HOME OPATHY,
A THEORETIC DEMONSTRATION
WITH SOCIAL APPLICATIONS.
BY
x EDGEWORTH LAZARUS, M.D.
NE W-Y OR K:
PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM RADDE, 322 BROADWAY.
1851.



1O D0 (E OP AT lY.
Q. Is it possible to discover any law of cure, or
well defined principle on which medicines act, seeing
their immense number and diversity, and the different action of the same substance on two individuals,
or on the same individual at different times?
A. All substances in nature are either capable of
assimilation to the life of man, of entering into his
structure and aiding in the performance of his animal
spiritual functions, fulfilling harmonic relations towards him, which are classed under the science of
hygiene-or else they are substances essentially (at
least in the existing chemical state) foreign to the human organism, and exciting disturbance in its functions.  Medicine, as hitherto known; has recognised
only this last class of substances, disturbing forces,
and creators of a "'cial disease.
A natural standard for the discrimination of these
opposite qualities is afforded by the state of health,
which places mankind on one platform in regard to
nourishing substances when properly prepared, such
as grains, the cereal fruits, and garden vegetables,
and also in regard to foreign substances or poisons,
such as Ipecac, Mercury, Arsenic-leaving the difference between the susceptibility of different individuals merely a matter of quantity or degree.



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It is chiefly relative to morbidly induced susceptibilities, that the axiom what is one man's meat is
another man's poison has a foundation in truth.
Besides the general standard for the human race or
any great fraction of it, which is given by the state of
health; there is a specific standard given by the health
of each individual, separately considered, to whom
the adaptations of food or of medicines are to be
made.
Q. Admitting that a uniform  and calculable relation exists between all substances either harmonic or
disturbing, and the state of health of a given individual, is this relation equally positive and absolute to
his various states of disease? or is the same substance
to the same person relatively hurtfull or beneficial,
subversive or harmonic, in different states of disease
into and through which we may pass, as well as to
differently constituted diseased persons or to persons
of similar constitution, suffering under different diseases?
A. Yes. Such is the fact of our experience.
Q. How then is it possible accurately to group
substances under any law of cure, since the states of
disease are as manifold and variable as that of health
is one and consistent?
A. All medicines, we have agreed, are disturbing
forces compromising the state of health and inducing
artificial disease. We have also agreed that the same
medicine varies its action on the same individual, in
the different states of a disease to which he is liable.
If our experience shows that this new and incidental
relation is ever harmonic or beneficial, i. e. that medicines have ever cured diseases, restored the organism to the state of health, we naturally infer that this



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vibrate in a direction opposite to that into which
it was forced.  For example, an individual who habitually sleeps eight hours out of twenty-four, if by
any cause he is kept awake all night, will if nothing
prevents him, sleep more than eight hours out of the
next twenty-four. On the contrary, if he takes at the
beginning of the first twenty-four hours, a dose of
opium or other narcotic which causes him to sleep for
twenty-four hours, he will sleep less than eight hours
during the second period of twenty-four hours.
So of the other effects of opium, whose primary
effect is to lull pain and induce a pleasant flow of
animal spirits, but which after this effect is spent,
leaves the system in a state of extreme nervous irritability, so that we see patients thus treated, unable
to bear anything on their stomachs, or to support
light noise or motion.
So as to the action of cold, whose primary effect is
depressing, and which when continued, gradually extinguishes every vital function, inducing a torpor
which pervades first the surface, then the muscles, and
extending to the heart, causes death. But if cold of
intensity and duration not sufficient to destroy life or
limb, be endured, the benumbed parts after the removal from the cold become red and tingle painfully,
even inflame, and the whole system is thrown into
fever if the exposure has been severe. If, however,
it have been more moderate, the reaction or vibration
in an opposite direction to the impression of the disturbing force, is also moderate, and limits itself to a
glow of the exposed surface, and a general quickening
of the circulation and nervous energy, as after a moderate cold bath when the system possesses full power
of vital reaction.



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ten grains of belladonna, phosphorus, mercury, or
arsenic, nor even of ipecac, or jalap, without very
soon being rendered painfully conscious of a subversive force which rapidly passes through its morbific
manifestations, and if not repeated, leaves the organism in health or in death.
Virulent poisons which destroy the structures they
touch, leave a local death or foundation of chronic
disease, but which is to be distinguished from their
active presence.
Beingi more potently subversive than the natural causes of disease, medicines may then be expected to excite more certain and powerful reactions, at
the same time that they impress on us the greatest
caution in regard to such form, or quality, in their exhibition, as may fatally compromise the structure
with which they come in contact.
Q. Analogy of action being proved, should we
not expect to find medicines as near as possible in
the same sphere of forces as the diseases on which
they act?
A. Diseases cannot be weighed by pounds, ounces,
drachms and grains-nor measured with a yardstick,
a footrule, nor subjected to any other mechanical examirations, whatever be the case in regard to some
of their external manifestations, such as ulcers, &c.
Diseases are dynamic aromas, which infest weak organisms, the same as worms or parasitical creatures;
and which are capable of being burnt out, or dissipated by the divine sunshine of passional life and
intense vital force.
Medicines should then be aromalized, or have
their electricity developed, in order to their perfect
adaptation to the cure of disease.



FRICTION, POINTS, SURFACES, ELECTRICITY.   7
Q. What method?
A. Electricity is the principle of all forces known
under the various names of gravitation, galvanism,
magnetism, &c. This force resides in surfaces, and
may be multiplied in any given substance in ratio to
the increase of its surface.
It is given off by points, consequently given off
from any given substances in quantity proportioned
to the number of its points.
Electricity is developed by friction, the same process which gives to the substances, rubbed or triturated, the greatest amount of surface, the greatest
number of points; which, by separating their atoms,
liberates their polar affinities. This process, to which
medicines are subjected in the homceopathic preparation, also modifies them so that they cease to outrage the senses of taste and smell, or to act corrosively on the gastric mucous membranes, so that
the objections of instinctive sensation against medicines are removed, together with the rational objections to their uncertain or injurious operation.
Q.  WThy are the doses of medicine so infinitely
small?
A. Why is the nervous organism  so exquisitely
susceptible of impressions?  Why is it that specific
affinity is in the molecular combinations of mineral
elements, in vegetable nutrition from the elements of
soils, in social or passional relations, an affair of so
much more consequence than the quantities of the
matters or beings brought into contact.
Why will the ferro-cyanuret of potassium detect copper in the
proportion of - )   6th part, or metallic zinc detect it in the proportion of T  -r0-O-6 th.  Why will the chromate of potash detect
lead in the proportion of  c0  0o th part?  Or sulphuretted hydrogen in the proportion of 2 5 o0l 0J   th?



HAENEMANN'S DISCOVERY.            9
of leavening an indefinite quantity of flour, or a single particle of vaccine variola, or syphilis matter,
of changing and corrupting all the fluids of the body,
or of all the bodies of the human race?
Q. What incidents have led to the discovery of the
homoeopathic law of cure-Similia Similibus?
A. The coincidence observed by Hahnemann, between the well known effect of Peruvian bark in
curing or arresting intermittent fever, and the fact
recorded by Cullen of intermittent fever supervening
upon the use of Cinchona bark, in patients who were
taking it for other diseases.   He verified the observation upon himself and a number of others, and
extended his experiments to arsenic and numerous
other remedies, whose description or pathogenesis,
composes the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, since the
time of Hahnemann enlarged by other contributions.
He was led to diminish his doses by the incoveniences produced by large ones, and their apparent
efficacy after each reduction. He observed that every
disease developed immensely the idiosyncratic susceptibilities of the organism towards those medicines
whose effects were similar to its own, just as a burnt
finger is more sensitive to heat.
Q. Is there any known quantity so small as to preclude the efficacy of medicines in the cases to which
they are specific?
A. The potency of many substances seems to be,
on the contrary, exalted in proportion to the subdivision of their particles, even to the three thousandth
dilution; commencing with a grain, and each dilution
being the one hundredth part of the last in quantity:
Arsenic and other medicines in these very high dilutions have been found perfectly efficient.



10               HOICEOPATIY.
Q. Are we then to credit the common argument,
which seeks to cast ridicule upon the small doses of
the homoeopathists, pretending that a grain of calomel dissolved in the waters of the Atlantic, would
form a homcepathic dilution?
A. Not at all. NTot only is the utmost purity requisite in the saccharine or alcoholic menstruum in
which remedies are prepared, but they must be intimately commingled with this menstruum, part by
part, in quantities varying only between one tenth
and one hundredth of the quantity of the menstruum,
so that they shall as by the analogous process of fermentation, communicate to the menstruum their peculiar electrical state or molecular character.
Q. Why do not Homceopathic physicians always
and certainly and radically cure diseases?
A. They do not all cure them because they are,
for the most part, little acquainted either with the
nature of the diseases they meet with, or with the
character and action of the substances of the Materia Medica.
For a true physician it is necesary that a specific
adaptation of character to this kind of work or function should pre-exist, then that it should educate or
develop itself sonttaneously in a sphere affording to
its contemplation and calculation a great number of
well classified facts, such as an orderly hospital,
should present.
Our present system of medical instruction is not
merely deficient in this respect, but radically vicious,
in as much as it saturates and vitiates the mind of
the student with theories more or less absurd and
pernicious, before it begin to cultivate his practical
genius, and thus renounces a priori the  benefits



REQUISITES OF A PHYSICIAN.          11
which science might obtain from those untramelled
original methods of investigation which each fresh
mind would bring to bear upon the facts subjected
to it.
Until more genuine respect be shown to the intuitive faculties of the soul, we shall find in medicine
as elsewhere, the present bowed under the burden of
the past, and life often too short to unlearn the errors
so maliciously instilled into our childhood and youth,
and broken of spring and stamina when wisdom enables it to commence the real work of self-instruction.
Meantime it must not excite our surprise that men
mistake their vocation,in medicine as elsewhere, and
that it continues as difficult as ever to make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear.
The remedy is to be sought only in a new and complete system of education, connected with industrial
organization, of which the reader may elsewhere inform himself.
Physicians who have the knowledge of their profession in a superior degree, do not always cure, because all diseases are not curable, and because all
medicinal forces have not yet been explored.
They do not certainly cure them, because numerous disturbing forces incident to civilized life interfere between medicine and patient. Such are mental
agitation, distress of the affections, fatigue and exhaustion, interference of personal or magnetic influence, &c.
They do not radically cure them because medicine,
per se, is a mere simplism, only one point of a general system of adaptation, including hygienic relations
with the earth, air, water, sunshine-vegetable and
animal creatures; social or human relations of sym



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pathy, prosperity in business, in short, all the physical magnetic and passional relations for which we are
formed and for whose functions and uses we exist.
FORM OF DOSES.
Homoeopathy in its form of exhibition, reveres the
admonitions of those natural guardians placed by the
good God at the threshold of the temple of life, name
ly, the five senses. It considers every medicine, however otherwise appropriate in its qualities; as contraindicated, so long as in its form of preparation, it is
disgusting to the senses of sight, smell, and taste,
given to discriminate from among all substances,
those which are fit to be taken into the stomach and
body of man and other animals. Every medicine,
before being llomceopatbically administered, is so
prepared as to be inoffensive to the sight and smell,
and pleasing to the taste, and as in the approach to
truth, the beautiful every where combines with the
useful; it is the same process of trituration with sugar
and dilution with alcohol that removes the disgusting qualities of medicines, and that develops their
electrical powers, enabling them to penetrate more
readily to the nervous centres, and permeate more
thoroughly the tissues diseased. A material such as
sand or clay, inert in its crude form, exhibits great
medical powers when thus triturated and diluted.
The force and range of already powerful medicines,
such as mercury or arsenic, is at once extended and
refined, so that in the exceedingly minute dose which
experience proves to be fully sufficient to cure, provided the remedy truly correspond with the disease,
these and other poisons become perfectly safe even
for babes at the breast.



DISEASES NOT MEASURED BY THE POUND.  13
To those who very naturally object to Homoeopathy, the impossibility of understanding how such exceedingly minute doses can have any effect, we answer that this is in the first place a matter settled by a
large and long experience for those who have investigated the subject experimentally, and in the second
place that they deceive themselves in expecting to derive any other information on this point from their
senses, than that of the effects or results observed after exhibition of the remedies. Neither sight, smell
or taste detect the medicinal qualities of Mercury,
Arsenic, Antimony, Belladonna, Stramonium, &c.,
the senses only declare I like or I dislike-any further knowledge of remedial agents is gained only by
experimental observation of their effects when taken
into the body. It is only the association of ideas that
makes the mecdicinal qualities of drugs in their crude
forms appear to be sensible. The same association of
ideas comes by experience in Homeopathy to attach
to the medicincal qualities of tasteless and inodorous
preparations of the same drugs.  Nothing can be
more grossly silly than the common notion of estimating the medicinal virtue of drugs by weight and
measure.  Tell me in pounds, ounces, drams and
grains-the weight of Scarlet fever, of Cholera, of
Croup, of Measles or any other disease, tell me its
measure in yards, feet and inches, and you will then
perhaps be rational in expecting that I should tell you
in the same terms the weight and measure of the corresponding remedies which cure those diseases. But
if it be evident to all, that diseases are not susceptible
of such measurements-that they are not visible and
tangible matters, but only aromas manifested like
heat, light and magnetism, by their effects in solid



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and fluid bodies, then we should naturally expect
that medicines corresponding to these diseases and
curative of them, should in their most perfect preparation lose the visible and tangible qualities of crude
matter, and attain like diseases, the aromac state, with
the extension of power and influence which belongs
to this state-precisely what we find in the preparations of homeeopathy.  It is conformable to the uniform experience of mankind that the senses perceive
only the lowest and feeblest order of forces in nature.
Every thing beyond mere bulk and weight belong to
another field of experience.  Steam, the expansive
force of gases, heat, light, electricity, galvanism, magnetism, nervous power, morbific and therapeutic
agents; and the still higher forms of power such as
those of passion or will, of love and intellect, rise beyond all estimation of the senses, except through their
results.
During ages -when brute force has ruled, it was natural that the virtue of medicines should be estimated
by their material qualities and by the convulsions and
agonies their crude masses produce in the nice mechanism of the human body which they disturb or
destroy.
In an age where intellect and science attain the
supremacy, it is equally naturalthat the higher or subtler qualities of medicines should be sought after, and
that physicians ceasing from their vain and pernicious
attempts to control arbitrarily the movements of organic life, should seek to restore its equilibrium and
harmony by awakening its own reactive forces.



15
HOMVI(EOPATHY-THE CHRISTIANITY OF MEDICINE!
"But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil, but
whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn
to him the other also.
And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take
away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
And whosoever SHALL COMPEL THEE TO GO WITH
HIM A MILES GO rWITH HIM TWAIN."
The CHRISTIAN RELIGION is no longer to be confined to a few individtal lives. Its principles, so long
treated by the world as abstractions, are bold and
practical announcements of LAWS OF NATURE OR
WILLS OF GOD, inherent in the organization of souls,
and of societies; and those which seem most transcendental and impracticable from their contradiction to
the false experience of men who live in a vicious circle,
habituated to violate natural laws and to suffer or
engender the evils thereonz consequent; are really the
most literally true, and zuniversal in their application
in every sphere of p2ractical life.
What is the application of the principle above stated to thoseforzs of evil which we call disease, as regards the adaptation of medicines to their cure?  If
we are " not to resist disease" or give medicines which
act in a manner contrary to that peculiar train of
morbid actions which constitute the disease in question, then it is an open violation of the natural law
here announced by CHRIST, to give in cholera or
diarrhoeas; opium, tannin or other astringents, according to the common practice; since these produce as
their direct or primary effect on the hunman body, very
opposite states-constipation, for instance, instead of
diarrhoea; quietude and torpor of the body, instead



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with a man who would force us to go one-a course
of conduct which would naturally make him ashamed
of himself, and cause a reaction in his soul against the
oppression to which he had been inclined. Resistance would only provoke him to greater obstinacy,
and even if he failed to carry his point, would leave
the oppressive disposition firmly rooted, and ready to
exhibit itself on some other occasion.
HIM(EOPATHY or the CHRISTIAN principle of medicine, instead of contradicting or resisting the tendencies of the organism as expressed in the symptoms of
disease, by medicines whose primary effects are opposite to the existing state; understands these symptoms
as the language in which nature calls for the remedy
corresponding to each case, and which may be discovered by an experimental knowledge of the action of
each medicine upon the body in health.
WVe gain thus a clue to the medicine appropriate
to each case, as definite and faithful as the learned
humbug of the pharmacopoeia with its emetics, cathartics, diuretics, emmenagogues and alteratives, &c.
&c., is vague and delusive. We avoid all such organic convulsions or disturbances as vomiting, purging, diuresis, salivation, &c., together with the mistaken notions of the curative influence of such disturbances on the disease in question. Such actions may
indeed occur under any course of treatment, but it is
never desirable to produce irritation to such an extent by any artificial means. I have seen copious
alvine evacuations follow the exhibition of a homceopathic globule, but these were free from The ordinary
inconveniences of a purgative, and due entirely to the
reactive force of the organism, awakened after long



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constipation by a medicine causing constipation, and
not diarrhoea, by its primary action.
Homceopathy simply solicits the vital force by a
medicinal action correspondent with the disease, towards the place where it is most needed, determining
there more efficient reactions by remedies similar in
character but of greater intensity in their shorter term
of action than the diseases to which they are adapted.
That atmospheric poison, for instance, which causes
scarlet fever, or other influenzas, is breathed by a
whole population, yet if one in every ten were made
ill by it, its virulence would be almost unparalleled.
There is not one person in a hundred who will escape
the artificial diseases correspondent which are caused
by aconite belladonna and mercury, if he takes a
drop of either of these drugs. Medicines have then
evidently been endowed with morbific powers more
intense than those of any other natural causes of
disease, more certain and universal in their effects, and
more transient in their action than their correspondent
diseases. Even mercury is so when compared with
syphilis. The reactions consequent on their transient
effects, are efforts of the vital power to regain its
equilibrium.
Reaction from disturbing forces is a necessary effect
of that very individuality with which every being is
endowed.  Certain qualities of gravity, cohesion,
elective affinity, organic assimulations, senses, affections, and intelligence belong to every one, and their
proportions and modes of action distinguish him
individually from any one else. Just in the ratio
of the force of his life, must be its resistance to
influences disturbing these, and reaction from  the
temporary bias it receives from them. Hence it is on



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against it, the simple question arises-Do I wish to
excite a reaction in the vital forces in the same direction as that of the existing disease, or in a contrary
direction leading towards health?  This question, the
Allopathist who gives purgatives for constipation,
opium and astringents in diarrhcea, narcotizing or
stupefying agents of which opium is the principal,
for nervous pains; answers practically thus-I will
give a medicine whose action is primarily or directly
contrary to the existing symptoms which I shall thus
arrest for a time at least and give the patient this
proof of my skill in practice. If the disease returns
after the action of my medicine has subsided, that is
to be attributed to its inherent virulence and not to
any  fault in the choice of the medicine.  Both
physicians and patients are short-sighted enough to
believe this, and so by provoking reactions of the
organism in a false direction, in the same direction as
that of the disease, to which the medicines are
contrary; the constipation is rendered inveterate by
repetition of purgatives, the diarrhcea kept up or turned
into a dysentery by opium and astringents, and extreme irritability, with sleeplessness and neuralgic
pains increase after the palliation of opium  in its
primary effect. The Homneopathist, answers practically by giving medicines which in their primary action
are correspondent or analogous to the existing disease,
so that the reaction of nature in the opposite direction
shall also be opposite to the course of the disease, and
consequently in the direction of health.
To this law of Similia Similibus Curantur, there is
one exception, which really is not an exception at all,
but only a confirmation of the same principle from
another field of experience.  It occurs in those



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getables; coffee, tea, cacao,the mushroom7 the truffle,
&c., which are either restorative or destructive, according to differences in temperaments or in the states of
our health.
Among animals; the bear, the otter7 the weasel, the
falcon, the ounce or pard, the rabbit and grouse; which
are either friendly or mischievous to man according
to his own arrangements and his education of them,
and which, in their wild state, only respect their own
individual rights.
In the human sphere, most persons are our friends
or enemies, indifferently, according to social position
and interests.  Comparatively few are so nearly related to us by natural affinity as to be necessarily
friends, and few so antipathic in character as to be inevitably hostile. In the term corresponding to the Divine among friendly, and the Demoniac among hostile influences, we may place the neuter element, variously designated as chance, fortune, circumstance,
temptation, &c., which is good or evil to us, according as we conquer and use it, or are conquered and
abused by it; as the food which nourishes a healthy
system is poison to a weak and dyspeptic stomach.
All the subtances from the mineral, vegetable, and
animal kingdoms called medicines, are morbific
agents, and become therapeutic, as in our grammar two
negatives destroy each other and are equivalent to an
affirmative.
They are the types and correspondences in external nature of the morbid states to which the human
body is liable, so that each of them when introduced
into the healthy body, determines a specific form of
disease analogous to that of which it is curative.
Genera, orders and classes, in medicine, as elsewhere,



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tive labor, organized in series of groups; we shall
change all the demoniac powers into celestial powers;
or, to speak rationally, shall obtain from the evolution
of all solar and planetary forces, those benefits of
vigor and charm which are inherent in them, but
which are turned to our hurt by the vicious sphere
which they enter, just as wholesome food turns to
poison in the stomach of the dyspeptic.
The forms of disease induced by medicines correspond to those invading the system in what is called a
natural manier, or in other terms, to those which result from man's disunity with nature, with his fellowcreatures, and with higher orders of being objectively as
his being is completed through his relations with these;
and with himself subjectively, as all these are potentially included in his own soul, and as internal
disunity, however produced, unfits him for harmony
in all these relations. Thus the forms of disease, artificially induced by the medicines above cited, correspond with the natural diseases, which are induced
by subversive aromas or by discordant relations.
Therapeutics, in the adaptation of medicines to the
cure of diseases, proceeds according to the principle
of correspondences, which has been recognized by Dr.
iempel. This was developed under the name of Homoeopathy by Samuel Hahnemann, who made very
numerous provings or experimentations of the morbific
power of medicines upon the healthy systems of himself and others of different ages, sexes and temperaments: after having thus descended into the
sphere of the morbid organic life of his fellow-creatures, after the example of Christ, who descended into the sphere of the morbid, social and spiritual organism of the subversive and incoherent society; he



NATURAL GROUPING OF SYMPTOMS.           29
For a Pathogenetic record which should form the
basis of a true science of medical correspondences, it
would be necessary that all these and other points
should be accurately noted by competent observers,
and as it would not be possible or desirable that the
detailed history of each case experimented on should
be recorded, those on whom the medicines are proved
must be classified according to temperament, state of
health, sex and age, and one person out of each class
most characteristic of it, be selected as the type, of
whom the symptoms observed in the whole class are
to be recorded. It will be necessary to record the
natural groupings or catenations of the symptoms occuring together in different regions and organs of the
body, and their consecutiveness or the order of time
in which they precedb or follow each other, so that
the consecutive days and hours would take that place
which in the present records is occupied by the names
of particular organs or regions as above cited; any
generalizations in regard to the specific range of the
medicine, as to heart, stomach or brain, &c., being reserved for the head of general indications.
If there are fifty persons of a particular class such
as adult robust males, of sanguine bilious temperament-(we do not use these names as expressing most
correctly the classes of temperaments, but because no
others are yet recognized,) of which Zeno stands as
the type —the recorded proving will be prefaced by an
accurate full length naked portrait of Zeno taken before the proving commences, and illustrated by other
portraits of Zeno taken in the course of the proving,
whenever any characteristic change occurs in the expression of the features, the appearance of the skin, or
visible state of any region or organ. When clairvoy



ILLJSTRATION AND DEMONSTRATION.        38
vague observations of the effects of remedies upon the
sick, whose fallacies have been so ably exposed by
Hahnemann in his Organon, that we shall not here
speak of them.
The Demonstration that cures are performed by adapting medicines to diseases on the principle of correspondences, is of two characters, the Practical and the
Theoretical. The practical proof is obtained from the
experience of Homceopathic physicians and their patients, the theoretical proof we shall now present.
Let us first remark the difference between an Illustration and a Demonstration. The illustration gives
only an ornamental completeness of conception to a
fact already acknowledged. The demonstration involves the fact itself, and is capable of preceding it in
the order of our knowledge.
A natural correspondence then existing between
diseases and medicines, which does not exist between
diseases and the living organism, whose normal state
is health; we are prepared to expect that when a
medicine is introduced into the organism corresponding with a certain abnormal or diseased state, that
the disease or subversive aroma will leave the organism where it does not belong, to unite itself with the
correspondent medicine which furnishes it with a
home or natural sphere.
The disease having thus materialized or embodied
itself, presents to the reactive forces of the organism,
a more definite object, and is in consequence more
readily expelled.
These illustrations are ingenious, but their evidence
is not of a demonstrative character.
Such a demonstration of HIomceopathy is possible,
that if it had not been already developed as a fact of
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experience, it could be ascertained ca riori to every
logical mind, and translated into experience.
llahnemann gives this illustration of the Homeeopathic law: Two similar forces cannot act in the same
sphere at the same time any more than two substances
of a similar character can exist in the same place at the
same time. The stronger must absorb or extinguish
the weaker. Now  the artificial diseases induced
by medicines, are possessed of greater intensity than
the natural morbific miasms,  since of all who are
exposed to the miasm of influenza, cholera, yellow
fever, typhus, &c., only the smaller or exceptional
number take these diseases, whereas mercury, camphor,
crotalus, phosphoric acid, &c., produce their specific
effects with great uniformity upon all to whom they
are exhibited, and within a limited and definite period,
though with different degrees of violence. If then as
in the above cases, the medicinal disease be similar
to the natural disease already existing in the patient
to whom the medicine is exhibited, the medicine acting
upon the same sphere of the organism in a similar
manner, must absorb or extinguish the natural disease,
always provided that the medicine correspond to the
totality of the symptoms which indicate to the
physician the essential nature of the disease: otherwise
it may merely modify the disease and impart to it a
compound character, or acting quite in a different
sphere and i.n a different manner like most of the
medicines exhibited by Allopathists, it introduces a
new  disease, which coexists with  the first and
determines at best but a temporary diversion of
the vital force from its former tendency, by counterirritation as it is called.
Why is it that the medicinal force acting in the



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strong enough to subvert the normal or healthy
circuit of actions.
0OM(FEOPATHY —A  CONSEQUENCE UPON  THE LAW
OF VITAL REACTIONS.
Every being, whether mineral, vegetable, animal
or man; is recognized by a specific, clearly defined
type of form and force, by a peculiar manner of existence and of action. In the all vivifying Sunbeam
above and in the passive mould of the earth below,
all beings are one; but as soon as the quickened clay
crystallizes, grows, blooms out, breathes, moves and
speaks in individual creatures, these creatures exist no
longer as a general principle of life, but only by asserting and preserving their distinctive form and character
of being and of action. To lose this, with the mathematical or organic type of development which guides
them in their progressive transformations of growth,
is for them-to cease to be.
They are consequently endowed with a capacity
of resistance to all disturbing forces exactly proportional to the vigor of their life or the tenacity of
their characteristic states, and which forms an equation with their self-appropriative powers, in respect to
substances which harmonize with their individual
character and type of development.
In the healthy animal, and in the man of instinct, this
internal resisting force is manifested upon the approach
or mere contact of pernicious substances and disturbing forces with the senses, and they turn from them
with aversion. Man still retains enough instinct to
manifest this natural aversion to drugs, but it is overcome by scientific prejudice aided by philosophic and
religious views upon the necessity of evil and the des



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tiny of suffering to which man lies subject, which
persuade him to disregard and act in opposition to
his instincts and to outrage his senses.
The manifest aversion which morbific substances
excite, is prophetic of that internal aversion and organic reaction against them which takes place as soon
as they are introduced within the body, and brought
into contact with the expansions of the sympathetic
nerve, and the system of organic life.
Resistance or reaction implies a tendency to escape
or act in a direction contrary to the impression of the
disturbing force.
The laws of attraction are unitary in their application. In the material, the organic, and the moral
sphere alike; resistance to the existing tendency only
provokes subsequent manifestation, or perversion, intense in the ratio of that resistance. It is by this
same law that the stone resting on the surface will,
after resistance to its gravity by throwing it into the
air, come down with proportional force to bury itself
in the soil; that the salt whose cohesion is resisted
by dissolving, will re-form into more perfect crystals;
that the elements of a compound body united in quiet
status, will after separation, if the conditions of recombination be afforded, unite with evolution of
sound, light, heat, or other signs of intense affinity;
that the half-starved animal eats voraciously and assimilates more rapidly; that among the sensuous
attractions which adapt the soul to a material sphere,
the eye, by confinement in dark places, which resist
its attraction for light, becomes sensitive like that of
the owl; that the clicking of a flea's spurs will be
heard in the silent watches; that a simple diet of
grains and fruits procures us the most exquisite ap



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through the magnetic circulation of Humanity, the
integral man.
It is on the principle of homceopathy that persecution has been like the wind to a fire in developing and
spreading new sects of religion. It is to the ignorance
of moral Homceopathy by the British Cabinet, that
America owes her political independence, for we
should never have dreamed of the step if our selfesteem and sentiment of justice had not been brutally
trampled on,. instead of according to us some semblance of privilege.
Here is a tabular view of the attractions which constitute human life:
r Gravitative,  ]
ist. Basic Unity of Organic life, iCohesive,    Five physical
including           Capillary,     attractions.
Affinitary,
Assimilative. 
( Touch,
Taste,    Five sensuous
2d. Sensuous life, including    < Smell,     attractions.
Sight,
Hearilg.    J
Ambition,      Four affec3d. Passional life,          Friendship,   tional attract Love,            tions.
Familism.         tions.
[Centrifugal, 1 Three distri4th. Intellectual life.        Centripetal,    butive tendenBalancing.  J    cies.
Pivotal Unity of man with the Earth and Sun, giving the attraction to Universal Harmony and sentiment of God.
We have seen in relation to each of these attractions consecutively, the reaction  against disturbing
forces proportional to these forces within the limits of
the vital force of the being attacked.  WVhat is true
of all the elements of human nature, is true of hu



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one flags in its intensity, another, introduced by the
Papillon, comes to take its place, preventing fatigue
or excess. This is the true purgation of the passions,-a recipe somewhat more palatable than
starvation and hellebore. Thus in the Unity of the
Serial order, the focal passion of the soul tends to
harmony through an integral sounding in varied
combinations, of the passional key notes; and
1tHappiness is the music that flows therefrom. It leads
to Duty, through obedience to "Attraction, the compass
of permanent revelation from God to man; which at
once reveals and stimulates " to action.  That action
for its tendency to the highest uses, only presupposes
the embodiment of the serial mechanism  calculated
by God as the sphere of Attraction.
There is a sort of Social Honceopathy which vindicates the spiritual ray in the maleficent beings of our
incoherent sphere which it enters, and whose existence is determined and sustained by it during the
same incoherent periods.
There is an an old saw which says, that the worse
things are the better they are. The darkest hour is
just before the dawn; and the more clearly an evil is
exhibited, and the more cruelly felt, the more chance
there is of a healthy re-action against it, and of its
removal.
Those vicious characters who exhibit most clearly,
in their most hideous deformity, the general tendencies and characteristics of a false and vicious state
of social relations, may exert an influence morally
homceopathic to a certain extent upon other characters, especially on those whose tendencies are similar,
and who are warned by manifested results against the
course they might otherwise have pursued: their



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thor with the passional compression which occasion.
ed it.
In the combined order where each capacity receives according to its works, and where all enjoy
an ample minimum, theft will become absurd and
even impossible.
The characteristic of societies based upon isolation
or separation of households and workshops, is incoherence of individual interests, which converts selfpreservation and the striving for self-development,
into hostile and narrow selfishness, rendering every
man the natural enemy, because competitor of his
neighbor in the same business, and falsifying all his
passions, so as to bring about what the church calls
total depravity, which is not far from  the truth.
Now, in such a society, the most valuable members
in a certain point of view, are those in which it sees
its tendencies most clearly exposed, who, being victims and creatures of circumstance,  disguise nothing,
but tell it the naked truth of itself, without mincing.
This sort of candor is an unconscious virtue, peculiar to the criminal, for the strong and virtuous man,
who lives superior to temptation, is not the representative of the social tendencies or of the pressure which
he successfully resists.  He is the representative of
the absolute ideal of truth and goodness, which God
takes care shall ever be presented to society on the
one side,-to sh ow what he means: man to be; whilst
on the other, he admonishes society through the criminal, of the errors and defects in its institutions.
Thus we have the desperado, the robber, the pirate,
exhibiting in odious flaring colors the false principle,
that might makes right; or the thief, the swindler,
the courtesan, the drunkard, depicting two characters



50                HOMZOPATHY.
organic in policed societies, —namely, fraud and the
subordination of the spirit to the flesh.
There is a very absurd kind of optimism prevalent
which affects to ignore the most poignant evils of society, in blaming the individual representatives of the
evil, and declaring that they ought to have acted otherwise, as though that changed one iota the facts of
the case.  The same brilliant geniuses always pretend to mistake the exception for the rule in order to
prove the goodness of those social institutions amidst
which these exceptional characters are formed.
Remark to one of these persons that the separation
of families and of interests has the property of engendering meanness and cupidity, he will point you to
such men as Howard, or such women as Dorothea
Dix, to show that you are mistaken. If you observe
to him in connexion -with the wretchedness and destitution of the laboring masses of England, or Ireland,
that two-thirds of their soil remains untilled, being
appropriated to the pleasures of the nobility and gentry, that the whole of the soil is owned by a comparatively small number of persons, the rest of the people having no right in law or fact to any spot on the
surface of the soil, or below to the centre of the
earth, or above as high as the heavens, whereon to
build, abide, sit, or lie down; thus being thrown absolutely under the control and at the mercy of landlords and capitalists, who employ them at starving
prices; if you farther observe that the same laws,
principles, and trains of causation are at work among
ourselves, allowing the capitalist here as in Europe,
to monopolize vast tracts of soil, and already com1pelling the poor settler to travel thousands of miles
to seek a farm  and dwelling, a chance which each



56                HOItEOPATHY.
consecrate the most pernicious of social blunders. So
true is it that a corrupt tree can only bear evil fruit,
and that societies founded upon the separation of families and of interests must ever continue to be as
Christ called them 1800 years ago —"A generation of
vipers."
CONCLUSION.
In the body of this little treatise I have shown
rather the-differences than the connexions between
Homceopathy and the older routine systems of practice which are summed: up under the general title of
Allopathy. The sesthetic mind, however, practical
hostilities forgotten for the nonce, will perceive
that Homoeopathy is in truth no schism, but only a
natural development of the cruder forms of medical
practice. Thus it was not like so many other discoveries of the highest value foisted upon the profession by one of the laity, but a systematic induction
by one of its members in full standing. Indeed, its
difference from the routine practice is not greater
than that between the butterfly and the caterpillar.
It is the same creature, but very prettily transformed.
It has laid aside all its disgusting attributes, sloughed the drug-shop, and enduing the wings of a more
spiritual potency, flies on aromal nerve-currents,
freely permeating every organ and tissue by instinctive polarities.
Nor is it only in the form of the drug that we trace
this metempsychosis of medicine. In theory, leaving



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he is an accepted minister, of the particular section under his supervision, the Physician of Harmony will
operate chiefly by sanatory measures of prevention
in a sphere which the civilized physician cannot enter;
and when pure air, pure water, wholesome food and
attractive industry is guaranteed to all, the amount
of disease remaining will be reduced to an infinitesmal minimum.  Here begins the true office of Hygenie science in the art of raising the organism  of
of races to their maximum  of vigor and perfection.
It is then that the physician will be the minister of
nature.
N OT E.
SINCE this little book has been stereotyped, there has appeared a physiological treatise by JOHN GARTH WILKINSON, of
rare merit and highly amusing as well as bold and original in
its investigations. Wishing to call the attention of my readers
to it, I here extract by way of Appendix a few of its pages on
Homceopathy, which, though containing nothing new and by no
means even a fair average of his book, will yet justify its extrac.
tion and show the manner of the man.