03/04/2024
Homeopathy in History...
In 1850, Dr. Carroll Dunham, a College of Physicians and Surgeons graduate in New York City, was known among his peers to have an exceptionally brilliant mind.
He developed a dissection wound while assisting in the autopsy of a woman who had died of puerperal peritonitis.
He wrote, “Within a week, the finger had quadrupled in size, the hand and forearm were much swollen and edematous, a hard red line extended from the wrist to the axilla. The axillary glands were swollen. The arm and hand were intensely painful; the whole left side was partially paralyzed. The constitutional symptoms were extreme prostration, causing the disease to be at first mistaken with typhus, low muttering delirium at night, marked aggravation of suffering, and prostration on awaking from sleep. The general condition grew steadily worse—abscesses forming under the deep fibrous tissues of the finger and hand. The allopathic surgeons in attendance advised calomel and o***m and gave a very discouraging prognosis.”
“The patient refused to take any drugs whatever, determining to trust the issue of the case to homeopathy. Lachesis twelfth was taken thrice daily for five days, at the end of which period the constitutional symptoms had substantially vanished. The recovery of the finger was slow but complete. The effect of the Lachesis could not be mistaken by the patient.”
Dunham was smitten by the event, which led him to investigate the principles of homeopathy. He soon became convinced of the extraordinary power of homeopathy and dedicated the rest of his professional life to it.
