Homeopathy and Mendeleef's Law
Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 12:38 am
In response to Will Taylor's commentary on Kent's speculative symptomatology of Nat. ars., according to Clarke, Nat ars "has been very extensively proved, notably by Imbert Gourbeyre."
But nevertheless, I must say this revelation of Kent's lack of transparency hits a note with me. I'm not willing to defenestrate him For no previous particular reason other than the white lab coat of Nemesis, I have had not much interest in Kent as a resource; but now, due to the revelation of his semiological speculation, I can see possibly why; he's a bit of a drama queen.
It has puzzled me as to why he seems to be preferred over Clarke, just as it puzzles me why his dire warnings of the use of ultra high potencies has spared them; he says they can kill you!
But . .regarding the assertion of Scholten's speculation on the unproven therapeutic action of an element, there is actually a formula for predicting it's action, for it is not exactly speculation when there is a demonstrable formula involved. Copeland reveals that the clinical action of the elements on the periodic table actually follow their cognate group.
Homeopathy and Mendeleef's Law.
"The homeopathist, scientific in all his methods, is particularly exacting regarding the admission to the materia medica of new drugs having alleged value in the relief of disease. Before a remedy becomes canonical its effects are thoroughly proven upon healthy subjects. Many drugs, accepted as efficacious by the homeopathists, are considered harmless and inert by many of the dominant profession. Sodium chloride, for instance, has long been pointed to as an example of the misplaced confidence of our profession in the possible action of a chemical, usually considered inert in the ordinary dosage. Other substances, especially of the inorganic world, have been pointed to as therapeutically ineffectual and useless. We have already mentioned the concessions made regarding some of the metals, Robin's testimony especially; but it may not be out of place to consider somewhat in detail this criticism of homeopathic practice.
"It has long seemed to me that if there be any virtue in the infinitesimal dose, the practice, if not the crux, of our doctrine, the provings made with diluted drugs ought to respond to and be governed by the same laws that control the chemical reactions and properties of the same substances. A hundred years ago Hahnemann, an expert chemist himself, called attention to what chemistry had already done, and to what it might thereafter effect for therapeutics. In considering the relations of the chemical properties of drugs to their dynamic effects we are, then, in a field somewhat explored by our founder. Mendeleef, however, had not yet formulated his law, and chemistry, indeed, was yet too crude a science to permit of advanced conclusions. It must be admitted by the student of modern science that homeopathy responds well to the rules of the chemical laboratory. Certainly, it is interesting, to say the least, to observe the remarkable parallelism existing between the therapeutic, the homeopathic value of a given drug, one of the elements particularly, and the chemical properties of the same substance. Not all the known elements have been proven, but such as have been verify this theory. Take. for instance, calcium, strontium, and barium. In their provings, as well as in their chemical properties, they are remarkably similar. They look alike, act alike, and are alike in their variations. The same may be said of chlorine, bromine, and iodine, or of sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
"If the mean of the atomic weights of the first and third elements in either of these groups, or in any other group, be taken, the approximate atomic weight of the middle one is obtained. Sulphur, for instance, has an atomic weight of 32. I, tellurium 127.5. The mean, therefore, is 79.8, corresponding almost exactly to the atomic weight of selenium 79.2. This discovery led to the formulation of the so-called "periodic law," stumbled upon almost simultaneously by the Russian, Mendeleef, and the German, Meyer. So long ago as 1863, John Newlands pointed out that if the elements be tabulated in the order of their atomic weights, beginning with hydrogen = 1 and ending with uranium = 240, they naturally fall into such groups that elements similar to one another in chemical behavior occur in the same column; and that, moreover, the number of elements between anyone and the next similar one is seven. In other words, to quote Duncan. “Members of the same groups stand to one another in the same relation as the extremities of one or more octaves in music! This leads us to think that not only may there be a relation between these little fundamentals of the universe, but a veritable harmony.
"Briefly and technically, the law states that "the properties of an element are a periodic function of its atomic weight." This statement formulates an extraordinary fact. To quote Duncan again, it means no more nor less than this: "That if you know the weight of the atom of the element, you may know, if you like, its properties, for they are fixed. Just as the pendulum returns again in its swing, just as the moon returns in its orbit, just as the advancing year brings the rose of spring, so do the properties of the elements periodically recur as the weights of the atoms rise. To demonstrate this fact, take some one specific property, for example, the atomic volume, which is the atomic weight divided by the specific gravity of the solid element. and arrange a table on a piece of engineering paper, in which the atomic weights read from left to right (the abscissas), while the atomic volumes read from bottom to top (the ordinates). Now construct a curve by pricking out the position of the different elements in accordance with both their atomic: volumes and atomic weights, and you will find yourself in possession of a table such as Figure 1. "
From The Scientific Reasonableness of Homeopathy by Royal S. Copeland, A.M., M.D. http://www.homeowatch.org/history/copeland.html
Copeland was the Dean of the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital
Formerly Professor in the University of Michigan
Late President, American Institute of Homeopathy.
Reprinted from The Chironian
May 1909
I think this is quite remarkable and of greater importance considering that it comes from a man who later went on to become the Chief Sponsor of the FDA. - John Benneth
In a message dated 5/22/2015 1:09:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, minutus@yahoogroups.com writes:
John Benneth, Homoeopath
PG Hom - London (Hons.)
http://johnbenneth.com
SKYPE: John Benneth (Portland, Oregon)
503- 819 - 7777 (USA)
But nevertheless, I must say this revelation of Kent's lack of transparency hits a note with me. I'm not willing to defenestrate him For no previous particular reason other than the white lab coat of Nemesis, I have had not much interest in Kent as a resource; but now, due to the revelation of his semiological speculation, I can see possibly why; he's a bit of a drama queen.
It has puzzled me as to why he seems to be preferred over Clarke, just as it puzzles me why his dire warnings of the use of ultra high potencies has spared them; he says they can kill you!
But . .regarding the assertion of Scholten's speculation on the unproven therapeutic action of an element, there is actually a formula for predicting it's action, for it is not exactly speculation when there is a demonstrable formula involved. Copeland reveals that the clinical action of the elements on the periodic table actually follow their cognate group.
Homeopathy and Mendeleef's Law.
"The homeopathist, scientific in all his methods, is particularly exacting regarding the admission to the materia medica of new drugs having alleged value in the relief of disease. Before a remedy becomes canonical its effects are thoroughly proven upon healthy subjects. Many drugs, accepted as efficacious by the homeopathists, are considered harmless and inert by many of the dominant profession. Sodium chloride, for instance, has long been pointed to as an example of the misplaced confidence of our profession in the possible action of a chemical, usually considered inert in the ordinary dosage. Other substances, especially of the inorganic world, have been pointed to as therapeutically ineffectual and useless. We have already mentioned the concessions made regarding some of the metals, Robin's testimony especially; but it may not be out of place to consider somewhat in detail this criticism of homeopathic practice.
"It has long seemed to me that if there be any virtue in the infinitesimal dose, the practice, if not the crux, of our doctrine, the provings made with diluted drugs ought to respond to and be governed by the same laws that control the chemical reactions and properties of the same substances. A hundred years ago Hahnemann, an expert chemist himself, called attention to what chemistry had already done, and to what it might thereafter effect for therapeutics. In considering the relations of the chemical properties of drugs to their dynamic effects we are, then, in a field somewhat explored by our founder. Mendeleef, however, had not yet formulated his law, and chemistry, indeed, was yet too crude a science to permit of advanced conclusions. It must be admitted by the student of modern science that homeopathy responds well to the rules of the chemical laboratory. Certainly, it is interesting, to say the least, to observe the remarkable parallelism existing between the therapeutic, the homeopathic value of a given drug, one of the elements particularly, and the chemical properties of the same substance. Not all the known elements have been proven, but such as have been verify this theory. Take. for instance, calcium, strontium, and barium. In their provings, as well as in their chemical properties, they are remarkably similar. They look alike, act alike, and are alike in their variations. The same may be said of chlorine, bromine, and iodine, or of sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
"If the mean of the atomic weights of the first and third elements in either of these groups, or in any other group, be taken, the approximate atomic weight of the middle one is obtained. Sulphur, for instance, has an atomic weight of 32. I, tellurium 127.5. The mean, therefore, is 79.8, corresponding almost exactly to the atomic weight of selenium 79.2. This discovery led to the formulation of the so-called "periodic law," stumbled upon almost simultaneously by the Russian, Mendeleef, and the German, Meyer. So long ago as 1863, John Newlands pointed out that if the elements be tabulated in the order of their atomic weights, beginning with hydrogen = 1 and ending with uranium = 240, they naturally fall into such groups that elements similar to one another in chemical behavior occur in the same column; and that, moreover, the number of elements between anyone and the next similar one is seven. In other words, to quote Duncan. “Members of the same groups stand to one another in the same relation as the extremities of one or more octaves in music! This leads us to think that not only may there be a relation between these little fundamentals of the universe, but a veritable harmony.
"Briefly and technically, the law states that "the properties of an element are a periodic function of its atomic weight." This statement formulates an extraordinary fact. To quote Duncan again, it means no more nor less than this: "That if you know the weight of the atom of the element, you may know, if you like, its properties, for they are fixed. Just as the pendulum returns again in its swing, just as the moon returns in its orbit, just as the advancing year brings the rose of spring, so do the properties of the elements periodically recur as the weights of the atoms rise. To demonstrate this fact, take some one specific property, for example, the atomic volume, which is the atomic weight divided by the specific gravity of the solid element. and arrange a table on a piece of engineering paper, in which the atomic weights read from left to right (the abscissas), while the atomic volumes read from bottom to top (the ordinates). Now construct a curve by pricking out the position of the different elements in accordance with both their atomic: volumes and atomic weights, and you will find yourself in possession of a table such as Figure 1. "
From The Scientific Reasonableness of Homeopathy by Royal S. Copeland, A.M., M.D. http://www.homeowatch.org/history/copeland.html
Copeland was the Dean of the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital
Formerly Professor in the University of Michigan
Late President, American Institute of Homeopathy.
Reprinted from The Chironian
May 1909
I think this is quite remarkable and of greater importance considering that it comes from a man who later went on to become the Chief Sponsor of the FDA. - John Benneth
In a message dated 5/22/2015 1:09:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, minutus@yahoogroups.com writes:
John Benneth, Homoeopath
PG Hom - London (Hons.)
http://johnbenneth.com
SKYPE: John Benneth (Portland, Oregon)
503- 819 - 7777 (USA)