What is homoeopathy? : a new exposition of a great truth / by Wm. H. Holcombe.

  • Holcombe, William H. (William Henry), 1825-1893.
Date:
1864
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    all the old labyrinths of speculation and experiment, and makes available the disease-producing power of drugs. Now this is the fundamental idea of Homoeopathy, its true basis, its corner stone, its only essential element. All other questions—of large or small doses, of pellets or tinctures, of dynamizations, of what Hahnemann said, of wliat this or that disciple said or did, of imagination, or diet, or nature, or imposture, etc., etc.—all these ques- tions and many other such, have no bearing on the point under trial, and are altogether collateral and impertinent. No matter what solution they receive, Homoeopathy remains intact, vital, indestructible and sure to be the medicine of the future, unless you overturn this grand pedestal, this natural or vital law, on which it has been erected. It is only the small fry of Allopathy, knowing little and thinking less, who attempt to ridicule this principle, similia similibus curantur —Like cures like. The great leaders, the intelligent men of their school, although attacking our system just as bitterly on the unimportant side-issues, do not dare to impugn the truth of the fundamental law. They content themselves with attempting to limit its applications. Witness the following evidence from the very highest Allopathic authorities. THE LAW PROVED BY ALLOPATHIC EVIDENCE. When Hahnemann promulgated this therapeutic formula, similia similibus curantur he supported his assertions by cita- tions from the practice of the most illustrious physicians. There is every proof that local inflammations are frequently cured by the direct application of irritants, which cause a similar inflammation ; the artificial irritation substituting itself for the primitive one.— Trousseau et Pidoux, Traite de Therapeutique, Tome 1, page 470. Supercession. By this process is meant the displacing or pre- vention of one affection by the establishment of another in the seat