, AN ADDRESS 3(7 
BY / 
PROF. J"_ T_ KENT, .A.. IMA, H. ID., 
BEFORE THE 
New York Homoeopathic Society, 
% AT ROCHESTER, N. Y., DEC. 17, 1885. 
As we are about to enter upon a discussion that 
leads beyoDd the probability of readv comprehen- 
sion, and as L may encounter, even at this centre 
of Hahnemannism, those who have not traveled 
beyond “faith ” and " belief,” permit me to ask 
my hearers to lay aside both, and with me enter 
upon a line of thought and investigation, and ac- 
| cept the outcome regardless of preconceived opin- 
[ ions belief or faith. These have no part in a sci- 
lentitic discussion, One should proceed without 
opinion, without faith, without prejudice to wei b 
the statements found in the 16th section of the fifth 
and last edition of the Organon of samuel Hahne- 
mann. . . , . . , 
The doctrines contained in this section are the 
result of man'' years of thought and classified ex- 
perience and they conflict with the statements of 
accepted authority. But if it is the foundation of 
truth even in part we must explore its interior, and 
bow to its revelations. '1 hough Draper and Car- 
penter have failed to discover these inner precincts, 
they have not demonstrated that Hahnemann’s 
conclusions were illogical or impossible. Wltti 
cell-formation they nave ended; but life, the home i 
of disease, is unknown to them. The opponents of 
this doctrine, which the followers of Habnemam 
have accepted as a great truth, may search in vain 
and quote authority without end, and the only re- 
sult attained is: Not found; not demonstrated; 
unknown. These authors being ignorant of this 
vital dynamis deny its existence: they cannot see 
it; cannot manipulate it; and cannot demonstrate 
it by the common instruments in chemistry and 
physiology. Nevertheless, the time will come when 
physiology must deal with this question as a factor 
not in dispute; <hen will the great void in this sci- 
ence be filled with that which will make medical 
science to rest on firm foundations; while at pres- 
ent from old-school standpoint it nas no founda- 
tion, and with the Hahnemaunian school our foun- 
dation is disputed , . , , 
As it is probable that f shall be accused of ex- 
tremism, let me say, by way of explanation, that 
not all so-called homceopathists admit the truth 
of the dynamic doctrine and choose to call it 
“ dynamic theory.” There are graded believers in 
homoeopathy as in religion. Some are born to po- 
sition. others acquire it. To be born of Christian 
parentage does not make one a Christian. Yet be- 
lieving in Christ and His teachings, without fol- 
lowing his example or obeying his commands, will 
distinguish him from the Jew. In like manner be- 
lieving in the Law of Cure makes one a homoeopa 
thist. But, like the followers of Christ, it is only 
possible to be an exemplary one by close relation 
at the throne of grace, or measuring every action 
by the principles under the law. Therefore it will 
be observed that to be an exemplary follower of 
the Master-healer, it is necessary to be near him, 
and follow after him in all his steps ;that the high- 
est degree of wisdom may appear in our methods. 
Not that I would blindly follow a leader who has 
been extensively courted; but that after discover- 
ing Hahnemann to nave been the greatest living 
healer it behooves that we study him in all his in- 
tricate philosophy to ascertain, if possible, where- 
in rest his great powers as a physician, and then see 
whether as a healer he is worthy ot followers. If 
we have discovered that he was an original think- 
er and philospher, and his teachings are as he de- 
clared them to be, viz: the only true method of 
curing the sick, let us follow on as far as he has 
gone, not wavering a hair’s breadth, until we have 
arrived at the point where the master left us and 
his great philosophy. They who practice on a part 
of Hahnemann’s teaching and fill the_ great void 
with “ results of experience,” do so with methods 
that the master unequivocally condemned; and | 
while it may not be thought kindly of, the state- 
ment is true: they are not the homceopathists who 
have followed in the footsteps of the master. They 
have not lived closely to the law, and are not 
Hahnemannians. Hahnemann said to a friend 
of his m Paris, who was complimenting him on the 
great number of his followers. Says Hahnemann: 
“ Ves. there are a great many homoeopathic doc- 
tors, but all my true followers can be counted on 
the ends of my fingers.” 
It is as an exponent of the philosophy of Hahne- 
mann that 1 speak to you, his protessed followers, 
i It is because I have learned that the Central New 
York Society desires to live close to the Master 
j aDd learn of him, as far as he had advanced, that T 
I have traveled so far to address you on this occult 
| subject. 
While some of the enemies of homoeopathy, and 
j some professed followers of the Law of Cure, have 
said that this great Master was visionary, and 
many harsh things, it may be well to observe 
that he never ceased to think with strength. andh i» 
i very last thoughts are to be fully appreciated be- 
fore we attempt to walk alone, or build a philos- 
ophy out of other material. 
Before entering upon a fuller discussion of the 
statements whicn contain the Master’s conclusion, 
let us look into the lite of this great man, and see 
what manner of man was he, and how was he led 
to such a conclusion relating to the invisible vital 
dynamis. We want to know whether he reasoned 
it out by a pure mental effort, or arrived at it after 
the use of potentized medicines—as a result of 
experience. 
Burnett says: ‘‘Of Hahnemann’s'father suffici- 
ent is. known to be sure that he was no ordinary 
man.inasmuch as he taught the young Samuel to 
think for himself—for which purpose he is said to 
have shut him up alone and given him a theme to 
think out.” 
If Ameke’s history be read it will be 
seen at once that Hahnemann displayed 
wonderful energy in securing his primary 
training, as his father was a man of limited means 
Everywhere facts confirm the historian, wherein 
he states that Hahnemann never admired meta- 
physical speculations; he always concluded on 
facts, never on theory or speculation. I refer you 
t9 his essay on the ” Speculative System of Medi- 
cine,” “Lesser Writings,” p. 567, wherein a mas- 
terly handling of the subject was done, showing a 
wonderful mind and a complete knowledge of the 
medicine of his time which he manipulated so 
iconoclastically. 
In 1792 he challenged *he physicians to justify 
themselves for the treatment administered Em- 
peror Leopold II. Even thus early the master- 
mind saw the perniciousness of the practice in 
vogue. Neither was he wanting in knowledge of 
many sciences. 
He was the first to make the proving of drugs a 
system. From 1790 he continued the proving of 
drugs and throughout his writings he recommends 
the use of drugs only whose effects are accurately 
known, which knowledge is to be discovered only 
by provings upon the healthy, and this is in keep- 
ing with his manners and acts: everywhere we 
fand exactitude of thought and method. 
While translating Cullen’s Materia Medica, in 
1790; he met the latter’s explanation of the action 
of cinchona bark in curing chills and fever. Cullen 
attributes the curative influence to a “ strengthen- 
mg power it exerts over the stomach.” Hanne- 
mann refuses to accept this explanation, and cites 
the following: “Substances such as strong coffee, 
pepper, arnica, ignatia and arsenic, which cause a 
of fever, extinguish the periodicity of fevers.” 
I or the sake of experiment I took for several days four drachms of Rood cinchona hark twice a 
day." The results arc t«»o well known to foe re- 
called here; but tt will be observed that Hahne- 
mann did not refuse to accent Cullen'a explanation 
without a reason on definite Information, while 
< ullen’a opinion was a mere speculation such as 
men feel compelled to offer when expected to say 
something. From facts Hahnemann was led to re- 
mark that ipecac must produce certain forms of 
artificial fever in order to cure intermittent fever. 
Oradually was he advancing by deduction to the 
great discovery of the Law of Cure. Up to this 
time while he had seen the evidence, he had not 
formulated the xhnittn miiiililnt* i unnilt r: In fact, 
nothing Is seen of It until I78«, In an essay which 
appeared In Hufeland’s Journal, and Is a part of 
the" Leaser Writings," p. MS—“Essay on a New 
Principle for Discovering the Curative Power of 
Drugs." In this tmi»er he advise-* medicines In 
crude but small tloees. “In a dose Just strong 
enough to produce scarcely perceptible Indication 
of the expected artificial disease." At this time he 
liad not discovered the nature of the vital ilutuuni*. 
Iti lull he wrote a paper, “ Cure and Prevention 
of 8oarlet Fever,” (Lesser writing-, p MV wherein 
he recommended tlnet. opium, one oart to5 Oof 
alcohol, and one drop of this to lie shaken with lion 
of alcohol, the patient to take one drop of this 
preparation at a dose. 
It was after 1H01 that his centlsslma' scale was 
brought into u*e. In this year he used Hell, and 
('ban.In about the 3d or 4th dilution. 
Very soon he discovered that "the diminution of 
the action of the drug was not proportionate to the 
diminution of its quantity." Also the astounding 
fact became evident "that medicines con *d be so 
diluted that neither physics nor chemistry could 
discover anv medicinal matter In them, and yet 
I bey possessed great healing power." 
Hufeland says Hahnemann was the greatest 
chemist of his day, therefore was not in 
ignorance of the actual Inabilitv of the 
science to, measure the quantity or medicine 
•in his newly discovered healing agencies. His 
enemies have -aid h*- -aa- highly cdneat* d In phy 
sics, botany, chemistry, geology, astronomy,p ar- 
maey, Ac. His greatest and last attainment was 
his discovery of dynamism, which hasdlstinguished 
him from all men and established a Hshnemannlsm 
that will stand a- long as the world siands. 
Tbev may run away with homoeopathy and be- 
foul it Into a modern na»tlnes«, a mongrel Ism. and 
by virtue of might and numbers vote It to mean 
anything they cnoose. but they h ve no power to 
change Hahnemannlstn. which stands and must 
forever stand as a living truth wherever men love 
truth and are not afraid to speak their true coo- 
vlctlons I do not favor isms ; but. Mr. President, 
in this case cur only safety Is to stand by this one I 
for the simple rea«on that when any other name 
has became popular It will be stolen as the honored 
name of bomu-opathy has been stolen, and Is no 
longer an expression of the doctrines of Hahne- 
mann and Its most conspicuous representatives who 
do not make use of bis methods. If an enquiring 
allopath seek information of one of these modern 
representatives be will learn nothing of the teacn- 
Ings of Hahnemann. Why Is this? Simply be- 
cause the colleges have not taught the loth section 
of the primer. They have not taken neophytes 
ud through the primary work, but have placed 
them at stork with the advanced course which Is 
never learned without the primer. Where have 
we such a parallel In other sciences ? One of the 
conditions necessary to the successful perpetua- 
tion of this science is a knowledge of It* first prin- 
ciples, and bow to teach them. 
Let us now proceed to Inspect the various edi- 
tions of this Organon, and we see what a careful 
man our author was. He was not a man to adopt 
a theory of others before ha slug thoroughly tested 
it. and having observed the farts upoo which the 
theory was ba«ed. Everywhere we see originality 
-of thought, firmness, great power <*f observation, 
comparison, and most wonderful reasoning. Meta- 
E by steal speculation was repulsive to him. which 
e carefully avoided In the first edition of the Or- 
ganon. which was publl-hed tn 1*10. He was emi- 
nently practical Id all that he said and did. Thus 
you will search In vain in all the first four editions 
of the Organon for the term and Idea of the vital 
hire*. He only spoke of the Interior of the or* 
j an Ism. 
In the seventh section of the first edition: 
*• There mast exist in the medicine a healing prin 
ciple; the understanding has a presentiment of It. 
but Its eesem-e Is not recognizable bv us In any 
w ay, only Its utterances and actions can be known 
by experience." 
Twenty-three yean later, when seventy -eight 
yean old, in the fifth edition, published in 
1KM, In the ninth and tenth sections, 
he distinctly call* a unit of action In 1 
the whole organism the vital force. From this It J 
m evident Hahnemann arrived at this rouclu*loti§ 
alter a long and practical exiterirnce, Inasmuch a*| 
he was led up to It by hi* curly perception <>f thni] 
similar vital principle contained In the medicinal 
(see first ed., ">th section!, which Is <»nly rvcogf 
tdzed by Its action upon the oriranism 1 navy 
ti'iw shown you that It was not metaphysical s|.v<- 
illation that led the master to the Idea of the vltifl 
<1 ymiml.s. tint a long series . f practical and e»j 
tierimental research. 
Htid see If we can answer »ome ..f theijui itloQfll 
that are propounded, and then revert to the vital I 
di/tiitn(s. We read in t’>e time-honored text-d>ook* J 
that there Is such a e milltlon of the human body j 
known as u doit Arsis In tact, several of them;] 
again. that these diatheses are hereditary and l>re-i 
dls|H)se to iitscasv. What l« till- dlathesla out of 
which grow ko many diseases? In one suhjeofa 
comes cancer; In another Insanity; In Mother! 
tuberculosis; and In another epilepsy, or tiright's' 
disease, or ilodgekln's disease What is the! 
strumous diathesis V What I* this state of haa‘] 
feeling that precede* any fixed organic change 
this latent wrong In the vital power is not worthy 
.,i consideration - < an li be that the kidney ■ to 
take on -truciunii changeand become waxy With- 
out cause ? You must sat, no! What Is tbe cause 
of ibis lesion, and wby do not these named excit- 
ing cause* always produce ttie same results, and 
why does DO! every person subjected to these ex- 
citing cau*es become afflicted with waxy kidneys? 
You unswer because them Is a predisposing, de- 
termining influence at work. Yes, the diathesis. 
Hut the diathesis has no Inundation In fact, only a 
thing of the Imagination. A convenient explana- 
tion of unknown things; a Hgure-head In the text- 
books, out of which we have had no benefit, and 
learned no lesson from the old-school, whose lit- 
erature has s-i wisely furnished u* with a mean- 
We read of the weakneas. of the dropsy.dec., die., 
comb g from llright’s disease, but we no not read 
of the pre-blstorle symptoms ; arc they of no 
value ? Are they not present ? Yes, they are pre- 
sent Then what are they ? We read of exciting 
and predls|H>«lng causes, hut we do not read why a 
similar combination of exciting and predisposing 
causes Is not always followed nv Height's disease. 
We have a right to ask this of a system of modi* 
••in. that claims scientific attention an 
public pattonage. Another example, if you 
please; we read of a self-limited disease called 
•carlatlna (scarlet fever.) Any allopathlst will 
warm up In opposition If you tell him that scarlet 
feverlsnota self-limited disease. If I* be a self- 
lltnPeil disease It must result in resolution or death; 
the child must recover by Statute of Limitation, 
or—die. They do not all die; some ur< lefl evan 
underold-schtail treattru-i.f to tel tin- talc. From 
these we learn that ear-discharges are the result of 
scarlatina. This otorrho. ii a |.art of varia- 
ipia. it- if.-.rdi-.g to ip . , |.t.-.i teaching that dis- 
ease Is self limbed. The child was a picture of 
health before the scarlatina: then, what Is this new 
trouble? Specialists treat the otorrhoea as If It 
were a new disease per at ; If so. whence has It 
estate and what Is the nature of It? A novice can 
tell you a long name and affirm thst It Is catarrhal; 
hut that Is not satisfactory. Where did It come 
from? Did b come spontaneously, or was It the 
result of some latent wrong In tbe vital fli/tutmUt 
I say In the di/rivml*. as there wa* no tissue change 
before, and the scarlatina has long gone. We do 
know that this new trouble Is essentially chronic; 
arid that In scarlet fever there I- no chronic ele- 
ment. Now. has this sore ear simply develo|>ed at 
this a propitious time? Has the scarlatina 
vi weakened the mucous membrane of the aural 
tubes that they became the favorite sites for tbe 
expression of a something that the disease when 
badly treated has aroused into action ? I say when 
badly treated, because when the disease Is prop- 
erly treated, otorrhoea does not follow. I no lon- 
ger see sneb troubles, and have not bad them since 
I have been able to recognize their true nature. 
Wbat Is this something that may exist for rears In 
a latent state he handed down from generation to 
generation and come to view at any time an I cause 
chronic troubles to follow self-limited diseases ? 
We have a right to a civil answer to a question of 
this kind. If a vital wrong is capable of existing 
for years In an Invisible state outside of tbe tissues, 
there must be vane Invisible precinct that stores 
It, or it doe* not exist. Fan It now he doubted 
that a disease may exist for yean with or without a morbid anatomy ? Kokitensky sat s scrofula has 
no morbid anatomv. To be logical: according to 1 
the material school, there is no scrofula and no 
stroma ; that scrofulous manifestations have no i 
cause, and, consequently, no reality. Why do not 
all injuries of the synovial membranes of the ilio- 
femoral articulation result in hip-joint, disease ? 
Why do some abscesses close with the evaluation 
of pus, and others form sinuses and fistulas ? Look 
where vou may in literature other than Hahne- 
mannian, and you will find mere speculation, 
tneory. and no practical deduction. 
Hahnemann describes three constitutional miasms 
that may exist in latency, that develop and pro- 
gress in the vital “dynamis without” changing 
the tissues that may spring into destructive 
activity and attack organs and give shape to count- 
less lesions called disease : that these miasms 
should be recognized as primary wrongs our, of 
which grow incurable maladies, and all structural 
changes. Shall we learn a lesson from these re- 
flections, or shall we pass them as mere theories ? 
Hahnemann teaches the nature of these miasms ; 
it is not mv province to discuss them, but to 
simplv call them up asihe essentials to the com- 
plete study of the 16th section. The questions 
to be answered from all these are : 
First-Have we such a condition as an invisible 
immaterial disease ? 
Second —If so, are all diseases of the same na- 
ture, and 
Third—Is it rational to attempt to nullify a dis- 
ease of immaterial nature bv material substances ? 
Hahnemann’s earlv deduction was that disease 
being of an immaterial nature could develop only 
on a similar basis or in a similar sphere, when in con- 
tact with a similar quality of force; and to again 
reach it curatively, a force must be found equally 
as immaterial. 
The mystery of the vital force for ail practical pur- 
poses in the healing art has been solved by the im- 
mortal Hahnemann, and named the vital dynamis. 
His deductions are stmmed up in the 16th section. 
Tins section furnishes the key-stone to tne doc- 
trines of Hahnemanmsm, and without which the 
great arch must flatten and collapse: without this 
finishing doctrine his followers would be all 
are who have rejected it—floundering in the mire 
of uncertainly and floating in the swift and muddy 
rivers of guess-work and disappointment. The 
study of the 16th section clearly sums up what the 
great philosopher believed disease to be. Let us 
enter this wilcerness and see where we are direct- 
ed. If we accept the teachings we must admit 
that (the results of disease) lesions, tissue changes 
cann it be considered as primary expressions of 
disease, but as a consequence. The molecular vi- 
brations or vital activities give evidence of life 
either changed or in equilibrium. It is life even 
in sickness, as death can only find expres- 
sion prima’ily in ceil changes, whicn is no part 
of our vital activities, yet a warning that a contin- 
uance of the expressions of wrong life must mean 
progressive death. 'I o consider life in the sense 
that Hahnemann looked upon it, as normal activi- i 
ties within the organism, and we must then look j 
upon these normal activities changed bv cause to 
be abnormal, which is disease. The only evidence 
of disease is the definite expressions that deviate 
from the normal which we cb ose to denominate 
the language of the vital wrong (section 7), 
Hence, the totality of these symptoms, this out- 
wardly reflected image of the inner nature of the 
disease, i. e., of the suffering vital force. Locali- 
zation is at all times a secondary state or the re- 
sult of disease, while changed feelings are the pri- 
mary manifestations. The primary or changed 
feelings often escape observation, as in a gon- 
orrhoea ; but the disease has been pervading the 
economy for a period of eight days, and the local- 
ization finally appears as a discharge. The same 
is crue of all contagious diseases, and, as far as is 
known, of every disease. If we look upon disease 
with any other view and consider it per se when it 
localizes itself, and then search for a name to fit 
it, by virtue of its morbid anatomy, or its location, 
we trace it to its observable beginning, and as 
though it had no cause, and study it in relation to 
changed cells as a something with only an ending 
—but with no beginning. But when look- 
ing at all tissue changes as the re- 
sult of disease we are in position to 
inquire; What is the disease proper? This guides 
into the pre-historic stare when there were no tis- 
sue changes, and yet there will be found ample 
expressions to convince us that all was not perfect 
in the invisible vital kingdom, where the micro- 
scope has given us no information, and the scalpel 
has not been directed. Then it is with this pre-his- 
toric state, these vital activities, that we have to 
deal. Before the change in the tissue has occurred 
there must have been a cause of morbid vibrations 
-a condition of morbid vital activities, or cell- 
chan sres could not have been wrought. What 
is the nature of that state or con- 
dition that existed before the tis* 
sues and cells changed their shape? There must 
be two, the right and the wrong; the former the 
correct life function known by the absence of all 
subjective sensations—a feeling of bodily comfort 
and ease; and the latter by the presence of subject- 
ive morbid feelings. The former is known as 
health; and the latter as sickness or disease. These 
cannot be measured as a quantitative influence, as 
the cause is only qualitative in itself, and its 
results are but a perversion of a proper 
force. It will be as difficult to demonstrate 
that quantitative influence is necessary to produce 
vital changes as to demonstrate that there is a 
measureable quantity in noxious forces so hurtful 
toman. Therefore, we may conclude that causes 
purely qualitative act destructively. We 
now have the right to assume that all vital changes 
primarily are only qualitative in the sense of mis- 
applied force, and that these morbid vibrations are 
the disease, and all there is of disease per se. 
Now we may assume that life is a dynamis, 
capable of perpetuating its own identity when the 
medium through which it acts is not destroyed or 
impaired. Again, to act upon the dynamis and 
not disturb the medium there must be a force 
brought in relation with the vital force equally as 
qualitative and as free from quantitative consider- 
ation. It hardly needs further demonstration to 
show that this vital perversion is possible, but we 
observe daily the wrong feelings that have been 
known to exist for years without quantitative 
changes or localization. Thus have we arrived at 
Hahnamann’s conclusion But now we glean that 
if an equally subtle dynamis is necessary to cause 
disease and disturb the harmonious relations of the 
vital activities, and it is admitted that 
the law' ot Similars expresses the curative 
relation and the only law of the kind known to 
man, must we not conclude that this curative 
power or force to be a corrective principle must 
be equally qualitative and subtle witn the life 
principle, with the disease cause, with the disease 
itself ? The vital affinity cannot appear between 
forces of foreign relations; they must be similar 
in quality and devoid of quantity. Power used in 
the sense of overpowering an antagonist has no 
piace in the science of homoeopathies; but it is a 
consideration of a given force deianged or per- 
verted to be simply harmonized and restored to 
equilibrium. 
It will at once be observed that a surplus of force 
is impossible only as a surplus in a qualitative rela- 
i tion which has no partin the similitude of a purely 
qualitative problem. To attain the highest degree 
or similitude, not the quantity of a given power is 
the aim. The similar in quality with similar ex- 
pressions of activity is the sine qua nun, as we 
i have demonstrated that there is no quamity nec- 
' essaryin the consideration. Tnerefore if this be 
i only a spirit like dynamis—ana I believe the 
demonstration is clear—all of the quantity taken 
or made use of must be that much more than 
similar, therefore unlike, and that much more than 
the demand to restore equilibrium; in other words, 
contrary and in no relation curative, not it any 
sense restorative, but. on the contrary, retard the 
return to normal vibration by impairing the me- 
dium through which the vital dynamis must ope- 
rate. In relation to cure it has so often been said 
by the Maste”, there was yet too much medicine to 
cure; the dose is vet too large to cure. The use of 
the term quantity conveys the iaea of strength 
which has no part in any homoeopathic sense as 
related to a curative agency. To reduce remedial 
agents to primitive identity of a qualitative char- 
acter only that they may act through the new me- 
dium is the aim of the true healer. N ot until they 
are divested of their own media can they be quick- 
ly corrective, or be active in any sense as similar 
agencies. 
This view may appear to oppose some 
statements of Hahnemann. In section 45, “ The 
stronger disease will overcome the weaker one.” 
This is only apparent. The two diseases being par- 
tially similar overcome each other only in part, 
but the part of the one overcome only in part re- 
produces itself and runs its course unmo- 
lested. In section 34, “ for it is by virtue of the si- 
militude, combined with greater intensity.” 
This statement may be correct, but I believe 
it to be only apparent, and that the similitude is 
the onlv necessary demand for the destruction of 
both, or rather the correction of the wrong in the 
dynamis or spirit-like vital force. There being no 
entity there can be nothing to overpower, only a 
perverted effort to be corrected. Any disease wil' was written with tew exceptions. What have bt* 
faithiul followers to say as proof of the truth of 
the doctrines and a« proof of progress? Thai many 
of these roost complicated diseases can be wiped 
out. That the druir symptoms can lie subdued hy 
very high attenuations, leaving the simple original 
disease to manifest itself through the natural me- 
dium, when It can he cured by tue HOth 
potency of the Master. They who have 
rejected this doctrine as a dogma have never seen 
this work and they never will. Yes, we shall pro- 
gress It we observe fads, and unflinchingly cling 
to the diictnnes of the immortal llahnetnann. 
Let us look at the contrast. What ean be said of 
this class Their cures are only a deception. Had 
they really cured their cases they would not need 
to resort to the latest whim of an empirical pro- 
fession. They have abandoned the teaching of the 
l«tb section and what Is the result ? They know 
that th< y cannot cure the sick, and thev even re- 
fuse to believe that any one else can. You never 
dispute a cure where It Is lu keeping with your 
daily observations. They say that ague must have 
quinine, when the follower of the Master cures all 
hi* cases with the attenuated aporoprlate remedy. 
The Materia Med lea that has Iteen found so satis- 
factory In the hantls of Hahnemann and his fol- 
lowers has been a failure and It needs revising. 
There must l»e something wrong and we want no 
greater evidence of their failure than that the 
chief defamer. J. P Dake, requires In id* practice 
a large stock of Warner’s sugar coated pills, com 
posed of crude medicines. If this Is true of the 
chief, what in the name of heaven must the le«ser 
lights need, who must, of course, be less skilled? 
They have declared that anv one who sim- 
ply selects his remedy under the Law 
of fdmllars Is as high as he can 
attain In tbe art of healing; and 
be may thereafter cover his patients with mustard, 
and apply all the local measures be cb<*oses. Kven 
they say that the local treatment Is assisted oy the 
internal remedy. 
The first departure from the dynamic doctrine 
Is dangerous and leads towards non-success, and 
careless method Is the outcome. Safety comes 
from simply not following the law of selection, but 
also the teaching of the Itth section must be heed- 
ed, Look at tbe alternation departure, and seethe 
laziness of bis thoughts. Kxammc tbe prescription- 
file in any drug store of a large city. Wtiat do you 
find ? simply a lot of prescriptions called homoeo- 
pathic whose only element of homoeopathy Is tne 
signature of a long professed homoeopathic prac- 
titioner. . . 
Hahnemann regarded this vital dynamls as a unit 
of force (see section 15) and the departure from 
health a* a unit of force. Wecannot study the IMh 
section and ignore this portion of the dymmlcdoc- 
trine. How absurd must It appear to one who has 
a clear comprehension of these tru'h* to consider 
for one moment the problem of alternation which 
the Master has to unequivocally condemned In 
section Tit, and its note. Take a mental stale 
that clearly Indicates nux vomica, and associate 
It with a pulsatllla menstrual condition, with 
menses trio late, scanty and t**le. In the 
former pulsatllla is contra-indicated by tbe crabbed 
temper; In tbe latter nux Is contra -Indicated by 
the conditions of the menstrual flow. The two. 
therefore, are contra-indicated, neither of them 
corresponding to the unit of force known hy the 
totality of symptoms. Can It be possible that by 
combining them it will make either or both borate- 
opathic to tbe demand of this unit ? Hahnemann 
everywhere speak* of using only such medicines as 
are accurately understood by having been proved on 
the healthy human b«>dr. Here ws have a com- 
pound about which little la known Can U appear 
rational to supptjse, or assume that with a com- 
pound unknown, of elements neither of 
which la homo- .pathlc to this unit of force, that 
they can act uniformly euratlvely ? These depar- 
tures. wherein the doctrine of tbe Ultb section Is 
not heeded, are tbe foundation of all lb-success; 
of tbe cry for a revised Materia Medica, and of so- 
called modern bomreopathy. I must say again, 
that modern homteopatoy Is built out of tbe de- 
parture* from the doctrines of tbe Immortal Hahn- 
emann. These men have found the Materia Medi- 
ca so Inadaptable to tbetr wants, that a majority 
of their presorlpuons are composed of crude drugs. 
These departurist* have so departed from tbe 
methods of Hahnemann that tbe honnepathtc pro- 
fession as a mass lo-dar I* hut a earu-ature. hav- 
ing violated everv principle of the philosophy that 
has anything distinctive _ . . 
They may find momentary comfort In It, but 
every true man must feel like uttering; " Father 
forgive them, they know not what they do." 
subside apparently by natural decline when met i>y 
a noxious influence of similar dyuamis, or sick- 
making possibilities regardless of Intensity. This 
view strengthens the Law of >imllar*.ai>d is in har- 
mony with Immaterial activities. It is not addtinr 
a new force, but applying a force to correct a per- 
verted life principle. 
The noxi ms disease-producing influences have 
nothing in common with material agencies. When 
so crude that they can be seen ai.d manipulated 
they are feeble sick-making agencies. [Tbe skepti- 
cal experimenters, in provings made with attenua- 
tions. rorgot that a special predisposition is fre- 
quently necessary for contagion, and that this pre 
disposition cannot be made to order, but must be 
UilUz.d when found, wbtcb affords a propitious 
opportunity for the pure experiment through 
which we discover t he sick-makmg power of drugs.] 
(Beet. 81.) The dangtrous and most noxious 
agencies ara of the unknown. The most astute 
have failed to find the cholera or yelicw fever 
causes. I be cause of small-pox is yei unknown. 
Tbe subtle influence that in one stroke swoops 
down upon a village is not measurable by our crude 
senses. Tbe small-pox poison when attenuated with 
millions of volumes 01 atmospheric air comes to 
tbe surface through the mails and through old 
clothing by inhalation, and the Slightest contact. 
The Impression wrought upon this spirtt-llke dvna- 
mis accumulates until tbe medium Is threatened 
with destruction, all from a simple perverted life 
force. 
In this 18th section: ** Neither can tbe physician 
free the vital force from any of these morbid dis- 
turbances." No, because the life torce being an 
immaterial force like electricity, there Is nothing 
to purge out, nor pnke out, but a simple vital per- 
version to be corrected and as the wrong is essen- 
tially immaterial, nothing bin an immaterial some- 
thing can be similar enough to it to act upon It a« a 
corrective. A material substance may change the 
organism and thereby suppress or su«pend an im- 
material wrong, but the latter will return so soon 
as the former, its medium, resumes its Dorrnal con- 
ductivity, It will be observed at once that the 
essentials of cure do not exist in operations 
upon the organisms, aDd as mateilal sub- 
stances operate largely through tbe organisms, tbe 
true disease is not reached. The object then must 
be to avoid operating upon tbe organism and es- 
sentially through toe vital impulses by correcting 
the perverted vital activities. The causes ot dis- 
ease existing In a highly attenuated form are simi- 
lar la equadty to the vital hence the 
affinity or susceptibility. This same affinity mu»t 
be acquired by a drug substance. The at'entua- 
tlon must be carried on until a correspmdence of 
spheres has been reached, or until resistance is no 
longer possible. The point cf the highest degree 
of similitude in quality between two activities is 
variable, as It is In a degree obaervab1® In a very 
wide range of attentuation; as. many quick cures 
are observed from low attentoatlons, but, more 
commonly, the high and highest attenuations fur- 
nish the most striking examples. That low poten- 
cies cure,nobod y disputes; and this dot s not refute 
the doctrine, but It must be admttted that It Is by 
virtue of tbe inherent dynamic principle that Is 
curative, though more feebiy curative In tbe low 
than when the drug is attenuated to a quality 
equal to the quality of tbe attenuated aisease 
cure and the qualitative vital dyruiml*. 
The striking changes sometimes observed from low 
attenuations are the results of primary action on 
the organism which Hahnemann seeks to avoid. To 
bring about such results medicines mu*t be repeat- 
ed while a single dose of tbe attenuated medicine 
would prove curative, and not Influence the organ- 
ism primarily. From a practical stand point let u* 
look upon the results of obeying the Instructions 
of tbe Master, who was always guided in his later 
years by the doctrines of the sixteenth section, aod 
contrast them with the results ot those who dis- 
obey this teaching. . 
The former ciaas has followed closely the Mas- 
ter's teaching*, accepting tbe dynamic doctrine, 
and in tnle line have they made their cures, with 
the same evidence claimed by tbe other class, sim- 
ple the patients recover. Tney have not felt tne 
need or other methods than those taught by 
Hahnemann. They have not gone backwards, 
bur, on the contrary, they have made some pro- 
gress. How have they progressed? bet us tee. 
If you will consult section 41 of tbe Organon you 
will see. Here we see that Hahnemann declares 
it almost impossible to eradicate some disease* be- 
cause they had been complicated with drugs hav- 
ing no relation to the disease. He says that bis 
remedies were always capable of curing effectu- 
ally all simple diseases. Hahnemann then used 
but tbe 30th cent, potency wben this section j