Preface:
The purpose of this book is to clear away the mists of doubt that surround natural medicine. The allopathic system has utterly failed to recognize the limitation of patent chemical medicines, the catalogue of death and damage from side effects is evidence enough for orthodox medical practitioners to find a better way.
The winter of 1941/2 brought on an attack of tonsillitis, and like the previous five years I intended to gargle with T.C.P. or Dettol. On this occasion I had returned to R.A.F. Watnall on a Sunday night to discover I had no antiseptic. I asked the duty medical orderly for some and he flatly refused. I reported sick the following morning and the young doctor had me committed to Basford Isolation Hospital with suspected diphtheria. He thought he knew more about my body function that I did. The swabs taken at the hospital were all negative, and I was discharged a few weeks later.
This experience destroyed any faith I had in allopathy. I knew there was a better way and proceeded to study herbalism.
Three years later I was stationed at Habbaniya a R.A.F. Station in the Iraqi desert, fifty miles from Bagdad. The story of two airmen that died after reporting sick, (they were unable to sweat) spread around the camp. One was a corporal with a wife and two children in U.K. both young men. The heat during the day and the cold nights in the desert are hazardous, but I was disturbed.
My suspicions about the limits of orthodox medical practice persisted, natural medicine is used worldwide.
At the time of my mother's death in 1952 I had been studying Homoeopathy for the two previous years. She was 73 and suffered a heart attack that left her in a coma. The local G.P. said he could do nothing, she died a week later without medicine or food. My brother had a heart attack on January 5th 1983 that left him paralyzed on the right side, he pushed himself out of bed for relief, but was forced back into bed. I was refused permission to help. This was a typical picture of Bothrops (Venom of the Yellow Viper) used to treathemiplegic with aphasia successfully. I was told ten days later he had died, apparently without treatment from his G.P. or a colleague who was called in. I am amazed that no effort is made to relieve such conditions. The sole fact that doctors have so little knowledge of snake venom is no excuse. No Homoeopath worth the name has failed to make good use of these remarkable drugs in heart affections and thrombosis. The late Gordon ROSS M. D has said many times "Why wont they try"? The "they" referring to his allopathic colleagues. But he is not alone, there are homoeopathic doctors who most certainly share his view.
The death of my brother and the circumstances displays the public's blind faith in medicine, and fosters the growth in alternative therapies along parallel lines. Surely medicine practitioners should be cooperating with each other to provide the best treatment for the community, whatever the source.
A few weeks after my brother's funeral I called on my mother's sister who lived near Cambridge. I said "Fred has died, remember he was 81". She replied "Fancy that, so young"! My aunt was 102 years of age at the time, she survived her sisters who died at the ages of 100,97,95,93 and passed away in 1986 at the age of 105. You can therefore understand why she said my brother was "so young" to die at 81.
I firmly believe there is much more we could do to relieve the suffering of senior citizens. I have been committed to the study and practice of Homoeopathy for the past 40 years, there is still much to learn. All the patients cases quoted in this book are still alive at this time, and free from pain. They live in places as far apart as Norway and Gibraltar with others in France and Belgium.
I have used repetition as a means of emphasis throughout.