2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.
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>>1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
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>>1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
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>>1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
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>>1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
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>>2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.

I like it!!! How true!

I like it a lot, too. Thanks for posting it.

Ben let us not forget the time factor with the healing practitioner:
2000 BC- You need a ritual it will take 5 days
1000 AD- You need to pray the rosary that will take 5 days.
1850 AD take this potion (calomel) and if you are still alive call me in five days.
1940 AD take this pill and I will see you in five hours when I do house calls.
1985 AD you belong to an HMO you have 5 min.
2000 AD It takes 1 hour to take the case and 5 to repertorize the case.

Now what do we deduce from that? Progress or decline? However after the 6 hours and one pillule there is CURE!!

Exactly!! Always the optimist I can only hope for progress. Can we go on in our current paridigm?

Sure, the current paradigm is that it should take you an hour to take the case and 5 more to find the remedy. I suggest you have not evaluated the symptoms properly and given everything the same consideration, which you have been taught to do. But when a person walks in the door, the way he walks, greets and sits down afterwards can tell you the whole case at a glance. So to save yourself time, you need to learn the essence of a case. What is the main complaint - and that could easily become a secondary considereation - and what are the salient features about this person. And the paersonality leads you to the remedy very fast. You may have seen my post on Actea racemosa and seen that I say things you do not find in books - you find it in the characters of the remedies and the people. So the Sulphur is the 'mad genius' -if often only in his own eyes - and the phosphorus is the clown, the irresponsible narr, who jokes anout everything. Staph is the resentful person and you may know a lot more of such generalisations. But after some time, you begin to recognise the different types and you see the underlying constitution - or at least the layer underneath. That is when you notice that homoeoapthy is actually very easy. But it does not become easy, till you master case taking and recognition of peronality types - i.e. between 5 to 10 years and if you have the talent of the artist.

Ben
Thanks for the input. Much ado...Like your piece which I found very clever, I hoped to make a tongue and cheek comment on the history, anthropolgy and sociology of medicine. Granted ones first cases (when learning) takes a long time as they entail much repertorizing to learn the methods, formats and to learn the materia medica etc.
I was only offering a comparative look (although over stated) at the time and attention that a hmeopath must spend with a patient compared to an allopathic physician in an HMO who can spend only 5 min with a patient.

Perhaps another forum should be created for stories, humorous anecdotes, quips and jokes.
Most pictures I have seen of Hahnemann he had a smile.

Yes, homoeopathy does not need viagra to stand up to scrutiny