Midwifery (Bose)

Midwifery, with diseases of infants and reproductive organs

Conception, miscarriage, labour, stages of labour, eclampsia, milk, mammary abscess, puerperal fever, local discharge, lactation, menopause, crying infants, measles, catarrh, tabes dorsals, dysentery of children, and more

B. K. Bose was born in India in 1879 as the son of a Judge. He developed into a rebel against the British occupants. Persecuted by the British as an anarchist, he had to flee to America via France. There, he made the acquaintance of Dr. James Tyler Kent and became his student. Kent succeeded in forming the aggressive, young, former rebel into a great healer. B. K. Bose did his doctorate in the USA with a Doctor of Osteopathics and simultaneously a Medical Doctor. After completion of his medical studies, he was able to return to India unmolested. There, he followed the call to the Homoeopathic Medical College in Calcutta , the oldest of its kind in India and the largest in the whole of Asia . Until his death in 1977, he was the leading figure in the Indian homoeopathic scene. He personally trained most of the homoeopathic teachers in India . He was the personal physician of numerous high members of the government, amongst them Nehru. He himself lived his life in simplicity and modesty. He invested his fees, gifts and his entire inherited fortune in his hospital and used it for the general public. Until his death at the age of 98.

In his lectures, I frequently heard him say: "It is simple to be a successful physician, but difficult to be a good human." He did not only pass on homoeopathic knowledge to me. He showed me how indispensably important the human qualities of love, goodness and sympathy are for a healer. When I came to him as a young student, he was already 85 years of age. At that time, he was the only surviving student of the great Kent . In the first year, I missed out on his basic lectures, because they did not seem important to me or because they were on a level which was too high for me. When I later began to recognize the richness of wisdom which he was teaching, I severely regretted my arrogance and from then on did not miss a single one of his lectures. With a great acting talent, he portrayed the various types of remedies so impressively that I can still remember them and still profit from his fine nuances in my practice. Dr. B. K. Bose was a great master of the Materia Medica and its application. I never saw him deviate from Hahnemann's principles. In his lectures, I recognized that there can be no short cuts on the way to success as a homoeopath. Only with well-founded and detailed knowledge of the Materia Medica is one in a position to make complete use of the immense potential of homoeopathy for the benefit of the patients.

My teacher was a very sensitive person with a clear view and a deep understanding for the essence of human life. He was able to recognize the problems of a sick person offhand and prescribe the correct remedy. Frequently, he whispered the most conspicuous symptom and the corresponding remedy to me before the patient had even sat down. It astounded me again and again how quickly he found direct access to each patient. His style was so perfect and quick that nobody could get there before him. Again and again, his accurate mental repertorisation astounded us. On one occasion, he paid more attention to the mental stage than to the causation, another time more to the environmental situation of the patient. During the entire period, I never saw him consult a manual. He taught me to look at death differently and to accept it. He repeatedly emphasized how important it is to be able to die consciously. He was a convinced opponent of artificial extension of life for the incurably sick. In such cases, he only palliatively treated the patients with low potencies. His life-long commitment and his missionary zeal for homoeopathy accompanied him to his death-bed. When I came to him to pay my final respects, he briefly woke up from his twilight sleep and said to me: "Take care of homoeopathy". It is a great honor and joy for me to try to fulfill his last wish for him.

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