Who is a homoeopathician? : a lecture delivered before the Hahnemannian Institute, Philadelphia, February 17th, 1865 / by Adolph Lippe.

  • Lippe, Adolph von, 1812-1888.
Date:
1865
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    eases the duration of them has been considerably short- ened, and that the mortality in diseases has and will greatly decrease, provided that Homoeopathy is praetieed according to the original fundamental principles. We have shown how Homoeopathy wras developed, what belongs to it essentially, and what therefore, belongs also indispensably to the Homoeopathician. As all things have some characteristics by which we can know and discern them from all other things we will endeavor to point out clearly, distinctly, and strongly, the chaxacteristerics of the Homoeopathician and the non-Homceopathician, to which latter fplass belong of course all those who are not of the first-mentioned class, no matter by what name they call themselves. A Homoeopathician speaks with the highest veneration of Hahnemann, of his waitings, acquirements, genius and honest uprightness; of his superior gift of observation and success in applying his new method of cure with far better results than his pupils through his most intimate knowledge of the Materia Medica which he created. The older the student, and the more he admires the genius of the master, for he knows him better and trusts him more the longer he associates himself with his writings, gradually becoming identified and enabled to follow him by experiment. The non-Homoeopathist speaks disdainfully of Hahne- mann; he calls him a man of straw, a visionary; declares him unreliable in his observations, his Materia Medica a mass of chaff, perfectly useless unless well sifted ; his system he terms unscientific and ridiculous, in need of being- modified, remodeled, or exploded. The less he knows of it the more fault he finds with it. The Homoeopathician treats the patient. The non-Homoeopathist treats diseases by their names. The Homoeopathician makes Pathology and all other collateral brauches of the science of medicine subservient to the law of cure. The non-Homoeopathist makes the law of cure subservi-