Homoeopathic medicine goes even further than this, for homoeopathy seeks to relieve the individual as much as possible from the heavy burden of the hereditary tendencies he carries, and to guard against increasing this load by enabling his vital energy to provide its own immunity against disease. Homoeopathy looks upon the health of the individual as a precious charge, and the return of the individual to health as almost certain if we but follow the fundamental laws.
Another growing distinction between public health service, so called, and medicine, especially homoeopathic medicine, is the increasing use of serums and vaccines. It has been claimed that these preparations are really homoeopathic; even instructors in the homoeopathic colleges have thought thus to demonstrate homoeopathic principles. Let the young man consider this logically.
In the first place, giving the identical instead of the similar means the difference between isopathy and homoeopathy. You may say that the identical, in the case of the serum or vaccine, is potentiated, somewhat as in homoeopathy, and therefore removes it from the identical sphere. Although potentiated, it does not alter the fact that it was not in the first place similar, but identical. In the second place, it has been potentiated in mass production, and potentiated and filtered, not through an inert substance, but through living creatures, and a lower order of creatures at that.
There is a biological law that crossing the blood of a higher and lower order of creatures means destruction to the species, and it is well to consider this. Practically, we may well look to the nature of growth in different orders of creatures.
When an animal has a longevity of some twenty years and in that time attains a weight of half a ton, there must be a rapid cell growth. When serum from such a source, though ever so highly filtered, is injected into the human race, where normal longevity is seventy years and where 160 pounds might be considered an average weight, one can well understand the impact upon the vital energy of the human; for while the serum is considered by ordinary medicine to be potentiated past all danger, homoeopathy believes that potentiation in any or all forms means a more prompt release of power than may have been possible in the normal state, it then being latent.
One of the outstanding problems to-day is cancer. It intrigues the mind of the young man, and his search for the cause and cure of cancer is indefatigable. This is a challenge to the homoeopathic physician as well, since he has remedial aids that ordinary practice knows not; but let the young man consider this problem in the light of public health service and its insistence on the use of serums and vaccines. Let him weigh his ability to stand upon his adherence to fundamental principles. If he takes up the task on the frontier of cancer study, will he remember the relationship between homoeopathy (not iso-pathy) and disease conditions, or will he forget that human cell tissue is easily stimulated to overgrowth, under certain hereditary tendencies? He has here a field for work which offers much elbow room and all the dangers of the pioneer.
