Vol. 1 No. 1 March 1978 (the first issue of Homoeopathica)
“The name comes from two Greek words HOMOEOS = similar and PATHOS = suffering. Homoeopathy… is a system of drug therapeutics elaborated by Dr. Samuel Christian Hahnemann (1755-1843) who was born at Meissen in Germany. The principle of Similima Similibus Curentur or ‘Like Cures Like’ is a very old one and was noticed by Hippocrates, but it was left to Hahnemann to develop it with German tenacity, by testing more than a hundred remedies on himself.”
“Homoeopathy” an introductory guide by Dr. A. C. Gordon Ross.
“Homoeopathy is based on the discovery that if a drug or other agent is introduced into a healthy body and causes certain symptoms, the same agent, prepared in a special manner, can call forth a curative response in illness characterised by similar symptoms. It does so, not by interference, but by reinforcement of natural cure.”
British Homoeopathic Journal May 1977 p 46 “Homoeopathy, Rational Medicine.” by Dr. Douglas M. Gibson. See also other issues of this journal.
“The key note of successful treatment is individualisation, and this homoeopathy insists upon, treating, not the symptoms as has been wrongly asserted, but the patient through his symptoms. The symptoms upon which the homoeopathic prescription is based are not (or as little as possible) the symptoms of the disease, but the symptoms manifested by that particular patient in his expression of the disease.”
“Essentials of Homoeopathic Prescribing” Dr. H. Fergie Woods,
“Throughout the history of medicine there is a tendency to treat diseases by methods which were applied to people en masse. Hahnemann’s homoeopathic principle is to treat the individual in order to bring the whole man back to his true state of health.”
“The Patient, Not the Cure.” Dr. Margery G. Blackie.
“In order to make such therapy possible, it is imperative that innumerable drugs should be fully tested as to their subversive powers and their pathogeneses registered. Such “Provings”, carefully conducted and faithfully recorded, form the MATERIA MEDICA PURE of Hahnemann, who thus made the law Similima Similibus Curentur practical and in the long years of patient investigation, established also its corollaries. Time has added, and adds, invaluable drugs to
our wealth of available data. But not one jot or tittle had to be superseded, for this reason: that Hahnemann dealt with, and taught us to deal with FACTS - “facts simply expressed in the changeless language of nature” - and FACTS ARE FOR ALL TIME.”
Homoeopathy arrived a full hundred years before its time. It was then completely revolutionary and met with fierce opposition. But its unanswerable appeal was to RESULTS, and those who had once witnessed its amazing powers of relief in sickness and pain, had perforce to adopt it in their practice . Homoeopathy , being POWER, has survived. But it is only in our day that science is demonstrating its absolute reasonableness, and showing that it is not only up to date, but that it has always been before-date.”
“Homoeopathic Drug Pictures.” Dr. M. I. Tyler.
These books are all obtainable through the N.Z. Homoeopathic Society.