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To John Forbes, M1. D., F. R. S.
SIR,
I beg leave to inscribe to you my second edition of " Hom-noepathia Revealed," in testimony and in payment of the debt
of pleasure laid on me by your original and somewhat eccentric
work on Homcepathy, Allopathy, and " Young Physick," which
a valued friiend commended to my perusal. That there may
be a fair estimate, with a view to the general balance of the
amount of obligation on either side, on mine already avowed,
on yours yet to be acknowledged, I begin by declaring myself
DEBTOR,
1. To your solemn denunciation of the too officious and
often murderous assaults of Allopathia on the forces of Nature,
neither carefully watched, nor allowed a sufficient time for their
sanative action.
2. To your endorsing the doctrine that medicines have no
other power to cure diseases that such as is exerted by Nature,
strengthened by their timely assistance.
3. To your corroborating the important fact, that the lists
of mortality in countries enjoying an abundance of physicians,
are comparatively the same, or somewhat larger, than in the
regions wholly destitute of such blessing.
4. To your twenty articles of AGITANDA, EXEOGITANDA, AGENDA, intended to form the new constitution of
"YOUNG PHYSIC," which, to all intents and purposes, are so
many thinly disguised counterparts of what Homcepathia is now
doing, and what, on no mean scale, she has done already.
5. To your formal acknowledgment that Homcepathia, as a
system, is almost as good, and certainly as well established as
Allopathia herself; a concession which, from an opponent of
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6. To your admission of all her claims in full, inferred
from the fewness and fragility of weapons used against her,
hurtful only to the hand that wields them. Thus the attempted
transfer of homcepathic cures, all in a lump, to the credit of Nature alone, provokes the instant charge and proof of being entirely gratuitous; while the straw-catching belief that Homcepathia, after she had cured a disease of sixteen years' duration,
may still be an impostor, because, at the very moment that her
first globule touched the tongue, nature may have taken the
whole affair into her own hands, involves a series of questions
which it may not be easy or pleasant to answer. For instance,
how and whence did Nature get this sudden curing power, of
which her non-exercise of it proves her to have been deprived
for sixteen years previous 1 Again, why should Nature be so
nobly sensitive at the approach of Homcepathia, and yet never
honor Allopathia with the like manifestation of feeling 1 Does
not this indicate the real difference between the mistress cmulous of a worthy rival, and the slave shrinking from the presence
of her despotic oppressor 1 Deny this difference, and what follows? The hypothetical disqualification would apply equally to
both systems, and lead to a direct inquiry how you would like
a patient of yours, on presenting him your bill in the just pride
and full consciousness of having relieved him from sixteen
years' sufferings, to turn upon his heels after coolly telling you
that he owes you nothing, Nature, at the first sight of your pill,
having snatched him from your hands and finished her work of
cure, with thanks to no one but herself?. In like manner, the
assumption that persons in full health, while undergoing the
trial of remedies, would be apt to fancy all kinds of ailments
which Homoepathia sets down as symptoms, is instantly repelled by the fact that no fancy can fancy itself into topical diseases,
which form so great a part of these symptoms. Neither will
imagination accept the charge of homcepathic cures, so wantonly forced upon it, since it is enlisted and works with.all its
might against them in incipient trials; it being a matter of notoriety that nine patients out of ten, when first they turn to
Homoepathia, do so from sheer desperation against their long,
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yourself by repeating the charcoal experiment upon your own
person.
6. By calling your attention to the mathematical fact that
you cannot annihilate matter by any subdivisions you may assign to it in act or imagination; and that, however infinite may
be, the comminutions of Homcepathia, they still fall short of
reality, of their extremest point of attenuation. Multiply your
seventy-six Os by as many figures as will make your proposed
line of globules reach, not the sun, but the great Sirius himself,
and still there will remain prepared in Nature's own laboratory
a higher dilution, not the less fearful and fatal to man, of the
virus of hydrophobia, of which not the incomprehensibility, but
the fact alone concerns us; and such being the fact, " all declamations are vain " in its presence, and worse than useless, according to your own quotation.
7. By presenting you with a mirror, the only one within
my knowledge, in which the entire form of Homcepathia, spiritual and corporeal, such as it is in reality, a unit of soul and
body, is reflected and exhibited to your contemplation. Analyze
all the parts, examine well each distinct feature, review the
whole in connection, and if all this does not bring you to the
point of making up your mind, I can only say I have given you
the opportunity.
What I have said thus far may give you an idea of my great
vanity and presumption; and I own the appearances are in favor of such conclusion. Appearances, however, are often deceitful, and are so on the present occasion. I am only one of
those plain men -who think that a simple, inoffensive truth may
be uttered in one's own case as freely as in that of another. I
am only confident quo ad hoc, and what reason I have to be so
you will judge presently. I pause only to balance our accounts
by crediting you with being a homoepath in embryo; and I
proceed to address you as such to the end of the chapter.
Be it then known to you, that since the publication of my
little work in 1837, I have made my pilgrimage to the living
fountain of Homcepathia-have gazed upon the countenance,
listened to the voice, and pressed the hand of " the sublime old
man," ere long to be enshrined by grateful posterity among the
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ble revelations before him, and was honored with his unqialified
approbation. The doctrines and principles laid down in them
as the constituent elements of Homcepathia, were pronounced
true and genuine by him from whom she sprang, as did Minerva
from the brain of Jupiter. The means, as therein explained,
which attest her existence and modify her action, were in like
manner acknowledged by him who first discovered, adjusted,
and put them into practice. In short, he that conceived the
bright original, and breathed his spirit into it, recognized its
embodied image in the portrait.
In such circumstan'ces, I trust, you will not think it strange or
unpardonable that I should speak, and think it even my duty to
speak of my work as I would of another man's work, with the
same sincerity and freedom. In truth, I feel that it is gone
from me-that it belongs now to the public, not to be deprived
of its property by my interposition. It is so far ahead of the
author that he perforce must part with it, and be content to rest
unnoticed in the rear. Other hands, more powerful than his,
have placed it on the summit of authority, and there it must stand
palpable to sight, a beacon by whose light the true and the false
disciples may at once be contradistinguished and identified. The
former will hail it with cordial welcome, the latter may be compelled to show cause why they should not be numbered with
those whom the great master-spirit had DISOWNED so formally and on all occasions.
A work of this character was never needed more than at the
present hour, when a laxity on one side, and encroachments on
the other, have placed the deity of health in that false, inverted
position, against the danger of which the public cannot be too
soon or too officiously warned. It is quite time to stop, if possible, the immolation of victims on the altar, and in the name of
the very power that was sent forth to save them; and the martyr who felt the rack may well be permitted the poor consolation of showing where it lies, by way of caution to his fellowcreatures.
I have reason to think that among the opponents of Homoepathia, none is more aware than yourself, or less disposed to
deny that the majority of the votaries of Allopathia, imbued, as
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superiority, still shun the tabooed dwelling of the new comer;
and acting on mere reports and assumptions, condemn what
they refuse to know, and think it a disgrace in a matter of life
and death to be able to judge for themselves. What particular
medicine more than another cures this or that disease, seems to
be the utmost stretch of their inquiry; but why-by what permanent, inherent quality this medicine performs the cure, is a
question, which although the true one, is scarcely ever asked.
The curative effects of a remedy in presence of disease, gleaned
from the pages of pharmacopoeia, seems to be all they know, or
care to know of its specific virtues; whereas this knowledge,
so vital to the healing art, can only be obtained from its primary
aggressive action upon a person in full health; a fact, the discovery of which by Hahnneman, suffices of itself to gain for him
the gratitude of ages. From this admitted fact, susceptible of
proof so as to stare one in the face, they turn away with marvellous indifference; and while they are so active in distilling
science, skill, rational medicine, and all kinds of imposing learning from their lips, their real locomotive progress ceases just
where it should go on. They certainly have learned the value
of the stranger's pharmacy as far superior to their own, else
they would scarcely make so free with it; but then what led to
the discovery of medicines in substances not used as such,
though not unknown by name, and on what principle those are
and ought to be selected, they seem to consider beyond the
sphere of their profession. Hence it is that they either do not
know, or will not own, that at this very moment they are treading in the steps of their opponents, and differ from them only in
the want of precaution. While they continue to denounce poor
Homcepathia as a sheer humbug, and while their unleashed wardogs bark loud as ever at her passing shadow, they are actually
doing homage to her fundamental creed, "the like cure the
like," by administering her remedies, not only so far as each remedy becomes strictly homoepathic when directed against a disease the like of which it produces in a healthy person, but in
the sense of full unqualified acceptance of such as are emphatically her own, and stand conspicuously on her list. Thus, in
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any thing, must be what they believe in. If so, upon what principle can they defend, and much less justify their practice, so
subversive of their own belief, that the increased strength of a
dose which is akin to the disease, must be the like increase of
strength for the disease itself; and, superadded to its own, must
make it irresistible.? They have assigned yet no good reason,
and likely never will. They may attempt to explain by saying,
for it is all they can say, that it is the result of their own experience; but what is their own puny 'experience to that of one
whose temple had been for more years than they have yet lived,
crowded with the sick from the great nations of the earth, who
had for half a century periled his body as a test of remedies announced by him as such, and whose ability to state the truth
was full as great as his desire and interest to seek and to reveal
it? Empiricism may plume itself upon its feats of cure, which
only show that there are patients strong enough to survive
them; but the. great shade of Hahnneman, and his tried, faithful disciples, have a claim to a more respectful explanation than
such as would impugn the warranty of facts too much respected
to be called in question. If the clique really have a pet-some
pathia of their own-why do they keep it back? Why do they
not come forth like men, place it on its own merits, and boldly
vindicate its title to " a name and local habitation?" If, on the
other hand, they should set up the honest plea of total disbelief
in Homcepathia, why do they wear her colors, and profess to
be what they are not Why should they make her, by this
fraud, a mere by-word, a seeming humbug, the scape-goat of
their own misdeeds? Why should the open frequency of their
rebellion against her rule, furnish her enemies with a constructive proof that she and all her followers who thus betray their
want of confidence in her, are arrant knaves, quacks and impostors? The clique may be all kinds of pathists at their own
discretion; but homcepathists they are none, and it is time that
all should know it. A voice from the tomb, that will be heard
throughout eternity, abjures them all as base, sinister counterfeits, foes in disguise, stabbing the priestess in whose temple
they profess to worship. The sooner they are driven away from
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the sadred precincts the greater will be the benefit conferred
upon the human race.
Thus, by a sort of a tacit, gradual approximation of the
adverse systems, the champions on both sides being false alike
to their creeds, the two extremes have been brought at length
to meet half way, and presently from this unhallowed contact,
not yet openly acknowledged, sprang the new-fangled mischief,
the'practice now in vogue, nought less than Homcepathia armed
to the teeth with allopathic doses!-An enemy more dangerous
and destructive to health than this hideous, misbegotten hermaphrodite, has never yet been pressed into the service of the
medical profession!
THE AUTHOR.



HOM(EPATHIA REVEALED


A
BRIEF EXPOSITION
OF


THE WHOLE SYSTEM,
ADAPTED TO
GENERAL COMPREHENSION.
WITH A NOTICE OF PSORA AND DR. DURINGE'S OBJECTIONS.
BY ALEXIS EUSTAPHIEVE.
SECOND EDITION, WITH A SKETCH OF ISOPATHIA.
INSCRIBED TO
JOHN FORBES, M.D. F.R.S.
----- a== D~ =----_NEW-YORK:
Printed and Published by D. Fanshaw,
575 BROADWAY.
1846.



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INVOCATION.
HAIL, Fountain Nymph! Hail to thy cup of health,
Bought cheaply with an Empire's treasur'd wealth!
No Poet's dream, no Fiction's pleasing guile,
Lurk in thy form, or light a doubtful smile;
Thy breath is LIFE: and they themselves must blame,
Who grudge thee welcome, and scarce know thy name.
'Tis but to ask-and all thy flowing stores,
More precious than Golconda's mines, are ours.
All hail! most noble, fair, rich-gifted maid,
So young, so wise: we now invoke thy aid!
Genius and Fame, to whom thy birth we owe,
Impress'd their signets on thy infant brow;
Who then shall stay'thee in thy bright career?
Come, take thy crown! Thou hast but to appear....



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of the true principle upon which the Peruvian bark produces an ague, similar to the one against which it is the
acknowledged specific, led him to a series of experiments
and discoveries, which finally terminated in the creation
of a system entirely new, and so much to his mind as
to have removed all his former scruples and objections.
Such is the origin of Homoepathia!
This new system, or rather the system-destroying system, besides the weight of character imparted to it by its
no longer slighted author, has been since espoused by so
many eminent physicians, well known for their talents,
works, and extensive practice; and its progress, in consequence, has been so extraordinary, that it is scarcely
wise or possible to treat it now with the passing notice of
a sneer, or refuse its pressing claims to the consideration
of the public most interested in its promises of health.
It is time that this science, for such it undoubtedly is,
should be fairly, and in the clearest manner, exhibited
to the eyes of all, in order that full justice may be done
to its merits; and that no lingering regret may come
hereafter for a gift thrown away on the misconception of
its value; one too, which Hahnemann proclaims emphatically as "( the precious gift of Divinity."*
It is under this solemn impression that the public are
now presented with " Homoepathia Revealed;" a humble attempt to embody the whole system in a form more
concise, and popularly intelligible, than is known yet to
have been done: a work-a full-length miniature scanned at a glance-possessed of the advantage of standing on its own exclusive ground, nowise connected with ~
the profession, and removed from all suspicion of being
influenced by private speculation, party spirit, local in* " Homoepathic treatment of chronic diseases," page 3. French
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from the following, among other documents published
by him for the interests of humanity, and for the pecuniary benefit of "the Free Economical Society" at St.
Petersburg.
No. I. EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF MADAM LVOFF,
TO HER FATHER, ADMIRAL MORDVINOW, dated in the
government of Saratow, August 6th, 1831.
" The dreadful cholera broke out last month in our
own village and its vicinity with the-greatest fury. My
husband was the first person attacked; but, thanks to
Homoepathia, was cured in a few days. From a desire
to rQlieve the sufferings of humanity, he visited all the
places in the neighborhood wherever the disease raged
the most; administered the remedies; instructed the
priests and the elders in the use of them; and was
whole weeks thus employed, while I remained at home
occupied with the preparation of Homoepathic powders.
Four hundred cholera patients, saved and restored to
perfect health, was the gratifying reward of his zeal and
the triumphant result of Homoepathic doses liberally
distributed to all who applied for them. We are all
now so well convinced of the miraculous power of this
system, that we cannot sufficiently deplore the ignorance
that cannot, and still more, the obstinate prejudice that
will not invoke its aid, and thereby rescue relatives and
friends from certain death. The Asiatic cholera, preceded by terror, ushered in by danger, and followed by desolation, comes now, remains, and departs a harmless
thing. Its cure is in reality easier than that of a fever.
Multiplied experiments, and consequent confidence in
Homcepathic treatment, have divested it of all its apalling attributes, by subjugating it entirely to the skill of,man. We had fifty patients in our own village, and not
one of them died. On the estate of my sister-in-law,
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Sick. Cured. Died.
In a village within the possessions of the Don Cozacks, 59  53  6
In two settlements on the Caucasus line,...  85  67 15
Two estates of Mr. Tulinew and Poltoratzky, government of Tambow,.......  92   87  5
Estate of Poltoratzky, government of Twer,.. 45  44  1
1273 1162 108
" N. B. Not a single death has occurred where Homoepathic treatment was resorted to in the incipient
symptoms of the cholera. It was also remarked, that all
the patients cured by Homcepathia, regained, in a very
short time, their former health and strength; while those
"who survived other treatments were left in a state of
weakness which lasted for several months, and but too
often terminated in another disease which proved fatal."
These documents, with the Admiral's original work,
" Glance at Homcepathia," and'his translation of HARTLAUB'S celebrated exposition of the same, have been forwarded to the author by the Admiral himself, three
years ago, with a long autograph letter, amply explanative and convincingly instructive. With such vouchers
before him, how can the author refuse his belief in Homcepathia? But even this authority he can now dispense with, having been since convinced by the irresistible evidence of his own senses. There have occurred in
this very city, and within his own personal knowledge,
cases of Homoepathic cure, in serious chronic, and particularly consumptive maladies, which would have made
a convert of him in spite of the strongest resolution to
the contrary. Let but the public spirit of inquiry go
forth in good earnest, and he hesitates not to predict
that there will be many converts besides himself, among
those even who are desirous and predetermined not to be
converted. Indeed, his task, if he do no more than give
impulse to this spirit, will- have been performed quite
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He will now state, as briefly and correctly as he can,
first, the doctrines of Homoepathia; secoidly, the principles, as deduced from those doctrines; and lastly, the
means of action, viz. the minute doses employed for the restoration of health. Any deficiency or mistake, should
he not be able to avoid them, will be easily made up and
corrected by more experienced professional Homcepathists, without diminishing, in the least, his satisfaction
of having presented to the public an object, not of mere
curiosity, but of vital importance, exactly as he sees it;
and although not a few of his positions are not to be
found any where in the same form and terms, being, in
truth, set down for the very purpose of supplying this
omission; he is fully confident that, laying apart some
minor inaccuracies, already referred to the proper source
of correction, he has advanced nothing which is not
warranted by a general comprehensive view of the
whole, or not in accordance with the spirit of Homcepathia, diffused throughout the "Organon," and thence
drawn and concentrated into one prominent unit, more
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Among the adequate powers granted by Providence to
preserve this trust, there is none so obvious, efficient and
easy of adoption as temperance in its general sense;
and no system in medicine can prosper that has not
this special virtu6 for its principal basis, or does not adhere to it with as much tenacity and firmness as is inseparable from the very means of action employed by Homcepathia, most safe and certain of success in their exalted state of unity and comminution, but in the same
proportion liable to be interrupted by the least obtrusion
of an uncalled-for medicinal agent, and therefore admitting of no deviation in the rigid observance of a wholesome, nourishing, but simple diet, free from all ingredients of a higher quality than that of mere nutrition.
All theories, leading to no useful practical issues-all
attempts tb comprehend the incomprehensible, to discover
the undiscoverable, to unveil the ever-forbidden mystery of
"vitality"-the hidden, invisible, immaterial primitive
cause of health as well as disease, which, even if known,
would in no degree facilitate the efforts and the obvious
task of a physician, cannot be too soon renounced as
pernicious chimeras, engendered only to perplex the
genius of medicine, by interposing their deceitful glare
and bewildering shadows between his eagle eye and the
sun of true science.
Equally forbidden and useless is the waste of time
and labor in the pursuit of materiality where it does not.
exist-in the vain attempts to. trace in the out-breakings
of a disease its unsubstantial form, and the impenetrable secret of its action, without regarding the all-important fact that vitality alone, when deranged, gives rise to
the disease, and necessarily imparts to it its own impalpable nature, imaged in the mirror of the mind, but never to be reached by the senses: and it follows, of
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our service, but as the master, in the full possession and
free exercise of his independent powers.
A previous thorough knowledge of remedial forces, in
their primary state of aggression, as they affect a healthy
body, not as they relieve its sufferings, is clearly unattainable under the ordinary compound practice; because, in a mixed dose it is impossible, in case of success, to ascertain which of the medicines in particular
has produced that success, or what are the respective
aggressive as well as curative virtues of each, of more
than one, or of all of them in combination; and because such practice presupposes a distinct individual
action of each ingredient in the mixture, contrary to the
established fact that chemical union, unavoidable in this
instance, of various substances, whether analogous or
dissimilar, always produces a new substance entirely
different from every such substance in its state of separation: yet as this knowledge is absolutely indispensable,
forming as it does the very foundation of safe practice,
there exists a manifest necessity for resorting to the only
means by which such knowledge can be obtainedmeans so simple and obvious as to excite no less regret
than astonishment at their having been so long overlooked-the administering of never more than one remedy at a
time, the contrary course being no better than the throwing of a full-charged bomb into the stomach, in hopes of
a chance that some of the ingredients may hit the disease, no matter how they may shatter the whole frame in
the explosion.
The essential aggressive remedial forces being ascertained, and the agents for producing artificial diseases
being thus secured, it becomes the paramount duty, not
only to find out and to estimate with precision the relative character of the artificial to the natural diseases
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trasting it with the peril averted-the peril of the antagonist-force acting with the same instantaneous rapidity,
too fearfully disproportionate to be invoked against a
local evil: and this is precisely what takes place, more
or less, both in Allopathia and Enantiopathia, where, it
is ten to one, as has been said already, the friend will
prove a more troublesome and pertinacious guest than
the foe he was invited to assist in driving away. It is
evident, therefore, that to command and secure the services of this friend, with as much advantage as expedition-to put it out of his power to do harm, and compel
him to do good-is the enviable privilege of Homcepathia;
and the most that her adversaries can do is to afford
a temporary alleviation, which is usually followed by
the reaction and increased irritation of the original
disease.
It being conceded, that in a healthy body mercury produces a syphilis; sulphur cutaneous diseases; cinchona
an ague; ipecacuanna vomiting; rhubarb a diarrhoea;
vaccination a small-pox; and it being a well-known fact
that the syphilis is removed by mercury; cutaneous diseases by sulphur; the ague by cinchona; vomiting by
ipecacuanna; and the small-pox prevented by vaccination; not to mention other similar cases; one cannot but
wonder how the pregnant truth-that all such least uncertain cures are in the strictest sense Homewpathiccould have so long escaped the notice of physicians,
who came quite within its reach when they classed the
remedies themselves under the head of specifics, and
who actually lay their fingers upon it every time they
prescribe ipecacuanna, for instance, as a tonic in small
and as a vomitive in large doses! If, therefore, this
truth is now disinterred from the lumber of useless
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creasing vigor returns to repair the injury done; and it
is here that we find an additional reason, and a satisfactory explanation of the fact, that natural or primary diseases are removed by such only artificial or secondary
as are the nearest assimilated in their character and
symptoms: for here the slighest touch (any blow would
be too much) bearing directly on the part already alfected, provokes it into action, and excites its recoiling
as well as repelling energy to a point, at which both
diseases, or rather two in one, the natural being matured
or absorbed by the artificial, give way and disappear,
as soon as the stimulating cause in the form of medicine
is withdrawn; and it is quite clear that this result cannot be produced either by the Allopathic or Antipathic
processes, because in either the touch would be a blow,
and the blow itself would fall on some other part of the
spring, where, if too light, it would not be felt, if strong
enough, or too strong, would only press too much in the
wrong place, and weaken the whole, so as to frustrate
all effbrts to cffect a cure; and if now and then have
appeared some favorable exceptions, they were owing
either to the reaction of the vital spring in spite of remedies, or to the unsuspected, chance-directed application of specific Homoepathic principles. Thus, then, the
all-important fact, " the like cure the like," espied but
not pursued by several eminent physicians, and practised, without being known, by the ignorant peasant,
whenever he rubs the frost-bitten part with snow, holds
the burnt finger to the fire, or thaws frozen provisions in
cold water, is at length triumphantly established by Homoepathia; and fill well has she won the right to wear
on her shield the motto of ( similia similibus curnturL."



PRINC IPLE S.
The foregoing doctrines, comprising, as it is believed,
the whole theory of Homcepathia, naturally resolve
themselves into certain fixed principles, considered as
axioms, which serve as guides and rules in practice, and
which may be summed up as follows:
Human s'kill fails in the presence of death, not because this skill is powerless against diseases but because deathi is no disease.
Constitutional deformities admit of no cure, not as
diseases, but as simple deviations from the ordinary
course of nature, not incompatible with health.
To keep off death until the natural termination of old
age is the requisite perfection of the healing art.
No disease is incurable as long as the organ affected
is not destroyed, and there 'is no prostration of vital
powers.
The power of curing all diseases that are really such,
is not only attainable, but implied in the very gift of life.
MEDICINE, the curing power, can only be sustained
by TEMPERANCE, the health-preserving power.
The best of curative systems is that which, from its
very nature, stands on the exclusive basis of temperance, and of necessity can have no other.
The principle of vitality is forbidden to our knowledge, and useless if known.
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acting power, with which the animal organism is so perceptibly endowed.
Vitality, whenever deranged, becomes the source of
disease.
Disease, the effect of deranged vitality, partakes of
the impalpable nature of the cause.
The impalpable can only be cured by the impalpablc.
Disease, as it reveals itself by its symptoms, is the
sole legitimate object of the physician's study.
Absolute certainty, as regards the nature and effects
of remedies, is the only principle on which they are to
be administered.
Nature, unassisted, is incapable of self-cure otherwise
than at the risk of exposure to new maladies, where diseases do. not die of themselves.
Nature, assisted, is the sole agent that effects the cure.
Nature requires no other aid than what is necessary to
give her time to profit by the reaction of that mysterious,
elastic organism of life, over which she presides alone.
Medicines have no healing or curative power in themselves, being mere auxiliaries in the cause of health.
There is no such thing as local malady, disconnected
from surgical cases.
Cure is merely an expulsion of disease.
Two or more similar diseases cannot co-exist in the
same body, one being destroyed by the other, or a third
one produced by a combination of both.
The stronger of the co-existent diseases, whether it be
artificial or natural, will absorb the weaker.
The cause alone, remote or immediate, as far as it
can be traced, not the symptoms, is the true object of
medical treatment.
Disease is a disturbance of the healthy functions of
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representative she is, and who must be understood
whenever her name is mentioned, overcame it by one of
those inspirations which belong to genius alone. She bethought herself of trituration in solids, and agitation in
fluids, and the wonder was done! The remedial essence, thus disengaged from gross and inert mattersubtle, quick, elastic, tenacious, and almost allied to vitality, sprung at once to the seat of disease, breathed
gently but effectually upon the wound, fastened upon
the wounder, and held him passive, spell-bound, till the
concentrated reacting energy of the organism has struck
him in its turn, and hurled him from the citadel of
health! Such is the untangible, or, as it is technically
termed, dynamic power of these minute doses! It seems
not only infinitely ductile, but indestructible; since the
point at which it ceases to act has not yet been reached,
although two celebrated Homoepathists, HARTMAN of
Germany, and KORSAKOEF of Russia, have pushed the
process of attenuation to the utmost stretch of human
calculation.
The foregoing exposition may well seem fanciful,
since any attempt to obtain what is inexplicable must
needs wear that aspect; yet it is certain, that this mysterious power is reflected in many images which nature
daily presents to our contemplation. The spider's exquisite and almost endless fibre, compressed within the
globule of a grain, yet strong enough to hold up his own
weight, with all his weaving stores, and the suspended
prey besides; the stroke of the serpent's fang that destroys life; the drop of Prussic acid, that prostrates an
elephant; the scarcely visible speck of morbid matter
on the lancet's point, that conveys disease and death itself into our veins; the pestilential miasm, that viewless
sweeps along, and strews the earth with the unmourned,
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that strikes the earth with the crushing velocity of one
hundred million miles in eight minutes, and yet is so attenuated as to be scarcely felt; the steam that is rarified
even to freezing, yet still rising in strength; the galvanic
spark that melts platina, and gives the shock to a thousand beings at once; the electric flash that splits the
rocks; the magnetic spell that controls the obedient
needle; the baleful light that blasts the stout but careless sleeper beneath the Equatorial moon; the torpedo,
that at a touch, paralizes the arm of the hardy fisherman; the boundless diffusion of odor; the fainting produced by the presence of a flower; the smell by which
one detects the unseen object of his antipathy; the scent
by which the dog traces his absent and far-distant master; the instinctive sight, that, from a distant, unfamiliar
region, guides the carrier-pigeon straight to his home;
the strange but exact presension of winds, rains, and all
atmospheric changes, which distinguishes several animals, and occasionally man himself; the unknown, but
well authenticated influence upon the nerves of stone
and metal amulets worn about the body; the sudden,
unperceived, but often certain blow of death, that comes
from terror, grief, and even joy itself; and, lastly, the
marvel of ANIMAL MAGNETISM vouched for by the most
respectable medical authorities: are so many manifestations, exemplifications, and evidences of the active,
penetrating element of imponderous Homcepathic doses.
But the most striking illustration, on account of its
close analogy and distinctness, is the well known ductility of gold, one grain of which, as seems to have been
demonstrated by REAUMER, can be expanded into a
leaf, impervious to light and water, yet large enough to
cover, a house! The leaf being a solid body, reduced to its minutest particles by trituration, will thus
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disgusting foulness, and irritated to torture, was a protection to the vital power within; while with us, the
clean exterior, kept free of unsightly, eruptions by improved artificial means, is a shelter for the malignant,
deep-seated Polypus, whose arms, when extruded and
lopped of their extremities, turn to self-reproduction,
and set at nought all the power and resources of the
healing art. The outward suffering of old was the
price of inward security; our apparent security, the
pledge of internal disorder. Leprosy was then a polluting
harpy, preying on all the visible decencies of social and
private life; now it is the ravenous Promethean vulture, chained to the heart, and feeding upon the entrails.
Such is the doctrine of Psora; and, that it is not
without foundation, may be inferred from the success
with which this miasm has been combatted by suitable
remedies denominated anti-pso/ic, and forming a part of
the same discovery, which otherwise would have been
useless. It may be well supposed that Hiahnemann was
not likely to content himself with the abstract honor.of
solving a mystery, or of illustrating some theoretic point
leading to no practical benefit. He drew forth an occult
evil, not for the purpose of exhibiting it as a specimen of
his skill and penetration, but in order to lay it bare to
the paralizing touch of medicine, and he rested not until
this object also was fully attained.
The annunciation of this discovery was a signal for
new attacks, more than ever fierce and determined; and
Psora became the rallying point of all the inveterate enemies, great and small, of Homcepathia. Dr. Duringe,
otherwise a fair adversary, who has already been quoted,
assails this new doctrine with unqualified denunciations
and gratuitous assertions, with ridicule, and at the same
time With bitterness, which impair all his former professions and indications of liberality, justice and modera7



DR. DURINGE'S OBJECTIONS,


As far as it can be extracted and compressed into a
few words, the unfavorable part of the deliberate judgment of Dr. Duringe, pronounced in a tone of decision,
and asserted to be the result of personal experience and
practice, is that Homcepathia, although fully entitled to
be engrafted on the old stock as a new branch, never can,
and never will realize her lofty pretensions, inasmuch as she
falls short of Allopathia in effective power and fertility of
resources; degrades the dignity of intellect and science; is
wavering and fallible, unsatisfactory and unsafe; limited in
her operations; based upon false assumptions; supported by
a denial of correct principles; depending on contradictory
caprices, and faithless to herself. Consequently, so far from
being the true exclusive system, capable of uprooting
and replacing all others, Homoepathia, overloaded as she
is by the paternal hand, has no strength to sustain herself
alone, and must soon pass away, like the phantom of Psora,
with which she has been so unfortunately associated.
For the sake of conveniency, the arguments in support of this judgment will be considered and answered
in subdivisions; and the author has to renew his former
declaration, that, although for the reasons just mentioned, he has allowed himself, in this only instance, to deviate into a line of defence, " he does not hold himself
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maepathia has placed in his hands, and left him no
choice but to use them.
ARGUMENT.
Homcepathia falls short of Allopathia in effective power
and fertility of resources; because the latter makes use of
more decisive means, and, instead of being, like Homoepathia, restricted to one mode of proceeding, ranges
at large; employs without hesitation all known kinds of
treatment, internally or externally, as may seem most
eligible; and has remedies at command to multiply the
chances of cure, not only by their abundance, but, what
is of the highest importance, by their infinite variety of
combination.
COMMENT.
No one will dispute that Allopathia sticks at nothing,
and has a summary process, her own par exeellence,o of
disposing of her patients; but the question is not what
kills, but what saves; and the last, being the better power, and the only one in requisition, reverses the decision
in favor of Homoepathia, to which it belongs also par
excellence. As to the comparative fertility of resources,
the numerical part of which is greatly against Allopathia, the question again is not which has the most, but
which employs the most-which is the first on the road of
certitude, which is the last on, the path of discovery: a
question of preference easily decided.
The boasted advantage of various other modes of treatment, and of all those high-sounding expedients, which,
classified under the different heads of astringents, emollients, diaphoretics, and the like, form so cabalistical and
imposing a nomenclature, might well be envied as insuring the pre-eminence claimed, were it really an advantage; and were it not that Homppathia rejects it, not be



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cause she cannot reach it, but because she has found itj
by repeated experience, to be a positive evil; and because, preferring what is sure to what-is doubtful, she
contents herself vith the choice of a method on which
alone she can always rely for success. She has no need
of palliatives, and accepts of none for the best possible
reason, that she deals only in curatives-opium itself in
her hands being compelled to cure, while the only services it performs for the old school are alleviation or
death.
The learned Doctor, more than once, in the course of
his work, alludes with unqualified approbation to that
unique elevated prerogative of Homcepathia, by which
" she can do no harm:" therefore, as he admits at the
same time and defends, to their full extent, the aggressive
as well as curative potency of Homoepathic doses, tried
and proved by his own practice, and depending altogether on the use of one medicine at a time, not weakened
or diverted by any accessory whatever; and as he acknowledges, moreover, the benefit of discoveries contributed by her to the general stock of medicine, to be
such as ought to have contented her with the honor thus
acquired, it is quite clear that he is the best possible
witness against himself, and that the whole of the argument, with the position it was intended to support, is
completely and triumphantly refuted'by himself.
ARGUMENT.
Homoepathia degrades the dignity of intellect and science; because she checks the higher aspirations of the
mind, brings it down to the earth, when it fains to soar
on the track of the mysterious spirit of Eternity, and
plants it by the sick bed, to watch like the humble nurse,
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Thus, step by step, inverting the progress of the hazard,
she reaches the true point of action, where decision,
promptitude, and security, attest her finished task, while
her adversaries rejoice yet in the dream of her wavering
and fallibility.
Suppose, by way of illustration, that two persons, attacked with a sudden violent headache, have sent, one
for a Homcepathic, and the other for an Allopathic physician, and that both these gentlemen, on their arrival,
mistaking alike the serious nature of the malady, have
administered their remedies accordingly. The Homoepathist, who well knows the effect he intended, waits
for its appearance, as in duty bound. It comes not, or
it comes in a different aspect. His suspicions are immediately excited. New symptoms are anxiously watched,
and he discovers that the supposed slight affection is the
congestion of blood to the head, indicating the morbific
agency, similar to that of opium. At once the medicine
already administered is driven out or suspended by its
antidote-a minute dose of opium is given instead; and
the relief is almost magic, the cure is certain, and the
patient is saved!
Not so with the Allopathist. His work may be easier,
quicker, and perchance more sure; but not quite within
the spirit of the contract. Proceeding on the soothing
principle, he hts already begun with 20 or 30 drops of
laudanum, and his beginning is the end. The malady,
being itself of the kind produced by an overdose of laudanum, is of course aggravated and accelerated beyond
what the organism can bear, Thus 20 or 30 drops
more, harmless" or alleviating in other circumstances,
act here exactly as if they were superadded to what
was already taken kin a quantity sufficient to destroy.
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nature cannot cure herself, for he expressly alludes to
her crisis-operating power, but that she cannot do so
'without self-exposure in other respects to imminent danger, and this will scarcely be denied by any reflecting
pathologist. In constituting her the sole agent of cure,
and by strietly limiting all his remedies to the office of
auxiliaries, Hahnemann has in truth paid her a greater
compliment than Allopathia, which often undertakes to
control her, and not always to her advantage.
The difference between him and his antagonists is,
after all, the difference of terms; for, what they call the
cure of nature, he denominates a revolution, that is, a
maturity of disease-a point which it is his main object
and chief aim to attain by artificial means where others
fail, and which, once being gained, the disease is no
more, and nature is herself again!
With respect to the sameness of effect produced by
bleeding and corresponding medicines, it is a fallacy
on the very face of it. Bleeding allays the inflammation
-aconite or wolfsbane does the.same. So far the effect
may be the same; but, as regards health, it is fearfully
unlike. There, poor nature is weakened into submission,
and made to propitiate the tyrant at the expense of her
future safety; here, the tyrant himself is encountered
hand to hand, subdued, and compelled to leave nature
in the full possession of her forces. In one case the fermentation is stopped, and the contents are saved; in
the other, the contents are spilled to check the fermentation, and the more there is drawn off; the more will
rise to the issue to be drawn off again, until little or nothing is left within. This last is the true process by
which the precious fluid is wasted, vitality impaired,
the extremities completely drained, and the dissolution
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if the sick do not generally die of exhaustion* subsequent to, and consequent on, the paroxysm-then the
present prevailing practice is most grossly belied, and
king SANGRADO, unless he is kind enough to begin with
himself, may reign and bleed until there is not a single
subject left for the favorite exercise of his insatiate lancet!
The true difference between the act of bleeding and
* That such is really the case, is fully acknowledged by the Allopathists themselves, and against themselves, whenever they decline, as
they do sometimes, to bleed an old subject, where they would have
tapped and re-tapped a young one without stopping to calculate the
cost. Ask them the reason, and you will be informed, that they are full
of apprehensions, lest te feebleness of age should sink under the operation, so easily sustained by the strength of youth and manhood. What
is this but a plain confession, that the best chance of life is not in the
hope of surviving such operation, but in the act of avoiding it altogether?  The remedy, too bad and dangerous to be adopted in one
case, must be equally so in all; for, the sword that kills one, and only
wounds another, is not the less an instrument of destruction in itself.
But why call forth hope where assurance can so easily replace it?
Why use at all what is so much better not used, and multiply the difficulties to be overcome, when there is a way to diminish and remove
them at the outset? The erudite gentlemen will reply again, that a
robust constitution is more susceptible of serious inflammation, and, that,
having no other means to reduce it, they resort to bleeding, as the least
of the two evils. The reply is too true. They have, indeed, no other
means-but Homcepathia has: and, what is still more conclusive of her
superiority, it is not possible to deprive her of such means, or even to
participate in them, without coming over to her standard. Allopathia
may certainly use them; but if she does it otherwise than under the
auspices and instructions of Homoepathia, the substitute will prove
more fatal than the lancet itself. The trut1i is, that there is not the
same steady light, the same unerring clue to guide the Allopathist
through the dark labyrinth of uncertainties; and it must have been
the full consciousness of this perplexity that induced one of the same
school, the late distinguished professor of medicine, Dr. Gregory, to
exclaim, in the bitterness of his disappointment, and in the presence
of his scholars, that "ninety-nine out of a hundred of medical facts
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sequently ascertained that the effect of both is alike satisfactory, and that inert substances, such as charcoal,
salt, silex, et cet. cannot be given at all as medicines,
unless previously subjected to the Homoepathic process!
This is all, and has as much to do with the general merits and strength of the system, as a longer or shorter
mane with the vigor of an Eclipse starting for the race!
Let it be, however, rightly' interpreted, and it will become the most striking and conclusive of all proofs,
that an edifice, in which, after a lapse of years, there
was found so little to alter on the score of beauty, symmetry, and solidity, can have no other foundation than
that of immutable, perpetual, immortal truth!
ARGUMENT.
Homoepathia is faithless to herself; because, since her
ill-chosen connection with Psora, she has called to her
aid the counteracting anti-psoric medicines, resorted to
the trick of mystification, and thus became false to her
own professions, which had so disdainfully rejected the
one and the other.
COMMENT.
The all-sufficient reason why the anti-psoric remedy
is not, and should not be Homoepathically in unison with
the apparent or approximate disease which is to be
cured, is that it is not given for this disease at all, but
directed exclusively against the source whence it is supposed to have originated. The medicine, with regard to
this source, being never otherwise than strictly Homoepathic, the great pervading principle, " the like cure
the like," is preserved throughout with scrupulous fidelity; and the learned Doctor ought to have known better
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break the altars and overturn the temples raised by the
toil, cherished by the affections, fostered by the care,
sustained by the zeal, and consecrated by the homage
of generations!     She came to mortify the pride of learning, by announcing its ways to be the ways of darkness! She came to bid the most powerful passion of the
human breast, the love of lucre, to resign'its spoils, and
give up the certain gains of a profitable traffic,* almost
without equivalent or consideration! She came to do all
this, alone, poor, unsupported, her very breath enkindling strife and deadly opposition; yet still her march is
onward, and her foot has already crossed the Atlantic
wave!     She has succeeded where         an  army   of giants
would have failed, and where it was a miracle not to be
* By a calculation made for the State of New-York, it appears that
drugs administered according to the Homcupathic process of attenuation,
could be supplied for the whole population at the rate of three hundred
dollars a year! Can it be, then, a matter of surprise, that an innovation
threatening so serious a reduction in the long-enjoyed profits of a powerful set of men, should be resisted by them to the last extremity? Is
it not, on the contrary, quite natural, that pharmacopolists, like other
men deeply interested in the trade by which they live, should exert
their utmost energy, and use all their influence with physicians, with
whom they are necessarily more or less connected, to avert a visitation
so ominous to their worldly prosperity? In this they do but follow the
first of laws-the law of self-preservation, and it would be unjust to
cast any reproach on them; but it is absolutely necessary to be informed of the true source of opposition to Homcepathlia, in order to do full
justice to her merits. The wonder is that she should have been able to
make the first step, and not that she should advance as she now does,
with a pace which may be retarded for & while, but which it is no longer
within the power of any combination of men to arrest. A greater wonder
still is, the fact, that even among the men so deeply interested in opposing her, there is now in this very city more than one convert to her doctrines, and consequently more than one honorable exception to the selfishness of human nature. No higher proof can be adduced in favor of
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an immoderate love of the parade of learning, or what
is most probable, from both, these motives, has divided
all diseases, accprding to their resemblances, into separate groups, and classified them under different heads,
as febrile, inflammatory, eruptive, cerebral, nervous, gastric,
intestinal, profluent, refluent, constitutional, and local, and,
of course, treats each group or class, as if it were one
lump, with the remedies particularly appropriated to it,
pretty much in the same manner as some empiric would
dose all black men with one kind of drugs, all white
men with another, all red men with another yet, and so
on, deviating so far only from the practice of the ignorant rustic, that this last marks all his sheep black, white,
and parti-colored, with the same unchanging hue of the
red ochre!!
Now, as no two things in nature are strictly and absolutely alike, not. even two drops of water; and as this
difference is more especially obvious and striking in the
human species, Homoepathia, neither scared by toil, nor
tempted by the glare of erudition, rejects all such generalities, classifications, and specifications; and, considering every disease as partaking of the idiocracy of the
person affected, studies each case separately by itself,
and makes its peculiarity, that is, individuality, the absolute rule in the choice of medicine and the mode of
treatment. On which side preponderate common sense
and reason may be decided without the aid of an oracle.
REMOVAL OF MORBID CAUSES, INSTEAD OF THEIR
EFFECTS. Tolle causam, is a precept, on which there is
no difference of opinion. Remove the cause, has beenthe
constant cry of Allopathia; and, if it turns out, as it
often does, all cry and no wool, the merit of the hoax is
fairly monopolized by herself! By a singular fatality,
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the presence of a highly inflammatory, dangerous disease, depends entirely on the invigoration or reduction
of the conservative power of the blood itself; and that
the manner in which this power is affected by the
practice of Homoepathia and Allopathia, is the best possible criterion of their respective merits.
CONVENIENCY    AND COMFORT     OF THE    INVALID  are
totally incompatible with   the  Allopathic   treatment,
where the wanton spilling of blood, besides its first or
immediate effects, so injurious to the constitution, leads
to all those secondary medical inflictions, not the least
of which is fasting and hunger, imposed upon the patient when he can least bear them, and is most in need
of food. It is sufficient, therefore, to say here, that Homcepathia, by the single act of abjuring all kinds of bloodspilling, is enabled to spare the patient all subsequent
torture, and never for a moment subjects him to the additional privation of a wholesome and nourishing diet.
GUARANTEE FROM HARM, AND CERTAINTY OF CURE,
have already been explained in the safety and efficacy
of minute Homoepathic doses, whose power of action
expires the moment it ceases to be salutary, and whose
effects are never felt, except as a sure pledge of success.
The idea of the negative mischief attributed to Homoepathe pupil of nature. She preserves the blood, increases its activity, restores its purity, equalizes its deranged circulation, and thus enables it
to overcome obstruction, and to effect a cure in the only way in which it
can ever be effected-by its own recovered energies. If the followers,
as well as the leaders of the present dominant school are not acquainted
with the special control which Homcepathia exercises over scarlet fever-their want of information is shameful and unpardonable; if they
are, and will not profit by their knowledge, their deliberate guilt is
greater than the power of fiction to increase it, or the range of moral
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thia in not doing enough, or in not being quick enough, is an
absurdity full worthy of the motives and general character of her better informed opponents. In the first instance,
any evil from this source, if it did exist at all, would
never equal the twentieth part of the evil caused by Allopathic overdoings and misdoings; and, in the second,
such a result is an impossibility, because in critical diseases requiring an instant aid, Homoepathia, to say the
least, is as well prepared as Allopathia, and, in all
others, her aid comes always in support of that ability
of nature, which, down to this period, has already been
found adequate to the preservation of existence.
CELERITY OF OPERATION.-Were it possible to enumerate here the many instances where a single dose has
performed a seeming miracle of resurrection, it would
astonish the most obdurate of skeptics, and convince all
who are open to conviction, that where Allopathia talks,
halts, walks, and runs, Homoepathia acts, walks, runs, and
gallops; and that Where the former alleviates and weakens
a disease in five weeks or days, the latter arrests and
cures it in two: this being the general proportion of success between them, of the truth of which any one may
satisfy himself by a proper reference to Homoepathic
physicians, who will furnish him with an abundance of
croups,* scarlatinas, cerebral fevers, et cet. effectually
cured at the point of time at which Allopathia begins
only to hope, and look with some confidence to a successful issue.
SPEEDY CONVALESCENCE, although the last in order,
is of the first importance, when it is considered that it
* A croup, already forming, was completely cured in twenty-four
hours, in the author's own family, by a single Homcepathic dose given
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ble, from the combined motives of interest and duty, as
well as from inclination. Still less can it be supposed,
that, if the trial so made had failed, they would have
been permitted to be silent. Their implacable opponents,
from whose knowledge it would have been impossible to
conceal it, not content with simply making it known
through all their channels of communication, would
have converted it into a general triumph over Homcepathia, and set ten thousand triple throats of Cerberus
to rend the air with her defeat and signal ruin; for, it is
Snot the least of her hardships, that, while her detractors
are exalted to the third heaven for not destroying all, she
is condemned for not saving all; as if she were, at one
and the' same time a lying impostor, indebted only to
chance and nature for her cures, and a merciless spirit,
having full power over death, yet refusing to exercise it.
The absence of all trace and record of such a trial, as
far as is known here, is a strong presumptive proof that
it has never yet been made; and the next question is,
why has it not been made?
If homoepathists had any chance of it, they lost it
probably by resorting in the first instance to belladona,
stramonium, hyoasimus, and laehesis [the serpent's poison] Homoepathic specifics of the greatest potency, but
not sufficient to subdue Hydrophobia in its full rage.
The only satisfactory answer, then, that can be given
on this point, is, that the practitioners of the old school,
forming as yet the most numerous medical body every
where, such cases as occurred fell into their hands, and
they would not part with them. They have no objection
tothe practice of Homoepathia in their own way, when
not called upon to avow it; but any thing like an open
concession in her favor, ever so remote, although it may
save the life of a fellow-creature, is of course incompatible with the monopolising, unyielding, pitiless, and all12