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Allopathycoined by Hahnemann and used derisively by modern homeopaths, but benignly by the people it defines, it encompasses the non-homeopathic medical practices. |
With standard medical science or allopathy operating on a global basis turning out unending ranks of medical professionals, there is still a need to have a confident guidepost for what constitutes a cure. In the last few decades the guide has been industrial statistical control which improves manufacturing processes and brings a management system to the managed care health industry. But, in lowering the likelihood of disease in public care and in the knowledge of chances that a condition will be cured, we have allowed for a dual definition of what constitutes cure.
Cure is that process that brings about biological harmony. But it can also be disguised as a temporary harmony that has been brought about by removing the ability of the organism to display or create that indicator of unease we identify with the disease. This is what is called the suppression of the symptoms. If a disease produces warts and we surgically remove the warts, the disease is still active even though we remove the evidence of it. Likewise, banning the publication of newspapers will not affect the occurrence of newsworthy events.
In homeopathic philosophy, it is the removal of disease symptoms that frustrates the disease and provokes it to displace its evidence of disease to a new, more serious, location. At the turn of the century, James Tyler Kent stated that if we continue to treat skin diseases without homeopathy the human race will cease to exist. He saw that the skin was a great drain of bodily poisons and would keep the body from experiencing greater disease.
More recently, people have focused on the cause for newer immuno-deficient disorders as the suppression of past illnesses. One of the attractive areas for suppression theories has been AIDS. In 1984, virologist Dr. Robert Gallo claimed to have discovered HIV which caused AIDS. He was convicted of science fraud by the Office of Research Integrity in 1992 for that claim and it opened the doors for much speculation. Dr. Gallo also had to retract claims in the 1970s that he had identified the first human retrovirus (the same virus family that HIV allegedly hails from) while researching leukemia, after independent experiments failed to replicate or verify his discovery.
In homeopathic circles, Harris Coulter thought in 1997 that the use of penicillin in suppressing syphilis has wrought a plague of AIDS on us as a new deeper illness. His book on the subject is out of print.
