Curability of Cataract with Medicines

Heritage

The first of a series of 23 small books about therapeutics written by this fine English homeopath.

From:
The Heritage of Homoeopathic Literature
copyright 2001 by Julian Winston
Reprinted with the permission of the author

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Author

James Compton Burnett, MD

1840 - 1901

James Compton Burnett was born on July 10, 1840 and died April 2, 1901. Dr. Burnett was the great uncle of Margery Blackie. He attended medical school in Vienna, Austria in 1865. Alfred Hawkes converted him to homeopathy in 1872 (in Glasgow).

In 1876 he took his MD degree. When counseled not to go into homeopathy Burnett replied that he could not buy worldly honor at the cost of his conscience.

Primarily an organopathic clinician, Burnett was one of the first to speak about vaccination triggering illness. This was discussed in his book, Vaccinosis, published in 1884.

Along with other nosodes, he introduced the remedy Baccillinum. A prodigious writer he published over twenty books in his lifetime. His book, Fifty Reasons for Being a Homoeopath(1888), is of particular note for beginning homeopaths.

J.H. Clarke, Robert T. Cooper, and James Compton Burnett together formed the 'Cooper Club'. This regular meeting of leading British homeopaths was the source of many of the symptoms in Clarke's Dictionary of Materia Medica.

Clarke says of Burnett, "during the last twenty years Burnett has been the most powerful, the most fruitful, and the most original force in homeopathy. "

To more fully appreciate Burnett's contribution to homeopathy, you may want to read Will Taylor's WholeHealthNow series 'Taking The Case'. In Installment 6, Will examines Dr. Burnett's understanding of Locality and the Specificty of Seat.

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Contents

Chemistry of the Lens -- 4
Curability of cataract with Medicines -- 41
Embryology of the Lens and its Capsule -- 5
Etiology and Pathology of Cataract -- 8
Facts and opinions concerning the curability
of Cataract from general Medical Literature -- 15
Hard Drinking-water as a cause of Cataract. -- 36
Important Remedies for Ophthalmic Diseases -- 106
Nutrition of the Lens -- 3
Psora as bearing on Cataract,
from a Therapeutic Stand-point -- 39
Salt-eating as a cause of Cataract -- 31
Structure of the Lens Substance -- 3
The Aqueous Humor -- 7
The Causes of Cataract -- 28
The Lens and its Capsule -- 1
The Prevention of Cataract -- 37
The true nature of Cataract -- 29
The use of sugar as a cause Cataract -- 34
Treatment of Cataract -- 70

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