There are three cavities in the body containing organs the first one being the head the most noble one because in protects the capital of the man. It is of course his capital his millions of dollars which are there it is his friend, his intelligence and his work. It is very thick. It has only small apertures, as in a bank, you know, one or two windows. The second one is the chest. It is made of flesh and bone. You can look through it, you can see through as in a jail. This contains the heart the lungs, and the abdomen organs, the thymus and so on. The third one is the abdomen. It has no walls and has nothing before that. It has only muscles, but no bones to protect. Here only on one side it is protected. With an umbrella you can pierce it if you like. So this is the third one.
And what is interesting? The first one contains the brain which is working at our will. We can do what we like. This is ours to command. But here in the chest, we cannot command very much we can breathe more quickly we can breathe more slowly but we cannot stop breathing for 20 hours. And the heart you can to make it work more quickly but you cannot command your heart like your will. So there the commands are not so important. But here in the abdomen you can command nothing. Here every organ works by itself while you sleep, like the regulation of the temperature which keeps you at 37 degree C., the organs responsible for digestion for urination etc. everything goes on working without our will.
Now the Lord arranges everything in such a way that every part of the body reveals also the total every small part reveals the whole. The face, for example, can be divided into three different parts: the eyes and the part above it, the part between the eyes and the lips and the part above it the part between the eyes and the lips and the part below that. Here in the first part, you have the eye and the forehead. When you are angry, you frown (the forehead furrows) So also, with your eyes. You can face somebody and fire somebody, or you can make sweet-eyes (winking), you know. Now these are all connected with the brain.
Then in the second part, there is the nose. In serious diseases, the nose is flapping for example in the lung disease. Or with the heart disease, you can see a little telangiectasis or blue vessels visible on the side of the nose.
And the third one is the mouth. And the mouth and the lips can say many things. Big bulding lips express people who are very greedy for eating good eating also for love, because you kiss with the lips. This corresponds to the genital parts. Only by looking at the face, you may know everything in the body.
There are people who by looking at the hands or at the nails can tell you everything and some of them by the form of teeth. They can tell you everything from the skull. One of my pupils had discovered that the ear is the inverse of the foetus and that there you have the vertebral column above, and below that the eyes and the nose, then you have skin. There you have the geographical map of the whole body in the ear, and by touching certain points with the needle sometimes you can cure things at once.
Ladies who have always tiresome backaches, who always have a pain there, just touch near the corner of the ear there, very near point 4 of 5 and 2, and when you touch it, the pain which they have had for 4 or 5 weeks sometimes disappears. Now they have no pains In 10 seconds the pain has gone. Repeat after 8 days, sometimes not. It is amazing but I have not the time today to speak to you about the marvellous method of acupuncture.
Now I told you listen, observe write. After this comes examination. Examine the patient carefully. Examine your patient with all the modern ways, with most modern methods. For what purpose, Of course you may say for diagnosis if you like to please yourself. But in reality this is very important for you, for your homoeopathic diagnosis.
At kent says, when you write down the symptoms divide your page into two parts, you write your pathognomonic symptoms and in the other there, your non-pathognomonic symptoms. When a man comes with cough and says there is a pain there when he coughs, with sputum, with sputum which is yellow, anything about the cough you write it here. But when he tells you, for example there is a chill in his left leg when he is coughing or that he has any curious symptom that you do not know why he has it, we put it there on the other side, on the non-pathognomonic side.
Now I remember the story of Dr. Charette. He wrote a very interesting book, “What is Homoeopathy?” If you have not read it, you should read this because it is very amusing and full of funny things. but what is interesting? One day a doctor came to him and told him, “You know, I have been treated for three months. I have a terrible vertigo, a very curious giddiness every time I read and you know I cannot read any book any book, I cannot read any paper. I am very cross.
I went to the specialists who put me put me on the whirling chair and tried to find out what is wrong with me. They could not diagnose what is the disease. They looked into my ears. They looked into my throat. They found nothing. They gave me massage they gave me electricity but you know I still have the vertigo. What to do? And now it is so simple for a homoeopath. If a remedy has ever produced giddiness while reading. you can cure this patient. Now sometimes, I feel you can make the diagnosis of th disease also by knowing the remedy and you can know the other symptoms. So Dr. S. tried to do something which is sometimes tedious but he said, “I am sure this in this is in the materia medica”.
He did not know anything about it but he tried to put this affirmation. “But when and where, I do not know, I will search and i will read all of Hahnemann’s materia medica from beginning to to end until I find the remedy for this vertigo.” The physician thought it was a very nice way of course. If it had been in the letter “S” it would have taken many months. But you know the Lord is so marvellous and kind, it was in the letter `A’ Otherwise it could have been Aconite, Agnus castus, or Ailanthus glandulosa, Allium cepa or Ammonium carbonicum or something like that. It was at the end of the letter `A’ and by turning the pages it took something like seven hours for Dr. S.
The remedy was Arnica but when you find Arnica for a case with a curious symptom like that you think there must be traumatism. He asked his patient. “Have you ever had any trouble something like an accident?. “No no, never” But when he persisted “Do you ever remember having had an accident?, he said, `Yes One day I was asked early in the morning to see an emergency case. I did not have my car. I took a taxi and I told him to go quickly, jaldhi 3 to the place and you know I went to the car and we came into a road where there was a little depression, and so I bumped my head against the top of the vehicle. And since that time I have vertigo’ So homoeopathy knows when you have vertigo and it corresponds to Arnica you must have had traumatism.
It is curious that you can thus make the diagnosis and have the remedy. But you know it would have been easier if the doctor would have known the use of the repertory. If you take vertigo and search under the rubric you will find `vertigo aggravated by reading’ There are many remedies here. But what is interesting? There is only one remedy which has Vertigo on reading a long time and that remedy is Arnica. There are other remedies for other kinds of reading e.g. reading there is still another remedy. You know you are learning a lot of things b studying the repertory. So everybody must possess a repertory besides the Organs, besides his materia medica and besides he will have his memory in the first cavity (head), you know so that you will be able to find the remedy very quickly.
So much about the value of symptoms. Now examine your patient thoroughly. You of course, know what are the symptoms which are pathognomonic. Do not take them into consideration first. Take them last. If the patient has pain in the knee, pain in the eye, pain or trouble in the right arm, don’t care about it. You don’t throw it away, no. But set it aside simply. And if he has any symptoms which are funny, like the symptoms of the nose, like the symptoms of giddiness, funny symptoms of course these you must take into consideration first.
You put down and you begin to study first your non-pathognomonic symptoms; and your best cures will always be down with the non-pathognomonic symptoms. Now, if you have very few symptoms you must take what is available, then you must take the pathognomonic symptoms. But the more you can take care of those others (non-pathognomonic) the better will be the cure. Forget the disease, see the patient, see the symptoms which he predicated of himself. These will help you to find the right remedy better than anything else.
Now comes the time, you must co-ordinate. the fifth stage is co-ordination. This is the stage to co-ordinate the symptoms, to establish the value of symptoms, to weight. It is a question of quantity for the allopath while for the homoeopath it is a question of quality because homoeopathy is a method of quality. Now when you have symptoms what are the types of symptoms that are most important? It is not the question of taking down all the symptoms of the patient, page after page As Dr. Weir has very well said, “Take the minimum symptoms of maximum importance” What are the symptoms that are most important? There are exactly five categories of symptoms. If you remember this, and if you take care of this, you will make beautiful cures.
Dr. Schmidt was introduced to the results of homeopathic treatment during the 1918 flu epidemic while living in London. There he met both J. H. Clarke and John Weir.
In 1922 he came to the United States and began his studies with Alonzo Austin and Frederica Gladwin, who had been a pupil of Kent's. He became the first graduate of the American Foundation for Homeopathy course for doctors. Returning to his native land he set up practice in Geneva, Switzerland. He was responsible for reintroducing classical homeopathy into Europe, teaching several generations of physicians, including Elizabeth Wright Hubbard.
Dr. Schmidt helped edit the "Final General Repertory" of Kent, and translated the Organon into French. In 1925, he was one of the main founders of the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathic Internationalis (LIGA).