Book Review on Conscientious Objector – Why I Became A Homeopath by Francis Treuherz

This is a remarkable book in which the author describes and demonstrates the existence of the human ‘vital force’ as he has confirmed in the introduction as being 85 years old and practicing as a doctor for 53 years.

He describes his years in medical school, hospital service, midwifery, acupuncture, an internship and starting up in practice. The eureka moment is his discovery of homeopathy.

His journey takes him from New Mexico to Boston where he settles and establishes a successful homeopathic general practice.

He shares his experiences of editing a popular journal Homeopathy Today, and holding office on the board of the National Center for Homeopathy and the American Institute of Homeopathy. 

He devotes a long and detailed chapter to the dangers of vaccination, which he describes as often producing more health problems than the diseases that they were supposed to prevent. He shares his growing awareness of the contradictions inherent in modern medicine and his adoption of homeopathy. At the core of his narrative are intimate but anonymised case examples of his patients and vignettes of their symptoms and the remedies he has chosen for them. His style is personal, open and fascinating. This is a marvelous memoir.

                                                                                                                                                           Francis Treuherz