In December 1972, during his Christmas vacation, Dr. Currim journeyed to Florida to seek the company of his spiritual teacher, Kirpal Singh. "Whether luck would have it, or whether the guiding spirits of Dr. Grimmer and Kirpal Singh so willed, I do not know", Dr. Currim remembers, "but I met with Audrey Grimmer Winthers, Dr. Grimmer’s daughter.

 With the first knock on her door (from an unknown and peculiar math professor of foreign origin), began a spirit of cooperation and love.  

"Audrey opened up to the idea of collecting her father’s work, both published and unpublished, and presenting it to the Homeopathic Profession. Audrey had many of her father's handwritten manuscripts, and a large collection was also with Dr. Ruth Rogers, a student of Dr. Grimmer's. I gathered all of the manuscripts and returned back to the university to continue my teaching. I opened the three manuscript boxes, many of which had aged and yellowed with time, and looked at them with disbelief and wonderment. I began to feel anxious about my abilities to assemble anything from such a mass of work. How could I do justice to the writings of such a man, who lived and practiced homeopathy for over 57 years. How could I, at most a mathematician, without medical training, do such a task. What had I undertaken?"

"Gradually, I calmed myself down, and began the work. I studied the numerous articles, and then formed a plan to classify the various papers into different categories: Philosophy, Essays, Materia Medica, Special Diseases, Clinical Cases, Homeopathic Prophylaxis, Cancer, etc." And so began the process...

medical school in Brussels...and homeopathic medicine....

In September 1973, Dr. Currim entered medical school at the University of Brussels. But every summer he would return to America for clinical rotations, during which time, for three to four months, he worked on the manuscripts. The manuscripts were classified, literary searches were made, hand written articles were compared word by word with what was printed, and errors in the journals were corrected against the original manuscripts. Each article was retyped. Audrey and others assisted in whatever way they could. Dr. Currim recalls: "the spirits of Dr. Grimmer, the Provider of all good, and my Spiritual Teacher all guided me in getting this work done."

"During my six years of study in medical school in Brussels, 'there were many times I had to endure privations, loneliness, hardships, temptations, despair, and the black form of fear in its numerous aspects. I learned to replace fear with faith, and despair with courage, and to develop a will that defied obstacles and frustrations'*. I must have read and reread Dr. Grimmer's farewell address, "Fifty-Seven Years In The Practice of Homeopathic Medicine" at least 100 times, as it would give me faith and inspiration during the dark days of medical school."

"Six summers later, in 1978, the work was more or less complete with a table of contents and all of the articles classified and verified. We were all excited and eager to find a publisher. The literature had been researched quite well, and with my acquired knowledge of medicine, I felt free to add references to the main text. In one paper I included a clinical case of James Tyler Kent (not in the original paper), to further show the use of "Cadm-sulph" for a case of cancer of the stomach. Appropriate rubrics from Kent’s repertory (not included in the original papers of Dr. Grimmer), were included in some of the papers to make them more complete."

Hahnemann International Institute's decision to publish....

"Just before my final MD exams in 1979, I attended the LIGA Congress in Hamburg, and brought a copy of the manuscript to show to various publishers. My efforts met resistance. Most of the German and French Homeopaths had not even heard of Grimmer, and were definitely not interested. A well known English publisher told me he 'dare not have anything to do with cancer'. And besides, 'the manuscript was too long'. I knew then that the time to send out the light of Homeopathic Healing from Dr. Grimmer had not yet arrived, and I would have to wait."

"I returned to America to do my medical internship and hospital training from 1979 to 1983. I also completed my board certification and worked in several hospitals as an Emergency Room Physician before starting my own private practice."

"Then, in 1993, the time for the manuscripts came, Reinhard Rose and Peter Vint of the Hahnemann International Institute for Homeopathic Documentation (HIIHD), visited me in Fairfield, CT. I had been telling them of the Grimmer project and how we needed to expose this work to the homeopathic profession". Where as in 1979, there was ignorance about Dr. Grimmer and a resistance to publishing the work, there now was a keen interest.

In August 1994, the Hahnemann International Institute for Homeopathic Documentation had a memorable meeting in Florida with Mrs. Audrey Grimmer Winthers, and an agreement was reached to publish these incredible writings.

"It took 22 years, from the time I first met Audrey Grimmer Winthers in December of 1972, to complete this treasured document."

* Grimmer