New articles on the history of homeopathy

[Julian Winston]

At 8:51 AM -0800 1/23/04, Dana Ullman, MPH wrote:

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I must VIGOROUSLY protest!
Albert Abrams was as much of a homeopath as the rock in my front yard is!
Abrams did not even establish any relationship (however minimal) to
homeopathy until 1922 or 1923. His "black box" was not designed until
the early 1920s.
Abrams was responsible for the creation of the Oscilloclast-- one of
the first radionic diagnostic devices.
His ONLY connection with homeopathy is that he was demonstrating how
his machine can detect the "vibratory rate" of drugs, and was
impressed when he found that a bottle of potentized remedy reacted
stronger than a crude dose of the same.
See page 249 of my book "Faces of Homeopathy." The June 1923 issue of
"Jottings" from Boericke and Tafel covered the issue.
Being able to measure the vibratory rate of homeopathic remedies and
even deciding that there might be therapeutic value in them does NOT
make one a *Homeopath.*
For me to accept that Abrams *was* a homeopath I'd have to see cases
where he prescribed the remedies *based upon the simillimum*-- not
where he determined their vibratory rate matched that of a patient
with his "machine."
I personally doubt you can find an example of the former or even an
example of the latter directly from Abrams.
Homeopathy has to do with symptom similarity. It is inherent IN THE WORD.
The use of a radionic machine for diagnosing and the use of
potentized substances is the practice of RADIONICS *not* homeopathy.
Don't give Abrams credit for what he was not.

Please Dana!

Get your stuff straight.
A little more fact, and a little less enthusiasm.

JW