METHODS OF HEALING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20667, 4 March 1937, Page 9

METHODS OF HEALING

To the Editor of '* The Timaru Herald ‘ Sir,—Mr Paterson’s latest attempt to bolster up the allopathic system of medicine, loses sight of the dictum of a world-famous writer, Herbert Casson, who points out that “the majority is always wrong.’’ No doubt it is comforting to be on the side of the big battalions, but these always march well behind their leaders. A little consideiation on the part of even an armchair philosopher will show why, this must always necessarily be true. To affirm that the School of Natural Therapeutics led by such men as Lindlahr, Kritzer, Arbuthnot Lane, Osler iin his last days), and, in this country, Ulrlc Williams, derives its knowledge mostly from the allopathic school, is to betray a complete lack of acquaintance with their philosophy. Had Mr

Paterson taken the trouble to acquaint himself with their basic ideas he could never have suggested that their school is a “mere eddy’’ by the side of the mighty allopathic river of destruction. A:', apt simile might well be furnished by Horatius and his two companions who held the Tiber bridge against the Etriscan host or by Copernicus and Galileo, in their manful stand against the mediaeval doctors of their time. Personal contact with some of the modern counterparts of these doctors shows them to be worthy sons of him who declined to look through the telescope of Galileo, lest he see the satellites of Jupiter and be convinced that they really existed. “ Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity ’tis, ’tis true” that mistaken theories learned at school can and do serve as dark glasses during the whole of one’s professional life. To those able to see the lesson, another case or two may mean more than reams of discussion. A man, with an iron constitution, went to war away and gave an excellent account of himself. So did the doctors in their effort to protect him from the numerous hazards of the medical imagination. The many “shots” of sera then injected into his body have completely broken his health. The “regulars” have been trying to treat each symptom as it made itself felt, but the patient has gradually slipped in spite of them all. His final hope lies in an abrupt stoppage of medication; a reversal of his habits of living and eating, a rightabout face in the direction of natural treatment, and a persevering effort to regain his health by these means. How do I know? By the wonderful science of Iridiagnosis, neglected by allopaths, but the strongest weapon in the fight against maltreatment. This is a doctor made case if ever there was one, as clear as crystal to those with eyes to see. Another: A woman with internal misplacement and haemorrhage goes to the operating table for instrumental adjustment. Except that the antiseptics used have produced a chronic and annoying catarrhal condition, the operation leaves her with no change in the state of affairs. This condition persists for months. Diagnosis of the influences behind her symptoms, corrective exercises, appropriate hydrotherapy and nutrition, bring about a turn for the better within a few days. Men of Mr Paterson’s school invariably attempt to explain away such cases by appeal to adventitious factors. They might hearken to the words of the Hon. P. Fraser, addressed the other day to the British Medical Association conference at Wellington. He affirmed but the simple truth when he declared that Nature’s methods of noninterference or, rather, of assistance to the healing power within, have worked seeming miracles. He warned his hearers to beware of stoning their prophets. Though some have indeed been stoned out of the Association for daring to deny the validity of the tenets of allopathy, the voices of the many they have dragged back from the brink of the grave dug by their orthodox colleagues swell daily into a chorus that must, ere long, drown all the propaganda of the veterans of the knife and the poison phial. To quote Lindlahr once again, “Nature’s remedies are the best.”—l am, etc., LAZARUS. Dunedin, March 1.