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

  • Lippe, Adolph von, 1812-1888.
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1865
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Credit: Who is a homoeopathician? : a lecture delivered before the Hahnemannian Institute, Philadelphia, February 17th, 1865 / by Adolph Lippe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his new healing-art Homoeopathy, gave us the formula: Similia similibus curantur. This formula is not the law of cure, but it expresses it in its widest sense, as an accepted and acknowledged formula by all Homoeopathists: all the theoretical explanations and practical rules must accord with it. We can take for example the formula adopted by our Republic. On every coin we find the mystic words: E pluribus unum. This formula is not the Constitution and the laws under which we live; but it collectively ex- presses the fundamental principles of our form of Govern- ment: and no action of the people forming this compact could be termed constitutional, if not in harmony with the accepted formula. Should we compare it with the formula of other nations, living under opposite formaof government, as for instance, Dei Gratia,'' we find a different but, collect- ively, and clearly expressed formula, with which all their laws and institutions are and must be in harmony. We accept then, as Iloniceopathieians, our own formula; and will now explain the fundamental rules, principles and practice which must be in harmony with it: if contradictory, they would not belong to the system which the formula represents. Homoeopathy is entirely founded on facts; and if we but carefully and consistently follow the great master, we will find how facts only led him to establish his system and its formula. Hahnemann translated Cullen's Materia Medica from the English into the German. In the second volume of Cullen's Materia Medica, on the 91st page, treating of Peruvian bark as one of the f Tonics,'' is the following passage : We pro- ceed therefore upon the supposition that the bark possesses a tonic power, and that the action of this power in the stomach sufficiently explains its operation in preventing the recurrence of the paroxysms of intermittent fevers : for I see no reason for referring it to any mysterious and unex- plained specific power which, however, some writers seem still disposed to maintain. I hold it to be established as a fact, that both astringents and bitters, in their simple and