Clinical
reflections.
By Adolph Lippe, M.D.
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
Comte Adolph
von LIPPE
(1812-1888)
Editor’s
Introduction.Under the magic pen of the great Doctor Lippe,
the simple cure of diarrhœa in a horse becomes a lesson in Philosophy
and Materia Medica. Indirectly it also supports Dr. P. P. Wells lecture
just read.The coachman of an old
friend who had detected that the healing art as promulgated by Samuel
Hahnemann, was ‘reliable’ detected it by the “clinical
experiment” -reported that one of a pair of valuable coach horses
was sick. No. 1 had been cured of incipient rheumatism by a single dose
of Rhus tox C. M. a month ago. The coachman says :I drove yesterday
afternoon to the park. After driving about an hour the horse began to
have diarrhœa, which grew worse till we came home. He not only soiled
the dasher of the carriage, but also my livery. After coming home and
putting him into the stable the diarrhœa ceased, but the horse did not
lie down in the night. This morning he stands quiet in his stall, his
eyelids drooping, as if asleep, refuses all food, drinks, but is
disinclined to move. “Prescribed” one dose of Bry. 103M. to be
given to the horse. He lay down that night and ate his food the next
morning. On the third day after taking the Bry. he is driven as usual is
well.
Comments :
The choice of the remedy was very easy. The day was the first hot
day of April ; the diarrhœa was worse from motion, end ceased when
at rest ; the discharges were watery and offensive ; the
disinclination to move and the utter aversion to food left no choice but
Bryonia. The cure was perfect and complete ; it a homœopathic cure ;
and no mistake about it.The President of the
American Institute of Homœopathy is now engaged in proving high
potencies on the healthy, and he-has a packed jury of
“experts” to do it. Would these young aspirants to distinction
be averse to proving Bryonia 103M, on a pair of full-blooded horses
driven into a park on a hot April day ? And if their scientific
superintendent does not find that one or two horses so used are attacked
by violent diarrhœa will he said scion of science, not only be ready to
doubt, but strikeout the evidence hare substantiated that even so large
a creature as a horse can be and has been cured by a “high
potency” on the ground that said potency has not produced similar
symptoms or the healthy horse ? The secret of success is not to be
attributed to the dose alone. The first, most difficult, task is to
obtain a true characteristic picture of the case to be treated, in this
pass this picture was interpreted from the coachmen’s report.First diarrhœa worse
in hot weather, and second, worse from motion ; thirdly,
disinclination to move, and apparent amelioration from absolute rest.
Get the truly characteristic symptoms of a case first and than find the
similar remedy in a reliable Materia Medica, such as that of Hahnemann.Copyright © Sylvain
Cazalet 2000
