Excerpt from In Defense of the Attenuated Drug
At the outset, I must confess that such attenuation as actually removes the physical presence of the drug does not appeal to me as capable of having any possible remedial effect. I am not prepared to say whether the actual presence ceases at the thirtieth, the two hundreth, the five hundred thousandth, the millionth potency, or at a point more remote. Of the value of such dilutions, clinical testimony alone is in evidence, and, at best, that is more or less unreliable. Future generations, possessing more exact knowledge, will know more of this subject. I do believe, however, that drugs attenuated far beyond the demonstrable divisibility of fifteen years ago have an action, which I hope to prove is more effective than the action of drugs prescribed in more concentrated form.
In order to discuss this question with any degree of intelligence, we must establish some cardinal propositions. Some conclusions may thus be reached which are true or not according to the reliability of the original statements. These propositions place the whole theory of disease and therapeutics upon a chemical foundation.
To the Hom?opathist, there is a measure of satisfaction in the prevalent trend of thought in the dominant school, and in the scientific world at large. The work of Ehrlich, of Arrhenius, of Ostwald, and of others, has caused us to read Hahnemann"s views with renewed interest.
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