. It is the crown of the whole issue and makes one to dance. It deserves a first page of any treatise on ichythology.

Wishing NJH a happy and a prospectus 1995. Kidney issue was very enlightening. I take all NJH issues as therapeutics and bind them year-wise to make them permanent reference volumes. Many heart felt thanks.

Please note following corrections to Curare in Fish issue.

Pg Column Incorrect Correct
246 1 Old old age of old age
246 3 Queering quivering
247 1 Antisocial, reckless no para here
247 2 glossal gloss
247 3 peristalsis peristalsis
248 1 varieted variegated
248 3 cystine cystisine
249 2 serm serum
249 2 rigor frigor
249 3 and uremia or uremia
(Note - frigor = cold - in French)
P.I. Tarkas

*Change of Address: 6 North Malvern Road, Malvern, Worchestershire, WR 14 4 LT will be the address for all correspondence for Jeremy Sherr.

David Powel
The Dynamis School Advanced
Homoeopathic Studies.

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