An essay on homoepathy.

  • Wheaton, P. M.
Date:
1846
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    and may be given in homoeopathic doses with perfect safe- ty, and where the symptoms of the remedies correspond to those of the disease, with prompt relief. But how do physicians who disregard the discoveries of Hahnemann, cure the above diseases '? In the same manner that they cure disease of the great toe, of the knee, the elbow, rheumatism, or a fever. Bleed or puke ! Physic ! physic!! physic ! ! ! make the poor stomach and bowels sick, to cure a disease of the great toe, or almost any other organ. But supposing the stomach itself is inflamed! Dare they give their large doses of drugs, emetics and cathar- tics 1 Not at all; or at least, not until they have made the whole system sick, by general and local bloodleting, blis- ters, and the like rational^ methods, and why ! because their medicines come in contact with the diseased organs. And this is the practice of men who denounce Hahnemann as • an impostor, and his followers as quacks, and draw them- selves up in their importance, and sneeringly say that Homoeopathy is a humbug, and beneath their notice. Look abroad in the land and sec the amount of suffer- ing, and the number of premature deaths, in spite of the boasted skill of these learned J)rs. and then say whether it is not strange that they arc unwilling to investigate, where there is the least prospect of acquiring knowledge. It is the boast of Homceopathists throughout the world, that no physician has ever investigated Homoeopathy, and seen the effects of the remedies in the hands of a skilful Homceopathist, without being fully convinced that the principle which guides him in the selection of his reme- dies, is correct. It is this principle for which we con- tend, the si-zc of the dose is entirely secondary. It is a minor point to which the conscientious physician will ar- ' rive, after witnessing, as we have repeatedly done, the