Dear Colleague
It has been suggested that we all re-read Stuart Close's The Genius of Homoeopathy. Specially, please read pages 19 - 22.
If you do not have the book, please let me know and I will scan and post these pages.
Regards
Soroush
Treat others as you would wish to be treated.
Recommended Reading
Re: Recommended Reading
Dear Soroush
Could you give the topic title since I have a soft copy and it does not have pages as such.
regards
Suriya
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Could you give the topic title since I have a soft copy and it does not have pages as such.
regards
Suriya
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Re: Recommended Reading
On Jul 6, 2009, at 7:31 AM,
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I do not have the book.
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I do not have the book.
.......Irene
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Re: Recommended Reading
the book is online here
http://www.homeoint.org/books4/close/index.htm
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On Jul 6, 2009, at 7:31 AM, >
> wrote:
I do not have the book.
.......Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
http://www.homeoint.org/books4/close/index.htm
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On Jul 6, 2009, at 7:31 AM, >
> wrote:
I do not have the book.
.......Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
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Re: Recommended Reading
Have a read and you will find out! 
It was a standard course reading book in my college.
the book is online here
http://www.homeoint.org/books4/close/index.htm
Rgds
Soroush
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Sent: 07 July 2009 06:01
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Subject: [Minutus] Re: Recommended Reading
Why was it suggested so?
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It was a standard course reading book in my college.
the book is online here
http://www.homeoint.org/books4/close/index.htm
Rgds
Soroush
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Why was it suggested so?
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Re: Recommended Reading
I have read it before along with HA Roberts, Kent Philosophy etc.- let us say - 25 years back-
It is an ok kind of book-
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It is an ok kind of book-
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Re: Recommended Reading
OK - Here is the part that was specially recommended:
http://www.homeoint.org/books4/close/chapter02.htm
Homœopathy an Experimental Science - Like chemistry or physics, homœopathy is established under the principles of the inductive method in science. Considered as a science, it consists of two series of phenomena, independently observed, collected and studied, connected by an underlying law or principle of nature. Its elements are: 1, The phenomena of disease; 2, the phenomena produced by drugs when administered to healthy persons; and 3, the general law of mutual action, otherwise known as Newton's Third Law of Motion and as the Law of Similars, which connects the two series of phenomena. The phenomena of disease constitute its pathology, the experimentally derived phenomena of drugs, its materia medica and the application of its materia medica under the law its therapeutics.
Experimentally, in the construction of homœopathic materia medica, medicines were administered singly, in various doses, to healthy human beings for the purpose of eliciting, observing, recording and comparing their effects. Comparison shows that the symptoms thus produced by drugs are similar to the symptoms of disease. Any symptom or group of symptoms of disease may be duplicated from the materia medica record of drug symptoms.
Experimentally also it has been proven that under certain conditions, to be stated hereafter, medicines cure diseases by virtue of their similarity of symptoms; that is, medicines cure, or remove in the sick, symptoms similar to those which they have the power of producing in the healthy. From this fact of experience was deduced the law of cure and medication, known as the "law of similars," which is found on examination to be a statement in other words of the general Law of Mutual Action,. variously termed the law of equivalence, the law of action and reaction, the law of balance or equilibrium, the law of polarity, the law of compensation and Newton's third law of motion.
Homœopathy an Art. - Homœopathy works in perfect harmony with all necessary rational, non-medicinal and mechanical, therapeutic agents. Surgery, obstetrics, hygiene, dietetics, sanitary science, chemistry (so far as it is applied in the preparation of medicines and in ejecting and antidoting poisons) and psycho-therapy all find in homœopathy their congenial and most powerful ally.
Homœopathy is opposed in its constitution and principles to all forms of treatment by direct or physiological medication, and to physio-chemical treatment or treatment based upon chemical theories.
Homœopathy is opposed to the use; under ordinary conditions, of drugs in physiological doses for mere palliative purposes, since its primary object is always the cure or obliteration of disease and complete restoration of health.
Homœopathy is opposed to the methods of vaccine and serum therapy, although it is claimed by many that these methods are based upon the homœopathic principle. It grants that this may be true so far as the underlying principle is concerned, but opposes the method of applying the principle as being a violation of sound, natural principles of medication and productive of serious injury to the living organism.
It has been proven experimentally and clinically that such methods are unnecessary, and that the results claimed by their advocates can be attained more safely, more rapidly and more thoroughly by the administration of the homœopathically indicated medicines in sub-physiological doses, through the natural channels of the body, than by introducing it forcibly by means of the :hypodermic needle or in any other way.
Homœopathy is opposed to so-called "pathological prescribing" and to "group treatment" of diseases, by which individual peculiarities are ignored and patients are grouped or classed according to their gross, pathological organic lesions and treated alike. Homœopathy deals with the individual, not the class. It treats the patient, not a fictitious entity called the disease. Its prescription or selection of medicines is based solely upon individual similarity of symptoms, drug symptoms to disease symptoms, determined by actual comparison in each case.
Homœopathy is opposed to all forms of external, local or topical drug treatment of the external, secondary symptoms of disease, except in surgical cases. It directs its curative agents through the natural channels of the body to the physiological centres of vital action and reaction, which govern all functional activities in the living organism in disease as well as in health.
Homœopathy is opposed to polypharmacy. It depends for all its results upon the dynamical action of single, pure, potentizated medicines, prepared by a special mathematico-mechanical process and administered in minimum doses.
In practice, homœopathy bases the selection of the curative remedy upon the totality of the symptoms of the individual patient,. including a consideration of the ascertainable causes of the disease. For the homœopathic prescriber this constitutes the disease. Speculation as to the inner, essential nature or working of the drug or the disease does not enter into the process of selecting the remedy. The prescription is not based upon the pathological diagnosis, or the name of the disease, but solely upon the likeness of the symptoms of the patient to the symptoms of some tested drug, determined by actual comparison.
As the experimental work in constructing the homœopathic materia medica has been conducted with single medicines, and as each medicine has its own definite and peculiar kind and sphere of action, scientific accuracy, as well as the law of similars, requires that the treatment of patients be conducted in the same manner. Medicines, are never mixed or compounded in homœopathic practice but are given singly.
It has been proven experimentally that the sick organism is peculiarly and even painfully sensitive to the action of the single, similar medicine, and that curative effects are only obtained by sub-physiological doses. Physiological doses, instead of removing the symptoms of the disease, produce by their direct pathogenetic action the characteristic symptom of the drug. If the drug be not a similar the condition of the patient is complicated by the addition of symptoms having no relation to the disease and no cure results. If the drug be a similar the violent reaction of the organism to the unnecessarily large dose increases suffering, exhausts the patient and prolongs his disease, even if the eventually recovers.
These facts led, first, to the progressive reduction of the size of the dose to the smallest effectual curative quantity, and eventually to the discovery and formulation of the law of potentiation and the infinitesimal dose which is one of the corollaries of the law of similars and a fundamental principle of homœopathy.
The working principles of homœopathy, therefore, may be briefly stated as follows:
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I have read it before along with HA Roberts, Kent Philosophy etc.- let us say - 25 years back-
It is an ok kind of book-
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com , wrote:
http://www.homeoint.org/books4/close/chapter02.htm
Homœopathy an Experimental Science - Like chemistry or physics, homœopathy is established under the principles of the inductive method in science. Considered as a science, it consists of two series of phenomena, independently observed, collected and studied, connected by an underlying law or principle of nature. Its elements are: 1, The phenomena of disease; 2, the phenomena produced by drugs when administered to healthy persons; and 3, the general law of mutual action, otherwise known as Newton's Third Law of Motion and as the Law of Similars, which connects the two series of phenomena. The phenomena of disease constitute its pathology, the experimentally derived phenomena of drugs, its materia medica and the application of its materia medica under the law its therapeutics.
Experimentally, in the construction of homœopathic materia medica, medicines were administered singly, in various doses, to healthy human beings for the purpose of eliciting, observing, recording and comparing their effects. Comparison shows that the symptoms thus produced by drugs are similar to the symptoms of disease. Any symptom or group of symptoms of disease may be duplicated from the materia medica record of drug symptoms.
Experimentally also it has been proven that under certain conditions, to be stated hereafter, medicines cure diseases by virtue of their similarity of symptoms; that is, medicines cure, or remove in the sick, symptoms similar to those which they have the power of producing in the healthy. From this fact of experience was deduced the law of cure and medication, known as the "law of similars," which is found on examination to be a statement in other words of the general Law of Mutual Action,. variously termed the law of equivalence, the law of action and reaction, the law of balance or equilibrium, the law of polarity, the law of compensation and Newton's third law of motion.
Homœopathy an Art. - Homœopathy works in perfect harmony with all necessary rational, non-medicinal and mechanical, therapeutic agents. Surgery, obstetrics, hygiene, dietetics, sanitary science, chemistry (so far as it is applied in the preparation of medicines and in ejecting and antidoting poisons) and psycho-therapy all find in homœopathy their congenial and most powerful ally.
Homœopathy is opposed in its constitution and principles to all forms of treatment by direct or physiological medication, and to physio-chemical treatment or treatment based upon chemical theories.
Homœopathy is opposed to the use; under ordinary conditions, of drugs in physiological doses for mere palliative purposes, since its primary object is always the cure or obliteration of disease and complete restoration of health.
Homœopathy is opposed to the methods of vaccine and serum therapy, although it is claimed by many that these methods are based upon the homœopathic principle. It grants that this may be true so far as the underlying principle is concerned, but opposes the method of applying the principle as being a violation of sound, natural principles of medication and productive of serious injury to the living organism.
It has been proven experimentally and clinically that such methods are unnecessary, and that the results claimed by their advocates can be attained more safely, more rapidly and more thoroughly by the administration of the homœopathically indicated medicines in sub-physiological doses, through the natural channels of the body, than by introducing it forcibly by means of the :hypodermic needle or in any other way.
Homœopathy is opposed to so-called "pathological prescribing" and to "group treatment" of diseases, by which individual peculiarities are ignored and patients are grouped or classed according to their gross, pathological organic lesions and treated alike. Homœopathy deals with the individual, not the class. It treats the patient, not a fictitious entity called the disease. Its prescription or selection of medicines is based solely upon individual similarity of symptoms, drug symptoms to disease symptoms, determined by actual comparison in each case.
Homœopathy is opposed to all forms of external, local or topical drug treatment of the external, secondary symptoms of disease, except in surgical cases. It directs its curative agents through the natural channels of the body to the physiological centres of vital action and reaction, which govern all functional activities in the living organism in disease as well as in health.
Homœopathy is opposed to polypharmacy. It depends for all its results upon the dynamical action of single, pure, potentizated medicines, prepared by a special mathematico-mechanical process and administered in minimum doses.
In practice, homœopathy bases the selection of the curative remedy upon the totality of the symptoms of the individual patient,. including a consideration of the ascertainable causes of the disease. For the homœopathic prescriber this constitutes the disease. Speculation as to the inner, essential nature or working of the drug or the disease does not enter into the process of selecting the remedy. The prescription is not based upon the pathological diagnosis, or the name of the disease, but solely upon the likeness of the symptoms of the patient to the symptoms of some tested drug, determined by actual comparison.
As the experimental work in constructing the homœopathic materia medica has been conducted with single medicines, and as each medicine has its own definite and peculiar kind and sphere of action, scientific accuracy, as well as the law of similars, requires that the treatment of patients be conducted in the same manner. Medicines, are never mixed or compounded in homœopathic practice but are given singly.
It has been proven experimentally that the sick organism is peculiarly and even painfully sensitive to the action of the single, similar medicine, and that curative effects are only obtained by sub-physiological doses. Physiological doses, instead of removing the symptoms of the disease, produce by their direct pathogenetic action the characteristic symptom of the drug. If the drug be not a similar the condition of the patient is complicated by the addition of symptoms having no relation to the disease and no cure results. If the drug be a similar the violent reaction of the organism to the unnecessarily large dose increases suffering, exhausts the patient and prolongs his disease, even if the eventually recovers.
These facts led, first, to the progressive reduction of the size of the dose to the smallest effectual curative quantity, and eventually to the discovery and formulation of the law of potentiation and the infinitesimal dose which is one of the corollaries of the law of similars and a fundamental principle of homœopathy.
The working principles of homœopathy, therefore, may be briefly stated as follows:
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Subject: [Minutus] Re: Recommended Reading
I have read it before along with HA Roberts, Kent Philosophy etc.- let us say - 25 years back-
It is an ok kind of book-
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Re: Recommended Reading
ABSOLUTLEY RIGHT - The 3 Fundamental Scientific Criteria used in approaching an experiment ARE
Purpose / Observation / Conclusion. DON"T ever buy into all this Bull Fecal-matter from the Anti- Homomeopathist that Homeopathy is unscientific.
Bob Needham HBSc. DHM.
Homeopathic Practitioner
“ Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past”
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Purpose / Observation / Conclusion. DON"T ever buy into all this Bull Fecal-matter from the Anti- Homomeopathist that Homeopathy is unscientific.
Bob Needham HBSc. DHM.
Homeopathic Practitioner
“ Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past”
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