There's A Certain Magic In The Minimum Dose

It is imperative for any homeopathic doctor to pay attention even to the smallest detail. This quantifies their professional purpose for a higher result — to being able to cure our patients of their ills according to the homeopathic rule, in word and deed... and unleashing healing with the magical minimum, or less is more, dose too.

- Dr Dorothy Shepherd

The door of my consulting room opened gently, and on lifting my head I saw a gun pointing at me. I ducked my head and, no, it was not somebody after my hard-earned shekels. I saw the grinning face of a mischievous little imp of a boy friend of mine peering above the toy gun. I fully entered into the game and pretended to be alarmed, while he made the pretence of firing at me the whole time his mother was talking to me. What a difference in this boy of four, I thought, in the last six months. He would, thereafter, hide his face and not look at either friend, or foe; a doctor was anathema to him, not a word could be got out of him; certainly, I should never have expected him to ask me to play with him.

His medical history is very interesting. About eighteen months ago his mother brought him just after an attack of some childish infectious disease which confined him in a fever hospital for six months. I fancy it was diphtheria, followed by scarlet fever, or the other way about, no matter. Anyway her own general practitioner had alarmed her by enumerating all the evil complications he might have as the result of all this, heart and kidney disease, and goodness knows what else.

His father was not best pleased about trusting his one and only precious son to the mercy of a mere woman. His mother prevailed, however, and father now sings quite a different song.