New York Homeopathic College to Conduct Important Experiments
With thanks to the New York Times 8.5.1904
In a rather ambitious undertaking to attempt the revision of the entire standard of drug action, involving the re-proving by the finest scientific tests of almost the whole pharmacopeia, but this is what the New York Homeopathic College has planned, and, with the assistance of similar institutions throughout the United States and prominent homeopaths of this city, it believes it will successfully accomplish.
The work which the College has mapped out for itself means much to the medical world. Its achievements will mean a distinct step forward, and great good will come to the people through homeopath and allopath alike, if indeed such divisions in the army of medical practitioners has a more than miminal existence, should even partial success be scored.
The present standard of drug action is based upon experiments conducted more than a century ago by Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy. The tests he made have been supplemented since by the work of Durban, Hering, Hale, Lippe and Allen and men of their stamp, assisted by progressive physicians in clinics, hospitals and private practice.
Little by little the standard of drug action, which has been used as a basis for modern practice, has been built up to its present proportion, but there is unlimited room for improvement, and the realisation in general in the medical profession that a systematic series of tests will now result in a standard of accuracy which could not have been even remotely approached two dozen years ago, when bacteriology was comparatively speaking in its infancy, and physiological chemistry was hampered by the lack of appliances for observation and precision which mean so much today…. continue reading:
