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Abstract

Paterson demonstrated that drugs homœopathic to a patient can induce a mutation of E Coli to non lactose fermenters associated with clinical relief, after a latent period of 10 to 14 days. This change may last from a few days to many months.

He was the first to provide experimental evidence of the effectiveness of the homœopathic remedies. (An altered diet may change the flora, but this is only for the duration of the diet.) A definite relationship was demonstrated between homœopathic remedies, non-lactose fermenting organisms and clinical syndrome.

It is ironic that this clinico-pathological hypothesis, which is now being confirmed, has been so neglected by his homœopathic colleagues. I have attempted to show that so far it provides the only rational grounds for the management of our present-day difficult clinical problems.

It is time that homœopathic physicians and bacteriologists combined to review his work.

May I remind you that to date homœopathy provides the sole solution to the two pharmacological barriers to the cure of patients—toxic side effects and tolerance?

^* A paper read to the 40th IHML Congress at Lyon in May 1985.