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Australian Medical Faculty of Hommopathy, Taylor is mentioned, with news of various prowritten by Dr Eric Asher. There are four other jects in progress, including a survey of 500 docarticles, and the most thought-provoking of tors' attitudes to what kind of evidence they them is 'The Miasms', by Dr Eric Asher, in require before accepting any complementary which he discusses the correlation between the technique. four immunological reaction types and the four Newsletter 16 of the Research Council for major classical miasms. Complementary Medicine The second issue contains two well-docu(pages not numbered) mented case reports; the'first is by Dr Jon Allan, concerning a woman complaining of loss of Recent provings in India libido, which was restored by Sepia 200, and the Seven proving trials were made at various places second is by Dr Lorna Scott, describing a patient in India; of Aegle folia, Aranea diadema, suffering from menopausal flushes and flooding, Boerhavvia diffusa, Hydrocotyl asiatica, cured by Lachesis 30c. The main article is 'The Mygale, Tarentula cubensis and Tarentula great energy debate' by Dr Bevan Reid--17 hispanica. pages of learned discussion, evidence of wide The last remedy produced about 150 sympreading and deep thinking. toms, with no indication as to which were more The third issue contains 17 case reports, the frequent and important. It is difficult to see how successes of Dr Catherine Berry and Dr Trisha such long lists can be clinically helpful. But the Richardson, both relatively new to the practice method of conducting the trials is clearly of homeeopathy. described in the foreword. The fourth issue is devoted to three learned Quarterly Bulletin of the Council for Research on papers mainly concerned with Jung, psychic Homoeopathy (New Delhi) 9:48 23. energy, archetypes, energy fields, quantum theory, the structure of space and the vortex Phytolacca and Bryonia for mastitis theory. They are written by Craig San Roque, Roland Venthuyne of Belgium has written a valDr Glynis Johns, and Dr Bevan Reid, and are uable article for vets, concerning the treatment perhaps best described as high-powered scien- 96f mastitis in cows, with four pages of signs, tific philosphy. followed by a huge list of 197 remedies in a The fifth issue is mainly concerned with com- repertorizing table which covers four p a g e s - puter repertorization, but also has a short article evidence of a great deal of careful work. on isotherapy with potentized blood, written by International Journal for Veterinary Dr Jon Allan, reviewing the work of Dr Hedwig Homceopathy; 3:31-42 Imh/iuser of West Germany. (This would seem to be an improvement on simple auto- Caulophyllum haemotherapy, using the patient's own blood This is the one-word title of a paper read by Dr without potentization.) Med. Vet. B. Czernicki at the first International Australian Journal of Homoeopathy, Symposium on Veterinary Hom~eopathy at 1, nos. 1-4, and 2, no. 1 Oxford in September 1987. He confirmed that Caulophyllum works well in pregnancy and in Dr James Tyler Kent labour for horses, sheep and dogs. D. M. DOSE A N D S U K H W A N T SINGH International Journal for Veterinary A five-page biography of Dr Kent is followed by Homoeopathy; 2:43-50 five short articles. The first is entitled 'The higher use of primary branches in medical edu- Arthritis responds to hom~eopathy cation' and contains the rash statement and Bertha Zolun relates her story of finding a way of question 'Hommopathicians abort all acute dis- controlling her arthritis by hommopathy and by eases--what do others achieve?' The other diet. Rhus tox. was the first remedy, followed by articles concern the indications for Sepia, and Psorinum. She writes in a lively narrative style. Abrotanus, head injuries, and the use of Natrum Homoeopathy Today sulph. (Washington D.C.) 6 : 3 Homoeopathic Heritage, 13: 95-118. The Law of Similars The Research Methodology Fellowship Four short essays on the basic law, by Jonathan The work of Dr David Taylor Reilly and Morag Shore MD, Randall Neustaedter CA, Harris