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    One pellet for a child,  three for
an adult.  Or mix fifteen pellets in a
glass half full of water and  take one,
or two teaspoonfuls, every two, three,
six  or twelve hours,  according to se-
verity of symptoms.


    -*—< NEVER.)——

    Never give more than  one rem-
edy at a time,  and nevbk  alternate
medicines.


    -o—< AVOID.)—°-

    Strong acids, tea, coffee, spices,
all stimulants, saleratus, perfumery,
strong smelling disinfectants,  plas-
ters, ointments, gargles, and all other
medicines must be avoided. 
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               ACONITE.
     (To prevent calling the doctor.)
  At Commencement of any feverish condi-
tion (as if measles, mumps, inflammation
of bowels or lungs were threatened).  Hot
dry skin. Fever, toothache, earache, etc.
after a chill in dry cold air (Aeon,  and
Bry. differ  from Rhus).  Full,  bounding
pulse,  restlessness, thirst.  Effects of fright
(palpitation, diarrhoea, colic,   fainting,
suppressed  menses,  etc.).  Paleness or
faintness when rising  up. Anxiety,  fear,
with great  excitability.  First  stages of
croup. Cough  short,  dry  (compare  Bel.,
Bry., Fer. phos.,  Nux), short breathing,
oppression in chest, sharp pains in chest.
Hemorrhage from  lungs.  Sudden uterine
hemorrhage.   Nosebleed,  bright  blood.
Itching of anus (with worms, see  Sulp.).
Time  or menses suppressed  by  taking
cold (see Puis.). Attack of numbness etc.,
with fear of paralysis. 
                ARNICA.
  Arnica  is used  externally  for  bruises
and sprains, but is harmful if applied to
bleeding places.  Mix 15 to 20 drops of the
tincture in  a gill of water, and apply to
the injured parts,  at the  same time give
2 or 3 pellets of the homoeopathic prepa-
ration,  every 3 or 4 hours. Never  continue
Arnica  longer  than 24 hours, substitute
cool water, or  discontinue  all external
treatment.
             ARSENICUM.
  Very  great  exhaustion with   restless
tossing, anguish, dread of death (compare
Aeon., Bel., Gels.). Raw, burning nostrils,
eyes and lids, with acrid watery discharge.
Desires acid drinks, violent unquenchable
thirst,  and drinks but little at a time. Horrid
nausea, vomiting (comp. Ipec,  Verat.),
burning in  stomach,  swollen abdomen,
sometimes brought on by eating ice-cream
or fruit.  Diarrhoea (comp. Bry.,  Cham.,
Cinch.,  Coloc,  Ipec, Merc,  Xux,  Puis.,
Verat.)  dark,  thin, offensive. Asthma, 
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must sit bent forward, or spring out of
bed   at  night,   worse  after  midnight
(asthmatic  attacks  sometimes call  for
Aeon., Ipec, or  any other remedy having
appropriate symptoms of cough).

            BELLADONNA.
  To  prevent Scarlet fever,  mix  fifteen
pellets as noted under "DOSE";-  give
one teaspoonful  every forty eight hours
only.  Prepare  afresh  after  giving two
doses; give three or four times in all.
  Inflammation with deep redness. Throb-
bings. Pains which come  quickly, and go
quickly.  Flushed face, scarlet redness of
the body,  dry  heat.  Delirium,  stupor.
Startings in first sleep, drowsy but cannot
fall asleep. Throws the head back, bends the
body  backwards.  Spasms  increased   by
light, noise, or touch.  Eyes red, dread of
light, pupils dilated.  Earache (see Aeon.,
Cham.,  Hep., Merc,  Puis.)   right  ear.
Nosebleed suddenly,  with hot head. Head-
ache  and vertigo worse when stooping.
Throat sore  (compare Aeon., Fer. phos.,
Ilepar, Merc, Nux) right side, difficult and 
                    9
 painful  swallowing, thirst.  Dry, hard,
 painful, spasmodic cough, with tickling in
 upper part of the chest or larynx. Cough
 awakens from sleep.  Wind colic  (com
 pare Cham., Coloc, Nux, Puis.), menstru.
 al  pains (compare Aeon., Cham.,  Coloc,
 Puis.),  and  children's  colic with violent
 pains contorting body.
                BRYONIA,
  Cough, dry or loose, excited  by motion,
 talking, eating, warm air, seems to start
 from throat, causes pain in head or bowels.
 Sharp pain in right side when drawing a
 deep breath  (see Aeon., Fer. phos.). Colds
 from dry cold  weather, or drafts, when
 perspiring (like Aeon., but differing from
 Rhus).  Fever,  after  overwork, with dry
 heat, or sweat, thirst for large quantities,
 aching  in the  limbs, delirious dreams.
 Irritable, obstinate, effects of provocation
 (see Coloc).  Headache worse from  mo-
 tion or stooping, very drowsy, desires  to re-
main  quiet.  Indigestion,  tongue thickly
coated brown,  or white, dry tongue, nau- 
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sea when rising up, bitter taste.  Diarrhoea
after eating fruit,  worse in the  morning,
or directly after eating.  Constipation with
large hard stools (see Xux, Puis.,  Sulp.).
Painful caking of the breasts (see  Puis.).
Stiff neck, mumps on right side (see Merc,
Rhus).   Measles, with cough,  drowsiness,
etc, early stages (see Aeon., Bel., Cham.,
Puis.).  Rheumatism worse from motion, or
touch.
             CHAMOHILLA.
  (Sometimes given to make "bad chil-
dren" good, and  it may take the place
of corporal  punishment)
  Excessive fretfulness, children cry,  and
are stilled only while carried about, want this
or that, but push  it away when offered.
Pains in decayed teeth (see Merc), worse
from warm  food  or drink.  Pains (ear-
ache, etc.)  seem unbearable,  with great
nervousness. Redness of one cheek, especial-
ly the  left.  Children's  spasms  and  fits
(see Aeon., Bel.).  Rattling cough day and
night,  even in sleep. Green, slimy diar-
rhoea,  or  discharges yellow like chopped 
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eggs.  Wind colic  (with  other  character-
istics of Cham.). Menstrual colic with dark
clotted  blood, menstruation early and
profuse.

              CINCHONA.
  Great general weakness,  sweat  night
and day. Effects shortly after losing blood,
or other fluids.  Diarrhoea painless, undi-
gested,  worse at  night, flatulent colic.
Weak digestion with voracious appetite,
food returns  to  mouth,  dull  headache,
head feels bruised inside and out.
               COFFEA.
Sleepless,  mind overactive, or full of fears.
  Dose,- two or three pellets every two or
three hours after going to bed.
              COLOCYNTH.
  Colic in  stomach  or bowels— cutting,
tearing,  squeezing,  cramping  pains— in
paroxysms,  recurring  every  few minutes,
the sufferer bends  double, seeks relief by
pressing body against bed  or  corner of
table, nausea, vomiting,  cramps in legs, 
                   12
attacks often brought on by vexation or anger.
Diarrhoea, dysentery, with frequent thin
discharges, bloody, slimy,  bright yellow,
undigested,  renewed by food or motion.
Intense menstrual pains as above.
            FERRUM PHOS.
  Sometimes  instead  of  Aconite at com-
mencement of sore throat, etc.
  On taking cold, sore  throat,  hoarseness,
threatened croup, pain in chest, cough, heat
without much  thirst.   Hoarseness  preventing
singing,  or  following overstraining  the
voice.
             GELSEMINUM.
  The patient has a slow pulse,  and fears he
will  have intermittent fever. (Among
other remedies  for diseases  brought on,
or accompanied by fright or  anxiety, are
Aeon., Arson., Cof.).
           HEPAR  SULPH,
  Croup and hooping cough,  with  hoarse
loose (compare Bry.,  Cham., Ipec, Merc,
I'uls.) cough, and choking as if suffocating, 
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coughs when  any part of the body is un-
covered. Sore throat, with feeling like a
lump when swallowing, or as if a splinter
were sticking in the throat, sharp  pains dart
toward ears. Hepar cures or hastens the
bursting of abcesses (in throat, etc.), boils,
and felons. Sour sweat,  sore mouth, etc.
after taking mercury.
            IPECACUANHA.
  Vomiting, bitter, sour, food, or phlegm,
severe nausea,  distress at pit of stomach,
pale face, faintness, exhaustion, coldness.
Colic, slimy green stools. loose cough, as if
chest were full of mucus, hooping,  strang-
ling as if  about to  suffocate  (loses  the
breath), face turns blue, breathing very
rapid.   Hemorrhage (compare Aeon., Bel.,
Cinch.) from lungs or womb,  bright red
(not checked by Aconite). Chills and fever
where  much quinine has been taken.
           MERCURIUS SOL.
  Do not give this nor any other remedy for
humors and eruptions, for they .should be
treated by a physician. 
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  Rheumatic pains worst  at  night,  with
profuse sweat.  Pains,  itching,  etc. are in-
creased by warmth  of the bed.  Mumps
on  either  side, with other Merc symp-
toms.  Toothache in decayed  teeth,  if
Cham, does  not help.  Sore  throat with
ulcers, fetid breath, profuse flow of saliva,
worse when swallowing, tongue swollen.
Sneezing, thick discharge from eyes, ears,
or nose; or thia. acrid discharge  making
lids, nose, or ears raw and sore.  Diarrhoea
or dysentery, green, slimy, bloody stools,
frequent, with straining during and after
discharge.
            NUX  VOMICA.
  Sicknesses resemble  those helped by Pul-
satilla, temperament and the  times of sickness
are different.
  Best suits lean,  excitable, dark haired
persons,  who overwork mentally,  lose
sleep, take coffee or other stimulants.
  Sick headaches,  indigestions, colic, diz-
ziness, gloomy  nervousness  from causes
above noted.  Complaints are  tvorst in the
morning.  Piles,  with or  without blood.
Constipation with ineffectual  straining, 
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sour or bitter risings,  wind in stomach
and bowels.  After  wine-drinking, etc.,
frequent desire to urinate, useless urging
and pain.  Mornings,- snuffles, sneezing,
raw sore throat, and dry cough.

              PULSATILLA.
   Best suits mild, light haired persons.
  Complaints  worst  afternoon and evening,
better in the open air. Disordered stom-
ach after eating fat or rich food,  tongue
coated white, bitter or sour taste; flatu-
lency,  constipation, chills, or flushes with
little thirst.  Diarrhoea at night, with green
stools  and colic.   Sick  headache from
greasy food,  or menses checked or delayed.
Breasts cake,  with fever but  no thirst.
Later in progress  of a cold, thick, yellow
discharge from  eyes or nose.  Loose cough
becomes drier evenings. Earache at night
(sec Bel.,  Cham.,  Merc).  Styes.  Urine
passed seldom, scanty,  pain  afterward.
Rheumatic  pains  moving from place to
place,  worse   when  sitting  (compare
Rhus). 
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              RHUS  TOX.
  Rhus differs especially from Bryonia.
  Stiff neck,  stiff joints,  or rheumatic
 pains, occurring in damp weather, or brought
 on by getting wet, relieved by motion. Strains
 or  sprains  (instead of  Arnica,  but only
 used internally). Mumps left side. Ivy poi-
 soning.   Face,  nose,  or scalp  burning,
 tingling, red,  as if erysipelas were threat-
 ened (compare Bel.).
               SULPHUR.
  If constipation returns, or is not helped
 after taking Xux, Puis., or Bry., and eat-
 ing fruit for breakfast, give two or  three
doses of Sulphur,  twelve hours apart. If
itching of the anus, (with worms) is not
cured by Aeon., give  Sulphur  as above.
             VERATRUM.
  Cholera, cholera  morbus,  cholera  infan-
tum:— Discharges clear  like rice-water,
or brownish watery, involuntary; vomit-
ing, great exhaustion,  pallor, cold  clam-
my sweat,  colic,  cramps  in  the  legs,
violent thirst. 
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              NAMES.

  NAMES of diseases—as measles, mumps,
influenza— should not often be thought of
in choosing the medicine for a sick per-
son ; for this reason no list of diseases is
here given. Such a list would be conven-
ient, but its use must  sometimes lead to
dangerous  mistakes,  because  a  remedy
should not be given to a name, but to a
sick person.  Every sick person, attacked
by  a  sickness as characteristic even  as
pleurisy, is affected in his  own peculiar
way,  and should be treated only for his
own peculiar symptoms.
  Remember the probability that a mistake
will be made  by you, as to the name.
  In any illness, a strong pulse and violent
fever must lead you to choose one of the
remedies   whose   array  of  symptoms
makes a picture of the sufferer (probably
Aeon., Bel., Bry., Cham., Coloc, or Nux);
a mild  attack, with no thirst  and little
fever, will  call for Puis., or, perhaps, Fer. 
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phos.  A  vigorous,  passionate child  or
older person  is likely to  be  vigorously
attacked by pleurisy,  diarrhoea, or other
disease;  If the sick person is mild, his
symptoms will probably  be  less acute.
Yet there are but few mild people, and
diseases may seize  the  mild  ones  with
such force as to call  for remedies more
energetically indicated:—  To think is bet-
ter than to look for "Pleurisy", and give
the first medicine marked "Pleurisy".
  Now do you understand  that you must
use judgment? In undertaking a  respon-
sibility  so considerable  as  to choose a
remedy  for  a sick person,  either you
should not treat him at all, or you should
observe  carefully  his  symptoms,  and
carefully compare them with the recorded
indications for these medicines, before you
give him either one.  I heard from my
window, this morning,  a  man  ask an
other:—  "What  is Nux Vomica?" "Rat
Poison"  was the reply.   "Oh!" said the
first. 
                   19
  Those men knew but one thing for Nux
Vomica to do,—   destroy  rats.  If, upon
looking up Pleurisy (or any other name),
we should give Xux (or any other med-
icine) because it was "good for" this or
that disease, we should ignore as much as the
men did, both as to the many powers of the
medicine,  and the many ways in which
sickness affects different people. If any-
body has pains in his chest like pleurisy,
there may, sooner or later,  be  a cough,
loose or dry, indicating an  appropriate
medicine,  his pains may be  worse from
motion (Bry.),  or  better  from motion
(Rhus);  he  may  have  lately got  wet
(Rhus), got frightened (Aeon.), got angry
(Bry., but not Coloc, because Coloc. is not
for  pains in  the chest);  he  may have
strained  his  chest (Arnica,  Rhus),  lost
blood  (Cinch.);  there may be  sufficient
diarrhoea,  toothache  or  other trouble
besides  pain  in  the chest,  to influence
our choice of the medicine.  Our noticing
these points null not make it more, difficult to 
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prescribe, but easier.
"S^j  Those men would be afraid to take
"Rat poison", until they were  convinced
that, diluted, (as Nux vom. may be found
at a good homoeopathic pharmacy),  it
would  become harmless.  We  must re-
member that many of our remedies are
poisons, if given in the strength of tinct-
ures (as Aeon., Bel., Verat.), and all are
more penetrating and safe when given as
highly diluted as the  "thirtieth potency".
  To help you prescribe more easily, and
unhesitatingly, though carefully:—
  Neuralgia will not be  found noted among
the symptoms  of the  remedies in  this
book. But, under  Cham.,  you will find
"Pains  seem  unbearable", "Left  cheek
flushed"; under Bel., "Pains come quickly,
and go  quickly"; under Rhus, "Pains in
damp weather". Choose one  of these, or
look further if the pain is increased, or
relieved by certain circumstances,  or ac-
companied by other symptoms. 
                   21
  Colds, Influenza, Croup,  Siptheria,  Bronchitis, are
not always  named under the remedies,
but  their  symptoms  or  consequences are
found under nearly  all. Look  for Dry
Cough, (Aeon., where after the symptom
"Cough  short,  dry" are  recorded  other
remedies for a similar cough.  This method
of noting which medicines are to be stud-
ied and compared for especial symptoms,
will aid you much);  loose Cough,— Hepar,
etc.;  Sore  Throat,— Bel., etc.  If Diphtheria
is suspected, choose from  remedies for
sore throat; but in diphtheria, pneumonia,
fevers, eruptions, and other dangerous or
*fifonic disorders,  the home  treatment is
to be subsituted, if  possible, by that of a
physician..
  Indigestion  will produce  colic,  diarrhcea,
etc., each  of which has its especial char-
acteristics, and they are  clearly  noted
and   compared under  Ars.,  Bel.,  Bry.,
Cham.,  etc.
  As  before implied, the State of the mind and
nerres  is of much importance in choosing a 
                  22
remedy.  As  suggested on pp. 6, 9, 12, 18,
fright, anger, or any mental disturbance may
be the cause of disease.  If the patient is
frightened, compare the applicability to
bis symptoms,  of Aeon.,  Arsen.,  Bel.,
Cof., Gels.
  Note again, sickness should  make us
stop,  and think.
0. F. Nichols. 
  The Old Giant.—  "But he is grown so
crazy and stiff in his joint*, that he can now
do little more than sit in his cave's mouth
grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and
biting his nails because he cannot come at
them.  .  . .  "You  will never mend till
more of you be burned."—
                      Pilgrim's Progress.
 
24
  Fable of the Ass and the Steamboat.
    [From a pamphlet published 1848.]

  An ass heavily laden with a sack of letters di-
rected to a distant town on the river, wan met by
a fox, who apprised him that ease and expedition
would both be promoted by transferring his bur-
den to a steamer which had just stopped at the
shore.
  "This is unreasonable, friend Reynard," said
the patient beast; " for my method of transport-
ing the mail has been in operation three thousand
years, yours only fifty.  It is impossible that the
combined wisdom of so many generations should
not exceed that  of one."
  "Your reasoning,"  replied the fox, "can have
no weight, unless there had been a race  or races
between steamboats and asses during the said
three thousand  years, and it had been decided
that the asses always gained the race, and were
less fatigued.   Now this  trial  of  speed  and
strength  must  have  been  impossible before
steamboats were invented."
  Whilst the mail carrier of the old line was stag-
gering under the weight of argument and letters,
another ass overtook him, and having overheard
the conversation, was enabled to bring timely aid
to the confounded disputant.
  "Master Reynard," quoth he, "you are not of
an age and size  rightly to decide such matters.
Your facts and arguments may be unanswerable;
but they should have no  weight  witlj any re-
spectable ass.  No respectable and learned  ass
should ever ado*r t the new method, until some
other still more respectable and more  learned
shall have previously adopted It."
  "It puzzles my brain,"  replied the fox,  "to
apply this rule to any useful purpose. I pity your
hopeless condition.  The practices of these re-
spectable learned beasts will never be reformed, 
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              ALLOPATHY

if each must wait until one  more learned and re-
spectable than himself shall have set the ex-
ample."
  The modern opponents of homoeopathy do not
consider that the non-adoption of newly discov-
ered facts and hitherto unheard opinions is not
equivalent to  their rejection.  There are many
other facts and inferences from them which for-
mer ages neither adopted nor rejected, simply
because they never so much as dreamed of them.—
Dr. Joslin.
  It is related, in the Chinese Empire, that
a burden was often carried suspended from
a stick, by two men; until a certain indi-
vidual discovered that one man could car-
ry two baskets, suspended from either end
of one stick, with comparative ease.  He
was instantly put to death, not being of the
caste of the Inventors;  but his invention is
now generally adopted by the less conser-
vative in that country.

   What Allopathic Physicians say of
           Their own Practice.

  John  Hunter.—Of  the virtues of drugs, we
know nothing definitely.
  Dr. Cabanis.—We discover nothing fixed and
invariable in the application of medicine, nor in
the plans they should furnish for our conduct.
  Dr. Girtanner.—Our materia medica is a mere
collection of fallacious observations.   Some just
opinions founded on experience are mingled
with them, but where the subject is  not knowl-
edge, and all is opinion, one man's opinion may
be as good as  another's.  When two physicians
meet at the sick-bed, they are placed somewhat
similarly to the augurs of ancient Rome, of whom
Cicero says that "two could scarce look one an-
other in the face without laughing," etc. 
26
               ALLOPATHY

  Hoffman.— Very few are the  remedies of rec-
ognized virtue and  action; but very many  are
those suspiciously,  fallaciously, and fictitiously
indicated.
  Dr. Abercrombie.— Uncertainty attends  all
our researches of the action  of external agents
upon the body. Our pretended experience must,
in general, sink into analogy,  and even our anal-
ogy too often into conjecture.
  Dr. Pereira.— We can hardly refuse our as-
sent to the observations of the late Sir G. Blane,
that, in many cases, patients  get well in spite of
the means employed;  and sometimes, where the
practitioner fancies that he  has made a  great
cure, we may fairly assume the patient to have
made a happy escape.
  Dr. Paris.— That such fluctuations in opinion
and versatility in practice should have produced
an unfavorable impression can hardly excite  our
astonishment, nor  can  we be  surprised that  a
portion of mankind has at once arraigned physic
as a fallacious art, or derided it as a composition
of error and fraud.  In the progress of the histo-
ry of medicines, when shall we be able to produce
a discovery or improvement  which has been the
result of that happy combination of observation,
analogy  and experiment which has so eminently
rewarded the other labors of  modern science?
  Dr. John Mason Good.—  As the historian of
medicine approaches nearer to his own times, he
finds his path  encumbered  with almost insur-
mountable difficulties. In other sciences, although
truth is not to be attained without a certain degree
of laborious research, yet, to those who are willing
to bestow on it the requisite attention, it is, for the
most-part, attainable; but this, unfortunately, is
not the case in medicine.
  Dr. S. Jackson.— The interests of the profes-
sion are too deeply implicated to admit that things
should  long continue  in their present  state. 
                     27

               ALLOPATHY

 It cannot be concealed that public confidence in
 the knowledge and intelligence of the profession,
 has been shaken.  In the regular practice, has not
 the treatment of disease too mucli  degenerated
 into a blind routine, pursued in nearly every dis-
 ease, however dissimilar in their nature?
   Dr. James Rush.— I here owe it to the general
 reader to confess that, as far as I know, the medi-
 cal profession can scarcely produce a volume in
 its practice, from the works of Hippocrates down
 to the last-made text-book, which, by the requisi-
 tions of an exact philosophy, will not be found to
 contain nearly as  much fiction as truth.
   Dr.  Magehdie  observes : The chain that binds
 allopathia to its fixed position must be broken;
 it is a  humiliating position  of medical science.
 The people see it to be a mere race between physi-
 cian and: disease, as to which can reduce the pa-
 tient first.
   Dr. Schuler, an eminent allopathist of Stol-
 berg.— For a quarter of a century, I  followed
 the banner of Allopathia without finding a thread
 which  could guide me in the labyrinth of medi-
 cine. It is assuredly to our ignorance of medicines
 and the proper modes of using them, that we
 must  attribute  the ravages of disease.  These
 thoughts besieged my mind and  embarrassed
 my views, in spite of my attention  to the letter
 of the law prescribed by the masters of the art.
 That I might escape from this perplexity, I had
 for a long time devoted much attention to Hom-
 ceopathia; but the cry of reprobation which rose
 against it, and the apparent paradoxes  in many
 of its principles, turned me from the study of it,
 and retained ine a faithful adherent to the old
 method.
  And other medical worthies have utter-
 ed doubts and  anathemas  of their  own
practice quite as earnest as the quotations
above given:— fioerhare,  Helmont.  Peter 
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             AUTHORITIES

Frank,  Bergk, Formey, Reil,  Marcus Herz,
flecker, Jorg, Puchelt, Kieser,  Scherf, Nolde,
Leonhard, Kxanichfeldt, von Wedekind, Pfeuf-
er, Magella, Wurzner, Choulant, Schultz;—
  Not forgetting that even Dr. O. W. Holmes,
after a brief struggle with Homoeopathy,
abandoned the practice of his profession
with the remark, I firmly believe that if the
whole materia medica,  as now used, could be
sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be the bet-
ter for mankind,— and the worse for the  fishes.
  It were easy to multiply authorities to prove
what the conscientious and reflecting of the pro-
fession,  in every age, have perceived and often
publicly lamented.— Old journal.

What Allopathic Physicians say in favor
  of Hahnemann and Homoeopathy.

  The  expressed opinions of able oppo-
nents of the system have often been highly
favorable to the cause opposed:—
  T)r. T. F. Forbes.— No careful observer of his
actions, or candid reader of his writings, can hesi-
tate for a moment to admit that he was a very
extraordinary man,— one whose name will de-
scend to posterity as the exclusive eueogitator,
and founder of an original system of medicine, as
ingenious as many that preceded it, and probably
destined to be the remote, if not  the immediate,
cause of more important fundamental changes in
the practice of the healing art, than have resulted
from any promulgated since the days of Galen
himself.
  By most medical men it was taken for granted
that the system was one, not only visionary in it-
self, but was the result of a mere fanciful hypoth-
esis,  disconnected with facts of any  kind,  and
supported by no process of ratiocination or logical
inference; while its author, and his apostles and 
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             I-IOMCEOPATHY

successors, were looked upon either as visiona-
ries, or quacks, or both.  And yet nothing can
be farther from the  truth.  Whoever examines
the homteopathic doctrines, as expounded in the
original writings of Hahnemann, must admit that
the system is an ingenious one, and professes to
be based on  a most formidable  array of facts
and experiments, woven into a  complete code
with singular dexterity and apparent' fairness.
And it is but an act of justice  to admit  that
there exist no grounds for doubting that Hahne-
mann was as sincere in his belief  of the truth of
his doctrines as were any of the medical system-
atists who preceded him, and that many of his
followers are sincere, and learned men.
   Valentine Mott, after visiting Hahnemann
in Europe,  speaks of him  thus:— Hahne-
mann is one of the most accomplished and scien-
tific physicians of the present age.
  Hufeland, the venerable patriarch of Ger-
man  allopathy;  Kopp,  a distinguished
writer  on legal  and practical medicine;
Broussais, the founder  and champion of
the celebrated  Doctrine  Physiologique;
Brera, a distinguished allopathistin Italy;
Dr. J. G. Millingen, a highly-esteemed  sur-
geon and allopathic  practitioner  in Eng-
land ; Prof. James M. Naughton, late Pres.,
of the  New York State Medical Society,—
these all, living near his time and having
opportunities for knowing him, though not
homoeopathists, express profound admira-
tion for Hahnemann's professional attain-
ments, and speak most respectfully of his
system. A  plain contrast with the nar-
row  bigotry  of  the  present allopathic
school  is exhibited in the fact that  the
medical society of the city and county of
New York, consisting of an association of
all the  legal allopathic  physicians, more 
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                     ALLOPATHY

      than forty years ago, elected  him an hon-
      orary member.
        Sidney Ringer, strangely enough still an
      unchallenged writer of the Old School, ad-
      vocates leading points in Homoeopathy.
        "It comes before  us now, not in the garb of a
      suppliant unknown and helpless,  but as a con-
      querer, powerful, famous and triumphant."
                    Brit. Med.  Review (Allopathic).
      The Large Hoses of the Allopathic School.
        But can they call this a victory, when, instead
     - of attacking the enemy in front, hand to hand, and
      terminating the difference by his death, they con-
      tent themselves  with  setting  every part of the
      country behind him in flames, cutting off retreat,
      and destroying all around? The enemy, I say, is
      often not destroyed, but the poor, innocent coun-
      try is so ruined that it will scarce recover itself in
      a long time.— Hahnemann.
      And so power depends upon size! the bigger the
      bulk, the surer the success. Perhaps it is this prin-
      ciple which actuates those people who give a half-
      crown to a collection  when they might give a
      half-sovereign,— it looks larger, and weighs more.
      —" Behold the ships,  which,  though  they be so
      great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they
      turned about with a very small helm." ..." Be-
      hold how great a matter a little fire kindleth."—
      In these  we have a  practical  illustration of the
      truth that results depend less on bulk than on the
      adaptation of means to the end.  Bulk has less to
      do with the power of medicines than the patient's
      condition. In a diseased state, the whole system is
      highly. sensitive; and, what in health might be
      taken with little effect, in time of sickness operates
      with much force.  For instance, a healthy man
      may eat apples, but a single apple might convulse
      the  same man with spasms  if he were suffering
/     from diarrhoea.   To a  person with brain fever, a
      little wine might prove fatal. It is upon this prin- 
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           MULTUM  IN PARVO

ciple we may regulate the dose; it is found by
experience, that, in most cases,  comparatively
small doses have curative power, and experience
is the proper test.— Ruddock.

  The old school cannot claim  our confi-
dence, BUT CAN THE OBJECTIONS TO HOMOEOPA-
THY BE SATISFACTORILY ANSWERED?

  " Little Pills."— "What is  the basis of the
system of homoeopathy ? It is the law of cure by
similars.  Every member of the allopathic body
is making war upon the opposing school; they
pronounce it an error, and term us quacks. And
what do you suppose they attack ?  Is  there a
systematic effort to show that our law is untrue?
No; all  they attempt is to decry our "little pills."
This is  their song, morning, noon,  and night!
These little pills float before their vision. They
see nothing else, and curse nothing else. But it is
not these which is marching  this round  world
over, and threatening the ancient school of medi-
cine.
  The little pills are not an essential part of our
enginery.
  Now let us exhort you.  Be honest; do not, for
honor's  sake, longer ridicule these globules! You
know, if these were thrown away, homoeopathy
would be just the same thing!
  If you would make war on us, attack our great
principle.   There is nothing else worthy your at-
tention.   Because we have found it convenient to
put our  medicines on sugar, for you to make war
upon that  sugar, is too small business for  such
dignified men.
  You might as well,  in making  war upon re-
publicanism, pounce upon the paper whereon its
laws are written.  Suppose you could prove that
the type were too small, or the books too small,
would this really aft'ect the principle of republi,
eanism ?        Cin. Journ. of Hom. 1852. 
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M. IN  P.
 "  It is impossible to Cure with Small
                  Hoses."

  Had it been customary with the older surgeons
to extract splinters from the fingers by pounding
them  with  a hammer,  until some one had ulti-
mately hit upon the expedient of doing it with a
needle,  should we not have heard a great outcry
against the  innovation?  Says the old orthodox
surgeon, "This small-dose system has no efficien-
cy.  I have been pounding here for two hours,
and the splinter has barely started.  My instru-
ment  is efficient, as you  have  evidences in the
bruises.  Do  you think to-dislodge the splinter
with  your  insignificant  homoeopathic  needle
point?  It is contrary  to the experience of three
thousand years; it is contrary to all analogy.  I
would as soon  think of harnessing a  mosquito
before, my gig." The surgeon of the new school
replies, "Your instrument is ponderous and pow-
erful, but not efficacious.   You might pound the
patient  to a jelly before the splinter would come
out. If you happen now and then to hit it, you are
just as likely to drive it in. My instrument is small,
but effective.  The whole secret Consists in apply-
ing the force at the right point and in the right
direction."
  Allopathy applies her force at the wrong point
and in the wrong direction : Homoeopathy applies
hers at the  right point and in the right direction.
This  right direction from the right point is the
one reason why a small dose suffices.— Joslin.
  Like many other facts in nature the best answer
to an objection is the fact itself.  When the Atlan-
tic telegraph was proposed it was supposed that
an immense galvanic battery would  be required
to work it; but practical experience has taught
fhe  learned  electricians  that a  comparatively 
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                 M. IN P.

feeble current of low intensity, with delicate indi-
cators, is what they require.  Not a very long
while ago, Dr. A. B. Gould, of Cambridge, tele-
graphed across the ocean with a battery consisting
of a gun cap and a drop of water. How could it
be done?  It was done. How can the weak bat-
tery be better ?  It is better.— J.B.B.
  Hahnemann was led to give the small
doses only after observing that medicines
chosen correctly, yet given insufficiently
diluted,  caused first  an aggravation of the
complaint  before  giving relief, until he
gave them further diluted, when  they cured
without noticable aggravation.  That there is
medicine  in carefully made homoeopathic
preparations  cannot be doubted, because
they cure.
  Mathematicians tell us, that into whatever num-
ber of parts they may divide a substance, each por-
tion retains a small share of the material....
There  exist immense  powers which have no
weight, such as light and heat.— Hahnemann.
How much  of the measure of small-pox docs it
need to produce the disease, and how little of vac-
cine to prevent it?  What evidence of the senses,
or what chemical test, or what microscope can de-
tect the terrible particles which produce epidemic
diseases,  such  as  intermittent fever,  and  the
plague ?— Ehrmann, and Sharp.
  Physicians of the old school have made
observations  confirming  the power  of
drugs highly  subdivided, especially in
mineral  waters.   Sept.  7, 1872, M. Davaine
reported to the French Academy  the  re-
sults of twenty-five experiments  upon an-
imals, by which it appeared that dilutions
of poisoned blood  were  invariably  (in
twenty-five cases) active even after dilii-
tion one trillion times. 
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                 M. IN P.

  The mechanical division of gold is carried to an
almost incredible degree; in gilding it may be di-
vided into particles a thousand four hundred mil-
lionths of a square inch in size, and yet possess the
color and other characters of the mass.—
 W. Sharp.
  Spectrum analysis has discovered in min-
eral waters particles of metal which were
too small for detection by the analyses of
chemistry; it also finds the atoms of metal
in  numerous  highly potentized homoeo-
pathic preparations.
  Why this minute division increases the
power of medicines has been explained by
Doflier,  a celebrated mathematician (not a
homoeopathist):— He shows, in his Essays
on  the Small  and Great in Nature, that in-
finitely divided substances must necessarily
act better than crude substances because
of their increase of surface.
  Apropos to the Roundabout Method, in con-
trast with the  direct and minute. Dr. Clarke
adapts thereunto Charles Lamb's Story  of
Roast Pig in China.
  The narrator affects to have derived his infor-
mation from a Chinese manuscript, wherein it is
related, that, the son of a swineherd having acci-
dentally set fire to their cottage, a litter of pigs
perished therein. In handling one of these un-
timely sufferers, the boy burned his fingers, and
applied them to his mouth to cool them, when for
the  first time in his  life,— in the world's  life in-
deed, he  tasted "cracklings."  The father met
with a similar  experience, and,  being also  de-
lighted with the taste, kept it secret;  but, from
time to time, his house was burned.  Finally,  he-
was watched, arrested, tried, and, the jury accept-
ing  a taste of the roast pig, acquitted. But the
secret was divulged, and nothing but fires were 
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             HOMOEOPATHY :

seen in eveiy  direction, until at length a  sage
arose, who made the discovery that the flesh of
swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be
cooked  without  the necessity  of  consuming a
whole house!  "And so long", says Dr. Clarke,
"as ipecacuanha and tartar emetic are given in
doses that vomit; mercury, till its poisonous in-
fluence is seen  in the mouth; quinine, till there is
a vertigo or  delirium; strychnine, till there are
spasms; arsenic, till the eyes are bloodshot; and
so on, as allowed by the regular practice, we may
assume the allopathic art of cure to stand at an
epoch corresponding to that marked in the art of
cookery by burning the house to roast a pig."
  But what explanation can be given  of
 the leading principle :—
  Xifce  cures Lihe (Sitnilia   Similibus
 Curantxir):— "How can this be truef"  Its
 truth is clearly exhibited ix results, and
 is easily explained.  Hahnemann's experi-
 ence follows:—
  Hahnemann, while an old school practitioner,
 was engaged in translating into German, Cullen's
 "Materia  Medica," and was proceeding in the
 article on Cinchona, Peruvian Bark. The specu-
 lations of Cullen as to its mode of operation sug-
 gested to Hahnemann the idea of testing its prop-
 erties in his own person.  He took the bark for
 several days.  At length the sickening influence
 of the drug manifested itself in chills, followed by
fever.  The admitted febrifuge qualities of Cin-
 chona on the one hand, and the similar disease
 that he then experienced in his own person from
 its employment, struck him as a singular coinci-
 dence.  He placed the two facts side by side.
 "That the bark cures chills and fever is a fact too
 obvious to admit of doubt; and I am now suffer-
 ing chills nnd fever from its use."— Payne. 
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             HOMCEOPATHY:

  In accordance with his experience of Cin-
chona,  Hahnemann found other drugs to
act in the same manner by producing the
symptoms in the healthy which they were
capable of curing in the sick.  He says:—
  Even in the practice of domestic medicine by
persons  ignorant of our profession, but who were
gifted with sound  judgment,  it was discovered
that this method was  the most rational.  A limb
that is recently frozen is frequently rubbed with
snow. A cook who  has scalded his hand, exposes
it to the Are at a certain distance, not heeding the
increase of pain which it at first occasions, because
experience has taught him that this course will
cure the burn. Other observing persons — for ex-
ample, the lacker-workers—apply a substance to
burns which excites of itself a similar feeling of
heat, that is to say hot alcohol or oil of turpentine;
and an experienced reaper, however little he may
otherwise use strong liquors, will not drink cold
water (contraria contrariis) when the heat of the
sun has brought him Into  a feverish state, but
therefore takes a small quantity of some warming
liquor.  And  the writings of eminent physicians
of all ages have contained confirmations of this
law of the relief by similars :— John Hunter men-
tions the great inconvenience following cold appli-
cations to burns, while he, and Fernel, Sydenham,
Kentish, Anderson, J. Bell, Zimmerman, and F.
de Hilden, have advocated the application of heat
in the conditions mentioned above.
  Hippocrates, esteemed for his subtile spirit of
observation,— "the father of all rational medi-
cine," living 450-301 B. C— says, in his "Apho-
risms on Man" : "By the like from which a malady
arises, convalescency ensues.  Strangury not ex-
isting is caused by the sameby which it is stopped;
and cough-like strangury  is produced and re-
moved by the same." "Administer to those who
labor under melancholy the root of mandragors 
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               ITS REASON.

in less weight than what might create insanity in
a healthy person." "Like is to be expelled by its-
like, and not by its contrary; heat by heat, cold by
cold, piercing by piercing; for heat attracts heat,
cold attracts cold, as the magnet does the iron."—
Quoted by Bruckhausen.
   Paracelsus says,  "It is a perverted method to
give remedies which produce the contrary of a dis-
ease ; remedies ought to be  given which act sim-
ilarly to it."
   Stahl, the Danish physician, has expressed his
convictions unequivocally :  "The wonderful ef-
fects of oil of vitriol, given in very small doses, can-
not be owing to its composition, but to its adapta-
tion to the disease on a different principle.  I am
convinced that the received method of treating dis-
eases by opposite remedies is completely false
and absurd, and that diseases are subdued by
agents producing a similar affection.  By these
means I have cured a disposition to acidity of the
stomach in cases where the opposite treatment
had been used to no purpose."
  The English "Sweating-Sickness," which ap-
peared in the year 1485, was more murderous than
the plague. It destroyed at its  commencement, as
testified by Willis, ninety-nine patients out of one
hundred, and could not be subdued till they had
learned to administer sweating remedies.  After
that time, Sennertes says, few persons died from
it.
  De Hale, Sarcone, and Pringle are authorities
for the relief of pleurisy with Squills, which Wag-
ner has seen to produce pleurisy and inflamma-
tion of the lungs.
  In citing these passages, I wish to free myself
from the reproach of  arrogating to myself the
merit of the discovery.— Hahnemann.
  Hahnemann quotes hundreds of instances
where medicines  are used with benefit in 
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            HOMOEOPATHY:

those very diseases whose symptoms they
produce in the healthy.
  Like can cure like,  for  affinities are un-
doubtedly posessed by individual remedie s
for especial portions of the living organ-
ism, two things cannot simultaneously be
in the same place, the medicine  can find
and displace  the disease when Homoeo-
pathically prepared, because it  is  then
finely subdivided, and capable of pene-
trating the subtlest parts of the bodjr.
   That it does this is shown by experience.
  "Tour Medicines are Violent Poisons."
—So some of them were  before they were diluted.
All drugs are poisons, but it is one peculiar glory
of Homoeopathy that by manipulation those poi-
sons are changed from death-giving to life-giving
powers. We can thus use with safety  many in-
valuable agents which  allopathy  dares not han-
dle.  We render them colorless, tasteless, odor-
less, poisonless, but experience shows, not pow-
erless. — J. B. B.
  "You. give Medicines made of Things
which have no Medicinal Action,—  such
as Sponge and Sal*."—Which do you aver,
—this or the preceding?
  "But Children often eat a Whole Box of
Homoeopathic Medicines, and it does not
hurt them any." Yes, this Is sometimes true,
though usually some slight disturbance of health
follows, but what if it doesn't f  The medicines
were not intended to kill, but to cure. To homoe-
opathy, then, belongs another distinguishing glo-
ry that she has never killed anybody by mistake.
How many precious lives do you suppose are sac-
rificed every year by mistakes of Allopathic drug-
gists, physicians, and nurses ? Hundreds, and
perhaps thousands. By homoeopathy how many ?
AW one. — J. B. B. 
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             ITS REASON.

  Further it must be borne in mind, that,
while in health the "whole box" of medi-
cine might be eaten with little effect, sick-
ness promptly produces sensitiveness to
medicinal action,— whereupon the  most
delicate  agents  discover  their  power.
Physiology assures us that,  upon occur-
ance of certain diseases of the lung, eye,
etc., millions of new nerves,  bloodvessels
etc.  appear,— sentient to  any influence,
however delicate.  This may be observed,
almost instantaneously, upon the infliction
of an injury to the eye  (See p. 9, lower lines).

  "It is Nature uihich Cures,"—  "The
diet and general good care  cure  the pa-
tients ; besides, I think they get well because
they have no medicine, for dosing is useless!"
If this plan cures, why does not  the old
school adopt it, and cease— at least in the
class of cases which they think amenable
to careful regimen— to  use such dangerous
weapons? But is it diet which quickly re-
lieves a distressing cough, quiets a danger-
ous  inflammation of  the  heart,  checks
frightful flooding in child bed, makes com-
paratively harmless  croup,  diphtheria,
scarlet fever, dysentery, convulsions, and
saves a large percentage of the most terri-
ble cases of the plague and cholera?

  "Homoeopathy cannot  be Trusted  in
Hangerous Hiseases, and  the  Weakness
of the Medicines adapts  them only  to
Women  and Children."  Untrue!  The
remedies,  when  carefully  chosen,  act
quickly in diseases of a rapidly fatal ten-
dency, and with no reference to age or sex.
The Tests which follow were, not applied to
women and children only. 
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               REASON  OF

  Tests have been fully confirmed (appli-
cable to both of the quibbles preceding).
  In the Irish famine of 1847, three classes of hos-
pitals were instituted with the following results :
Ordinary treatment, mortality, thirteen per ct.;
homoeopathic treatment, two per cent; no medi-
cine, but  simply  cleanliness and good diet, ten
per cent.  Here the old treatment shows itself to
be worse than none by three per cent. The treat-
ment of an epidemic of typhus fever in 1813, by
Hahnemann himself, is a prominent instance of
this kind, where nearly two hundred patients
were treated, without the loss of a single case, at
the time when an enormous mortality attended
the mode of practice sanctioned by ages.—  Kidd.
  In 1831, Dr. Bakody's homoeopathic treat-
ment of cholera lost two patients out of
forty-nine, while the old methed lost five
out of seven.  From 1831 to 1848, the mortal-
ity among cholera patients in Europe and
America was, nine p. c. for the new school,
thirty-two for the old.  As  to the  correct-
ness of the honKHopathic statistics, the fol-
lowing are furnished by government (al-
lopathic) officials:—
  "Theproportion of deaths at Tischnowltz was
small. The homoeopathic treatment was the evi-
dent cause of this favorable  result,  (signed)
Dr. V. Mckarsky v. Meek, K. K.  Inspector."
  "Upon comparing the report [made by the gov-
ernment inspector] of homoeopathic treatment in
their hospital, with that of the same^pidemic
in other hospitals of Vienna at a similar time, it
appears that two thirds thus treated recovered,
while two thirds treated in the other  hospitals
died.  This extraordinary result led to the re-
peal of the law relative to Homoeopathy,"  (this
by M. Wilde, a distinguished surgeon of Dublin)
Thus the very fact  that Homoeopathy  has  been
sanctioned by law in Austria  since 1836, is  an 
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                   HOMOEOPATHY':
      eternal monument and testimony to its superior
      success in the treatment of Cholera. Pamph.
        The general (allopathic) report made of cholera
      treatment in Paris, 1848-50, gave to homoeopathy
      34 1-2 p. c. mortality, against 57 allopathic.
        In a  public  letter, Dr. Mc.Loughlin, a distin-
      guished physician in London, and government
      inspector in 1855, says :— "You are aware that I
      went to your  hospital prepossessed against the
      homoeopathic  system; that you had in your camp
      an enemy, rather than a friend. -That there may
      be no misapprehension  about the  cases, I will
      add that all I saw were true cases of Cholera, and
      that I  saw several cases which did well under
      your treatment which I have no hesitation in say-
      ing would have sunk under any other.  Although
      an allopath by principle, education, and prac-
      tice, yet were it the will of God to afflict me with
      cholera, and to deprive me of power to prescribe
      for myself,  I  would rather be in the hands of a
      homoeopathic, than of an allopathic prescriber."
      Dunham.
        Kurtz and  others officially published and
      compared the statistics of allopathic vs.
      homoeopathic  hospital treatment, during
      ten  years, in England,  Scotland, France,
      Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Germany,
      Sweden, Bohemia, Bavaria, Austria, Hun-
      gary,  Silesia, Russia, and Italy,  with an
      average of over 50 p. c. in favor of Homoe-
      opathy.
        Tabulated  statements from official sourc-
      es show  the  average  mortality of private
      patients in New York, Philadelphia, Brook-
m     lyn and Boston, from 1870 to  1873,  to have
      been, for homoeopathy ten deaths yearly
      to each physician, for allopathy eighteen
      deaths.
        In the  hospital treatment of insanity by
      Homoeopathy, in the United  States, the 
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                 REASON OF

    average percentage of homoeopathic cures
    in 1877, was 20 p. c; against 9 p. c, the av-
i    erage  of the twenty-eight  principal State
    asylums of this country!
     As an official triumph of present impor-
    tance, the treatment of I'ellow fever is of
    interest.  In the epidemic  of 1878, 6.06 per
    ct. died under  homoeopathic  treatment,
    imperfect allopathic returns give an aver-
    age of 17.02 per ct.
     "Homteopclthic  Cures are from Faith
              in the Treatment."
     Where the sick  are cured by the visit
    from the  doctor, or by his saying he can
    help them, he who  inspires this faith is a
    useful  man.  "Faith" has been so misedu-
    cated that the patient of the old school is
    led to place his faith in nausea and griping,
    which  he is taught to believe  are good  for
    him, when he can have   instead,  under
    right treatment, quick relief without these
    unpleasant effects  of his medicine added
    to the pains of his disease.  To insist that
,    it is faith alone which cures is, however,
    very silly, because the majority of our pa-
    tients have resorted to us, at first, not only
    without faith, but prejudiced against the
    system.  "The medicine is good only for
    children",  but does an infant care what
    school of medicine  has quieted his cries!
    Does a horse  possess  a theory to explain
    his cure by means of  our  treatment, and
    does prejudice actuate the immense droves
   of sheep and cattle,  whose owners, in Eng-
   land and in our Western country, accom-
    plish their successful treatment by homoe-
   opathic medicines? Dr. Ruddock assumes
   the daring position, that, since homoeopa-
    thy is capable of curing a calf, it would do
   the same  even  for  an allopathic doctor, 
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             HOMEOPATHY:

 should he chance to be treated when ill, in
 spite of his unbelief.
   "But you Homosopaths give no physic.
 What are you going to do if a man does
 not have a movement from the bowels for
 some  days? An Allopath  always gives
 opening medicines."  Yes, this most su-
 perficial practice of producing an evacua-
 tion in a dangerous fever, or other disease
 which may have constipation for one of its
 symptoms, often delights the unthinking
 practitioner and his patient. But he has
 reason to be alarmed  and ashamed  when
 his medicine so irritates the  bowels (es-
 pecially when nothing  is there to be ex-
 pelled) that dysentery sets in.  We can no
 more expect any sort of stoppage of the
 bowels to be truly cured by such rough and
 unintelligent forcing, than we might hope
 to cure a deeply seated disease of the or-
 gans of respiration by merely clearing out
 the throat with a syringe or gargle.  The
 inactivity is made more obstinate by using
 cathartics  until they have at last no effect,
 and cases  of inveterate constipation are
 produced by cathartics more often than by
 natural causes.  But a remedy rightly cho-
 sen restores the healthy  action of the whole
 organism;  a homoeopathic patient has no
 eternal cause to ask his doctor for big pills.

  "You do not give anything to Make Peo-
ple Sleep."  People cannot be made to  sleep,
but only made unconscious. "A chemical re-
straint on the brain-cells is as bad as mechanical
restraint on the limbs."— Maudsley on the Mind.
Sleeplessness is only cured by removing its cause.
How many sufferers from this unspeakable dis-
comfort, suffering not only from their wakeful-
ness, but also from the distress which accompa- 
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nies the use of opiates, incurring also the terrible
danger of becoming opium eaters, have expressed
their unbounded gratitude when at last relieved
under the effects of a rational treatment! J. B. B.
  Uest we appear unjust to the Allopathic
school, we record a single instance of ap-
preciation known to have occurred since
1852. A disciple of Hahnemann was called
to a lad  who had bled for some days from
the nose, in spite of the efforts of his med-
ical attendant. The former administered a
powder of  Carbo vegetablis (charcoal), re-
marking, "I think charcoal will relieve the
bleeding," which it did almost immediate-
ly.  "But it is white," said the Irish doctor
who had been in attendance-  "Yes, it is a
homoeopathic preparation,—a trituration."
— "I think," said the learner regarding its
action with astonishment, "I  think white
charcoal is better than black 1"
  Homoeopathy is cheap.— You pay only
the doctor; there is no druggist's bill.  As
you get well quicker, yon lose less time
from your occupation. Business men re-
gard this,  and the poor  must regard it,
to whom the loss of a day's work is impor-
tant in itself, while want of promptness
may deprive a man  of employment  for
months to come.

  And, finally, Homoeopathy is a Suc-
cess.  Statistics are multiplied the  world
over, showing the immense advantage of
death rates for Homoeopaths,  and men of
business confide their  money to the statistics:—
The lives of those who have homoeopathic
treatment, are numerously insured at low-
er rates than when the medical care is of
the old school. 
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         ITS  ESTABLISHMENT.

  The fact that homoeopathy  is  not the
choice  of the  ignorant,  but chiefly of
thoughtful and intelligent persons,  and
the upper classes in social life;  the fact
that if this School has increased ten years
hence just in proportion to its gains of the
past ten years, its patients and practition-
ers will have doubled those of allopathy;* the
fact that direct quotations exhibit the em-
pirical  pervading   of  homoeopathy  into
nearly  every text  book  of the Materia
Medica, —these fact weapons terrible and
fine are unceasingly telling for The Fact
itself— die milde Macht ist gros.
  The prejudices of the ancient school are
falling out from the general belief, "like
moss from an unfolding flower,  and  al-
ready our science may be seen to contain
within itself the elements of its .future per-
fection."  The new school is vindicated by
the press, employed in hospitals and State
institutions,  and recognized as an estab-
lished science by the State,  and by educa-
tional bodies ot acknowledged prudence.
In  the  universities of Vienna, Munich,
Edinburgh and  Boston, chairs are  given
to its professors; Throughout the civilized
world medical schools are numerously es-
  *A running comparison of A. I). 1840, when
one hundred homoeopathic physicians existed in
the United States |^see N. E. Gazette, Nov. '791,
with 1880, when hve thousand are registered,
would augur yet more cruel gains than the above,
should the next forty years permit a proportion-
ate ratio of growth for the young giant.
/ 
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tablished whose therapeutics are founded
on homoeopathy.  One sixth of the medical
practitioners of this country are now open-
ly homoeopaths.

  And homoeopathic medicines are covert-
ly employed by hundreds of practitioners
of the old school.
  "Their arrows are broken, their springs are
dried up............Let us be  faithful to their
rude virtues as men, and pay due tribute to their
unhappy fate" as reasoners.
  "As nobody is compelled by  Law to practise
or use Homoeopathies, nobody has a right to com-
plain that it is as it is; but everybody is welcome
to its benefits such as they are."
  And '"facts are stubborn things,' and they re-
main what they are, in spite of belief or unbelief,
understanding or not, ...  stumbling-blocks to
block-heads,  stepping-stones for  the wise, and
corner-stones of  the eternal temples of Science
and Truth." More Anon.
  The material of this tract is largely gath-
ered from early writings.  Dr. Ruddock's
"Fallacies and Claims" has, later, furnished
valuable matter.   Credit for each quota-
tion is given as far as possible. 
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