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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
TnEi fbllowing lecture, intended as a popular expositiou of the principles of
ithe  Homooopaotlhic  pLratice, was   e cli vot'ed aSt t1he Xla'dison Ulniversity, NeYork, and pulllishld in. 1i 84.,   av~'ing Tmet, with. the approval of the profCession, and thle I( aro  e dliit iol hl1;h at;e to, n(''.. h  r ae long tiirne exhausted,    a want
has'been felt by mianyv  phxfi' yvn. s' for,nSou almi.lli. _  o.sed expositionl
of our principles, to} p!Lh.,    i:. tile hl.'ns o. f fia.v'enn:, whvldc-t wovuld[ correct tlhe
thousatnd  di diculo    s n.isr pr<seeon-.t tti,_.. mLe t   at indutriously circulated,
r.'especting Ollli  oI'(Tie!:s  InE plc,titO, t-o. a: tl' -tE.lt,toh)r has, often been soiteited to publishl anotlhel.r edition to supply' the want.  Tlhis second edition
sln-ewhat enla. ged, is t(he response  to tlis demand,
MILW.AURKEE, Sept.. 12, 1854.








A CARD.
To D.R' J.' S.'OeCu:LuS~;h':-i' eliteving  tl:at, thc' public need correct inforrlation in regard to
tl e   lHomoceopatlhie praetiee andl tihe pl:hilohsop' h  upon whichlit is based, and
le-aruing  thl-t the edition of a' Leett(,'e p iblishled tby you, i tended to give
thijs infnrmation, is exhauted te, il  ers igul,  retpe etfully'equest the
i.s'uii', of a ne w edition to supply thl. lis wani-t.
I. S. I-tEWITT, IT
TD. T. BROWN,
J. ]EO, GUENTHERt,
HENRY  PEPRLEWI'TZ,  Pra.cticirg Plof Jict  ie Cit of Milwauikee.
J. P. GREVES,
L. M. TRACY,          J
N. W'. CLARK.. D. SMIIT[H,
R, MENZIES,                         H. D. HULL,
J. D. SPALDING,                    1P. L. MOSSINt
J. LOCK70WOD,                       HI. H. CAMP,. i J. FAR. IES,                    G. P. HEWITT,
N. HI. JORGENSEN,                   G. B. MINE R,
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-0. T. GILBIER I,








LECTURE.
GENTLEMEN:- It iS a genleral truth that mnlkind are at least sufficiently
solicitous in regard to their temporal interests,   and  that thleyi  proi:)ortion.
their solicitude with  conidfcerable aCtluralC  to t le magnitudcl e of the, interests involved.  But tho tl' oenieral. trlutt,  I hax-e observed a remarkabkl
exception for which it 11ils bCcii difficult satisftlctorily to account.  It is this:
Men genelrally manifest much greater anxiety to ascertain the best mnethod
in use of constructing a coat or1' faslhioni    a lboot, than they  do the best
mode of culiing disease iand' preselring i1-ealth; and take more pains to. determine the coimplarative qualifications of ihatters anld dress-nmkers, than of
physicians.  Thus  you shall  see a particuila  disease in the hainds of one
physician, and under   a particular treatment,, almost unitformli fatal, while in
the hands of anlotlher and unlder otllier t re, iltnent, it is almolst never fatal.
Examples of bothI tllhee results Ishall rcpeat edlv occurl, y:ear aifter year. and
yet the- publi)ic b:e i-erlt:tly ulnal\xar of the existelce of such a fact.  Could
the constatnt failure o:,f one tailor and thei suecess of another in the cut of
his coat.s, tIlus esclape p-1ublic observa clati on?  And  aie life and deatlth reallless conspicuolus oleets of observlation to the public eye, than the fitshion
of a coat?   The lnearlest alppros:miation I hxave b(eel aible to mlake to a sohltion of this -ilomly   in  hueruan characte r, is based upon tIle supposition
that men hIave been aiccustomned to -vi;rw the subject of medicine as so m1ysterious and inscritable, th1at, an attempt to imlNestio'ate aIln  thinlg ill irelation
to it xwluld 1be nltt(el])   fruitletrs, tnd tlhey hav-e thertcefore ]:inilly committed
the iilimnse iterCests iml-ohled, to w'iichlc -er inldividua.l of the ficulty, personal preferenct,   or' leioboiro-lo 1  or popular favx or c]lclltees to sugoe St.  It, 
is well undelstood by t-he professiion  that varionts lqualifications, foreignl to
miedical knowlecdc' aind acq.luirement.l, anll  especia.lly the faculty of hnlllloing  popular lpiejludaices, and failinm in writll popull ir errors. in relation to
medicine, and thus fiatternie- tl.e. popular vanity, are mluch mnore influential
in securilng  favor and p[atironge to thle ph)1yicia.n, than any anmiount of knoTledge lihe may acuilre art whlltevx   I 1lo, conllected Mwithl thle independent
and. honest  xpress'ioi  of  orretl'l'     opinioi.  Is it -tlranlge that this bribe of
public lfuloi to -ignorancale a'nd deception shoul'd poclluce its legitima te results?
There is no error g'reater' or mcore danoeraous thllan this supposed necessa.ry
ignorance of the principles of inedicine,  ancd   een if true, is not a satisfactory solution of the difficulty, for inen may obsel rve the comparativzeqesults
of cliffeieet lmetlhods of treatment, even thoull   they may believe themselves incap[able of compireheiucing   the philosopl/y of those results.  I regard, therefore, both the prelmises andcl the conclusion equally false and
equally dangerous.  I hold that it is not onlly the privilege but tlhe dutyof individuals, associations and. communities, before making a decision so momentous in its consequences as the adoption or rejection of a.ny systenm  of




meLdicial praCtetiCe, whether inew  or old, to whictL health and life are to'be
coummitted, to institute ain investigation into its pre etensions and its meritsto enquire and  to ascertain whether it be a philosophical or an  empirical
siystem-whether its practical applications to the cure of disease are based
upon legitimate induction  clawn fiom  a sufficiently  extended and  minute.,-xiper>ience, oi upon a theory which is itself hypothetical and unfoundelinshort, wfhether it be entitlod to tile appellation of a science or a mnere art.
If those w-ho  le,(-w isr it,. clail  fibr it the title of a science, it is your furthelr
pr~i-ilege  to i;l; of themll,a scientific exposition of its principles  which you
Cl'i unci(erstand; and thiso, notwithstandindg  the plea that the mysteries of
tile  scicnce of medicine  can only  be explained  to the  comprehension of
inedieal mlel.  This plea should not avail; for however difficult it may be
to explain tlle principles of an art to one not experienced in it, an, inexplieable science is a contradiction in terms.  If this exposition is withheld upon
tlhis 1aor  ny otller plca, it is your iurthler priilee, as well as your intelest,
to roJiect it.
It. iS il thll exeicis  of this ilght that you liavie aslke[ of me such  an
cxsp'sition tof thle system  which I havre adopted, and into w-hich you propose, iul theu true sl-,i'it Of phlilosoIbhy, to institute  anl inquiiry.  Reg'ardcing
it aS  toit' ri' iAl to require  lll ust, of Course regard it ias my correlati've duty,
a,: it (certainliv is l my pleasure, to accede to this requisition, to lay  before, a
)botd'y of youn   meiin,- dcv-oted  to scientific investigations, the  claimns of a;,stem  of miltelicile to the title  of  a1 science.  It seems to  me a highly
t.lpp Triatito sutlbject inl a liohlIx appropriate  place, thlongh I am. perfectly
aLatlReI  of'thte flact, that popularl 1  lectutres on the snbject of medicine  a.re
(teelncfled by mlmany inappro priant anywhere.  With the viewxs which have tooe
Ih'1-(0 1'allv alnd too Ion) pR-  \-aild on the amysterious clharacter of thle science
tlfii(.lCc11c,  ull't lL(esli'fis    thle fllowin. l    are perfecl tl n aturlal:'l baIt thel the  Iton l -1f',Cssio:lmall to do x-ith, mand ho~w caln tlhey be expecteC  tto unille istand anld  ]:,l)lej;te and  becolne intelested in so complicated,
olescuire and occult a sciclcc ax tha't of llledicile-ai science,  about which,
lno txxwo of its p:1eofessors eoven  o:ree —a science of which there have  been
more than two thundred genieral and dist;net theories,  not one of which sutrAivei, (tlo IHoCyceopathtl( ale eon   xcepte(d,) that can' boastl an  antiquity  of
alifdt': eoerx  a   jqlariter of aL caenitmry?;'  H)ow  pepostelrotls, thenl, to  expect
to iillcarlt itfonation Or intel'est, to a 1lnon-professioInal audience, upon a subject xlinch   the unli\-er;cial hdisag'reement of its p)lofioudest professors proves to
be undcerstoo( bhy nOlie of t1hem    I        w sa,,,ith the v ie\xVs wNhich'have been
entertained on tile mysteriousness of nleclcine, such  quelies are perfectly
natural, and sucl, in substalnce, h1ave been raised in this community, within
the two or three days sinlce this iectune xwas announced.  We reply to them,
that if the p1rinciples of a so. called scielmce of mnedicine cannot be explained
to the comprehension of. a scientific mindl of ordinary  powers, and made
interesting to sulch a minid, then  no further proof is neecled that it is no
science.  For if it be a science, it has its laws-its fixed  principles; and
these laws, are brought together and known by those who  have examined
them-they are capable of being made known to others, and  like all the
laws of nature, are necessalrily interesting.  Are not the laws of Chemistry,
of Astronoimy, of Botany,  of Optics, and of the  entire  iange of naturaj




sclenc, es, propel subjects for popular lectures and capable of beuin  ullderstood
ued appreciated by the  popula.r mlindl?  But tile science of medicine, if a
science atall, is but a branch of natural science, and( does not constitute, in
hlis respect, a solitary exception.  If, then, the apprehension  and contemplation of great principles in naturial science?,  which  have not been  before
apprehended and contemplated by you, be of any  interest, we venture  to
believe tllat the subject before us cannot be destitute of interest to vl, ceard:led in a merely  scientific ispect   But  when we superadd  to this view
of it, the fact that thle laws which contrlol the vital principle  in  lnan, and
the laws which govl'rn the action of  ielnedies and of all unnatural agencies
upon that vital. principle, are intimlately  connected wvith  our personal and
indlvidual w\ell-beint,-,',  with our phhysical, ancl by consequence, ourt  mental
comtifort and efficiency, Ait  hea lth amnd life itself, it cannot be wanting iv,
thele most illtelnse inteiiest to e'erlv m iind ptossessin  the smallest endovmenlt,f p1hilanthlopxS, oi-t   even of self:sllness itself.  My  only fears that it may
nlot, l)rov'-   interestingt to v on this occasion, are based, not ulpon an}y Imisi vings'ls is    t te inherenlt interest of the sublject itsell blut a justly app1rehlenledl imperfeetion ill thie( mianIlel of its pli esenltation.
It is my dlesio n on this occasion, as ft. -Is time andl abcility w ill permiti tii
present the dlistinguislinl), the peculiar pi)inliples of the HolloneopJathiic sstim  of medicine. ItIn  doino  this,   I shall be oblige(l, not f)r the sake o'
inrtidiousl compllisonsl, but foil puirposes of lecesaiary i!lusltia.tion, to compalre
these principles Nwith thle pr1evalent or Allopathie s ols.  In intioducing a
plr:otessedly iinprox ed system  in the room of another, it is a veir- inatural coulse
to illude to the deficieneies in thlatothller wleticll it i;s proposed to supply.  WTe
tireflree remark heie, thit in all former or existin(r  sclcols8 of medicine,
tile p!-a, tical aiplcation of mneilicine to disease, has beVn uinder thle ouidance
ofo la  xed laws-.   Hence the f"ilmiliar fet, that whllen a  lew xx epidemic has
prevailed, it 11as al vas been for some time exceeldin oly fatal.  Havinog no
greatlalw to oguide i-:; (at once to a colrrect treatment,    we -could only employ:_iucle distant analogies as w-e could command, and  commence a course of
exit'1rimentino' ti xin'. one remedy after another, (of cu.rse at the expense
of our patients,) llntil we lat l  -apprlloximated  more or less nearl]y to a satisfcitot'frv  treatlent. iHolv -faliar is the remnalrk, that such  a disease wi-a
oexllreniel\! Titll until physicians came, at last, to understand it.  Thie  epit.le-imic of 1812, thel  eex    valvino  fiorms of scarlet fever and the Asiatic
Cholemra farnish but too conspicuous and melancholly examples.  In the last
disease, physicians of the old school have not yet made and approximation
to anything that can be called success.
The history  of medicine is a history' of theories, succeeding  and supplanting  each other in  rapid succession  so rapi,  that there is no one now
in existence, acknowledged  by any respectable portion of the medical world,
(the Hom(xopathic  excepted,) of t-wenty-five years old.  Let this be remembir ed  by those who, fearing to trust the new theory of Homoeopathy, place
their ill-founded confidence in another not half as old.  It may be well to
taklle a hasty glance at one or two prominent theories to illustrate  the character of medical -theorizing, and to show on what uncertain, false and decept'ive grounds systems of mnedical practice are founded.  The famous theory
of the er02ror loci is one of these.  It was founded  upon the discovery  of




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globules in the blood, which, like almost every discovery in anatomy, phyTsiology or chemistry, was at once  seized  upon  as the basis of a splendid
theory.  It was assuomed that the various sizes of thel globules were adapted to the various dimensions of the divisions and subdivisions of the blood
vessels in which they were to circulate, and that disease was produced by an
error loci; that is, tlme larger globules strayed into vessels of too small a
calibre for their accommodation, and thus obstructed the circulation; or, on
the other hand, the smaller globules found their way into the larger vessels.
where, resistance being diminished, the circulation was dangerously accelerated.  If the blood became too thick  by an uindue preponderance of its
globular portions, one of these states ensued, if too' thin, the other.  Hence,
the search became urgent, in the one case for medicinles supposed to posses'ss
the propertyo'f thinning the blood, called diluents, anIl in the other for those
supposed to possess the property of thickening it, called  imlspissants.'lThe
ll important question in every case of disease was, whether it arose froml
the blood being toothick, or too thin, and then one or the other of these
classes of remedies was in  requisition accordingly.  It is to be remarked
thlat the supposed  dliliant and inspissant propeirties of these two classes of
remedies was as purely hypothetical as every previous step in the theory, 1no,
such properties being proved to be possessed by them as wxelre attributed to
them  the only fact on which the whole theory rested, being the  existene
of "lobules in the blood.  Traces of this theory are still visible inlplev-alent
notions, and even in medical practice.
Aneother teolry of glreat authority  and prevalence, supl-osed disease tn,
be the product of an accumulation of vitiated  aind unhealthy secretions ih,
the, various cavities of the body, which  must therefo)re, by all nleans be
-emlnoved —from the blood vessels by bleeding, fiom the stomach and bowels:
by emletics and cathartics, &c.  This theory is not now generally acknowledged by the profession, but it continues to exert a powerlful and xwxidelyt
extended influence on the popular mind, and even on the mind and practice
Cof the profession.
The stomach  aund bowels enjoy the enviable ple-eminence of beinozf tmile
i'incipal depositories of these vitiatedc secretions.  Hence we so often hear
compla-ints of foul stomachs and pressing demands for elretics and cathartics;. and hence plhysicialis continue to' sanction the popularl  error by g'iving
emretics and cathartics in eevery form of disease.'No patient canll be  ttacked with fever, influenza, head-ache, rheumatism or consumption without a
foul stomach, which is t- be drenched with irritating eumetics and cathaltics,
A  few physicians appeal to the old theory  as. the reason mOlr this plact-ice,'asnd suppose they are thus directly attacking the cause of disease, and among
the remlinder, sinome assign  one reason, some another, and  not a tew attenmpting' no reasoI at all, except the authority of books, and the fashion.
The practice resulting  fiom this theory is of such  univerlsa. l authority and
prevalence, we may, perhaps, be.excused  for devotinmo  a moment to an
illustration of its fallacy.  Suppose, gentlemen, that one of vou were to
apply to ine with a cold in the head, attended with a copious secretion of
mlucous from the nostrils and wish me to prescribe for you.  I address you
ith-us  with clue professional gravity: " Sir, your nose is foul, you have an1
accumulation of vitiated secretions in the nostrils.  It is indispensible that;




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this be evacuated.  I advise you to blow  your nose."  You answer that
you have done this every  five minutes for the last twenty-four  hours, but
experience no improvement, and enquire what shall be done next?  I reply,
"This cause of your disease must first be removed-blow your nose as often,as this accumulation takes place, until this is effected, then we will do
something further."  This prescription, I perceive, excites a smile.  Why
should it?  I ask in all seriousness.  It is but acting upon, and carrying
out a principle with which we have  all been familiar fiom  our earliest
childhood.  It is just as amusing  to hear a physician say to his patient,
1" Your stomach is foul-take an emetic, or a cathartic," as to hear him say,
"'Syour nose is foul. blow it." It will puzzle you or your physician to give a
more philosophicwal reason for the practice in one case than in the other, for
it is equally  true of these and all similar cases, that these secretions are
not the cause, but the product of disease, and the mere removal of this continually recurring product can have no effect in remoning the disease  which
produces it, any more than emptying the waters of a reservoil can dry lp
the fountain that supplies it.
AmongL prevailinig medical theories, one su1pposes all fevers to arise firom
inflammation of the brain, another of the stolnach, another of the spleeii, another of the arteries. &c.  One supposes fev-er to be the product of local
inflammation, another that the local ilflammlation is the product of the fever.
The theories in riegard to individual diseases, their natnie anld t reatment,
are innumerable.  There are at least twenty of deliriun tremens.  The-re
are no less than orte hundred of fevers, and cal equal number of Cholera.  But
in the most important and only practical particullar, all these clashing' and
contraadictory theories aglee.  The       alre a]l dlirected ill tlhe application of meciciine to disease by -no higher or sullre guide, than disconnected andi insulated
experiments at. the bedside, or pure hypothesis.  The best reaso'n, perhaps,
wlhich a practitionler of these schools call assig'n for a given prescription is,
that he has seen or known of its being beneficial in similar cases.  But as
no two cases of' disease are ever alike in all their circumstances, we can
scarcely speak of our experience in any ogiNen case, as we have never witnessed one which was in all respects like it.  Experience here is but' analogy at best, and in all new cases of disease,  analogy extremely loose and
vague.  If there be any apparent exceptionl to the remark that there are
in the Allopathic scho-ols no fixed laws controlling tile application of medicine —if there be anly approach to such a law, it consists in giving such articles of medicine as are supposed to be opposite in thllei effects to the disease to be treated.  Thlus if the patientt is too hot, cooling remedies, called
refrigerents are admlinistered-if too cold, hearting stimu'lants are applied.
If he is weak, suipposed strengtheniing remedies, called tonics are givei.  If
tihe stomach is sour, soda or other alkalies, are prescribed.  Diarrhceal is
sougoht to be counteracted by  opiates and astringenlts an-d constipation by
Aaxatives.  But this method of curing by contraries, expressed by the phrase
";cohztraria contrariis cm'atntu2r," could never be reduced to a law, for it did
not fail to be observed that this mode of treating disease was generally but
transient in its effect, leaving the system in a worse permanent condition
thian before, with the disease permanently aggravated.  Thus a cathartic
Pr) remove constipation, generally left the patient more constipated —bleed



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ii'nc renldered  a repetition  the more neessary,, and  lrepeatei  repetitiona
placed him in a condition in xwhich, apparenitly, he could  not exist withoutu
it.  BMut again, this practice, could not be. reduced to a lan, becaise we were,presentted xwith the puzzling fact, and it hilas aireatly  puzzledl  physicians in
adtl ages, that meldieine e  fie.equelltly  etieeted their mos t  po lpt, ppermaunnt
and surprising   cniries on a lprecisely  opposite principle, viz'  that "like cutres0
i  e.o"- Thus it nwas observed  thallt instead of cooli(l0   a, buurln with cold -wa.te F, ais the first rule would require, it was mulih more speedily and eflect..ally cired by hean     tig stimulants, as turpentine or aleooll,   or even by holcinao it to the fire.  Dialrrhoela was more effectulall   treated by smnall (loses
of laxatives than by opiates and astriiingents. M nehClanore perian enta warmthi -
wasl givrenl to the extremities by-  ubbing them in snow or pluno1ino1 tlhen: incold wAvter thlnl by xa irllim foot bath.  A  soui  stoniach xvas morel efftetu-,t11r treateil by small doses of' suillphu1 ic acid. one of the soi'lrest thl:iilS'l'
nanei,(1tt, thlaln I3;i sodat:.  Two law\0     thus in diamlnet'ic  opposition to ea.ci ohter]:m
couil(d not, of course, be both true.  Thus all the ol>posi;lo thleories of t'ilc
Ai3opaithia schools (onvll\-er    to a coimmon point of (loubt iand uncertainty.
If I migllt  be allowWed the a]pparent egotism  of a re-reneice to 1myV ow nA expe'iel(    I  ouldl sL  thallt cllring trwenty years study ancld practice of.thesoe
sx-te-ms, I havex  felt the truth of this uncertalinty most palinfullyr   H ain;
1 dclear perception of the hypothetical and uncertain cl.ara eter of all prevaiiing systems of practice,  I have felt like one in searchl of trith indispensibisto tlie pioper di;seharce of the fearftil responsibilities, which crowd upon onlte,
who takes thle henilth  tnd life of others ini his hands trut    h whliicl myw re,son, tmu1lmght me must exist in the established l'aws of tntture, blut x wich -1
cou1d no whlee finl.  Besides an anxious eexamiination  of the hypotheses
of the so -called orthodox  schools,   I have not considered an  examnination of
the Thoinpsonian anid Botanical;systems and m nesmnerismn as compromising
the diginity of a. searcher after truth.  And though in all these there is mome'
or, less d(evoeloped that is curious  or xw'onclelrful, or in vai  ous    w ays useful,
yet none of them supply thle great practical desideratulm-igneieral andfixedA
principles on whliich  ne can dcepnd in our fsarf'tl position at the bedniide (of
tbhose \\-ho are looklino to uIs fri the preservation of lire and 1 restorati~on ret,
heallth..With these iesults before mle I havle often said to my brother praetitioners thnt all the systems of mnedicine  extanit appeared to xlRe to constittite btt one,(reat systein of learned empiricism.  In an address before tih,
Medical Society of tlis. county I ventured to express the opinion, that mnedicine, in its present state, could prefer no just claims to the appella:tioni of,a
sciemnce.*   A  science implies a collection andl knowledge of the great  princi.ples or laws which relate to a givoen subject.  The science of astronomv supy,
poses a collection and knowxledge of the laws Whichl goxerin the motions eo'
the heavenly bodies. They enable us to foresee what will take place amonog' In this view I am abundantly sustained -by many of the briflhtest luminaries
of the profession. Bichat, the father of pathology, says: "There is not, in the Ma.teria
Medica, any general system; but this science has been by turns, influenced by those
who have riuled in medicine"-"henlce  the vagueness, the uncertainty`which nown
present themselves.  The incoherent assemblage of opinions themselves incoh.erent,
it is perhaps, of all sciences the best representation of the caprices of the hunman mind.
What do I,say?  It is not a science for a methodic mind: it is a shapeless assennblage of inexact ideas; of observations often puerile, of deceitful means, of formu.



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th1ose bodies at a given future period —to foretell their future course and localities, arnd thus to prledict an eclipse or the return of a comet.  A science
of meedicine wouldl suppose a knowledge of laws governing the lactiO-nl of.emnledics, which would enable us to determine that action under given c, irc:nmstLances.  If a new and unheard of disease presents itself, the scienceo
of medicine, if it be a science, should enable the physicital to select and
apply the appropriate remedy and confidently predict its effects.  ])i~t suchi
a law is ua.I,kzown il, ancy Of the Allopathic schools of'medicine,  ald it was
the painfiilly conscious want of it that induced the venerable Dr. Pa'rr to
retire from the protession, assigning as a reason that ie -ias "tiried of goueSsin.
Sucl a law,   howe ver, exists,  and it was reervcdl for the immoilta l Hahnernann to discover anid apply it to the cure of dis;case.  On reading the
great work of tIahleemann in which this law is stated, illustlrated and proved, I felt for the first time durinlg my twenty ycars  search for a fixed, practical law in medicine,  as thousands of others have fclt, like exclaiming
somewhat in the exulting  spirit of its original utterance, "I've found it, —
I've found it!"
The law may be thus stated: "Every medicine acts as t/he acpprop)riatZe.ndcl splecifc r'emecly. for a di sease, attenzded tith ant assemnblage of' sym)tomns
closely resembliqizf those whichb tlze sanme medicines prod*ace in the healthy
sutbject,"  It is expressed by theg'phrase, "snizilia similibus c'ira'ntur"-lim ke
cures elike," in direct opposition to the'old doctrine,' contraria contrai'iis
CCUIrat'i.Yl'.   To render  this law perfectly plain by a single example: spirits:f tuipenitine appliedl to the sound skin psoktlces ]het, redness, pain nld
inilEflamlmation closely resembling  a burnI1: it should, therefore, be an  approp)iate application for the cure of a burn.  All experieicnce proves this to be
tIe,'fact.
-Iahelnmlan,   with powers of mind of a very uncomimon order, and rh:.v-'no. been hlihly  eduat[ted for thle medica.l profession. sooii became, as many
imen of sense hae, disaippointed  and dissatisfied with the uncertainties oSf
imedical plractice.*  Possessing remarkable powers of observation, anld withl
a Mlglily  logical and inductive as well cultivated iintellect, a fact hitherto a-inoticed, but to him remarkable, attracted his attention.  While transllatiiig
Cullin's Materia Medica into German, he was struck lby some bold suppositio0ns
of this author about the Peruvian Bark, and, in order to refite them, lie resolred to prove this drug on hiiinself.  But what was his sulprise when he felt
himself atfected by the same symptOoms which he had had the opportunity
to observe, so many times in Lower Hungary during the prevalence of the
Ague.  In. short, the bark whlich was used as the universal remedy for the
Ague, had produced an ague in him.  In this first proving, to use his own
las as absurdly conceived as they are fastidiously collected."  The samre idea is expressed more quaintly and keenly by D'Alembert. "The physician being truly a
lind man armed with a club, who, as chance directs, the wei:.ht of the blowv  will
be certain of annihilating either nature or the disease."
A present distinguished medical lecturer in London, does not hesitate publicly to
declare the whole n-lichinery of existing medical doctrines a sheer humbug. "Genflemen," says he,'you iiow see the correctness of the late Dr. Greogory, that medical doctrines are little better thain "stark staring absurdities."  A volume might be
filled with similar sentiments from the highest authorities.
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words, "there dawned to me the first ray of that method of curing, which
soon was brightened into the most splendid day."
On examining the records of medicine, he found the writings of otherm
to confirm his own observation.  He found that medical writers had. recorded oppression of the stomach, vomiting and diarrhcea, indigestion, debility and jaundice among the effects produced by the Bark, and yet that this
was precisely the combination of symptoms for the cure of which, the highest authorities recommended and all employed the Bark with success.
Here was a strange fact which could not escape the observant eye and the
logical scrutiny of Hahnemann.  He pondered and queried.  The same
a.rticle produced in the healthy oppression of the stomach and indigestion,
and cured them in the sick-produced great prostration of strength and restored to strength, those who were debilitated by disease-produced jaundice and lcured it.  He askedcl himself: "Is this an anomaly in medicine? or
do other articles act on this same principle?"  He employed his own unrivalled powers of observationl and his almost boundless reading to collect facts
on this subject., The results produced astonishment which every day's investialtion increased.  He found the Bark far from beino asolitary example.
On the other hand, he found aln example of the same law in almost every meldicine,  in the works of almost every medical- author in every age, though not
one of these authors, probably, had ever dreamed of the existence of t lho
law of which they had furnished so n any examples.  The following examples will illustrate the character of these facts.  He found from the medical
records of that period, that the sweating sickness in England in the 15th
celntull, cncarried off about ninety-nine out of every hundred. attacked with
it, until physicians, in the process of experimenting, resorted to the use of
diaphoretics, that is sweating medicines, after which scarcely a patient died.
Strang e indcled, that a disease, the prominent feature of which is,, that the
patient is siveating to death, should be speedily cured by giving him medicines to make him sreat.
Tobacco, evelry one knows, prodluces giddiness, nausea, anxiety, trembling',
an  Ii prostrlation, yet he found that the physicians, wlhen attacked with this
train dof symptoms,  while attending the, victims of a peculiar epidemic inI
Holland, promnptlv relievec themselves by smoking.
upstalts in medicine and evenl by older members of the profession, as ignorant of his
doctrines and the depth of his knowledoge as they are of lunar botany. Not so witl
those who enjoyed t.he pleasure and the honor of his acquaintance or an acquaintance
with his writings. Heal the testimony of Dr. Valentine Mott of New York, the boast
and glory of American Surgery. During his tour in Europe, he visited and formed
an acquaintance with him. He says of him: "Hahnemann is one of the most accormplished and scientific physicians of the present age."
Hufeland, the patriarchl of German medicine, in his celebrated Medical Journal,
bears the following testimony; "Homceopathy is advancing in importance, and its
author is a maun to whom we mnust concede our respect."
Kopp, a very celebrated physician and elaborate writer oil legal and practical
medicine, thus speaks: "Whoever has traced HIahnemann's career with a critical eye,
whether as an author, teacher, or founder and master of a new school, must be
struck wiith his genius for investigation, originality of reflection and gigantic powers
of mind." "'His researches respecting the specific virtue of medicines and the amount of suscepibtility in the human organization to their impression, are of imperislable importance to our art."  We might multiply similar quotations to any amount. How ridiculous to hear small men in the profession, apply to such a r arl
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Medical writers had recorded attacks of epilepsy with'tremors and convulsions produced on the inhabitants of Kamtschatka by the use of the
Agaricus muscarius, a species of mushroom, while other writers had recorded examples of epilepsy, attended with similar tremors and convulsions,
cured by the same article.
The oil of anise' had been used for centuries to cure pain of the stomcach
and colic, but the examples were numerous in nmedical writers, of the oil of
anise pl roducizg pain of the stomach and colic.
He found high authorities recommending, from their own observation,
the use of Jalap and Senna to cure griping and pain. of the stomach and
bowels; but no  fact is better known  than that both these articles are
extremely apt to produce these very s3ymptoms, and hence the domestici
practice of coimbining anise seed with tthenl to prevent these effects.
One writer had published an account of the Solanurl  nigrunm,  taken. by,imstake, pioducing enormous cdropsy of the whole body,, while two plhysicians were publishing cases of. tile cure of dropsy by the same article.
He found, on equally good and equally numerous authorities, that Stramonium produced and cured, delirium, convulsions and chlorea.
While some physicians had seen Hyosciamus produce convulsions reseimbling epilepsy, as mlany more had  attested the cure of such convulsiolln
with it.  The same article had been seen  to produce a certain variety of
mental derangemlent, and just this variety of derangement had been frequently cured by it, while it had' failed to cure other varieties.  One of
the most marked effects of the samne article, as often observed, was a spasmodic constriction of the throat, so as to prievent swallowing;  but tlle
celebrated Dr. Withering, having such a case of constriction of the throat
to treat, could make no impression on it, till lie gave the  HyIosciamus,
which speedily cured it.
He'found, am1-ong tlbe acknowledged effects of the free use of Nitlric
Acid, salivation and ulceration of the mouth, while the same article was
generally recofmmencded for the cule of merculial salivation and ulceratioln.
Tea produces, ini those not accustomed to its use, anxiety, tremblingo anli
palpitation of the heart: yet every lady knows that a, moclderate quantity
of tea, is an excellent remedy  for these very symptoms.  These few examples will serve to indicate the character of the facts which Hahnemainn's
reading and observation daily accumulated, until he fould that what was
true of the Bark was equally true of eveery medicine whose action he Ihad
been able accurately to ascertain by reading or observation.  These facts
had at length become as numerous as the medicines whose effects had been
at all minutely detailed, and as nuimerous as their various applications, and
they were all but so many examples and proofs of the law, "'similia simd.i.'Ths curtanztur," not an exception to. which he had yet been able to find.L
This woull have been sufficient, and more than sufficient to satisfy any
nan who had ever constructed a medical theory.  Not so with Hahnemann.  His logical mind had already become thoroughly disgusted with
the universal prevalence of theories based upon insufficient facts or undisguised hypothesis.  These facts, numerous as they were, were not sufficiently numerous to justify his rigidly inductive and truth-lovinog  mind irl
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satisfied of the uni-versality  of -the truth, that medicines cure in the sick,
the s ymptoms wlicll t1hey plroduce in the healthy, it wwas necessary folr hlii
to know  precisely whllat sy-mptoms they  were caplable of exciting  in thez
healthy.  But hele he, Awith the whole  medical woorld, I was sadly  at f1ault.
Physicians had inot been accustomed to give niledlicines to the healthy r.       io
oe:periments hald ever bee   instituted  for the pu)pose of arri\ing  ait this
knllowledgc.  Iithelto,  the effects of niedicines h:ad only been  observed in
occasional cases of poisoning, oi  when mledicinal substainces hacd been talken
by mlistake, orl when fgien to the sick.  In  the txxwo formler  cases the instlances had been too unftrequent'and too loosely ob)served  to be eslsentially
isefili.'l'he latter nust be a very impl fect mlethod of ascertaining   the
efhcts of medicine, since  it is impossible  to  distinguish  the  effects
produced  by  the  medicine firol  those  produced  by the disease.  Besides, lmedicines were  then, even more seldol tl i:llal   now, Ogien sinllyl
but in  compounds of two, three, half a dozenl or dozen articles combined
tooether.  In  all these cases it is manifestly   impossible  to d(istiionuish
the  effects produced  by  each  of these i'nledienlts in  the colUpound,
mningled, monoified and counteracted as thle  ar e by each. other.  Such t:ixs
tile  meagre knowledge  of the properties of mnedclicines possessed  yr tlhe
medical world.but about half a century- aoo.  In older, tllen,  to'1,li;eo
with certainty, at the truth of the Honiceopathic law, it was indispensible
to pirosecute a  long series of original a1nd difficult experiments.      I waxs
ncess'ary that persons should talde, in succession. each  of thle remeclies to,
be employed in medicine, until it sloulld pi'odici a11 tile  effects  wvhich it
wx:as capable of producing, compatible -with safetV.  But the establishmlel-t
of this great law of mlecicile, it true, was of illcooneivable iinl-ortalee.    t
wVould, at once, convert thle Art of me dicine into a Sciene  endless coonjeetulre
into celtainty.  In  view  of its importalnce,  tfhel  gr1oat lieart, tlle philanth.ropic spirit, the truthll-ovinoll   i inellect of tIabhnelmann did inot hesitat-m
_IIe resolved  to become, himnself, the subject of experim ent,   and  to offir
htimself, if need be, a sachifice upon the altatlr  ef truth, of science and of
ll.lmainity.  With aIn insatiable thilrst for c'taill kl;owlxlo'e, an unconquelible lov e of truth, and a self-sacrificien  dexotioni to the interests of mIanklind
never surpassed, lie commenced  administering, mlledicines to  limnself, observinog  a rigid system of reginlen, i]eIoig    himiself fiom  all inflllEncc'
which could interfere with their action, and notinlo,   with great exactliess,
11 their effects.  To his great relief, lie wras soon  afterw'ards joined  by
several other highly scientific members of the profession anid numerous
pupils,, who each, with  their families, became  the subject of experiment.
Each  of the medicines was given to persons of differeunt  ages, sexes and
temperaments, unltil it had  produced all the effects which it was capable of
)roducinig compatible with the safety of the subject, and  all these effects
were carefully recorded in the order of their production.  All the properties of some two hundred  articles of medicine wyere thus minutely ascertained  under the  sec.utinizing  eye of  Hahnemnamin  himself.   Similar
experiinentis have since been incessantly prosecuted by Homeopathic physicians, to the present time, and thus the Materia Medica continually enlarged.
This process of'experiment, even by the admission of the most learned and
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ever laid for a correct Materia Medica —for a work containing a true record
of the properties, and all the properties of the medicines of which it treats.
There was now an opportunity to test the universality of the truth of the
Hoimcopathic iaw.  It now only remained in the treatment of disease, to
sel2ct and apply such medicines as had been found, by former experimelnts,
-to produce the same group of symptoms and in the same order as thoseo
presented by the disease to be cured.  If, in curable diseases, these remedies, thus applied, always produced prompt and permanent cures, then this
law of the action of remedies would be established.  It must suffice to
say, that Hahnemaun's absolutely enormous practice —a practice perhaps
exceeding in amount, that of any man in any age, and its amazingly suCcessful results for more than half a century, fully satisfied even his perhaps,over-scrupulous mind, anld dissipated every doubt of the universality of
the great lawr "simnilia similibus curantur " —of the final establishment of:.1 priinciple upon which the physician could rely instead of spending ohis
life in galessing and experimenting at the expense of his patients.  The
only thing inw lich Hahnemann hesitated was in publishing the results of
his experiments to the world.  In answer to the earnest entreaties of Doctor
Guenther, one of his early friends, not to keep fiom the world the benefits
of his discoveries, he used to reply: "My dear friend, you do not know
wbhat nest of wasps I shall stjr thereby..The physicians will kill mle."
The same test has equally satisfied thousands of the most gifted minds in
Europe and Almerica, who have been converted to this doctrine fri'om  the
Allopathic schools.  Every  day in the life'of every Homuceopathic practitioner, adds new  and delightful confirmatiol to this truth.  Not an exception has yet been found in relation to any article that has yet beel,emlployed in medicine.  We claim, then, that no naturlal law is established
by a morec legitimate and unquestionable induction.  With as inuclh propriety might it be demanded of us, that we should elevate every individual
plonderous body f-lom the surface of the earth, to see if it will fall again, be-fobre we admlit the truth of the law of gravitation, as that we should delay
induction of the truth of the Homceopathic law until it shall be tested by
Cexperliments with every medicinal substance that may hereafter  be  discovemred.
Blt I am  fully sensible, fi-om the experience of my own incredulity, of
the difficulty of admitting it even after it is philosophically established.
It is in such direct opposition to all our~ educational notions of the action,of remedies! How preposterous to cure vomiting by g'iving emetics, and:a burn by applying heating stimulants.! But let us familiarize ourselves a
little with the principle, inquire into its rationzale, and. see, if upon furthtr:acquaintance, it does not commend itself to our approval, by conformii  to
out' common sense and experience.
We shall find that this law of "similia similibus," is founded upon, and
necessarily griows out of, a law of vitality —a law regulating the vital plrinciple.  It is necessary that we become acquainted with the modus opelandi of
this vital principle.  Let us in this, as in all other cases of science, question
nature.  My hands are of a low temperature, anld I plunge them into cold
water or rub them in snow.  What is the result?  In a short time they;are glowing with.warmth.  Is this result a freak of nature —an anonmaly?
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or is it an example of a law in nature, like all her laws, universal and invariable?  Let us learn, if we have not yet learlned, that iiature has no fieaks
-no anomolies.  This result is but an example of a law  of vital re-action
which it shall be our aim briefly to illustrate.  The law may be thus stated:'W Whenever any agent having  the power to excite an unnatural action in
the system, is so applied as to be felt, the, vital principle is excited to oppose
its effects, and to  ploduce a state the opposite of that which  thlis agent
tends to produce."  This vital re-action against unatural ag'encies, (and all
medicines are of course such,) invariably mainifests itself, unless thle lower
of the agency is so great as to overpower vital re-action altogether.  Th1us
when I rub my hands, though already cold, in snow, by this law the vital
principle re-acts against it, and endeavors to produce a state the opposite of'
that which tlhe snow tends to produce; and it is so successful in this atteilpt that it not only overcomes the influence of the cold wl ich I have
applied,  but it has accluired such an imlpetus in consequence of beingo vallied
by the alditional cold,   that it overcomes that which  previously existed,
(Ild my Ilands, in spite of this double opposition,  become hot.  Take aln
opposite exanple.  I burn my hand.  It is now  hot, red, inflamedl and
painfuul.  On the principle of the prevalent scehools of ]medicine, (' contaria countrariis,'  &c.) I shall apply cold.  AnId whiat would  be the effect?
Whliy, the he tt and pain would be alleviated for a sho: t time, but tlhe vital
principle is aroused in opposition to it, and it, soon becomes more ired, hot
and painful than  ever.  Hence, experience,  without a knowlcdge- of the
prinicil:fe, has taugllt the profession that cold to a burn, though a, comfortable temporary palliative, is a bcad curative.  But let us aidol)all o.pposit
treatlmiet,, and apply a highly hleating stimulant, suclh as spilits of turpelitine or alcolhol.  The vital principle re-acts against this also, and encea ors
to produce a state the opposite of that which thlis application  tendcs to
lroduce.  It succeeds in this, anil in a short time thle hleat, pain and ilfiammation subside and a cornforta.ble cooliess comes oni, in spite of the
liheat of the burn and the additional lheat applied.'rake other and varied examples.  A man trakes a glass of bralndy.  Its
tendency is to  produce increased strength, activity and vivacity of miirmd
and body.  But there' is a vital principle withini which will certainly re-act
azgainst it, and overcome it, and establish a state directly the reverlse of it
and a few  hours afterwards, we shall find this man weak, lainguid and iuiactive.
A man is over-heated upon wine.  The next day he shivers upon the
slightest exposure to cold air.  Strong coffee stimulates the faculties to
unnatural activity, but it leaves behind a sensation of heaviness and drowsiness.
A  restless patient is put to sleep on opium, but on the following
night lie is more restless and sleepless than  before.  A  patient takes a
laxative to relieve coblstipation; after its action constipation is increasel.
But we can only dwell on these examples sufficiently to illustrate the principle..  Examples might be adduced as numerous as medicines and  their
applications.  I have selected these few  from  their familiarity  to those
who have not imade medicine a study.  But a sufficiently extended examnination will show  the principle to be universal.  It is to this re-acti7ve




p)ri-nciple that the HIomceopathist addresses all his prescripii;in(,  -whliil  the
Allopathist acts on a directly opposite principle, depenlding on the prnimary
effects of his medicines which are always transient, to produce t!lci desiired
state, while the  e-active efifect xwhich  is lastinilg and pelman-ent'i of a directly opposite chal racter fi on that nwhlic h e aimed to produce. Hoxw -nanyexamples of this deceptive maund short lived imlproveen t, fcll'owed, mleeesasrily, by pi-rinane nt and lasting injury, crowdc upon the mind  il'ermiIent
constipation  f'ollowing  the use of laxatives,  last1in1  dlebility SulCee;digil In thoe
use of tonics land stiml lants, p)oraInelit 1rritability and Ic Iesntlesss: t1  use
of opiates, &C. (ie., ad 1?JbfittiM.
As it is my main object to imnbue your minds witn        h a knowlenge of tihe
g'reat lamw of cure as a sure and scientific basis of the treiat lient of disease
by medicine, in contrast with  Allopathic einpyricisnm,  o1u wi ill pardi     on 1m1e
if I enlairge onl this branch of the subject ah little  irthller,  aind centrlast the
raeinner in which the  Allopathic anud the Hoinoeopathie  physl-tiian  treats
disease.
What an Allopathiic student leuarns of the Ipracticem of  neidicnire   a.niiits
to this:  He1 tales up  the study t,  exafmple,. of  ever, with the view  of
r)tepariing' hilmself to treat it.  He, readts, filrst, ma description of thi(a diseale,
and then  proceeds to the treatment.    He iread.s thiat one dis-ltiauisbhed
writer recomine:nds  cold  afflsions,  and  another' disfalgees Aw-itl; ".tlB  and
thinks thenm ldang-1leoils.   One adviises winel  and a'n otier isisrts  ihai;  ti1e'
patient should haIiive thle mnost cooehn  cliliks onl011.   I-Mla ly pn1rM-'sele,ie Peiuvian balk, or Quinineu    a part of thlem  because they thlin   it;  a' ehrliefu',
and  lmnother p)ar t   becaiuse they  ( eemCd  it a tonic.  Othe lis olject to these
remedies  altogethelr,  because  they believe theii:l  heatingl and fovI-e-r al'roducing, renedies.  Somle  cconmieild  a  f'ee  use   of cfllalt-Ce,  an-.  CotleS
wain the  yolunn, piactitioner  againist their  use.  Alnd so on to th t:<: end of
tihe clhapte,   almost every remed(ly in the Mca tei. Mdcica boi    re'iceomenidi   -
e(l by some'acnd r1epudiate d by others.  The  uItlior closes his lucid  acconlt
of.tleatnlent  bT giving' his own practice,  and the studlct4, th1ns 4l,-ii,;esh
goes fortIh  to  t Ae tIhe lixves of ine ain  hiI  is 1l1ands, aIt liberty, mi:-de1;  the.sanction of high lauthoiities' to enmploy just whaxit ioemeniies   he pl'eSt,  am.ld
sadly pnuzzled. to make a choice.  Bult in all h1ls stnuiy he does not.'ot tthe
first gtiiipse of a law of curie.  The best reason he canu  oive  for adliminis-tering any remedy is, that somelbody thinks he has found it usefi xl,  it..bout
knowing why, in diseasoe that seelilecl to resenible the case, in han d.
Medicine has, therefore,  certainly  been no  fitting   studyl to any on( e as a
matter of science, simply because therle  was no science in it, an!!  it is inot
stranlcge that the professioni have discouraged the practica] investigatioatius of
lav men.
But we repeat that the application of medicine to disease is, nevertheless, a science, with laws fixed, siimple ancd easily understood, and therefore
open to the knowledge of all.
Let us refer to two of these laaws as intimately connected with the:grent
law of cure, even at the risk of solne repetition of thought.
~First laxw.  Every medicine produces two directly opposite effects iin tIle
order of time-the first primary aind  transienit, the other, second ary  and
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Its first or primnary effect is, to stimulate the intestines to an unusual and
unnatural effort to expel their contents.  But this effect is transient, continuing only a few  hours.  The secondary effect is just the, reverse, viz:
unusual and unnatural inactivity and torpor, or0 constipation.
Again.  An opiate is given to allay pain and procure rest by diminishing or benumibing sensibility to the causes of suflering.  This purpose is
taai-siiently answered by its prilnary eflect, but this soon ceases, and then
colmes thej opposite or secondary effect, viz: increased sensibility to all the
causes. oL annoyance.  And so true is nature to herself — so inflexibly adherent to her own laws, that the physician may persist as long as lhe
pleases in his inufractions of this vital law, and she will have her own lway
and maintain  her resistance to  the last, or until - the st!uggle ends in exhaustedl vitality and d ath.  The same is true of all other remedies.
If you send for a physician who presclibes a cathartic, or laxative, you
can very prol)erly ask your medical adviser; " What, sir, is to  be the primary effect of this dose?"  If he. answers: "To stimulate  the bowels to
greater activity," you may then very properly reply: "My dear sir, as I
have lelarned the laws of culre, this effect will be but transient, while a
secondary and opposite effect, viz: increased torpor aind constipation will
inevitably follow, which will be lasting, and the effect of your prescription Awill
be to afford me temporariy alleviation  at the expense of a lasting aggravation of the very difficulty which you aim  to cure.  I should certainly be1
glad to be relieved of my,present enbarrassment, but this is obtaininng
present liquidation at a hligher rate of interest than I can afford to pay.  I
prefer to suffer a little now to suffering so runch more hereafter.  I dra
obliged to you for your  offer of present relief, even on such hard telrms, but
really, sir, I feel obliged to  decline it."  And the same reasoning applies
to all remedies administered on Allopathic principles.
Second law.  All medicines produce two exactly opposite effects, according to quantity; that is, small and large doses prodlice opposite effects.  A
small dose of Opium produces exhilaration and wakefulness-a large dose,
languor, stupor and sleep.  Very small ldoses of Rhubarb, Mercury and
other cathartics allay irritability of the bowels, and thuis cure diarrhoea
and dysentery-large closes produce irritability and diarrhoea..  Very small
doses of Emetic Tartar, pecac, &ec., allay ilrritability  of the stomach and
thus cure vomiting and  cholera-morbus- large doses pecduce tlese very
states.
The one is the disease-curing, the other the disease-producingl efirct.
This law is equally practical with the first.  Guided  by it, the physician
-waill so adlminister his medicines as to secure their secondary or curative effects, atld avoid their priiary or disease-producing effects.  And patients
when properly informed, Will be wise enough to refuse a prescription made
in violation of this law.  They will say to the physician who prescribes
for them large doses, (and all Allopathic doses are large, though they may
call them small,) " Sir, I consulted you for the purpose of being cured, and
you offer me a drug' in a dose that will make  me sick.  The law of culte,
as I understand it, mnakes it no part of the  business of a physician  to
produce disease, but, his exclusive business to cure it.  The time is past
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manufactory,' and the appropriate title of the profession,' The destructive
art of healing.'  I must insist on your treating me in obedience to and in
harmony with the great and now well-understood laws of cure, or I must
take the treatment into my own hands, or consult some one better inflrnied."
A consideration of these two laws leads us again, by a slightly different
process, to the same great law of cure, " Like cures li.l."  We see a patient laboring under a disease characterized  by a certain combination of
symptoms.  We inquire what medicine produces this combination of symptoms, given in large doses.  By a careful comparison  of the symptoms
with those produced by various ILedicines, we find that they hlave a striking resemblance, for example, to those produced by Arsenicum  in. large
doses.  Arsenicumn, then, must be the appropriate anlld specific remedy in
small doses, because it produces, in small doses, efftects just the opposite of
those produced by large doses of the same remedy; that is, just the opposite of those under which the patient labors, and, of course, establishes an
opposite state, that is, a freedom fiom  those symptoms; in other words, a
restoration to health.
But to return.  Does not the great law of " similia similibus curantur,"
growing out of the law of vital re-action, commend itself to your ph'ilosophy, your common  sense and your experience?  But if this one  great
principle be.admitted, all that Homceopathly claims as essential to it, is
conceded.  If this be true, the whole systeml which necessarily grows out
of it, is a system of tlruth —if it fail, the whole system falls.
I doubt not that this remark will surprise and disappoint many- of my
atuditors, for I am perfectly aware how industriously the falsehood has been
circulated, and the community made to believe, that the principal, if not
the only peculiarity of our system consists in administering infinitessinmal
doses of medicine, or what amounts to no rmedicine at all.  My  hearers
are by this time sufficiently disabused of this lmisrepresentation, and see
that our system  is distinguished by great, peculiar andcl  philosophically
established principles.  But I should perhaps not answer expectation or do
justice to the subject, if I did not advert to this feature of the s -steln.
Those who tIave apprehended the principle of "similla similibbls curantur," cannot fail to see the necessary consequence of small doses.  They
will see that we do not give medicine to obtain its primary or di rect4 effect,
but to excite the re-action of the vital principle, and thus enable it to
overcome the very slight primary effect produced by the medicine, and the
disease at the same time, as in the case of applying cold to the hands to
excite warmth.  A patient is attacked with nausea, and is on the point of
vomiting.  We gire him an article which will produce such nausea and
vomiting in a healthy subject, that is, an emetic.  But will a large close be
likely to cure his sickness?  Will it not on the other hand be certain to
aggravate it?  In like manner, will a patient with inflammatory tever bear
large doses of stimulants with impunity?  Another is laboring under
head-ache, closely resembling that produced by Belladonna.  Will he bear
large doses of Belladonna without aggravating it?  Medicine is commonly
given to produce an indirect effect upon the diseased part, through sound
and distant organs; thus a headache is treated by acting upon the healthy
stomach or bowels by an emetic or cathartic.  Here large doses may be




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borne; but very difelrent is it if we give a remedy which acts directly an dc
specifically upon thie diseased organ itself, as Belladonna does upon a diseased head and an emetic upon a nauseated stomach.  But in Hornceopathic
practice we always prescribe medicines which act directly and specifically
upon1 the cliseasecl part' itself.  How  preposterous the argument that our
doses can produce ino effect upon the sick, because a mnan in sound health
can boear a miuch larlger dose with impunity!  Suppose I meet one of these
objectorsa witlh a burlnt finger.  1 place my finger Cat a colfortable distance
fiolm the fire and iinvite him, to place his by its side.  He does so, but instantly withdrllaws it in tn acn agony of pain.  I ridicule his prletended selnsitiveness to suc] a modera'e degree of heat, because it produces no uncomfortable effectton me.  I find him shut up in a profoundly dalrk room  with
inflammation of the eyes.   I admit a ray of liolt by raising the corner of
a curtain, cidcl  le screamns  with pain.  I laugh at him for pretending to feel
a powerful. efiect from such  a -quantity of light, because I have borne tile
full blaze of l dy without inconvenience.  This is no mole prl'epsterous aInd
absurd,  thllan to  idicule the idea of small doses ploducino-  an etflct when
actigo directly on a diseased olrgan whiclhl is therefore peculiarly sensitive to
its efStets; beclause the'ntme  doses plroduce no palpable eflects upon an indivictual f'e from disease.
This on:ue view of the subject is, perhaps, fully sufficient for our purpose,
but'Lhelre is'Inother cilrcumstance that glreatly strenothens iti.  I'he activepower of medicine is glreatlv increased  bT the Homiceopatl)ic met-hod of
prep'arationl.  We takle, for example a grain of medicine,u  lUix it with one
lllnireld grins  of. Slul1'i of milk and t;ritllace in a moltar to great fineness.
We trit urlte a gliln of this Ilxture wxitl anotherl hundred g rlins of sugar
of millk,.nlc  so oil, as maun  times as wAre think proper.    Mathematicians'tell us, tlait it is matblhetmaltieallv demonstrable that the sulrfco of a g'iven
solid beodyx, whlen  idcluted to  l:)articles,    inciease(I in  the  ratio  of the
dimilnution of its particile.   Our filrsttrturation vastly multiplies the number of particles, diminishes tlleir size, and in the same ratio, aincreases their
alg;rleguate surface.   The second trituration increases the surface from  a
quaclter of an inch to verl  many feet.  A  very small pari; of a grain, thus
prepal'ed, presents, vastly l]a''er surftee to colne in contact; with the living(
orea'nisnl tl i thle imwhole'ani v wxithout: this process.  Ca  it be doubted,
that medicines acet'ery mluchi: in pliol)otiotn to the sua-ilce which  can be
brougl:t in contace with. tle ortgiganisIlm?   Will not that medicine act with
greater power thllt comes in clirect conltact with a surface of many feetthat can  be spreiad over the whole internal surface of the stomach and
bowels, thus comina  in conltact v ith every part of it, than that which presents only a surfface of a quarlter of can inch?h  The most learnled Allopathists admit this.  If then, insteacd of weiobht, we takle surface as the standard
of size, doubtless thle more correct standard in this case, then the Allopathist Awho  wives his i'raimn,  ives a small cosA, while, the Holloeopathist, who
(tivs his  uniartetr  o  eighth or sixteenth of  a grain, gives, in reality, a vastly
lar. ger o0ne, so that we generally find it necessary to  reduce the quantity
mnuch below tl-hese fi'actions.
But,tftier all) independently   of all -tllhese sufficient cosiderations, the objeetr'ions to ti1e sma1llldness of the dose, are mnre moonshine, fori our system




-prescribes no quantity, and imposes no restrictions.  It tells the young
practitioner, that if he prepares his medicines properly, and always prescribes them  on the Homoeopathic principle, he will find, from the double
cause of their increased  power, and  the  peculiar susceptibility of the
patient, in all cases, to the appropriate  Homoeopathic remedy, that very
small doses will produce very prompt and salutary effects-effects, wlhieh,
if he has only been accustomed to Allopathic prescriptions, will astonislh
1fiin, and appear more like the result of supernatural agency than what
he has been accustomed to consider the natural effects of medicine.  But
lie is, at the' same time, told that he is under no restrictions as to the quantity of medicines lie shall give, but is at liberty, nay, in duty bound, to
observe for himself, and give such doses as he finds necessary to  produce
the desired effect.  This license is surely broad enough for all, except those
who are resolved to give more medicine tlan they  thellmselves findl necessary.
A  query naturally arises here.  If the principles of the Homceopatbic
system are reall y so obvious a.ncd well established, why is it that the whole
medical profession lalve not adopted it?  To give a full answer to thlis
question would require a lecture by itself.  It must suffice here to say, that
several causes, such as natural inclolence-sthe dread of being obliged to go
inlto new trains of lalborlious investigations, the pride  of learlnino-an Iunwillingness to acknowledge that others have lealned what they do not
nowr; a veneration for old and supposed established doctrines; tha reputed
weakness of credulity, wc'hi   can be. easily induced to believe new tlli)ngs,
with the supposed dignity of unbelief, hlave all conspired, in every age, to
deter men flom adopting, and to produce resistance to nlew  discoveries.
The hist-o y of discoveries and improvements in science in evelTy  age, not
excepting our own, is a hlistory  of opposition —-opposition friom  the professedly learned.  The e has always been a large class of philosophels who,
h:aviog finished their cducation where it should have begoun, an11 entrenchinrg themnlselves behind their migh'ty aclquisitions, llave devoted the remainder of life to mulish opposition to all subsequent discoveries.  Harvey  was
cruelly pelsecuted to thce dlay of his death, by the profissedly lealIrned in
the l.rofssion, for his discovey  of te ci of the cnculaioll of tle blood, the early
Chermists for their cdiscoveries in. Cheliistrly, -lc GaClileo by all the philosophers of the age, for announcing his then unpopular, aIi:bsurdl ancd heretical
doctrine of the revolution of the earth.  Recent does not dififer fomn former
history in this respect.  It is not strange, then, that a modern imlprovenment in mnedicine should share the common. fate.:It is much more stralnge,
in my estimation, thllft it should constitute so much  of' an exception to the
general rule-that within little more than fifty years friom its first discovery
by one mlan, and within but little more than half that time fionm  its gen-.eral announcement to the world throu)lgh the press, it should  nmunber its
thousands of converts froml  among the most learned and scientific of the
medical profession in Europe and America -that it should already  boast
its seven hundred volumes of medical literature, its tweinty or thirty peri~olicals, monthly and quarterly, its professorships in Eurlopean Universities,
its numerous Court physicians aldcl Counsellors, and its hundreds of thousands of gratefi4l patients from thle most intelligelu.t in every community;




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that it should be already sustained in Europe by imperial decrees andi
royal enactments-that most of the  crowned heads upon  the continent
have already chosen Homoeopathists as Court physicians, and that the systeom is exclusively patronized by almost the entire of Continental nobilitv.*
And who are they who oppose it, and on what grounds?  I venture the
reply:  Those alone who have not rendered themrselves competent judclges
of its merits by a thorough  practical examination of it, and wholly  upon
theoretical grounds.  We challenge the instance of a single faithful examnination of its principles and practice resulting in their rejection.  And even
these objectors a.lre paying unwitting homage to its great principle, in their
daily practice.  In compliance with what other principle is it, that they give
Iodine and Nitric Acid in imercurial salivation and sore mouth, when these
articles are well known to  produce a, similar salivation and sore mouth
when freely given to thel healthy subject?  On whatt other principle is it
that they universally employ mercury for the cure of inflammnration and eniargement of the liver, when it is well known that a free use of mercury
produces a similar state?  Or that Balsam of Copavia is in general use in
the treatment of irritation anld inflammation  of mucous membranes, wheln
the same article is universally recognized as possessing  the property  of
producingo the same state?  Or that Opium, notwithstaidingo it has been
so often observed to produce a state closely resemblingo  deliruni tremels,
is with them the sheet anchor of hope in the treatment of this formidable
disease?  Or, that such articles as Emletic Tartar and Ipecac, in small doses,;-re found to  be effectual and are (laily employed to cure irlitation a nd
sickness of the stomach?  Or that laxatives are in. dailyv. use to cure Diar1hoea?  In all these anid a thousand  other instances, of daily occurrence,
they, unknown to themselves, act upon and  therefiire practically ackncowledlge the tiruth  of the  HIomoeopathic law, "simeilia similibus curantur."
They do so every time tlley employ vaccination, which is' purely HomioeopatIlic.  If Small Pox can be prevented by any other than a Homioeopathie
remledy, let theim  inoculate thleir patients with the Itch, or give them  a
Rheumatism, and not confine themselves to the only disease which closely
r(esembles Small Pox, and is therefore  exclusively  Homloeopatlhic.  We
think it but just to ask of those who condemn our systeim, either to cease
T'he following statistics are offered for the benefit of, and an answer to those,
who, either ignoianitly or 1rwickedly, are raising the cry that Hornoeopathy is going
down in Europe. They represent its state in 1842, since which time, it is well
knowin, it has illCl'eRasedl ith unprecedented rapidity.
At tlle above date, there were about forty distinguished professors in the European
Universities who had declared their conversion to the system and become its firm
advlocates.' The distinction of Counsellors of State and Counlsellors of lMedicine'is conferred by the Sovereigns of Elurope, upon such physicians Ilone as are distinguished
for their acquisitions in general science and medicine, and is esteemed a cimplinment
of the highest order."  Of this class of learned and distinguished Inmet, there were,
iio less than fift.y-five Hoomoeopathists,
The distinction of Courut physicians is only conferred by the European sovereigns.
for highly di-tinguished and unequivocal success in the practice of medicine;  but at
the above date, there were not less than twenty-two Hornoeopathists ei'joying that
high distin'ction.  There were.seventeen Professorships of folmnoeopathy in the Universities and Medical schools and eighteen I-Iomoeopathic Hospitals.




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to avail themselves of our great principle in their daily practice, or cease tu,
denounce it.  The frequent instances of the action of the *Homoeopathic
principle in their own experimental practice, is a sad puzzle to the profession.  A well-known and scientific Allopathic writer detailis several cases
of the prompt cure of a severe disease by a remedy which is,well known te
produce similar disease when  taken incautiously by the healthy subject
In commenting upon them, lie frankly acknowledges that he can give no
satisfactory or scientific account of the mnocdus o2perandi of thie emedy ins
these cases.  "Indeed," he adds, "accordingl to the established principles of
our science, it should have acted far otherwise."  iHowv firmly " established'"
those principles of science must be, whiclh  are contradieted by dailv factsl
What a pity it is that nature will not so far accommodate us as to conform
her fhcts to ourt "established principles" of science!  But to be serious.
How  readily would a knowledge of the HomToeopatluic principle have relieved the leairned Doctor of all his diffculty, and  ttaught him  that hisi
strange ireledy clured the (lisease because it possessed the property  of prodcluing similar disease.
It would be extremely amlnusing, if the subject were not too serious to
amuse, to contemplate the puzzlino', confused and contradictory accounts
which difii rent Allopatlic writers giive of the same remedies in consequence
of a want of knowledge of this'reat key-trutth in medicine, which explains.
all the mystery, halrmonizes all the discrepancy, and reconciles all the contradiction.' Take  a few examples in ielation  to one or two articles onlyOne writeir warns us against the use of Antimony because its use prioduces
inflammation of the lungs, while the profession g'enerally rely mnainul  upon
it to cure intfliammtion of the lunogs.  One says it should not be used, because it procduces irritation of the skin, xwhile anotler laulols at the idea,
and iecomilen(ds it to culre iriitation of the skin.  One cautions us not to
use it in ilflamimatolry aefictions, because it is a heating' and inflrunnlationexciting relecdy, wlile others scout the idea, because they have alvways employed it w\ith sueCCss  in the treatment of these very inflammiatiorns.  One
g'ives us solemn warlning ac'ainst its use because it excites profuse mucous.
secretions, while another  praises its use in mucous ifeers to check profuse:
mucous secretions.
One writer, tletingo of the Arnica mnontana, says that it excites danger —
ous inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach andl bowels?
and therefore, must never be used wvhen that state exists, as it could  only agglavate it.. Anotler, of equal authority, evidently  supposes this to be i
great mistake, because he has long employed it xwith sig'nal success ii the
treatment of those very inflammaltions.  Thus unsettled and:indefinite is
the Allopathic Materia Medica-the knowledg'e of the properties and effects
of medicines, in  regard  to  almost every remledy  which they  employ.
How uncertain mlust be their application  to disease e!  There is nlothing
settled respecting themn but settled difference of opinion  and consequent,
controversy.  Every one will see how clearly and satisfactorily a knowledge-,
of the Homoeopathic principle reconciles the whole difliculty.  Antimony
does produce inflammlation, and it is by virtue of that very property, that
it cures it.  It does excite profuse mucous secretions and therefore  cure:s
them.  It does produce and therefore cures irritation of the skin.




Anica does 1produce violent disturbance of thle mucous imembraniies of
the stomlach and bowels, and it is in virtue of this prolperty that the Homoeopathlist daily and promptly curIes such disturbance with it.
In this view of the subject, how  clear it is, what infinite mischief the
Allopaithic physician must lr1oducce when he happens to choose a really apI'roiate riemcdy; that is, a remedy which produces a similar disease if
given in Allop  athic doses, for then he is sure to have the medicinal disease super:lIdded to the original one, or what appears ian aggravation of the
original one.  The Homoeopath has occasion to see such instances almost
dailyv. 
I carnot deny mnyse lf the pleasure of Inmaking a few short extracts firom ar
letter of Dr. Dunnel giving ai account of his conversion to Homoeopathy..
It is in perfect correspondence  wxith my  own experience and thlat of thoulsands more.    " You desire ine to give you my reasons for believillng Ho-'moeolpathia,; you well know I ought to have good  reasons for that belief;
b.Icau;3c no )'rson Clt(?'it.ainlS a mor11e10   conltemptible opinion of the science
tilan I oiicc  held.
Conltempt  rioTseC inl mIe ft'r    tilhe saIme c(ause thlt produces the saimne
o)linion ainornio a lnajorit-, of phlliciLans, viz: the mIlost profound io-noIancc,
of tiheJ ct. ardduced in its suppoit."  "Thr:iis, wvhen ugted i) your lself, years
algo, to examine thl  subject, I deeled it of too smiall imlport for serious
examliinatiol, alld xwenta froni year to year,ol'opingo alonlg the dark  and dleioiuLs triet'kts of Allopalth-."   Hie at leng th " cocnsetted'" to redc the wo ok of
Halhnenmlnn-tlhe Organonl.  4i After perunsinig   the, introductory chapter,   1
bee'an to devour tle, contents of thqlt \work x ith intense interest; for it re
ealled ciricunistalnces in tle   e ite  f disease  I hadl il vain endeavorecl to
compmrehenlld, and o-ave form  alnd shalpe and tasliohn to -arious doubts nand
lay dlreams that had often floated ove1' my1 bLin,  w ithout the possibility of
SIssio'ningT to theml  " a local lhabitation andu i i namne."  "The Homoeopathiie
law reconciles a milliol of othexrwisem disc doi'dalt facts, gcathercd by observation and e(xperience, andl cllml)ines them into on{: harmonious whole."  HIo
Iesolved to test the Homoc opathic. ltam  practically, c-and pioceeds to give,e
nost inticrletstin  dle tail of two ilonths' prl)actice, mlad theln procecls: " Two
shorit months of exaulinuation into the t ruth or falsity- of thle law,'similia
simililbs culantur' had rIesultedl in cffe('tually   eu inI~ Ilore disea ses thAin I
had been a!le to do in as many xyears.  The truth of the law  flashed ovel
myr mental vision -with a light,  brilliant and intense as the suin at noon-day,
and in the celntre of its efhilgence, appeared  the venerable features of the
sage of Meissen, HaIhnemaln! a name destined to outlive the names of those
meleical predecleissors whom  lie has not elbalmed  in his own immortal
i\works.
It has,  I assure you, cost me quite a strlug'gle to believe'my long imbibed
and cherished ideas of dlisease erroneous, especially as reg'ards inflammation.
I have w-atched the patients I have treated, with inflammatory diseases, as
closely as the pilot watches the breakers under his lee, and stood ready to draw
the lancet in their aid, if necessity required it, until I have verified, in numnerous instances, the truth," &e.-"-so that the most violent pleuritic fever,
w-ith all its attendant alai'ming symptoms, is cured  in the space of twentyfou,,tr lzor's at farthest,,  wit/C6t[ antiy loss of blood or any. antipldogistic




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wACatever.  I have only to addtl, that my first few mnonthls of experience -have
been conlfirmeed, atld my  onviction daily and hourly increased ever sincee.
T'his is in substance  the experience of all the thousands, who, like Dr.
Dunnell, have consented to go into the examination.
Permit nme to refer, more directly, to a few of the  dlvantages which thlis
system  possesses over any otlle.   I pass over the  obvious advt7llintiLge  of
the greater ease and pleasurne with which sug'ar plums are aiillinisteil'ed to
children and  irritable  stomanchs,   than  natuseating  doses of Jalap, bilious
pills, &tc. &c., and observe:
1st.  That our experiments upon the  properties of meiiein  are mare       de,;n advance, upon the leealtihy subject, and consequenltly thle lcure of the sick
is not delaecld and life endangered- by a courlse of guessingM  anl expenrinlcTt
at the bedside.  An aflomnalous case of disease, entirely  new to us occurs.
We are not obliged first, to construto a hypothetical theory  of its unceltain
pathological charlacter and  then11 select        ledicine, whiCh, ngreeably  to outr
uncert.ain notions of its properties,  is adapteed to th1alt hypotllesis.  But we
act instantlyV ulon thel principle  uI)on  which wv  halve v  lear.le  to rely   with
confidence.  We refer at once to ourlll Mteria Medica   our pelfected recordt
of the preleise P01o(l'tieos of mnedicines, ascertained  by dcitEeliberate,  cautious
and i inullte experimente.   We select that'Irticle whose known effects correlspond with tile group  of sy-mptoms which  clharacterize  the disease in lquestion, and  whien ewe  haxe  determined on this correspoiilence between thle
remedy and the diseas-, we feel certain of' its eIfects.'ITh  Asiatic Cholerla,
wherever loioinoeopathy was pralctice(dl,  was thus t eated, fi oll tile vel y fi st,
with pre-emilent, snuccess.  Cases of disease, the precise   nature of which it
is impossible to determine, nare constantlv occulrino,   7hlich'iveo the superior
advanut.i amJs of tle system in thi's respect, a most palpable iantl deli  ltfit l pte2dll.  The strlentlil of the patient; ulder this system, is neve cl onsileir ably reiuced by tieattimlent.  The miost acu~te attacks of pleurisy, inflam-mation of the lunes, and inlammatolry fever are curedcl in a few hours, withonut
any of that debility and prostration produced         by profutse bleedings, catha.rtics anf-de itlauseatin  renmeldies supposed  to be indispensible in the prevalent,
p'ractic(e,  n-id whlinch  leave the p)iltient in a. state reqjuilrino weellc s or1 imonths
to rcolverC  the strieln tli of wvic.h lie ilas been robbed, not by tle disease, btit
by t!ie treatnlent.  To the truth of tllis advaistalige multitudes in this communitx, i and in exverv other wxhere the system is pr icticed, can testify.
3dly.  Our sy stelm neever proclues artifici-l or medicinal diseases.  We,
hIve seen that upon thlis Sxyscemln,  mhediine is never given with a view inor
in suffiient quantity to produce its primairy    or medicinal efticts, but to proyvoie tie vital powxer to react and overcome thle slight effect of the medicine
and the disease at, the salme time —  in other words, to  excite  nature to do
her own work.  Not so  with  other s stems.   They depend for all tlleir
cures, upon the primiarl     eftects of  lledicines, against whlieh efiets, we have3
seen, the vital princip)le noe er fails to react.  This reactive power, the only
curative power in nature, they place no depenelnce upon, and lose sight cf
altogether, while it is llmakirg perpetual and sblenuoius efforts to counteract,
and overconme every dose of medicine they give.  If in -this dotuble strife
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not be matter of mucll surprise.  But every artificial state produced by
medicine is a diseased state.  The sleepiness and stupor produced by opium
is no less disease than the samestate occurring spontaneously.  The action
of an emetic is but an artificial cholera morbus, and the action of a cathartic but an artificial diarrhcea.   All other prevalent systems aim  to produce these medicinal diseases —to cure one disease  by producing another,
rof an opposite  character; as sleeplessness, restlessness and irritability by
artificial stupor-constipation  by inducing  artificial  diarrhcea, &c.  But
look at the  inevitable results accordiing to the invariable law  of ivital reaction.'rhe primary effects of all medicines, unless given in directly ruinous
doses, must be temporary, to be certainly followed by a pcrmanently opposite condition.  Thus opium is given to a patient to relieve him from restlessness, nervousn ess andt sleeplessness.  He is relieved  while the primary
effect of the remedy continues,;but as surely as there exists a law of vital
reaction, it will establish a state the reverse of thalt produced by the opiate,
lnd within twenty-four hours, when the primnary effect has ceased and the
vital power has reacted, the patient will be more nervous, more restless and
lore sleepless than before.  The close is repeated with the same temporary
relief and the same vital reaction as before,  and so on, until obstinate naturle gains the ascencldancy and the patient is placed permanently in a condition the very reverse of that which the medicine'w as O ilen to prodtuce;
that is, in a st.ate of such pelrmanlent restlnes s and irritability that life is
a burden unless he is perpetually under' the  at'lficiall stupor of opium.
The physician leaves hiIm, recovered, if you please, of his original disease,
but laboring unlder the infliction of its atificial substitute, than w hich, no
natttratl disease could be more  deploitble, whlether  contemplated in its
physical or its mental aspect.
A patient takes a cathartic to remllove constipation.  The object is effcted
for a short timle.  But the vital principle, ever at its post, ever on the alert,
and never failin?@ to act in obedience  to its own tlaw, reacts  against this
artificial disturbance and establishes a state  opposite to  that produced by
the disturbing agent, viz: a state of constipation.  This calls for a repetition of the calthartic, and the  vital lprinciple  forltifies itself in. its second
reaction,  more strongly antd more permanently than before, against its influence, and so on, until the habitual use of cathartics becomes indispensible.  He is now, as migiht have been predicted, a pelrmanentll, artificially
diseased man, a victima to  medicinal disease, and  unless he gets his eyes
openl in season, like the opiuni-talher, he, will dralg   out a miserable  existence and meet with a premature end.     Who cannot point to melhlancholly
examples of bothl these cases in every community?
An individclal is attackeid with indcligestion.  A laxative is given, followed
by bitters.  This is the usual practice.  Cannot my  hearers predict the
riestit?  Constipation' follows the laxative, and increased weakness of the
stomach succeeds the artificial stimulation communicated to it by the bitter.
He thinks himself cured for a short time.  But wheni the treatment is suspended and the primary effect ceases, and  reaction has followed, he has
what he very probably calls a new attack, worse than the first.  He  again
applies for relief.  The artificial, nmedicinal  constipation is' now taken as
evidence of torpor of the liver, and Blue pills or some  other form.of mert




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cury is given to rouseit to action, to be followed by more laxatixes and
bitters.  He is again cured' and is pleased and grateful! But what next,?
Why, the vital reaction reproduces all these difficulties with increased intensity, with the addition of real torpor of the liver, produced by the reaction against its mer-1rcurial stimulation.  The case now becomes complicsted.
Mercurials, laxatives and tonics are repeated with temporary palliation and
eventual aoo'ravations of the disease, until the patient becomes a confirmed
and miserable dyspeptic, with'the usual complication  of diseased liver.
Despairing of a cure by orthodox treatment, he now applies, perhaps, to a
Thompsonian, who drugs him with pepper and other stimulants Which
create such an unnaturlal power within himn, that hie can almost digest
grind-stones, and Thompsonian practice is heralded as almost a performer
of miracles., What next?  Why, when the treatment is suspended and
the system has reacted,against it, there is found such debility and torpor of
the digestive organs, that they can neither digest food nor be acted on by
medicine unless of the most powerful character, and in the largest doses, and
powerful cathartic pills by the dozen or by the box. or enormous daily quantities of cayenne pepper are indispensible to keep the machinery of the organism in motion.  Who, in every neighborhood, does not know of persons who
are moving, living, dying examples of this formn of artificial disease, passing under the nlame of dyspepsia and liver disease!  How many such cases
have I seen within the last eighteen months who are now showering blessings upon Homceopathy!
I'select these examples for their falmiliarity to those hvlo have not made
medicine a special study.  If I were addressing medical men alone, I would
refer to examples of a still graver character.
But what is true of the remedies in these cases is ecqually true of all
medicinies not administered in obedience to the Homloeopathic law.  And
when we iefiect on the great numlber and energetic properties of the umedicinal substances which are daily prescribed with such an unsparing hand,
and when' we keep in mind the law of vital reaction, can we be surprised
that every community is full of the victims of artificial mledicinal disefase,
often of alt intractable character?  VWe believe, on what we think good
authloity,  anld the resul t of careful study and observation, that a large pro-.
portion of all the obstinate chronic diseases we are called to treat, are of
this artificial character, and they are found of all dliseases, the most difficult to cure.  Is it not time that a practice attended with such confessedly enormous evils was either wholly abandoned or so reformed as to avoid
themrn?  Cam2 that be a true system of medicine, a prominent portion of
whose every  day effects is, to manufacture disease iiistead of cutringy it.?
Is it not the duty of medical mlen, at least to examine a systeln of which
thousands who have fully tried it, testify that it is free from  all these d.an —
gers, and besidles incomparably more prompt and permanent in the cure of
disease?  I speak thus, not to reflect upon  those who have not condescended to examine it, but to justify myself for not only condescending,,
but for having had the hardihood to dare to examine it for myself, and
then for having yielded, against my strongest inclina'tions and prejudices,
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4th.  A  fourth advanct. age of this system  arises fi'om  its greater definiteness in the treatmlent of lisease from  the specific character of its remledies.
Specific remledies for a few diseases have- been long known.  Sulphur has
been regarded as a specific for the itch.  Peruviani  Bark  for intermittelt
fteverl, and   erulmy for  clrtain  affections of the liver and some othller discases, &r.  It has frequently  been predicted tllat specific inediiines would 
be  evl-entually discovered for the great mass of diseases.  Thle HIoinoeopathliC
law has realizedl the prediction  wvith a definitenless never drealiled of.  It
announces this realization of a long chlerish ed  hope1 of the profiftessioit'aind
(strang5 exhibition of humanl   naturle i) that piofessionl,  without stoppil)ig to
inquire into its, truth or falsehood, set theimselx es in hostile a'rray at i ainst it,
and cry, iimpossible, humbug!  The  predliction is not fulfilled in the pre(ise slhape  thlleir  philosophy    had  supposed it, should he.  This fbature of
i:omocopathic practice is doubtless  clearly      perct ixved-by those, who1h haNv
followed us thus far in our exposition of it.  In all cases of disease, giiMn)
th  very Iel:medly  -wlich  is capable of producingn' the saime diseael,   with the
slane symptons, these relnedies are of coulse, in all case-    s of' the'<clu'rater
of specifics.  Thouugh this  may be suffiicientlx  clear alread, l   wc-    w  -wrill illistrate it by an  examplle   or two.  Several  art-icles of medicine, as Bc!lladolli.Il, Hyoseiamus, Opium  and Straconull      ll ui ll ha\   beenl fitlcu1n:us, but  laV i
enjoyedl a1 Cver  varialble'pntutation  tor the trl.ate:nit of menltl delacll'inc it.  While  one phys'ician  has extollel  ono11 of thllese articles  for tihe
great success'with xw hich lle h s employe d it in fIle trietmelllt of tllis alfi-etion,  another has declared his entire disbelief in it,, eficacy, hasinc, isn hiti
haiincs entirely file.   Anil so of them'all.  Tlle ric asoi of thius disacireolinent is pefcectly  obvTious.  INot atlWare of the  fact, that each  of these
articles  a specific  riemedy for inental  le ra'c:llncnt   clallticteriz led by a
c(ertain distingui.;.;:1hinic traini oc symlptoInm,   tlhe  -]a\mve re'irdedtl ( thinem   I
iine dies for m entil delrngemlent in  eenler l, hoxweve lhaal Cteiziei.   e-Ieic
both thteir-sueeess and their faillure 1hav  beein alike   ec-idents.  Belladonna,
wv.hen givxen in sufficient quanltitties, prodlcs  ldelangceinelt with such sympt;is a-i the followiino: excessiv-ce a'l-'cuish amnd iiquietude, loss of conselouniless; frig ltful -visions, as of spectres, devils, war, &c., wxith  desire  to rtun
axwamy or to hide; ricliulous buffotonlr;  wildness of the eycss with fixed and
furious look; trembling   of the limbs, &c.  Folr dele-anelemont hlls charactelrized, Bellcldonna is the  specific  ilededy,  and    lien a p hysiciain his
ae:uidetntally employed it in sCtch cases lhe has been suleessful acnd  plais-ed
Belladonna. as an eificient remedy for mental deralgenlent.  Another Ias
triecd it in the safie disease, but with a difflrent tr.ail   of syimptoi-as and hlas
of course failed, andcl  hence  has  declaredl Belladonna of lio  use in  this
disease.c
Hyoscianmus prloduces the disease marked by parox ysms of mania, alterliately  wxitll epileptic fits; sleeplessness with  loquacious  deliriunm, great
ancuislh and fea,  especially at night, with fear of being betrayed  or poisonedl; visions of persons who are cldead; jealousy; fury, with desile to strike
and kill; iaxinog about one's affairs, &e.  In just this forlm of disease, HIoscianmus is the specific remedy, but totally  inapplicable in  other forms..
But not kIowiing this fict, some harve; pronounced judgment for, and others
agaiLst it.




Opium  produces derangement with  lethargic  drowsiness, mania With
faintastical or fixed ideas which induce a belief that one is not at bhome,
frightful visions as of nice, scoipious, &c.; inability to sleep, notwithstanding the goreateit sleepiness, &e.  For this form of the disealse, opium  is the
specific remedy, but is inappropriate in any other form.'The same is true
of a multitude of other relnedies, each of which produces and cures a distinct formi of mental derangeement, but which are only applied specifically]
by the Homoeopathist.  Cu.lres  performed by others with these articles
occurred because thev were, without their knowing  it, Homoeopathic to
the disease.  What is true of this disease is equally  true. of all others.
We never give a medicine because a patient has a disease called by al particular namie, as dyspepsia, typhus f0elv, or influenza, but because he halis a
disease mnarked by a particular group of symlrtoms -which specifically indicate a particular remledy.
5th.  But the fifth advantage I will name is, tllat the Homoeopiathic is
the only directly curative method of treating disease.  If thle examples of
the law "similia sirilibus curantur" whiclh I have  adduced, and ten thousandlmore which might be adduced, are not all lawless fieakLs of na1ture,
then the troatmient of disease on this principle must be the  only  directly
curative one, unless nature has established two laws that are in direect and
irreconcilable conflict wiith eacth etherl. All remedies given uipon the Hoiceopathic principle act dilectly  anid  spccifically  iupon  the  diseased,organ.
Contrast thle oposino' methods in a given case as an illustlration.   Lake a
head-ache xwihich is not s mpathetic of disease of solme othei organ,  T'he
I-lomocopathist gives a minulte close of Belladonna, or some other of the
numerous articles accordinlg   to tle symptoms, whlich acts dicectly cad specificcally upon the dliseased olrgan, and in a few minutes, its eftect'becomes
evident by a ielmoval of the pain.  Very different is the course undlr other
systems of tle-atment.  Here the remedy is directed. to a clistan't aid sound
organ for the purpose of acting' indirectly l-upon  the  diseased one.  An.
enietic or a cathatrtic is given to excite clisease in the stoma. ch or bowels and
thus indirectly affect the head.  We do not.denv that disease may be cured
in this indirect wvay; but with  what delay, with what uncertaint-y,     with
what expenlse, and often with what danger to the before healthy potiions of
thie body!
Nature herself sometimles cures one disease by  inclcing' another.  But
I. t it never be foirgotten that, unlike the Allopathist, she never fails to act
according to her own law, sim;lia similibus.  In  othelr words, she never
cures one disease by inducing lanother of an opposite, but alway s of a similar character.  She cannot cure Small Pox by Rlheunlatisl  wAhich is of a
(liflferent character, but does by  Cow-pock, which is of an  analao'ous
character.  She often suspzends one disease by proclucing another of a different character, or in a different and  distant plrat cf the system, just tas
the physician suspends a sore throat, a pain in the side, a diseased spine,
an habitual head-ache and a hundred other ailments, by inducing an opposite internal disease, or by blisters, plasters, issues, emetic tartar, or croton
oil s res, &c. &c.  But in the first case, when  the second  disease which
nature has induced is terminated, the first resumes its course as before its
interruption; and in the second, when the blisters, issues and sores are sus



32?lenided, the diseases they were intended to cure, resume their original course
as thoug'h they had suffered no interruption.  HIow many have undergone,
for months, this species of torture for the cure of chronic disease, and been
flatterecl  by its temporary suspension, only to be cruelly disappointed, when
fTheir torture  was suspended, by a return  of all their former symptoms.
How irrational it now seems to me, to continue to attemnpt. what nature
herself has never been able to perform, and  what centuries of experience
have proved to be impossible for us!
Besides what we have here said, and  when speaking of dyspepsia, con3tipation, &C., we may refer to the two great classes of local and cutaneous
diseases, the reputed  cures of which  are rmost calamitously deceptive.
1Thoigh a volume might be filled with examples of so-called cutres of these
iseeases by  external applications beingo followed by serious and often fatal
internal disease, yet the practice is still general.  These internal attacks, in
consequence of external cures are sometimes sudden, but mole  frequently
slow and insidnious, the  patient seeing no connection between them —nay
moMe, le is often congratulating himself upon his happy  riddance of his
extcinal disease, while that same disease, not cured, but only repelled, is
pireying, in fattll disg'uise, upon his internal organs.  No nmatter whether
this external disease be an ulcer upon the  alcle, a chronic inflammation o,
-thAe eye, a discharg'e fiom the ear, a sore throat, a salt rheum, or an itchf'hUe consequences are similar.  In these cases a few doses of a HolnoeopathZ renmedy w ill often restore the disease to its original locality  and bring'
immediate relief to the internal organs.  A continuance of the  treatment
uralles, not repels, the external diseas'e also.*
S'ome ie are willing to believe that this system may do w-ell in chronic diseases, but
i'e af'Raid tr tlust it in seveIe acute cases-the very cases in which it has demonstrated its superiority most triumphantly.  Is the Asiatic Cholera a sufficiently
acute and severe disease to furnish a satisefctory test of its efficiency?  Let us look
ta- a few facts, then.
Le MNIo.niteuln (the official organ of the French Government,) announces that Dr.
Mabbit, a lTonmoeopathist, has been created Knight of the Legion of HIonor in con-;seqtjence of his distiln-uished success in the treatment of Cholera in Bordeaux.  Dr..NlaTbbit has collected the results of the two systems -of treatment of Cholera in dif-:i eint places, The general result is as follows:
Treated Allopathically,-                               405.027
Cured,                  -                           - 254,788
Died,                         - - 240,,239
giving a percentage of 49 deaths out of 100.
Treated H1omoeopathically, -   -  -  -  2239
Cured,                                                   20ti.9
Died,     -.                          1 70
gilving 7 1-2 as the per centage of deaths.
It was witnessing the successful treatment of Cholera that first led Dr. Mabbit alnd
mnany other clistinauished physicians to adopt H oinoeopathy. It is officially an -:ounced by a colnmission appointed for that pulnrj:.se, that in Vienna, under. Allopathic treatmeut, two-thirds of the patients died, while, under Homneopathic, ttwothirds recovered. The Prussian State Gazette announces, that, within a certain dis-tiet;, Homoeopathy cured 86 out of 109, Allopathy 60 OlutOf 199, while nature, without
a physician, cured 16 out of 49. That is, Homoeopathy cured about 80 per cent.
Allopathy 30, and nature 32. The Cholera brokle out with great violence in thle
territory of Raab in HIungary.'Thle result of all the cases was: cured bv Honmoeo-.athy 97 per cent., by Allopathy 56 2-3 per cent. We rmight indefinitely extend




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6th.   A. sixth advnrltatge possesseld  )y  th(  (Inomoopa:lih  is the  minute
and a(rurate knowledg, e  possesses of the properties of t               ple mnedicine  ]e
employs, conltrasted Awitlh the ex('eedii: ly mei.elx'n'1' kxnowledge possesed bV
the Allopatl_.
similar statistics in reaard to Cholera as well as other (liseases ill Europc and America.  In Cincinnati durinig the season of tlhe glreatest prevolence of Cholera there,
the results were even more strikiiig.  The fattal cases under Allopathic treatmentl
was about 4-5 -er cent., whltle under Iomoeopathic it Twa but 5 per cent.  We believe the result of the two systems of treatment of Cholera in this city during the
present season, it they could be fully umade known, would be quite as striking as in
Cincinnati.  iNr'o one conversant wit. the facts will deny that the Allopathic treatment'of this disease has beei  terribly  unlsuccessful,   and there are hundreds of witnesses to the fact that the Ilomoeopathic has been most delightfully successful.  A
lultitude of caes Lhave occurred here to which the Allopatlic physician has beoin
called at anI earlv stage of tl:le preionitory lialrrhea,  but; whicll have gone steadily
on through all the stares of the disease and einded in death, the sooner and  the
oftener, 1 finimly believe, by thle Calomel and Latudanllim  treatmnent, and sometimes,
if possible, by w'orse treatment still.
On the other lainid we challenge the pr-o0dUcti,, Of Ccases Of this disease terminatinig fatally under circunistalces that afforded the least ground of a reasonable hope.
A.nd amiong those that have recovered has been a  large nlumber who had been under
Allopathic tl eat1nent till all hope was abaiidone(l and tlie patienit left cold, c.llapsed
aIc1 pulseless, mad  iin solme iistlnces they have l-ein pulseless for several hours when
the Hlomoeopatlic treatmlent w\xas commenced.'We have already intimated our belief that the popular treatment, iiot only of
Cholera, but of nmost diseases was  worse thali no tlreatrneit at all.  And this belief
is coniirred by the trials which havIe been fairly made.
Inthe Infirmary of Wieden, a suburb of Vienna, were 350 patients with acute
inflammationt of tie lungs, froll  thie year 1842 to 146.  Of these, 85 were treatedl
by the popular'l ethod of bleeding. 106 by the equally popular method of  alarge
doses of emetic tartar, anld 189 by the expectant planl of harmless or merely dietetic
remledies.
()f the first acd second classes, )0 per cent. and a fractiotn died, while  of the third
class only 7 per cent. and a. fraction d(ied. Here nature outdid  the giver of drugs
in saving her pa tieiits h)y'13 pel centl.
tBint I-Homloeo)pathly i  ev ery trial, has idone better than  nature, proving that it is
not as some suppose. a mlre nelgaive treatileut.
Thus, in the Momoeopathie liHospitll at Linz,'a city. of Austria, of 99 cases of
acute iiflamnml tioll of the luings, only one died. And in another Hospital at Gumpurd(lof, near Vienna. of 284 patients with the same disease, 10 died-a loss of lass
than 3 per cent.  VWhat is tr;e of cholera aind inflammation  of the lungs, we believe to be verly  ea the te truth in the general range of diseases.
In viewv ofr srelh facts ave ar e obliged to believ e either that Homoeopathy is very
efficient in the treatment of this most dre dful of all. diseases, or that Allopathy is
horribly destrllctive.    We mnilght greatly extend a simnilar camiparison in regard to
almost any other dlisease.  But in reg-ard to most; acute diseases we need not go far
from home.   Xe conulidenltly appeal to facts wit hin the i each of all, if they choose
to availthvemslelves ol' tlhenlli —flc( s Nlichll shoxwv tlhit, almost every  variety of acute
disease, sucnll as inlflallitl.tionl of tlei lillo's, pleurisv, fevers, dyselaterv,, coup, scarlet
fevel, a-emrallmd, dliseases of the skiln and -i thlc ecxc, &c_. &c., have been repeatedly
culred w ithi a                           l)roiptitude not iithiiel1(o dlreameu (1t.  Sn iall Pox may he added tfo
the list.  Nine oer t1el cases inll  at djoiiiina  to)w,, occu'rrin   unexpectedly and COnsequently runplrepl}(red for, i;I stTve( re cOIIlluct 1m i;tl, have  all beeii treated Homoeopathically, 1)y. 1physicia.n  l o ne yer treated a case of sinall Pox before, andl there
have not onmly beer  nol deraths. blut scarelly an a)pearance of dalnger for two hours
together.  Who can poillt to a like ressuet undler Allopathic treatment?
But there are those waho conceive it ilrnpossible theat; internal treatment alone can
eure local diseases of the skin lnd  the eves' &c.  If the anlomnal referred to in my
introductiol dlid niot; exist, I iieed not e'xhibit foreigln statisties in regard tor such
affections, but as it doers,:t quote the fillowing:
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We nmake the assertion, deliberlately tllat  tle,Alloptithic phyIsician,  does
not know, and  all his somrces  of ifbormation, wlithout resorting to  Homoeopathy, do not ftrnishI him'with the means of ascerqtainiZq  the poioperties of any one of the  nemedies he e2mploy2s.
The properties of medicines consist in the powers they possess of producing changes of sensation, of function and of structure in the human organism.  All the properties of a  medicine are not known till all the chanoes
it is capable of effecting are klnown l.        But heow hlave the changes  of sensaStapf,by his extraordinary success in the treatment  of Egyptian ophthalmia, (the
most obstinate  aind destructive formn  of infml-lmlationi of tile eye,) which  raged
among the soldiers in;llhe garrisons of the  lthiic;  attracted  tile attention of the
Prussian. Minister of War, who prevailed oll hi m  to  risit lcBrlin and take charge of
the Military Hospitals, Lazareth  and  La Charilite. Tle did so with  distinguished
honorand success   Stalpf was a Hormoeopatlhist.  rl'here is, in tlie city of New
York, a charitable Institution called the  Prot estant halft Ot)rphan Asylum.  Its inmates became affected with an iincorrigible (lise'ase of tle evefi,and an  incorrigible
eluption of the skin.  They were for a lon(i time, under lle trelatent     of a distinguished and skillful Allopathic physicianl1 of the city. but with such  discouraging
results that the managers were compelledl to resorl  to.soioe other t.reatmenlt    Theh
made choice of Dr. Wrigoht, a TIolnoeopatllist. T''e h    olilowilrr is tt description of
the inmates giiven officially, wXheat Dr.    riroght colnl:ellced iis chalge.
"The general aspect 4of nearly all of theml, was tlflt of bodily and mllelltal torpor;
1:heir skin dry, flabby and pale; the cyes of inanrv, dlull   and downl-cast' these Ilorbid appearlnces, together;with a settledl sadness o(f exprcssion, a,disinclination for
~all uvenile sports, and their sittingl about in sihtent (grout),, so unnatuial to healthy
children, sugogested the idea that disease  101re tan11 Il et! 1tLhe eve was inwardly'it
fwork."' Ophthaln'ia w i-as the predorliunatiuigl diseasie.  (llt tohf lt;2  children, 53I
cases AXere found  requiring treatlent. alnd 20 of thes e     were,of an aggravated form,
presenltig the following characteristics: eye-lids inflainel       d ac  sW-elled, some of
them entirely closed, others nearly  so;  l thick ciust of adhesirie matter upon the
-naro'ins.  The outer coat; of the eye ball red with inflairlmatiolj,  the  eye painful.
and most intensely so when exposed to the light.  Five hrald  ulcers on the cornea,
atle1 four gralmulations of the upper eye-lid."  The followilig table  sxhibits the protgress under the purely' itomoeopatlic treatimenlt A-itboutla sinle exte rnal applieatlOl.
I-fVhen received.    iv(,  (j       Ui de;7'se.           t'rcatmlzcn-d?,
1.842,.August 11,.53
From llth-to 30th,        12          6       3!)
Septen-mber,             I 13      33        I)
October,               i  16                   8.NTovember,                 /        8         7
Deceimber,                 I)        5
January,                     1
FebruaryX,                  O.1        0
Thus in this brief period Xwas thllis obstilnate affectionl eladicated from the Asv lum,
by internal treatment aloe.  But; this is lnoti all.'Ilherle -werel  no less t!anll 14'
cases of the cutaneous disease to be treated.''he followinll  is the concluding portion of the first official a-nnurual report aftier Dr. rilight's enltrance  upon  h]is trust.
The oenelal health of thlle children durilng  tile past yeiar I]lis been gradually improving and they are now all wtell aund  in ecellent spirits."   What a contrast to the
gloomy picture at the begilnning  of the  year.  If is adedl, "There  has been lno
change in ventilation or regimen friom  foliner years, except the prohibition of pepper with food.  No external medicinal applicatio-is have beenll  ade.  The medical
treatment in every instance, has been strictly  Homoeopnathic."  Were these  great
esults the effectof  imaination? or of  re           t? o of   aiicnt?   er Ilc ely -withdlrawiintg the
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tion, of i tioni and of structure \which  tile  hunldreds of medicines have
the power to produce, been examined and souglt to be ascertained by the
Allopathic physician?  By giving them  to the sick-to  those'who' have
talready, as the eft.et of disease, a hundred  iuilnatural sensations and derangemlents of fbelinll, of function and of stuceture.  When a medicine is
gixren during the  (xistence of such ac conflusiol of diseased sensations, ino
(one will pretaend that, it is possible for the patient to distinguish what sellsaltions are produced by tle disease, andl  hct by the mnedicine.  And it is
obxviously eq-jually  impossible ft, thle phl sician. to discliminate which of the
thousand changes of funtetions that lare going on in ev-ery  organ and tissue
of the body lar ]produced bl  the one cause o t th  otller.  Andcl when deatl
telminates  this confuse(d  lixvimo  experiment, he is no bletter able to say
l-hich of the or'gilic'chuan'es that he.finds are  to be charged to the disease and  which  to the lnemdicines.  And yet this course of vague and
flunitless experiment upon the sick is the grecat source of Allopathic knowledge of thle prope rties of medicines.
But, this mecthod, fruitless as it lmust;  be, i's renlldetred still Imore hopeless
hb! th.e fact, thalt exi h11llis olhsel  ationl is seldom m11ade upon a. single roemedy, a presn'ilj tionl he1img much more freq uentlxy compounded of firom two to
l dozen lartticles minlcled toogeiher.
Is it conceivable  that when a patient, altready sufferinog    h.undred  1nnatural and disteased sensations, swaillos  a: close of medicine compounded,:)f half a dozen hlhugs, each one of  icllh is ca pable of piducino a_. lindrled  n1ew senlSiftions, he cil   distino'uiish the ilnultipl)ied  ndconf tfio sed effiect of
each one of these in distinetioni fit'on all the rest, and all of thc l fom the
confllsion oIf s'ensatiions resulltinl fi'om the disease?  O1- that thle mlost aicute
Aphslsician can anS  better discriminatce the  eflects of each in the productioim
of the multiplied disorders of funietiol and s-tiucture?  Imnpossible!  The
plllysician closes the trieatment   of a patient  by this method,  no wAiser  in regard. to the propeities of each of his  emedlies than he was before.  Who
cLnliiot sec thait'a tolerable  knoxwled-e of tihe properties of:medicines clan
qeaer7 be obtained  bIT this process'   The or'1 eat Dr. Forbes confesses that
owledclge  in tliis department has snca cel  madle any progriess in the last
t\wo thousabnd  ears   andl thait this ibranch of science  is yet in its infancy!
Anud by tilis metlod it xwxill continue in its infanc-y for ten thousand d years
tOi C(Olin(.
Inl COlitr'asft x-it1i~~tlis,  HomlOCeOlmpathy hlas, Iduing) sisxt  years of.existence,
a1 vastly more pelrf'ect Matelcri;a Medicl a,ma incomparably better knowledge of
the prloperties of incelicines thlan Allopatlly  has obtained in twxo thousand
Va;erls, or can obtaiun wh]ile thle world stncds, by its present method.  We
hlwae a minute and complete klnowledge of all the medicines -we employ.
Thelre is morle knmowledge to be obtained firom  one work of Homoeopathic
Materia Meclica, thllan  il ll the Allopathic libraries of- the world.  Andtlhis knowledge of thle properties of medicines is obtained  in the only possib-le way of obtaining it, viz'  by each medicine being taken by peisoins in
perfect healthl sufficiently long mcd in sifficient quantity to produce a11 the
efiects they are, cailpalle  of pmrodulcing i comnpatille.witll safe ty, anl a    carefilly
recolrding all these, effects.




Let us look a monment at tlle consequeneces of this difiference, in the uise
of one of the most f:cliliar articles, say Ip)eeac.  in the  latest and best
works of the Allopathic school, we find the  slum   tota.l of tlhe  knowledge
attained in regardcl  to this  aiticle  to  consist of sic  p)rolp)eities  o01 efiects,
which we copy fiom  the great Mwork of Wood  &; Bacell,  -viz: It is emetic,
diaphoretic, exp;ctorant, stimnullant to  t    stie lalll, p)rouces eauIset a    1d
acts on the bowels.  These six properlties, thell, complise the  vxlbole of A1lopathic  knowledge of Ipcac.  On. the otlher llald, the Homoeolpath is
familiar with between one ainl  two hIldlledtl prlopr ties of this sa-me article,
as obvious, as palpable andl as importnt   t as thlle si known to the Allopath.
Trhe followiing are a f(,w of themti: Pain  in  tihe'ollnes, bleedling   fromn  different organs, great sensibilit-  to healt and(  oldl, sl)a;ILs   d coxnvulsions,  elultions and violent itchinag',  igoitC ted. sl'eep, witll tl l:4 Ces half open, groalns
and jerking of the limbs, frig htful drela     s'm itll slidden starts,  shuddeling
and coldness of tl e limLbs a nd  fatce, thirst, (cries  -andll howling   in  childien,
mloroseness, peevishness a nlcl irritability, hesadl-aiche as though all the bones
of the head xvere bruised, 4.il. t ted  puplls; confused siglt, convulsive twithebing's of thle fcte, tooth-ache, tolnuTLe coated,  sore thr:lo:)at difficult swallowinmg,
colgh especi'llvy  at niollt Avith  painful shlocks i  thLe  stonlachll alld headl,
cough resemblinou hoolpmn-coghll, wx itll bleedic   ait tlei los( iad ltl111th,
with fits of suflocation stiffness of the bod  and blulislh face, anxious short,
breathing, spasnmodic astihma and  pailtinlg breath,  loss  of hbreath on  t1he
least movement, crlamps in the muscles, &e. &c.
Now sSuppose an Allopiathic phv sician treal-iniol  (":cse for whichl 1he tlhinks
proper to gi ve Ipecac.  It is gixven fireelv, mand:it leclgth the p atient beagins to
complain of paini in the bones,  pressing plaii the foiehead, grealt sensibilitv
to heat and cold, his  sleep  is distulbled w ith ft iolltful dreams, groans aind
starts, dry  shakinff cough  -ithll fits of suffocation,   anxious  breathling, &c.
What is the coneclusioil of thle physician on. seemin    this alarming   colnplicltioln of symptoms?  Wh,li  he never dreams that they are prodlced by thie
harmless Ipecac he is givingo, for he lthas never   learlnet   that Ipecacd ixs capable of producing  any  such fifects.  ii  in inflence is, that the  disease is
making alarming proogress, is becoming dimi        erlceioussi  complicated  and  calls
for a more vigoroous  itreatmenei..As many of these snmptomlls are the very
ones foir wxhich le is accustomed to  i\ve Ie(pecac, lie v-eli  probably contini1e,s
it~ in l' anger  mnld  more  frequent doses, and  thus inc ases  thlle, difficulty.
Tl his is not a falncy picttuii.  We ix e       seen the or'igi nal fi'oru   which it xwai
dralwn  and the )patielt iln immi nent dalincrer  of dleath, xile the phivsiciin
had not dreamed of the ca lus  of danll(l',.  But, this  article  is oine of the
iost innocet,  anlld pllysicinls suppose tht ii; eal:he  iiven w vithl p erfect saf'ty if not calrried  to thi ( extent of pro(ducinl  (xsc('sic, xvomiting  ancd  purgilg).  In. Allopatlhic xs orks tthere is not a hintf; of ay other danger.
But if this coilparatively i; nct(ell; article( often produceis such dmctgoeous
results vwhile t0he  thysiia  is   nawNare of the, Pet f'om iaora'cr(m  of its
propertices  hiilat shill be th(ougllt of the  danc'els aid1  c,:lIlaiitio,_~ cI'e'-;lltinl'
from  the daily use of such p1a      erful  afrtnaicsI'rc. 101 ry,!. (:Co),l  ILe ad,
Arseiiic, Iodiine, Belladonna  1d1( a, tImdtreld;lilcr:trticles,  ach'     otx' ilicill
produces a longer  catalocuie oi  lll o t('im1a.f l     lll iiiid'(I. ideadly- isvmfoilns,
and of wvhic  hlxvsicians ce'a,      ni mcor. i!-fmuinnt lth:in  they   ae of pl l:ecac.




We are daily witnessing the most, formidable tand often fatal medicinal diseases, the itule andl  ofig'i  of -whichl ar( totally  nlsuispectecl by the physicians who  have produced them.   P'he; ac seien  in the every  day treatInellt of' diairrhoea,:lysentlery, inlanl'atios, feveis,,&Tc. &e., lmost of the
faital cases of whicllh are so, 1-otl firon the original sdisetlse,   but ftoirn medici11i.l1 cOIl)ilical tio-lt.s.*
But the F llomo lpitll, ilnstetad  f t  iving     c lrelnedies the p toperties of which
are 1unknowv11 to  hillm,'ives h-lis 4remedies witth la  p]Ier t knowledge  of all
the effects they are capable of producinl.          HavI:ilnl detlernmined thle lprecise
changes that require to be effectedl, he sellects just thllat remedy  -which he
kniows to be  capable of cfft1e'tinll  the  exact calmnnes re     o quired.  Does not
thlis diffi'rellce fulrnish a.'oo(d reason f  or  the demonstlr'tted  supe"iorl success
of Hol(moeoptlthic trelatimenllt'
7 tih.  T.hel last, idvant'io'e of the svste.mi  to  -hiM1 L  ill briehfli   tllude,
is its antidotes-its remedies otf  ieldieina     l  isertses.  In  some  poIltionls of
this depitineiit,, the Allopctllist s have dolte themselves  cledit.   They  have:
thorounolllvr il-vestioiltedl the  an titlotes   ftor  a limited  nlumber  of thle most
dlestrlictiue poe sohis, especiill V thel cheiniciial antidotes.   W  t the  hte begun, Homoeopathists have fin ishedl.  Guidtd by their  1teat prineipl)e, they
have ascertained the appropliate' aiiltilotes f) ao ill the.liedicinal   substances
emploedl il pr actl;ic.   Whllen -we lhave occasioil to   tre at a patient laboliing
u.nderi ecdicinlal disease, our filst ciltre is, by  appropriate  antidotes to free
hlim  from  this artiticial polttioi of li.s malaidy.    Hence the ssuperior success
whllich lis been honestly  coniicededl to us ill the tlreatmient of illneicinal! diseases, whichl constitute so  cnllsiderable:a )ortion of the chronic  diseas( s to
be treated.  It seetns almost  iiecessarl   to  1emnl'k that when  we find a patient laborinri  under dlisease p)-oltuced  bh  too  frec a. use  of any medicinal. rtile, we Ido) not counteraet it by ivillng himn a little, more of the salne article'
I say; it seems almost necessary  to nmale tllis selt evident, statelent, becaulseB
phyvsiciaiins    ho consider themselves competent, to prloniounlce judglient upoen
01our systenll, are yet so  p:ofoundly i'llclcrint of it, thlit they  believ\e  ourl
principles requirte us to (cure lledlicinal diseases bivy giv'ing     tile  paltient more
of the medicine which produled  it;  tnd  olt' claims to  common sense are
effectually disproved b  tl-le tiiulphlnti         ei intelrogatolrv  alddressed  to one as
igniorant as themnselves'L Cln Vonl beliexw. thalt,m. nman  drliunk  on a pint of
of bryandx, will be iniade soberl   I ta-lkino an additional tdr op" 
In conclusion,    (clannot: butit, ask'    1 thle 1Ilomoeopathic systeml  be what!we
think we have shoxlwn it to be, tt-d if other systems be withat we have represen1ted,whether a w\\el ll-inform) ed 1ant( c11ielntiouis iioeopatilist        comply
-with  the demand soinetimces mIllale of hini-l, to 111akc ieuse of both or all these
systemls ill his )tc i   e?'   Whltsfi s cillant  reasonsc  cii bt'issionet  whry ton
who undlerstaut sdm,  \vblift thes   syste s itri,  should   niltiutate trtl rthand
error-sciel-lce  a:l   ip l:i)t'y     ti rtait  tat    imul uncertai nty-safety and
d.angertai-nd.luctio oll  h.ltd. ad tllt sis-t:li t secing  altl(i.:t.l a i taset-(slc atinll
svsteil? i t it. litti -,x SOlit  tl;ttit tihtv hx lve  nJott full confidence in HoTmocopathy. t   J llo ngb t;1}terv'[)telii. ve it to be i htici allt  t. sotl e cases, they are
aft'ail to tr lst it ill otheri.   As\ \\e utldlestanld  bIoth   stel        atls,   ll:d  theN
khav.e a right to cl (,s;c    ftor themlselves, we o tiaIlt to yie-ld  to tlheirl wishes, as
iTu-is is feartlflly Iiie ill tl) e flrcatlim)c! 1 of Clholelra.




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to what; practice shafll be f'ollowed in particulalr  cwases.       fireely   admit  the
premises, thal:t all have the righlt to choose  their own,systeml  of medical
treatn-lent; but I ask if;the  Ilhysician  is  under   obligation —nay, if he is
iot absolutely foi-yiddebl by'comi'1(ct nmoil piineilel, being made tli  instruIne-nt of pmIAc'itiRill,,:ild  thitius i c i(-.intio1110  t0ld  po''jetti'iting', sxste ui of
tleaitmenlt   lich liet kn1ows t.o   e (1111oparativelv inefficient, ind  productivet
of orealt e-ils  l e       n gret: d an clda er to the patient,  wlhenl  he hi s a. systeml
at, his comiiiiaIta w1lIch ]  iet  knoxs to 1b)te  incolliprably  superior to it in    i
thelse respects 
Trrle HIlomo.opatlll.ic  s,-t.lt ei  r       LIuire-ll   It hlt   lboriouls  nd. militi s i   tudl.
lThis s   indispi sibic.  No amini(      t of lea.ilnine,  O1r jutldg ent,   orl tact  call
ulpply it;s pla( c.  Thi   trult  will 1:(i co ( i\vet  (tt.: l'ance.        We  -mlust clei)elild,  Alholly  ill thl  chlloict  of our remedies,   poln their lkno tl pioperties.-p
upon alll the cftetics whichl tillhey are found,  by ai longlr a.d ilificlult course of
experieliet, to podtue upon l I      the.     lcaltlv stub1ect.  Tlli  is  ll. 1'Inatter of
record.    No  jUdlln(o-ent, io(wever:cltiitc, lit   leaI nin' hlowever  prlofounl,
could ])ossibl)y  pi])rolnile Ct.  p'io-'i, whallt t::ee   cfif-csts wouldl 1.   Our onlll
resource is the record,     I  oll ier l'( rIs t      l l thet (n'i Medlic'.   I:,t to  ieulltil:
at fIliiln lli.i\iwled'e of'4ij tl   tliciasallnds if syx p  litomls  producedl by some.
lundreds of art.icles,  is 1  work  f o 1 no simatll llainittd.e  l.'For soIne, tillic
then,   and fol a. long tinl   if if he i not laboriously studious,   th.lle pIlactitiojnerl
mIavy inct withl  cases for l N Wh;ich. hei mal   nlot, at, o     C reco'Ilize thlle -pprcinii tt o Honlocop]t;tlic rnl-mcdxy'  toil it  hi; is  lit:itle indolent,  he maot filil to
secarch it out.   In such cases  lhe ltnust, of cu, p)til'tie the treattme-nt, me      t, his
c', monand. Bat   liet hn lie, li, oniest  ll an:'i,sin  the t r.ti  rea son. fo.     depairting' fonm  a systemn ifou nde-l   ot   lox  of natuiie,.i-td  therefore of univerisal
a1 pplicationl.   Let hit  s an,   iAnoenuumsh].   M  Ix p1arttial ac  ( aintance w ith  the
syxstem  dioes Ilot; e        inable me to tleterniiuie  t he  appropriate   ~ reiledT  in itis
cast   i Avill hdi the — best I cani 
We xwisi, hi owvo.,, i'to,e distil illtv n,lIerastiood ()I  tdlii; )oii t. pi Theie are
mrel'e ca'es in l whicll  \vei not!  onlx   tllillk  it l)1Opr ibt n)lct IIesC'si) -to resortI,
teimportlI'lil, to pl'lia.latix es.      hlis is s;ncltiO ~ied. i li  the nhillst  lomoeoLpatIlic,'authorities.    Ih rs Dr. Bilclh,   o     llf Ilolon,;Int'itr st. roue'    Iel:p>robhatilng o
(clmbiniation. ofl tli  ti\\i s Nstems  nIi  s,)ixl' [11.tit su:ch  (comlbinitioll cannot
be pral tisecl'witll  suceess,  sa's'  "i Bltt xwe   ltlll,   tlhat tlihere  nar1e some few
cases.in llich: w;i must v'o..l't to(tt} t l n-casure(s.
Forl exatunmpl e,  i'  c;tseL s of pois.,:nile.  it; is  n cs: sa _. is  o i taxe'recol'rse'to,unetics,  or{ tle stirltn. toint 1, p.u il tl.n to   o/iintl,(rl'-lct the eflts of the
P)1isol0  by Hoiioeopattlii'ucius    I          pn aspvliyxi, sint ope }rl-d sluch co-nditions,
wlieenl tihe powex or of Ire'icti' io,-:  lmli i tl -,, (- l, it is n(Ce(,ssir'. tc hlavce 1ecourse to spcedy cl    titinli.'
"Whlen life seem"s'.lhis( \ext     ict, t t  thle odinta )'ilcastus iist be emlployed to excite action.   N'v', accordintli ll  tti hle, opinionl of somlie Holnoeopathists,  thiere arl instancesl ill whic. blood-lettine' acts beneficially  in rousiung
the vital. acti\ itx;  (a's in n tpoplvexy  ot tle  iuun-s,)") but  trhis  rea ctioll  oce
establislled, wx    111. i l:d (l  uponl tel    (l:i- tplo neut of slpe(ific reledies.   It
sometines happcns, in iinclivicdua.ls I-wlso    h. xe  long labolredul underl constipa,
tion, aggreavac ted. 1by  tie use of puti.e tives, tlhl t tlte  Hocle]lthillic  emledies
fail fom I, feuw   ayslvrs  il pr1cUilno' relio f;  inl sIcnli (cs. an  enema of tepidl




water imlay be eirnploycd till  the  fleidenic  to ciolistj]patioil  is graduallly ire1o1(ved bly Holnoeollathic letlalns.
in no cases is it I necessary to lad(illiistfel ())iUll 0(1' 01any;alc(l  seclatives in
order te relieve pailln; rarely will HIolnoeopathie mieans  fail; and often we
lehave seen tlihel  succeedl w\ len Allopalthic.  means had no effect.
Frequently  havle pilsfilla, Conium,    &c. pro'llr'ed  relief in  cases of adatnlCed cancer, wihen opium   hlad  completely failed; and  these  imedicines
possess tlhis advantage also, that  their employment is  follow-ed by none of
the preijudicial secondary   eflects vwhi ch so constantly  succeed  the itreat.tment
of neuralgia,  (the most  painful of all diseases,) " the great, superiority of
specific remedies to the ordillary  Allopathic sedatives  is familiar  to evelry
Homocopathist.''
There is one accusatition a'aCins t  us to  wll ich I thiink it proper to advert.
It is said that we mallu e a free use of watl te  upon our patients, and thus far:We depart fi'om  oul plofessel principles, andcl practice Hydropathy instead of
Homoeopathy.'lhe only replyy xwe wish to makie to  this objection, because
it is sufficient, is, tha;t xwe cilaim  the riolit to the use of every remedial agent
which Heaven has furnished us, iincluding    exven  xwater.   Every  substance
which can etiect changes in the  llhuman  olr anisln mtay be  employecld'as a
remedly when such chalnges  are recquied.'lle only restriction to their Luse
is that they shall lnot be -used in violattion of; but  in strict accordance with
the laws o't xitality ancd the   Oreatd lCa   of culre.   N-o  one not  possessing a
krlowledoe of these lawis can use water  as  L ctlrative agient any more safely
or successftllv  than lie can any of the other powerful remleddies in daily use.
I cannot dismiss this sul ject xwit;lourt inakin' ollc  appeal to  my readers.
I do not ask;  ou to iadopt or believe   the principhl c   or laws  of cure or any'theorlies which    have propounlded, ul-less, in your judtlgrent, they are reasonable  aaldt scieltificully     cstablished  cnd thus hly reasonable claim  to your
credence.   I (:o lnot ask you to implicitly beiexe in the  statements I make
in relationl to Ca systeml of practice to which, both from  theoretical convictions
and a soilewllat laroge experience,       I allm  exceediingly  paLtial.   But thelre is
one lP, quest I lmay rm:ake to   V1hich-l no one ctin object; and this I  do mosturgently lnake  to all nly reuaders  who  reside  where  Allopathic  and Honmoeopathic pl acticec are  exhibited side  by side.  And this request  is, toal.t
they will obser tve /'  t/eraselees, t/ae colparar tivec  res'ults (o' th/ese two systeans of t reat)me er t    ie t/lae sl, c  dlieCC   Aisesd. lLtwe  ve ture  the  predication
that this comlparison will resull,, in irelation  to every prevalent disease, in a
verdict in favor  of Hom-oeopathx t          hl- at it; \ill be  seen and  acknowledged
that in Cholera,  Chllolel.-norlus, Diarrhoea,  C1oul), Intlflailmiation  of the
lungs, Plellris, 1    emt1 esv,'er  M elAsles,s  Seartlet;  Fe'\erl,  Small Pox,   lletlumatism,
eThe Honloeoplat,hic tl reattient has, piells, been 1llo)l'e frequentily rlhalrwed wiih  anllt of success'in
Intermittent f\vers, tlla.n in:ly otier disease. Wre believe the chtlrg'e unfoullded, andi that it manifests its sutleriorit;y as clearly iln this disease as in ny othlier. It is said thatt our treatmeint is often
long in effecting' a, clore, while a f'ew large doses of Qusinine cure it at; once. If the stopping the chills:and fever was rea.lly:i radical a nd pelr asnelnt, slte of tle dise:ise, we should be obligec  to aciknowledge tllat thee treatmellt vas often inore successful than our own. lBut helein lies the deception. —This stoppilsr of the chills told ft'ver by ]arg, ldoses of (ot  uininc, Cholagoule, Strychline, &c., is, ill
nine cases in ten, no cure at all, but: miere templlorary ptllition.  The patient, after such a cure,
continues onl for ldays or weclss, pale, sallow anil sicklly, lnd then the chills return. Many lundergo
what is called a. cure every few d(lays or weeks througih the season, anld are not cured at last, never
experiencing dur'ng all this time, a feeling of real health. After tllis process has been repeated a
few tilnes, the treatment has Inmade its  unmist:aflab]e mark. None need inisl-tke the pale, salow, hllastly, wretched, solemnls, dejected, looking being. before him —-he is a ivictim of Qsuinine.



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&c.. &C., a   luac  h, smaller proportion of cases  p},rove  fhatal; thllt thlose  (culed
are much.    more   quickly and more   ]i:,'rfeetly cured undc er thlis trefatmlent than
under Allopathy; and that while the  i: ornler reCover fl'ee from   all disease,
many  of the latter will be found to sufbfer for a  longl time the   uncomfortoable and  often distressing  effects of poisonous and life-disturbing drugs.   Such
is the result of the observation  of thousands, and  Nwill  be of all who  carefully  observe.
T'he properties of Quinine, in otllher wods, the effects whicll it leloduc-s oi thle hlumnan  system, like
those of other medicines. are accurately and minutely aseertainhed by  lonmoeopaths, and placed on
record.  Let me enumerate some of these effects: It has a slpecilic action, n the spinal marrow and
nlerves. its first effect is to excite the nervous systeml to unnatural activity; its secondary effect is
directly the reverse, viz: great depression of the neorvous power   and vital functions.  Its effects extend to every part of the body, and of course, to the nmind. We will particularize a little:
Mild -Attacks of anxiety. Paroxysms of anguish anld ap)rehension, sometimes rousing him
from sleep   Great despocndenec, melancholb, discourag,ement, &c,
Selsoritum.-S Slowness of sense, and inabillty to (olleet ( ne's senses and to retain an idea. E]mpty, stupid feeling of the head. Confused, wild feeling of the head, dizzeiniess, humnming and roatl ilg
in the ears and totteringe gait..Head. —Head-ache, with lanrguor, debility, yawninc', drowsiness and ill-ulmoumr, numbness, tremnl,ling in the limbs, throbbing of the temples, paleness.
Face. —Pale, miserable complexiol.  Sutifering expression of countentance and sutnlicn eyes.  Sallow tace and dinginess of t he whites of the eyes. Jaundice complexion, &c.
Stomaneh. —Nausea -with lelehing. Loatllino of fuod or caninle hiungler, vonlititlg, oppression of the
stonLalch, heart-burn, &e.  lIulness of the stomach aLnd oppression a.fter eatilng evel tile lightest kiindi
of food. ilcat and pressure in the st;onlacl, &c. Swellinlg alld paiit in thle region of the liver and
spleen.,beeomceni.-Various cuttinl alld teari-ig painls in the:abdonteli; rumnibling and chronic inflamm ation
of thle lmucous mlenibrla nes  If continued to a great exteet, consumrption of thle bolvels with lnatuseea,
agas'ing, loss of appetite, distension  andc counstant pressuIre of thle abdomene, conestipation, emaciationi,
hectic fever and delirius.
Clest. —Irritation of the broneichiae, cough, t,ightness of thle chest, stlelrtness of the breath onl taking
exercise, feeling of suffocation, asthmatic complaints, pains of tile chest, palpitation of the heart, &c:.
Sleep.-RIestless sleep and profuse nitshi sweats,
Fever.-Chilliness even to shakin., follovced by hieat and reduess -of tle flee, head-:lclhe, thirst, & c.
and then sweatt.
Limbs. —Teariens  pains in the limbs, cracking of the joints, -eael-ss ande trembling of the limls,
and dropsical swelling of tie feet.
These are only a few out of a lalrge catalognue of the effects of Qulinine, One patient does not experience them all at once. It afeects different organs e  rd parts of the body in different personls,:1s
one or another part of the systeal  happens to be thle weakest or iciost sensitive. ()le after beingt
cotred! by it, goes about for weeks or months, with riniing  or roaring in the ears, and dizzy head;:notther with constriction and fulness around the regrion of the stomach, ocrcasioned by colngestion alnd
swvelling of tlle liver or sileecn, or botll; another with constelt dravilig l)ains of tie linlbs aggravated
icy every change of wrceather; another with  jaundice, ssallon  face, wantllt of appetite, distress of tile
stomach after eating, with constipation or diarrhloea; and not a few with at great number of the above
symptoms at the same time.
Now we invite our  readers to imake their own observations on thills sulject  They have a l;irt of
the-effects of Quinine befire' tleem.   Compare them  with the syluptelnis of tlle cadaverous specimens
of humanity whichl they wvill see so pleinty around theln inl the latter parlt of autunlil  herever ague
prevails, anti elquire if they hesve not bceen cutred! by Quinine.  And wie ecarliestly invite them to colntrast with these, those who Ihave beern culred by Hlomocopathic tre;tinent. It wvill be observed thlati
those who ilave hlad the patience to be (:cured. -ery soon exhllibit a healthlful appearanlce and remlain
hlealthl.
Mlost persons suppose they mllust be cured in a inmuch shorter tinle o  ien c-tiermittent tlhan is reillired
to cure a billiouns, galstric. or any other fever. Th1is is an error. InT vr1y  many cases t intermlittent
is attended andcc  preceded by as extensive and serious derallgenelntlls of thle varioust, orials of the system as any other fever, atnd tiel'e is ino reason rhlly it; shlcuid nlot talke  s long to brin-u these variouis
deranements back to a state oft' Iealtlh as in other!tvers,  iTntil th;is is (lone the litienllt is not cured,
and any violent sulpprelssion of th(t c(ills and fever cl     la iZe doses of' Qtiillne or anv  otler drug is
not a cure, and the patient still ctcoetinues'sick althoul.t  i his hllills anld fever may be stopped ac   d he is
called cured.'rlle Quinline treatclenlt effects tflis tiempor: ry sulylresseioe,-Iloleeoeopalhic trecatmenlt
restores the organisme to health,  esdcl effects cr ilcdiral eliret.  Soem1s  calses of ag-uce ae' nalttenlded by
lmuch derangement, bleiing suddenly induced by exp)osure, violellt chalnges of wveather, &c.  These
ireay be cuIred by a cold or hot water or brandy sling swveat, a dose of Boe30set or Quinine, or any one
of a hlundred other things.  There is a sufficient number of such cases cu-red by Qeuintine to unfolteinately encourage its use in other cases in whiceh it its entirely ilnapplihable and cischeievous. —
Strvylhine and some other. agme medicines are cql.cally injurious.




I)IETETIC DIRECTIONS.
As tHomoeoloathic remedies are given in small doses, they are liable to
be cotunteracted by a variety of dietetic articles in common use.  Wh/ile unzder treath.eazt, thlrefore, patients should not only avoid all other medicizes,
herb-drinks, &c., but likewise the following articles, unless with the knowledge and consent of the physician, as they more or less disturb the action
of, or act as antidotes to certain medicines, in regard  to which  the physician is the only judg'e.
All acids, as sour fruits, &c,  Cabbage, cauliflower, asparagus, parsnips,
radishes, mushroom, tomatoes, onions, green corn, oysters, hard boiled eggs,
-eal, pork, geese and duclks.  The liver, heart, lungs and  tripe of animals.
All Elnd of nuts, coffee or green tea, old smoked salted meat, rancid butter,
old strong cheese, fish witlhout scales, as cat-fish, eels, &c.  Sausages, veal
cultlets and the flesh of all young animzals.  Cakes prepared with mullch fat
or aromaaics.  All kinds of spices, pepper and aromatics, nutmeg, ginger,
horse-radish, cloves, cinnamon, fennel, anise seed, sage, &c.  All kinds of
distilledc and fermented liquors and mineral waters.
Perfumery, especially musk, hartshorn, camphor, cologne water, and all
medicated tooth-powders should be avoided.
In all internal diseases the use of stays, corsets or tight dressing, interferes with the cure.  When admissible the patient should use moderate exercise in the open air.  Every strong passion  or powerful emotion whether
of an exciting or depressing character, tends ito impair the health and impede a cure.  A good moral regiimen and agreeable but not severe employment- greatly facilitates recovery, in chronic diseases.




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