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'SUfflF Pre8ent» t'^le uture t*ie Past> as *n three great 
forms of life, all human interests are included. The 
anticipated future and the remembered past alike 
centre in the present, which becomes for us, therefore, 
the everlasting now. While the memories that make up the history 
of the past and the prophecies of the future, which express the 
philosophy of that history, are equally capable of aiding us in 
the present. That everliving present, to which each succeeding 
day, and every successive hour, adds its special burden of respon- 
sibilities and duties. Responsibilities and duties which, if fairly 
met and faithfully performed, cannot fail to bring their own 
exceeding great reward in the mens conscia recti—the personal 
consciousness of integrity, which shall strengthen the weary 
spirit; sustain the soul amid the sorrows and sufferings of this 
earthly existence, and keep alive within the heart the ennobling 
sense of constant preparation for another life and a future state 
more august and grand and glorious than this. For, if 
*•’ They also serve who only stand and wait,” 
how much more shall not those be promoted anti rewarded who 
devote themselves and sacrifice their lives even for the well- 
being and safety of their fellow men ! 
Many of these are found in the humbler spheres of society— 
heroes of conflagration and collision by land, and of shipwreck 
and disaster at sea; noble-hearted men, who, with their own 
bodies, stop the very jaws of death that others may escape. 
Nor should we fail to make mention here of the physicians who, 
in countless instances, disdaining to flee in seasons of public 
peril, have fought “ the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and 
the destruction that wasteth at noon day,” till, worn out with 
unceasing labor, day and night, they too have fallen and passed 4 
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into the silent land, unnoticed and unknown ! These, and such 
as these—brave sons of heroes—victims of unrequited toil and 
unselfish devotion to humanity, may indeed be forgotten in the 
present world ; but not in that of the great hereafter. For of 
the least of these it is written : 
“ Eternal tablets shall record 
Their names with those, who, since the world began, 
With an immortal strength, and toil and word 
Have wrought for man.” 
What theme, then, can be more suitable to the present occa- 
sion, or more acceptable to this audience, than that of the phy- 
sician ? And how shall we best discuss this great theme? Not 
surely with reference to the present, where praise of some, 
however well merited, could not but appear to disparage others 
equally deserving; where criticism would be invidious, and com- 
parisons odious. 
We might, indeed, call up before you the great physicians of 
the ages past, some of whom were priests, others princes, Arehi- 
aters, physicians to emperors, companions of kings or learned 
philosophers, such as Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Erasistra- 
tus, Aristotle,* Galen, Aretams, Celsus, Oribasius and 
Ctesarius. Or we might invoke some of those who, in later 
times, became famous for the great advances they wrought in the 
various departments of science, and for the immense benefits 
they conferred upon mankind. Physicians like Van Helmont 
and Vesalius; Glisson and Gilbert; llaller and Hufeland and 
Hunter; Cullen and Cooper and Brown; Harvey and Jenner ; 
Boerhaave and Bichat and Broussais; Kush and McClellan ; 
Livingstone and Mott and Kane, and multitudes of others, the 
briefest review of any one of whose useful lives might profitably 
employ the passing hour. 
Or, instead, we might summon before you one greater than 
any of these—Hahnemann—the illustrious founder of HomaBO. 
pathy, who, within our own recollection, was gathered to his 
fathers; who spent long years of his early life, and no small 
portion of his maturer age, amid poverty and persecution and 
* According to Athienaus, Aristotle, while quite a young man, kept an 
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exile, in self-denying and unappreciated labors for his fellow 
men. And we might picture to you the great success of his later 
years, and the crowning glory of his ripe old age, when, his new 
science of healing being at last triumphantly vindicated and 
acknowledged, his house in the great capitol of Europe was 
thronged with patients of the highest rank, both noble and royal, 
who sought, and in their own persons received, the proofs of his 
almost miraculous skill. 
But to some other occasion, and to some more eloquent 
speaker, it must be reserved to give you the history of this sub- 
lime old man—the greatest human benefactor of humanity. 
For the present, therefore, we dismiss him with this brief men- 
tion. But let us not forget that in his case, as well as in that 
of others, “the memory of the just is blessed that his good 
deeds live after him,* and that the halo of glory that surrounds 
his name among men grows brighter and brighter with the 
advancing ages, and as he himself becomes more loved and more 
revered by the constantly increasing numbers of his disciples. 
Just now we need to turn our thoughts in another direction. 
The circumstances of the past are changed. No one of the 
great examples we have cited is perfectly suited to present con- 
ditions, or exactly adapted to our immediate object; although 
many of them are eminently calculated to excite the ambition of 
the student and inspire his soul with high resolve. The future 
alone remains. Let me portray for you, then, the Physician of 
the Future ; an ideal picture indeed, and necessarily imperfect : 
but one that may be made sufficiently complete for illustration, and 
in which, as in a mirror, may be displayed the reciprocal relations 
of the physician to society, and of society to the physician, and 
which may at the same time afford a better opportunity for pre- 
senting such considerations as may seetn proper on this occasion. 
But permit me to remark at the outset, that for what may be 
advanced in the course of this Address no one but myself can be 
held responsible. Should I have the misfortune to assert any- 
* Dean wisse, was du auch gethan, 
Da thust es auf Zeitlebens in Erinnerung ; 
Die gute That, klingt lielle den Himmel an, 
Wie eine GHocke, ja er wird zum Spiegel, 
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thing that may be repugnant to the views of my hearers, or con- 
trary to the truth, no blame can attach to the regular faculty of 
this medical college, who, while honoring me with an invitation 
to address you this evening, have left me entirely at liberty both 
as to my theme and as to the subject matter of my discourse. 
I. The Physician of the Future wlll be a man of Sci- 
ence. Each one of the collateral branches of medical knowledge 
will receive his profound attention. In the anatomy And physiol. 
oyy of the human system, both separately and in comparison with 
those of the lower animals, he will be as familiar as the school boy 
with the rule of three. Nor will he allow himself to remain ignorant 
of histology, that new and beautiful science which explains the 
origin, growth and development of the different tissues composing 
the human body. And to this he will pay the more attention, 
since an accurate acquaintance with the minutest and most inte- 
rior parts, of the primordial cells even, may lead to a more exact 
adaptation of the remedies to the disordered tissues and to the 
organs they compose. 
Every division of Natural Science, the physician of the future 
will cultivate with the utmost zeal. Especially will he seek to 
learn all that can be known of those wonderful forces of natun— 
light, heat, gravity, electricity, magnetism, and others still more 
mysterious, by means of which the mechanism of the earth is 
maintained, and the growth of plants and the external life of 
animals and men supported. Nor will he be content with merely 
learning what is already understood of subjects like these, which 
are as interesting as they are important. In this, as in other 
directions, he will seek to extend the boundary of science, thus 
emulating the example of many of his predecessors who have 
so largely increased the amount of useful knowledge. The won- 
drous relations of the forces of nature to those of human life 
will, therefore, challenge his most serious study. Here are 
questions that so far have baffled the researches of scientists 
alike of the present and the past. And while the physician of 
the future may not any more than those who have preceded him 
arrive at the ultimate truth in this respect, he will doubtless 
remove much of the obscurity that has hitherto enshrouded the 
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more clearly between the known and the unknown, and deter- 
mine with more exactness the dividing line between the know* 
able and the unknowable. 
In chemistry and in botany, the physican of the future will, 
of course, become expert. But he will be far from satisfying 
himself with simply ascertaining the external and physical 
properties and relations to each other of the various organic and 
inorganic substances of nature. With patient industry and life- 
long application he will investigate all the relations of these 
substances to the human system, in health and in sickness. 
It is ever thus—that one science leads to others still higher. 
And here we see how Pathogenesis arises—founded on chemistry 
and botany on the one hand, and connected with anatomy, phys- 
iology and psychology on the other. This new science, which 
investigates the influences exerted on the human system by the 
mineral, vegetable and animal substances, was inaugurated by 
Hahnemann, and by him carried to such a degree of perfection 
that his followers have done little more than imitate his exam- 
ple ; or if apparently improving upon his method, they have 
never surpassed him in actual results. Eminently practical in 
its nature, pathogenesis becomes at the same time the foundation 
of Homoeopathy, and the basis of all that is reliable and truly 
scientific in therapeutics. And it is even now being cultivated 
with great assiduity by the most learned and enterprising of the 
Old School. They have, indeed, a different name, “ The Physi- 
ological Method,” * but the meaning is the same. And the fact 
that our brethren, the most enlightened of the allopaths, as if 
ashamed of silently stealing our system and appropriating our 
medicines, are at last building up similar pathogentic foundations 
for themselves, should increase our faith in Homoeopathy, and 
strengthen our efforts to keep the lead in this grand reformation 
in the theory and practice of medicine. 
But little, indeed, will genuine homoeopaths care how much 
their allopathic co-laborers convey the thunder of our practice, if 
they will but acknowledge the lightning of our principles. Aud 
we may state here that it is orthodox now in the Old School, to 
admit that the homoeopathic doctrine, the law of similars, is 
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indeed a real law of cure, but not the only and universal law. 
And the results of the great change, from reviling to imitation, 
that has come over the spirit of the Old School dream of exclusive 
possession of the healing art, already begin to become apparent. 
Statistics show that in some sections, in Philadelphia, for instance, 
the allopathic treatment of scarlatina is now nearly if not quite 
as successful as our own. And this immense improvement is 
simply due to the fact that, in the treatment of this disease the 
allopathists have followed our methods and employed our reme- 
dies, Belladonna in particular, which at the present time, as in 
that of Hahnemann, is as specific in the smooth or Sydenham 
variety of scarlet fever, as quinine ever is in ague. 
Solomon, the wisest of the ancients, discoursed of trees, 
“ from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop that 
springeth out of the wall.”* So shall the physician of the 
future, conscious that in all the substances of nature some good 
and useful qualities reside, never cease his labors in the study of 
pathogenesis, until he has determined the virtues of all the 
solids, liquids and gases, and of all the vegetable and animal 
substances with which the earth is filled, and proved for each its 
exact sphere of usefulness for man. In this way remedies are 
obtained for all known disorders, and material provided in 
advance with which every new form of disease may be promptly 
checked at its first appearing. 
In those branches of scientific knowledge which belong more 
nearly to the practice of medicine, the physician of the future 
can hardly fail to improve upon the present and the past. In 
diagnosis and the examination of the sick, he will be sure to 
employ all the recently discovered means and methods of explo 
ration. The model husband, who now, somewhat facetiously, 
tells the doctor his wife is ailing and desires him to go down 
ami look theproj>erty over, will then be more likely to ask him 
to look it through a<id through ! For to the speculum and spec- 
troscope, the ophthalmoscope, endoscope, laryngoscope and micro- 
scope, the sphygmograph and dynamograph,f the spirometer, 
dynamometer, galvanometer, thermometer, and various other 
* I Kings, IV. 33 
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“ scopes ” and “ meters ” too numerous to mention, of the pres- 
ent day, thei’e will doubtless be added an automatic and self- 
recording omniscope and omnimeter combined in one, by means 
of which every oigan and tissue in the human body may be 
inspected and portrayed, and every movement of muscles, every 
vibration of nerves, every pulsation of arteries, and every evolu- 
tion of infinitesimal cell-germs even, may be duly observed, 
and its dynamics determined and recorded. 
But even then the scientific physician, although so thorough- 
ly armed and equipped for the detection of physical and object- 
ive symptoms, will need to study also those that are sensational 
and subjective. He will still need to listen to the patient’s own 
account of the feelings and sufferings which have given rise to, 
or resulted from, the morbid phenomena directly perceived by 
his senses, or discovered by the aid of his instrumental apparatus. 
Consciousness and intelligence on the part of the patient will 
still be required, in order to show the connection of the internal 
and external symptoms with each other; and the physician’s 
own judgment and experience will equally be needed to enable 
him to discern the true value and comparative importance of 
each class of symptoms in every case. 
But it is not too much to affirm that the coming age may 
far beyond the present, may by far surpass even the methods just 
described, in discovering the hidden springs of disease. Who 
shall say thac the physician of the future may not as freely em- 
ploy the wonderful faculty of clairvoyance to ascertain the inte- 
rior con«titution and condition of the sick, as those of the present 
day do the spirometer to measure the quantity of the air re- 
spired? Why should not this mysterious power be fully inves- 
tigated and regularly cultivated in those in whom it naturally 
appears ? Why should it not be redeemed from the suspicion of 
unhallowed superstition, rescued from the degrading hands of 
mountebanks and charlatans, and devoted to the noble uses of 
science and benevolence ? It is not to be assumed that this 
remarkable faculty—which is natural to a few, and which may 
be acquired by many others—is ever given except for wise rea- 
sons ; or that it was intended by Divine Providence to be pros- 
tituted to evil, rather than sanctified by being employed for 
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With such a faculty at his command the physician of the 
future would have no need of our supposed omniscope; the 
patient himself, or another for him, could be made to look 
within, and describe with accuracy the condition and operation 
of the most interior organization, in connection with the accom- 
panying sensations. Such a method, reserved perhaps for the 
most difficult cases, could not fail to throw great and much 
needed light upon those obscure forms of disease in which a 
morbid state of the mind results from disorders,otherwise imper- 
ceptible, of the voluntary or involuntary nervous system. In 
cases of this kind, and in those in which a previously existing 
bodily affection disappears, to be succeeded by mental or moral 
aberrations,nothing short of a clairvoyant inspection could point 
out the pathological condition of the delicate and subtle “ mem- 
branes,” Aplastic medium,” or so-called “spiritual body,” which 
forms the ultimate means of union between the immaterial soul 
and the material frame of man. 
But it must not be forgotten that even at the present day, 
these and other forms of physical disorder, whose causes may be 
unknown and whose relations to physical disease it may be im- 
possible to discover, are successfully treated by administering 
the corresponding honneopathic remedies—remedies whose adap- 
tation to these mental and moral disorders is ascertained, patho- 
genetically, by observing their effects when taken by persons in 
health. 
And this same clairvoyant faculty might also be applied to 
the investigation of the qualities and virtues of the various sub- 
stances which may be employed as medicines. Such a method, 
if it could be reduced to practice—and why should not the future 
realize all that the present can anticipate ?—could hardly fail to 
reveal, in their fullest extent, those ultimate pathogenetic powers 
and corresponding curative virtues of drugs, which alone are 
homreopathic to the most advanced forms of disease, and which 
are now only speculatively inferred from analogy, or imperfectly 
gleaned from experience. In this way the physician of the future 
may be enabled to see at a glance the various and most recondite 
medicinal qualities of substances hitherto unknown. By this 
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age may be enabled to discern by a sort of intuitive perception 
all that is now only partially learned by the slow process of in- 
duction and painful experiment. And this will be but the com- 
mencement of the return to that instinctive knowledge of the 
essential nature and relations of things, which was the birth-right 
of our first parents, and which enabled them to bestow upon 
each and every object in nature a name expressive of its true 
spiritual quality. But at the present day the few and scattered 
traces of this knowledge, which occasionally make their appear- 
ance, are scoffed at as evidences of superstition, or denounced as 
the fruits of sorcery. 
In pathology the physician of the future will be well skilled. 
Not, indeed, in that kind so fashionable at the present day—witli 
our allopathic brethren, especially—which occupies itself with 
minute descriptions of the appearance of the various tissues after 
death, which fills learned volumes with the details of the conse- 
quences of death ; but which is as impotent to reveal the cause 
of death, as it is to save life. The true and useful pathology of 
the future will consist in a profound knowledge of the different 
morbid conditions of the whole system while living; whether 
these morbid conditions are confined to one tissue or organ, or 
embrace an entire series of organs ; whether they are located in 
the physical, mental or moral sphere; or are equally diffused 
through the whole economy of the individual being. 
The pathology of the future will also embrace a complete 
knowledge of disorders of the mind as resulting from correspond- 
ing bodily states; and will at the same time unfold, in all their 
varieties, the physical consequences of morbid affections of a 
purely mental or moral nature. And as an indispensable prelim- 
inary, this pathology, in connection with the physiology and 
psychology of the future, will decide the hitherto open question 
of the relation of the voluntary or involuntary nervous system 
to the various forms of disease. By means of the method of self 
introspection, if in no other way, the physician of the future will 
be enabled to determine just what symptoms belong to the vol- 
untary, or cerebro-spinal nervous system; what to the involun- 
tary, or ganglionic, nervous system, and what morbid phenomena 
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With such perfect pathological knowledge,the essential char- 
acter of diseases, in their several manifestations, cannot but he 
more thoroughly understood. While the location and principal 
symptoms, both external and internal, of each disorder, with 
their producing causes, as well proximate as remote, will at once 
suggest the appropriate treatment and indicate the remedy 
which must exactly correspond to the whole case. Thus will the 
average duration of disease Vie shortened, and that of human life 
prolonged. 
In paying the most marked attention to hygiene, both public 
and private, the physicians of the coming age will but imitate 
the great fathers of medicine of the remotest antiquity. Pytha- 
goras, who lived in the golden era of the world, when medicine 
was not yet separated from philosophy, taught his disciples to 
pay supreme regard to the regulation of the diet. * And no ser- 
vices rendered to society by physicians or other scientific men, 
can equal in value those which point out the dangers that 
from time to time may threaten the public health. Could the 
physicians of Shreveport, La., have notified their fellow citizens 
that the method there pursued of disposing of the town sewage 
was dangerous in the extreme, they might have prevented the 
pestilence which has rendered that place the Golgotha of the 
South.f And just such inestimable blessings we think will be 
conferred upon mankind by the physician of the future, by warn- 
ing communities against influences and practices which may 
prove destructive to the public health. 
In all the departments of practical knowledge the physicians 
of the past, and we may say of the present also, have always 
signalized themselves as leaders. To them are due a great part 
* Medicinal earn maxima speciem amplectebantur, qua* dietam modern, 
tur.—Jamiii.icus. De Vitat Pytliagorre., No. 163. 
f A remarkable illustration of this occurred in the early history of one 
of the oldest homoeopathic practitioners of Pennsylvania—I)r. H. Detwiller 
—who, by the discovery of lead poisoning, from apple butter kept in glazed 
earthen crocks, as the cause of a wide-spread epidemic, delivered thousands 
from a disorder which had hitherto proved incurable. As a homoeopathic 
physician, familiar with the pathogenetic or drug action of lead, he had no 
difficulty in at once recognizing the nature, and ascertaining the source, of 
the most painful and destructive disorder that prevailed where he first 
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of the noblest advances, and many of the most important discov- 
eries, in those natural sciences which become the foundation of 
useful arts. Under the influence of dominant minds, each suc- 
ceeding age has its own favorite study and field of research; 
each has also had its own peculiar fashion of doctrine and tone 
of thought. The previous age was largely devoted to natural 
philosophy, and many of its leading spirits openly denied, or 
tacitly ignored as unscientific, all that was not physical and 
material. In the present age this tendency is still manifest, 
although far less obtrusively so than before. Some from whom 
better things might have been expected, have not scrupled to 
claim everything for the sphere of the sensual; to repudiate all 
that is called spiritual or supernatural. While others even ven- 
ture to assert, in so many words, that the brain secretes thought 
as the liver secretes bile!* 
But this doctrine is now avowedly rejected by many natural- 
ists of the highest eminence; men like Agassiz, whose profound 
studies in nature have not blinded their eyes to the God of 
nature. Still it is not to be denied that too generally there has 
been shown a disposition to reckon nothing within the sphere of 
science that could not be measured, weighed and counted, or 
that does not come within the cognizance of our external senses. 
But the limits of human knowledge and discovery in this latter 
direction are already well nigh reached. And the most import- 
ant problems of science, unexplained hitherto, and reserved, in 
part at least, for the physician of the future, relate rather to the 
spiritual than to the physical nature of man. They are prob- 
lems that pertain, as already stated, to the union of matter and 
spirit; problems, therefore, which defy all physical calculus, 
whether mathematical, chemical or electrical, and which demand 
* This oft quoted expression originated with Cabanis—born in 1757—a 
disciple of Condillac, and friend and relation (by marriage) of Condorcet. 
Similar is the doctrine of Mr. Toland (John), quoted by Haslam in his “Obser- 
vations on Madness and Melancholy,” London, 1809. 
Cogitatio (hie minime praeterunda) est motus peculiaris cerebri, quod 
hujus facultatis est proprium organum : Vel potius cerebri pars qusedam, 
in medulla spinali et nervis cum suis meningibus continuata, tenet animi 
principatum, motumque perficit tarn cogitaiionis quam sensationis ; qua" 
secundum cerebri diversam in omnium animalium structuram, mire varian- 
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for their solution the application of a higher law, that of the spirit- 
ual principle itself, which is so intimately associated with our 
material frame. The sphere, therefore, in which the physician 
of the future will achieve his greatest triumph is neither exclu- 
sively physical, nor yet purely spiritual, but, like man himself, 
it is a compound of the two, and its doctrine is called psychology. 
This science of psychology is the outgrowth and ultimate 
development of physiology; it is the science which considers 
the soul of man in its connection with the body ; which investi- 
gates the nature and mode of union of the human body with the 
human soul, and in which is studied the reciprocal influence of 
the body upon the spirit and of the spirit upon the body. With 
this wonderful and mysterious union of matter and spirit in man 
is connected the greater part of the hitherto undeciphered 
questions in philosophy; such as the doctrine of life, its identity 
with the soul ;* the mode in which the spirit operates upon and 
through the body; the nature and principles of the soul’s action 
as mechanical or otherwise, and the possibility of the spirit’s 
ever being in this life, as the Apostle expresses it, “ either in the 
body or out of the body.”f These are the great problems of 
psychology, and these are the questions whose solution will 
in no small degree depend upon the physicians of the future; 
since they will at the same time interest him as a man of science, 
and associate themselves with him in his practical duties, and 
professional lile.J 
The key to many of the difficulties of normal physiology is 
found revealed in the phenomena of abnormal physiology, or 
pathology. This is plainly seen in the electro-magnetic examin- 
ation of nerves, whose failure of action in disease discovers their 
special functions in health. In like manner the solution of many 
important questions in psychology—notably those relating to the 
union of body and spirit—can only be reached by studying the 
phenomena of morbid psychology, where the curtain seems par- 
tially withdrawn, and the inmost veil of the sacred temple of 
* Porter’s “ Human Intellect,” p. 30. 
f I Corintliians, 15:44, and II Corinthians, 12 : 2. 
| “ Why should we leave an unknown quantity to the luture, which* 
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nature temporarily rent in twain. And it is in this direction 
alone that, we shall find a truly scientific answer to the materialis- 
tic tendencies and teachings of much of the so-called science of 
the present day.* 
In the astonishing facts of natural somnambulism, and in 
those of animal magnetism or artifical somnambulism; in the 
wonderful phenomena of clairvoyance, including both far-seeing 
and prevision or “ second sight,” and in the still more recondite 
experience of those who become subject to ecstacy or trance, are 
seen innumerable testimonies to the power of the soul when 
acting in partial independence of the body. And these exhibi- 
tions of the apparent separation of the soul from the body throw 
more light upon the natural relation of the body to the spirit, 
and of the spirit to the body, than could ever be obtained from 
the whole science of normal psychology. These irregular and 
infrequent exhibitions of spirit-power are well calculated to 
strike terror into the observer’s lieart—powers of this kind4 being 
commonly, but incorrectly, attributed to demoniacal influence. 
Such, for example, was that wonderful display of spirit-force 
made by an Indian Medicine Man, Black Snake, of whom it is 
authentically related that, in a contest with a rival medicine man, 
concentrating all his powers, or as the Indians term it, gathering 
his medicine, he commanded his opponent to die, when the un- 
fortunate conjuror succumbed as to a superior moral force, and 
his spirit, in the words of the Indian informant, went beyond the 
Sand Buttes !\ Of another, it is related by a highly educated 
and deeply religious Catholic priest, European by birth, and 
formerly professor in a Continental University of high repute, 
that he had himself seen a Kootenai Indian command a moun- 
tain sheep to fall dead, and the animal, then leaping among the 
* This materialism even in Christian lands and modern times is put to 
shame beside the profound philosophy and almost spiritual insight of the 
most ancient pagan philosophers. Nam mens, ex Pythagorse sententiae, 
cuncta cernit, cunctaque audit; Surda cceca, cetera Sunt. Porphyrius, 
De Vita Pythag. N. 47 (Greece et Latine) Amstelodami, 1707. “ For, accord- 
ing to Pythagoras, the mind sees all things, and hears all things ; 
everything else is deaf and blind.” 
f Atlantic Monthly, July I860, p. 114. 
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rooks of the mountain side, fell instantly lifeless. This the 
priest states that he saw with his own eyes, that he ate of the 
animal afterwards, and that it was unwoumled, healthy, and 
perfectly wild.* These well authenticated instances I mention, 
out of multitudes equally astounding that might be adduced, in 
order to remind you that there are indeed 
‘ More things betwixt the heavens and the earth 
Than were dreamed of in our philosophy.” 
Many volumes have been published filled with narratives of 
this kind,—narratives attested by an ample amount of unim- 
peachable evidence. A great abundance of facts has been 
accumulated of the different classes of phenomena, just men- 
tioned; but facts alone do not make a science, or explain their 
own source and origin. Some master mind is needed to perform 
tor these mysterious operations of the spiritual world of man, the 
same office that Newton performed for the terrestrial and celestial 
woi Ids, in discovering the great law of gravitation, which applied 
to them all, and explained all their complicated motions,—even 
those in which they deviated from their exact courses. This 
great work, we believe, will be achieved by some physician of 
the future, who, laying aside on the one hand, all the grossness 
and unbelief of the positivists, and on the other hand avoiding 
alike the fine drawn speculations and abstract theories of meta- 
physicians, and the overweening credulity of pure spiritualists, 
will study these recondite mysteries of the human soul, as dis- 
played in its irregular manifestations, with an impartial spirit, an 
unprejudiced mind and an all-comprehending genius, that cannot 
fail to lead him to success. That will demonstrate the natural 
law that controls the soul of man, even in its wildest vagaries; 
the law that binds it in its normal condition to the voluntary 
nervous system; that in its abnormal state—as in the case of 
spontaneous or induced somnambulism—transfers it tor a season 
to the organic nervous system, and the law, finally, that permits 
its apparent temporary migration from the body—as in the state 
of trance—and. closing the physical senses to open those which 
are spiritual, allows the soul to mingle and commune awhile 
with the inhabitants of the spiritual world itself. 
* Atlantic Monthly, July 1866, p. 115. DETROIT HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE. 
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The physician of the future, realising that body and soul are 
indeed really united in the natural state of man, and that in this 
profound and hitherto inscrutable union exists the key to the 
old-time problem of the commerce of matter and spirit, will 
patiently study the phenomena of this union of body and soul, 
as partially revealed in the counter-phenomena of their apparent 
separation in life Thus will he arrive at a truly scientific and 
satisfactory view of their actual separation in death. And thus, 
too, will the physician of the future elucidate, in this and in other 
directions, the fundamental principles which shall dissipate from 
science the gathering clouds of materialism, and sustain rather 
than oppose the just claims of Religion and Revelation.* While 
at the same time these principles will show how such remarkable 
phenomena as those we have just related, springing from causes 
purely natural, have no relation to the miracles of the Sacred 
Scriptures. And these principles, finally, will prove that the 
truth of God is one and inseparable and entirely harmonious in 
all the various and apparently conflicting, but really correspond- 
ing spheres of physical and spiritual nature. Thus will the 
physician of the future, while developing the advanced science 
of psychology, remove from the profession the old reproach of 
irreligion and infidelity; contribute to reconcile reason and reve- 
lation, and establish in the last and highest achievements of 
science, a rational foundation for the highest faith. 
But it must not be forgotten that there is another department 
of psychology, in which the physician of the future will pre- 
eminently show himself a man of science and skill. And this is 
the wide region of morbid psychology, the pathology of the mind, 
or disorders of the mental and moral sphere. In the physicians 
of the past and present, Homoeopathy has indeed triumphed over 
the difficulties of the bodily world of man; has shown herself 
capable of vanquishing all the “ ills that human flesh is heir to.” 
* “ The light of the understanding is not a dry or pure light, but 
drenched in the will and the affections, and the intellect forms sciences 
accordingly ; for what men desire should be true, they are most inclined to 
believe. The understanding, therefore, rejects things difficult, as being 
impatient of enquiry ; things just and solid, because they limit hope, and 
the deeper mysteries of nature (it rejects) through superstition.’’— Bacon 
“ Novum Organum.” 18 
TVl'RODtfdtVmV AODRRSS A.T TltK OPfiVIVO OP1 Trtfl! 
But there is yet another and nobler world in man,—of mind and 
spirit; a world of higher human being, and profounder human 
suffering; a world subjected to innumerable perversions in each 
of its three great divisions of the intellect, the sensibilities, and 
the will. A world of morbid perceptive, emotional and voluntary 
life, in many instances disordered, depraved, almost destroyed 
—into which the physiciaH of the future is summoned to enter, 
with silent feet, clean hands and a pure heart. Here guided by 
the highest intelligence, and stimulated by the most benevolent 
spirit, he will find ample employment for all his wisdom and all 
his energy. 
In this great sphere of the disordered soul of man, will be 
found work eminently worthy the physician of the future, clothed 
with all the scientific advantages in which our prophetic faith 
and hopes have portrayed him. Hahnemann himself laid broad 
and deep the foundations for the greatest success here, in the 
minute ami conscientious record of the emotional, mental, moral 
and volitional symptoms of the various drugs which he so labor- 
iously proved. Some of the most convincing evidences of the 
truth of the Homoeopathic law were found in the removal of 
morbid mental and moral states, by such remedies as Arsenicum, 
Aurum, Helleborus, Ignatia and Veratrum. And one of his own 
most splendid cures, one that went far to establish the new 
science and art of Hoimeopathy in Europe, was that of the 
famous German scholar Klockenbring, who had been deranged 
and confined in a lunatic asylum, and who was restored to 
perfect sanity. 
When it is demanded of the physician of the future: 
“ Cau’st thou minister to a mind diseased, 
“ Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, 
“ Raze out the written troubles of the brain, 
“ And with some sweet, oblivious antidote, 
“ Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff 
“ Which weighs upon the heart ? 
lie will answer: All this I can, and more. For he knows that 
far back of the actual outbreak of insanity lies the insane tempera- 
ment, waiting but tor time and favorable influences to develop 
itself into Mania or Dementia. He knows that in the native DUTKOtf tfoMcEOPATtttO MEDICAL COLL ME. 
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constitution of many, in the profoundeet recesses of their organic 
nervous system, are deeply implanted the hereditary seeds of the 
various mental and moral diseases, that reduce men beneath the 
level of the brute. And we are well assured that the anticipation 
and detection of these morbid germs before they are developed, 
will engross all the subtle and scientific means of exploration 
which we have assigned him, and that their eradication will em- 
ploy all the remedial agencies at his command, guided by his 
utmost skill. And we are equally certain that in conferring such 
supreme benefits upon mankind, the physician of the future will 
be amply rewarded for all his sacrifices, nobly compensated for 
all his enthusiasm and devotion; for such a consciousness of 
doing good, more precious than silver and gold, shall be to him 
like the price of wisdom, far above rubies. * 
The physician of the future must be, facile princeps, a man 
of corporeal vigor; of mental faculties strong and unimpaired, 
and of moral qualities at once high and elevating. Under the 
sure guidance of Homoeopathy, by means of the dynamic virtues 
of her medicines, and aided by the ennobling influences of his 
own exalted and benevolent nature, he will be instrumental in 
raising the most afflicted of his fellow men, and in replacing them 
in that state “but little lower than the angels,” in which they 
were originally created. Thus the physician, so often accused of 
materialism, indifference and unbelief, instead of the antagonist? 
becomes the co-laborer with those who, in circles purely religious, 
devote themselves to the moral and spiritual advancement of 
mankind. The priest, the minister and the missionary address 
themselves to the mind and soul; work from above downwards, 
and strive to purify the outward life by first renewing the in- 
dwelling spirit. The physician, on the contrary, works from 
below upwards; addresses himself primarily to the body, and 
seeks, by improving the physical and psychical condition from 
an external point of view, to break the shackles of involuntary 
disease, both mental and moral, and so finally to accomplish all 
that his sphere allows in the elevation of man as an individual 
and as a race. 
* Job 28 :18. 20 
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In this wide field of involuntary disorder of the mental and 
moral nature—based as it so largely is upon physical disease— 
the physician must first enter and perform his appropriate part. 
And when, through the united operation of all the hygienic 
means, medicines and moral influences at his command, he cures 
these unfortunates, so that they may be found sitting and 
clothed and in their right minds;* when he has thus so far elevated 
and transformed their degraded and depraved natures as to 
restore them to voluntary and responsible life, then he will have 
but prepared them for the physician of the soul, whose blessed 
office it is to lead them in the green pastures and beside the still 
waters of higher and heavenly life. 
II. The physician of the future will be a man of heart. 
Ever conscious of the sufferings and sorrows of those to whom he 
is called to minister, he will deeply sympathize with them in all 
their misfortunes. But his sympathy will not be of the soft- 
hearted kind of some whom I have known, whose tears are but 
too ready to flow, and whose excess of feeling and tell tale coun- 
tenance augment rather than assuage their patients’ anxiety and 
distress. But it will be that silent, practical, efficient sympathy, 
that manifests itself in employing the best means of relief. How 
much true philosophy is expressed in those well known words 
of the old Roman : 
Not unconscious of suffering, I learn to succor the miserable. 
And no one surely can attain to the high order of the true physi- 
cian who is not tolerant of the weaknesses and follies even of 
the afflicted, knowing that these are often but the consequences 
of the physical and psychical disorders which it is at once his 
duty and his greatest glory to remove. Let no one, therefore, 
aspire to the noble office of the physician of the future who can- 
not, in the largeness of his own heart, appreciate to their full 
extent the physical and spiritual sufferings of his lellowmen ; 
who cannot at once personally and practically sympathize with 
them in their distresses. This kindly, helpful sympathy forms 
the very life and outflowing spirit of the true physician. By 
Hand igna.ri malix, disco xuecurrere mixer ox. 
* Mark V : 15. DETROIT IIOMOiOPATIlIC MEDICAL COLLEGE. 
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means of this he imparts to the sick, the feeble and the exhaust- 
ed, the desponding and despairing, a strength of body and 
activity of mind before unknown. It is by this congenial sym- 
pathy and generous inspiration of personal vitality, that the 
physician of the future will most resemble that divine-human 
physician ot souls, who when on earth did not disdain to heal 
the sick; who was himself afflicted in all the afflictions of his 
people, and who saved them by the angel of his presence* 
In another respect, also, the physician of the future will show 
himself a man of hearta large-hearted man. Conscious of the 
dignity of his calling, and profoundly impressed with the glo- 
rious destiny of his race, he will rise above all the petty strifes 
and contentions, the envious rivalries and low-born jealousies, 
which have so much discredited the profession heretofore, and 
from which so many of its brightest ornaments have not been 
exempt. Instead of hindering or opposing others in their pro- 
gressive enterprises, and of imitating the example of his prede- 
cessors, who reviled and persecuted Harvey for discovering the 
circulation of the blood, Tenner for introducing vaccination, 
Mesrner for making splendid cures with animal magnetism, and 
Hahnemann for placing the practice of medicine on a basis 
truly scientific and healing the sick with infinitesimal doses; the 
physician of the future will welcome every one whose labors 
and discoveries, like those just mentioned, shall manifestly tend 
to ameliorate the condition of the human race And he will 
esjiecially feel it both his duty and his privilege to aid in every 
good work for the improvement of his chosen profession, and for 
the better education of its future members. As a man of heart 
then, the physician of the future will co-operate with his 
fellow citizens in all their plans of charity and labors of love; 
sympathize with them in all the joys and sorrows that belong to 
the sacred ties of domestic life; partake with them in all their 
dearest hope> for the present world, and share with them in all 
their loftiest aspirations for the world to come. For thus, and 
thus only, can the physician of the future render himself such a 
minister of health as the coming age. will most surely demand. 
* Isaiah, LXIII, 9. 22 
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III. The physician of the future will he a man of faith: 
faith in his accepted system of medical practice; faith in the 
medicines he employs, and iaith in himself as being able to 
accomplish for the sick all that their case requires—all that cir- 
cumstances render possible. This personal faith, founded on a 
substantial basis of scientific knowledge, will animate him with 
a confidence of success that cannot but go far to render that 
success assured—since it will at the same time inspire his 
patients with an unswerving confidence in his ability and skill. 
Thus will they be brought into a true magnetic rapport with 
each other, and such an intimate bond of union and spiritual 
sympathy be set up between them as shall render the patient 
a thousand times more amenable to the healing power of 
the physician. But in another, and still higher sense, 
the physcian of the future will be a man of faith. 
It has been the fashion with some professed men of 
science to ridicule religion as beneath their notice; and many 
others, less learned, have thought to display their consciousness 
of superior wisdom by dwelling upon what they are pleased to 
call the absurdities of Christian doctrine. Such antagonists may 
well expose the human errors that, in the lapse of ages, have 
fastened themselves upon Christianity, as barnacles become 
attached to the sides of a noble ship; but they can no more affect 
the present power, or prevent the future growth and glorious de- 
velopment of the purest and most truly Divine system of religion 
the world has ever known, than the astrologisls of old could 
move the stars in heaven from their appointed places. Among 
such revilers of the highest truth, the physician of the future 
will not be numbered. 
While not himself necessarily a sectarian, he will regard with 
profound respect all the different religious doctrines in which 
good men devoutly believe; and see, with reverence, something 
inspiring and truly symbolic in their various forms of worship. 
Thus will he naturally, it may be unconsciously, come to belong 
to that great church of the future, foreshadowed even now, which 
shall sustain a living Christianity above creeds; which shall 
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embody the highest faith in the humblest works of beneficence. 
And for the rest—without claiming to comprehend the infinite 
by the finite ; without assuming to solve the awful problem of 
the origin of evil, and without even attempting to penetrate the 
mysteries of our holy religion, the physician of the future will 
be equally thankful to learn all that may be revealed of the 
nal verities, and content to believe where he cannot know. 
Conscious chat as in philosophy, or natural science, there are 
many things not understood; so in theology, or spiritual science, 
there must be much that is past finding out. Thus waiving on 
the one hand the literalism of merely textual commentators, and 
on the other hand discarding the unwarranted liberties and 
unfounded conclusions of rationalistic expounders, he will find in 
the written Word a perennial fountain of Divine Truth, and 
dwell in that serene height of faith which shall enable him to 
look down upon the wickedness of mankind as a means of disci- 
pline and to be overruled for good; and to realize, despite the 
too apparent preponderance of falsehood and depravity, of igno- 
rance and irreligion, that God is still in Christ reconciling the 
world unto Himself. 
The physician who is worthy of his profession, is at the same 
time deeply conscious of the exalted and charitable nature of his 
calling. The poor, therefore, whom “ we have always with us,” 
will command his services equally with the rich ; and his constant 
aim will be to ameliorate the condition of his fellow men, rather 
than to enrich himself at their expense. The daily life of the 
physician of the future will in this manner be filled with works 
of practical piety and benevolence, and inspired by an ever-in- 
creasing faith. And while thus maintaining a conscience void of 
offense toward God and man, he will feel that he has a right to 
ask for the blessing of heaven upon his efforts to heal the sick, 
and he will expect to see that blessing bestowed in an abundant 
measure. And through all the discouragements and trials that 
never fail to attend such unselfish labors, he will be comforted by 
the sense of duty performed, upheld by an unseen hand in his 
season of greatest need, and in his darkest hours encouraged by 
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