A single stamp carries this Traci with envelope, and a sheet of note. 1 No. 2 1IOMCEOPAT11Y: 1 is(R F.AS'&^'. Tun Old Giant. — “ rtpwn so yf.\i and stiff in his joints that he c iWUniirtTmore t'an sit in his caw's mouth grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because lie cannot come at them. . . . ‘You will never mend till more of you be burned.’” — Pilgrim's Progress. COMPILrn UY C. F. N, [rUIKU SDITtOl*.] OTIS CLAPP & SON, PUBLISHERS, 3 Bkacon Sr., Boston. Tub material of this tract is mostly gathered from the writings of early pioneers of the cause. Dr. Ruddock’s “Fallacies and Claims” has also furnished valuable hints. Credit for each quota* tion is given as far as possible. Fabi.s or thi Ass and tub Stkamuoat. From a pamphlet published 1848.] An ass heavily laden with a sack of letters directed to a distant town on the river, was met by a fox, who apprised him that ease and expedition would both be promoted by transferring his burden to a steamer which had just stopped at the shore. “ This is unreasonable, friend Reynard,” said the patient beast; “for my method of transporting the mail has been in o|>eralion three thousand years, yours only fifty. It is impossible that the combined wisdom of so many generations should not exceed that of one.” “ Vour reasoning," replied the fox, “ can have no weight, unless there had been a race or races be- tween steamboats and asses during the said three thousand years, and it had been decided that the asses always gained the race, and were less fatigued. Now this trial of speed and strength must have been impossible before steamboats were invented.” Whilst the mail carrier of the old line was stag- gering under the weight of argument and letters, another ass overtook him, and having overheard the conversation, was enabled to bring timely aid to the confounded disputant. “ Master Reynard,” quoth he, “ you are not of an age and size rightly to decide such matters. Your facts and arguments may be unanswerable; but they should have no weight with any raapecta- ble ass. No respectable and learned ass should ever adopt the new method, until some other still more respectable and more learned shall have pre- viously adopted it.” “It puzzles my brain,” replied the fox, ‘‘to apply this rule to anv useful purpose. I pity your ho|>eless condition. The practices of these respec- table learned beasts will never be reformed, if each 4 HOMOEOPATHY must wait till one more learned and respectable than himself shall have set the example." The modern opponents of homoeopathy do not consider that the uon-adofition of undiscovered facts and unheard opinions is not equivalent to their rejection. There are many other facts and infer- ences from them which former ages neither adopted nor rejected, simply because they never so much as dreamed of them. — Dr. Joslin. It is related that, in the Chinese Empire, all things with handles were formerly carried hanging from a stick, by two men, this involving nothing superfluous but the other man and the stick, till a bearer discovered that he himself could carry two baskets suspended from either end of one stick with comparative ease. He was instantly put to death, not being of the caste of the lnventors ; but his invention is now generally adopted by the less conservative in that country. What Allopathic I’hi/slclans say of Old School Medicine. John Hunter. — Of the virtues of drugs, we know nothing definitely. Dr. Cabanis. — We discover nothing fixed and invariable in the anplication of medicine, or in the plans they should furnish for our conduct. Dr. Girt (inner. — Our materia medica is a mere collection of fallacious observations. Some just opinions founded on experience are mingled with them, but where the subject is not knowledge, and all isopinion, one man’s opinion may be as good as another’s. When two physicians meet at the sick-bed, they are placed somewhat similarly to the augurs of ancient Rome, of whom Cicero says that two could scarce look one another in the face, etc. TS REASON 5 Huffman. — Very few are the remedies of rscogoiaed virtue and action ; but very many are tho suspiciously, fa lacioutly, and Aciitiuu.dy indi- cated. Dr. Abercrombie.— Uncertainty attends all our researches of the action of external agents upon the body. Our pretended experience must, in gen- eral, sink into analogy, and even our analogy too often into conjecture. Dr. i'crura — We can hardly refuse our assent to the observations of the late Sir G. Rlaue, that, in many cases, patients get well in spite of the means employed; and sometimes, where die prac- titioner fancies that he has made a great cure, we may fairly assume the [Client to have made a trappy escape. Dr. Paris*—That such fluctuations in opininu and versatility in practice should have produced an unfavorable impression can hardly excite our aston- ishment, nor can we be surprised that a portion of mankiud has at once arraigned physic as a fallacious art, or derided it as a composition of error and fraud. In the progress of the history of medicines, wliyn shall wc be able to produce a discovery or improvement which has been the result of that happy combination of observation, analogy, and ex|>erimeut which has so eminently rewarded the labors of modem science t Dr. Joint Mason Hood. — As the historian of medicine approaches nearer to his own times, Ire finds in* path eacumbcred with almost insurmount- able difficulties. In other sciences, although truth is not to be attained without a certain degree of laborious research, yet, to those w ho are wining to bestow on it the requisite attention, it is, for the most part, attainable; but this, unfortunately, is not the case in medicine. Dr. S. Jack ton. — The interests of the pro- fession are too deeply implicated to admit that things should long continue in their promt state. 6 It cannot be concealed that public confidence in the knowledge and intelligence of the profession, has been shaken. In the regular practice, has not the treatment of disease too much degenerated into a blind routine, pursued in nearly every disease, how- ever dissimilar in their nature? Dr. James Rush. — I here owe it to the gen- eral reader to confess that, as far as I know, the medical profession can scarcely produce a single volume in its practical departments, from the works of Hippocrates down to the last-made text-book, which, by the requisitions of an exact philosophy, will not be found to contain nearly as much fiction as truth. Dr. Magendie observes: The chain that binds allopathia to its fixed position must be broken ; it is a humiliating position of medical science. The people see it to be a mere race between physician and disease, as to which can reduce the patient first. Dr. Schuler, an eminent allopathic physician of Stollberg. — For a quarter of a century, I fol- lowed the banner of Allopathia without finding a thread which could guide me i'l the labyrinth of medicine. It is assuredly to our ignorance of medi- cines and of the proper mode of using them, that we must attribute the ravages of disease. These thoughts besieged my mind and embarrassed my views, in spite of my attention to the letter of the law prescribed by the masters of the art. That I might escape from this perplexity. I had for a long time devoted much attention to Homoeopathia; but the cry of reprobation which rose against it, and the apparent paradox in many of its principles, turned me from the study of it, and retained me a faithful adherent to the old method. And other medical worthies have uttered doubts and anathemas of their own practice quite as earn- est as the quotation above given. Boerhave, Htl- HOMOEOPATHY : mont, Peter Frank, Bergk, Formey, Reil, Marcus Hers, Keeker, JOrf, Puchelt, Kieter, Scherf, Nolde, Leonhard, Kranich/eldt, Von Wedekind, Pfeufer, Magella, Wursner, Choulant, Schultz. Not forgetting that even Dr. 0. W. Holmes has abandoned the practice of his profession with the remark, “ 1 firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea. it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes.” It were easy to multiply authorities to prove what the conscientious and reflecting of the profes- sion, in every age, have perceived and often pulf lidy lamented. — Old journal. ITS REASON, 7 What Allopathic, ph i/xlrinn* nay In favor of Hahnemann anti Homoeopathy. The opinions of two able opponents of the system are quoted by Drs. Ehrmann as, perhaps, likely to gain more attention than arguments by men of our own school. Dr. T. F. Forbes. — “ No careful observer of his actions, or candid reader of his writings, can hesi- tate for a moment to admit that he was a very extraordinary man, — one whose name will descend to posterity as the exclusive encogitator, and founder of an original system of medicine, as ingenious as many that preceded it, and probably destined to be the remote, if not the immediate, cause of more important fundamental changes in the practice of the healing art, than have resulted from any promul- gated since the days of Galen himself. “ Uy most medical men it was taken for granted that the system was one, not only visionary in itself, 8 IIOMCEOPATHY : but was the result of a mere fanciful hypothesis, disconnected with facts of any kind, and supported by no process of ratiocination or logical inference ; while its author, and his apostles and successors, were looked upon either as visionaries or quacks, or both. And yet nothing can be farther from the tritth. Whoever examines the homoeopathic doc- trines as announced and eapounded in the original writings of Hahnemann and of many of his follow- ers, must admit, not only that the system is an ingenious one, but that it professes to be based on a most formidable array of facts and experiments, and that these are woven into a complete code of doc- trine, with singular dexterity and much apparent fairness. And it is but an act of simple justice to admit that there exist no grounds for doubting that Hahnemann was as sincere in his belief of the truth of his doctrines as any of the medical systematists who preceded him, and that many of his followers are sincere, honest, and learned men.’' Valentine Alott, after visiting Hahnemann during his sojourn in Europe, speaks of him thus : “ Hah- nemann is one of the most accomplished and scien- tific physicians of the present age.” Hufe/and, the venerable patriarch of German allopathy; Kopp, a distinguished writer on legal and practical medicine ; Broussais, the founder and champion of the celebrated Ductrine Physiologique; Brura, a distinguished allopathist in Italy; t)r. J. G Millingen, a highly-esteemed surgeon and allo- pathic practitioner in England; Prof. James M. Naughton, late President of the New York State Medical Society, — all these gentlemen, though not homceopathists, speak in high terms of Hahnemann, and respectfully of his system The estimation in which he is held is shown by the fact that the medi- cal society of the city and county of New York, consisting of an association of ail the legal allopathic physicians, more than forty years ago, elected him an honorary member. ITS REASON. 9 The Large Tioaen of the Allopathic School. But can they call this a victory, when, instead of attacking the enemy in front, hand to hand, and terminating the difference by his death, they con- tent themselves with setting every part of the country behind him in flames, cutting off retreat, and destroying all around? The enemy, I say, is often not destroyed, but the poor, innocent country is so ruined that it will scarce recover itself in a long time. — Hahnemann. And so power depends upon site t the bigger the bulk, the surer the success. Perhaps it is this principle which actuates those people who give a half-crown to a collection when they might give a half-sovereign, — it looks larger, and weighs more. — “Behold the ships, which, though they be so great, and arc driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm.” . . . “ Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth.” And in this we have a practical illustration of the truth that results depend less on bulk than on the aiiaptation of means to the end. Bulk has less to do with the power of medicines than the patient’s condition. In a diseased state, the whole system is highly sensitive; and, what in health might be taken with little effect, in time of sickness operates with much force. For instance, a healthy man may eat apples, but a single anple might convulse the same man with spasms if ne were suffering from diarrhrea. To a person with brain fever, a little wine might firove fatal. It is upon this principle we may regu- ate the dose; it is found by experience, tnat, in most cases, comparatively small doses have curative power, and experience is the proper test. — Rud- dock. 10 Tun OLD SCHOOL HAS NO RIGHT TO BE RE- GARDED WITH CONFIDENCE, BUT CAN THE OBJEC- TIONS TO HOMCEOPATHY BE ANSWERED IN A SATIS- FACTORY MANNER? HOMCEOPATHY: “Lillie Pitln ” — " What u the basis of the system of homoeopathy? It is the law of cum; by similars. Every member of the allopathic body is making war upon the opposing school; they pro- nounce it an error, and term us quacks. And what do you suppose they attack? Is there a systematic effort to show that our law is untrue? No; all they attempt is to decry our “little pills.” This is then song, morning, noon, and night 1 These little pills 2oat before their vision. They see nothing else, and curse nothing else. But it is not these which is marching this round world over, and threatening the ancient school of medicine. The little pills are not an essential part of our enginery. Now let us exhort you. Be honest; do not, for honor’s sake, longer ridicule these globules! You know, if these were thrown away, homoeopathy would be just the same thing I If you would make war upon us, attack our great principle. There is nothing else worthy yout atten- tion. Because we have found it convenient to put our medicines on sugar, for you to make war upon that sugar, is too small business for such dignified men. YOU might as well, in making war upon republi- canism, pounce upon the paper whereon its laws are written. Suppose you could prove that the type were too small, or the books too small, would this really affect the principle of republicanism? Lin. J our>t. of Horn. 1852. ITS REASON. 11 “ It is impossible to Cure with Small Doses*” Had it been customary with the older surgeons to extract splinters from the fingers by pounding them with n hammer, and some one had ulti- mately hit upon the expedient of doing it with a needle, should we not have heard a great outcry against the innovation? Says the old orthodox sur- geon, “This sma'l-dose system has no efficiency. I have been pounding here for two hours, and the splinter has barely started. My instrument is efficient, as you have evidences in the bruises. Do you think to dislodge the splinter with your insig- nificant homoeopathic needle point? It is contrary to the experience of three thousand years; it is contrary to all analogy. I would as soon think of harnessing a musquito before my gig.” The sur- geon of the new school replies, “ Your instrument is ponderous and powerftd, but not efficacious. You might pound the patient to a jelly before the splin- ter would come out. If you happen now and then to hit it, you are just as likely to drive it in. My instrument is small, but effective. The whole secret oonsists in applying the force at the right point and in the right direction.” Allopathy applies Iter force at the wrong point and in the wrong direction : Homoeopathy applies hers at the right point and in the right direction. This right direction frotn the right point is the one reason why a small dose suffices. — Joslin. Like many other facts in nature the best answer to an objection is the fact itself. When the Atlantic telegraph was proposed it was supposed that an immense galvanic battery would be required to work it; but practical experience has taught the learned 12 electricians that a comparatively feeble current of low intensitvi with delicate indicators, is what they requite. Not a very long while ago, Dr. A. B. Gould, of Cambridge, telegraphed across the ocean with a battery consisting of a gun cap and a drop of ■water. How could it be done ? It was done. How can the weak battery be better? It is better. — y. B. B. Hahnemann was led to give the small doses only by observing that medicines given but slightly diluted, and according to the law of similars, caused first a great aggravation of the complaint before giving relief, until he gave them much diluted, when they cured without the violent aggravation. That there is medicine in homoeopathic preparations carefu.!y prepared, cannot be doubted, because they Cure. Mathematicians inform us, that in whatever num- ber of parts they may divide a substance, each por- tion retains a small share of the material. . . . There exist immense powers which have no weight, such as light and heat. — Hahnemann. How much of the measure of small-pox does it need to produce the disease, and how little of vac- cine to prevent it? What evidence of the senses, or what chemical test, or what microscope can detect the terrible particles which produce epidemic dis- eases, such as intermittent fever, and the plague? —Ehrmann and Sharp. Physicians of the old school have made observa- tions confirming the power of drugs highly subdi- vided, especially in relation to mineral waters. HOMOEOPATHY : Sept. 7, 1871, M. Davaine reported to the French Academy the results of twenty-five experiments upon animals, by which it appeared that dilutions of poisoned blood were invariably (in twenty-five cases) active even after dilution one trillion .imes. The mechanical division of gold is carried to an almost incredible degree; in gilding it may be divided into particles a thousand four hundred mil- lionths of a square inch in size, and yet possess the color and other characters of the mass. — /K. Sharp. Spectrum analysts lias discovered particles of metal in mineral waters, which were too small for detection by the analyses of chemistry; it also finds the atoms of metal in numerous highly potentized homoeopathic preparations. Why this minute division increases the power ot medicines has been explained by Doffler, a cele- brated mathematician (not a homreopathist). He shows, in his Essays on the Small and Great in Nature, that infinitely divided substances must necessarily act better than crude substances because of their increase 0/surface. Apropos to the Roundabout Method, in con- trast with the direct and minute. Drs. Rud- dock and Clarke compare this contrast with the story of the roast pig of the ancient Chinese, as told by Charles Lamb: — The narrator affects to have derived his infor- mation from a Chinese manuscript, wherein it is related, that, the son of a swineherd havinig acci- dental'/ set fire to their cottage, a litter of pigs ITS REASON. 14 perished therein. In handling one of these un- timely sufferers, the boy burned his fingers, and, to cool them, applied them to his mouth, and for the first time in his life—in the world’s life, indeed — he tasted “ cracklings.” The father met with a similar experience, and, being also delighted with the taste, kept it secret; but, from time to time, his house was burned. Finally, he was watched, ar- rested, tried, and, the jury accepting a taste of the roast pig, acquitted. But the secret was divulged, and nothing but fires were,seen in every direction, until at length a sage arose, who made the discovery that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked without the necessity of consuming a whole house I “And so long,” says Dr. Clarke, “ as ipecacuanha and tartar emetic are given in doses that vomit; mercury, till its poisonous influence is seen in the mouth; quinine, till there is a vertigo or delirium; strychnine, till there are spasms; arsenic, till the eyes arc bloodshot; and so on, as allowed by the regular practice, we may assume the allopathic art of cure to stand at an epoch corresponding to that marked in the art of cookery b) burning the house to roast a pig.” HOMCEOPATHY : But, now, is it possible for us to show the ground for the leading principle of our treatment? Like cures Like (Sirnilia Similibus Curantur). “ Ilow can this be true ?” Its truth is clearly shown by its success, and is, moreover, of easy and simple explanation. Hahnemann discov- ered this, the leading principle of our practice, by the following experience : — Hahnemann was engaged in translating into German,Cullen’s “ Materia Medica,” and was pro- ceeding in the article on cinchona, or Peruvian Bark. The speculations of Cullen, with regard to its mode of operation, suggested to Hahnemann the idea of testing its properties in his own person. He took the bark for several days. At length the sick- ening influence of the drug manifested itself in chills, followed by /ever. The admitted febrifuge qualities of cinchona on the one hand, and the sim- ilar disease that he was then suffering in his own person from its employment, struck lum as a singu- lar coincidence. He placed the two facts side by side. That the bark cures chills and fever is a fact too obvious to admit of doubt; and 1 am now suffer- ing chills and fever from its use.— Hay at. In accordance with his experience of cinchona, Ilahucmann found other drugs to act in the same manner by producing the symptoms in the healthy which they were capable of coring in the sick. He says:— Even in the practice of domestic medicine by persons ignorant of our profession, but who were gifted with sound judgment, it was discovered that this method was the most rational. A limb that is recently frozen is frequently rubbed with snow. A cook who has scalded his hand, exposes it to the fire at a certain distance, not heeding the increase of |lain which it at first occasions, because experience lias taught him that this course will cure the bum. Other observing persous — for example, the lacker- workers— apply a substance to bums which excites of itself a similar feeling of heat, that is to say, hot alcohol or oil of turpentine ; and an experienced reaper, however little he may otherwise use strong liquors will not drink cold water (coatrana can- trariis) when the heat of the sun has brought him into a feverish state, and therefore takes a small quantity of some warming liquor. And the writings of eminent physicians of all ages have contained rrs REASON. confirmations of this law of the relief by similars. John Hunter mentions the great inconvenience fol- lowing cold anplicatinns to burns, while he and Fernet., Sydenham, Kentish, Anderson, J. Belt, Zimmerman, and F. de Hilden, have advocated the application of heat in the conditions mentioned above. H ippocrates, esteemed for his subtile spirit of observation, “the father of all rational medicine,” living 450-301 B. C., says, in his “Aphorisms on Man”: “By the like from which a malady arises, convalcscency ensues. Strangury not existing is caused by the same by which it is stopped; and cough-like strangury is produced and removed by the same.” “ Administer to those who labor under melancholy the root of inandragora in less weight than what might create insanity in a healthy per- son.” “Like is to be expelled by its like, and not by its contrary; heat by heat, cold by cold, piercing by piercing; for heat attracts heat, cold attracts cold, as the magnet does the iron.” —Quoted by Bruckhausen. Paracelsus says, “It is a perverted method to give remedies which produce the contrary of a dis- ease ; remedies ought to be given which act similarly to it.” Stahl, the Danish physician, has expressed his convictions unequivocally: “ The wonderful effects of oil of vitriol, given in very small doses, cannot be owinjj to its composition, but to its adaptation to the disease on a different principle. I am convinced that the received method of treating diseases by opposite remedies is completely false and absurd, and that diseases are subdued by agents producing a similar affection. By these means I have cured a disposition to acidity of the stomach in cases where the opposite treatment had been used to no pur- pose.” The English “ Sweating-Sickness,” which ap- peared in the year 1485, was more murderous than HOMCKOl’Al 1IY : ITS REASON. 17 the plague. It destroyed at its commencement, as testified by Willis, ninety-nine patients out of one hundred, and could not be subdued till they had learned to administer sweating remedies. After that time, Sennertes says, few persons died from it. l)e Hale, Sarcone, and Pringle are authorities for the relief of pleurisy with Squills, which Wag- ner has seen to produce pleurisy and inflammation of the lungs. “ In citing these passages, I wish to free myself from the reproach of arrogating to myself the merit of the discovery.” —Hahnemann. And Hahnemann quotes hundreds of instances where medicines are used with benefit in the very diseases whose symptoms they produce in the healthy. To explain this, two things cannot be in the same place. The medicine displaces the disease, — and it can, because of its finely-divided state, which enables it to penetrate deeply into the organism ; which it does,as we know from experience. “ r«ttr Medicines are Violent Poisons.” — So some of them were before they were diluted. All drugs are poisons, but it is one peculiar glory of Homoeopathy that by manipulation those poisons are changed from death-giving to li/e-giving powers. We can thus use with safety many invaluable agents which allopathy dares not handle. We render them colorless, tasteless, odorless, poisonless, but experi- ence shows, net powerless. — J. B. B. “ Fou give Medicines made of Thing* which have no iil divined Action, — such ns Sponge and Salt.” — Which do you aver,— this or the preceding? ’* Hut Children often eat a whole bon of TJomoeooathic Medicines, and it does not hurt them an//.,> Yes, this is sometimes true, though usually some slight disturbance of health fol- lows, but what if it does n't ? The medicines were not intended to kill, but to cure. To homoeopathy, then, belougs another distinguishing glory that she has never killed anybody by mistake. How many precious lives do you suppose are sacrificed every year by mistakes of Allopathic druggists, physicians, and nurses? Hundreds, and perhaps thousands. By homoeopathy how many? Not one. — J. B. B. " Homoeopath// cannot be Trusted in Dangerous Diseases, and the Weakness of the Medicines adapts them onlg to Women and Children .’t This is untrue. While the practitioners of our school should avoid boastful assertions, we have reason to say that our remedies, when carefully chosen, act quickly in diseases of a rapidly fatal nature, and with no reference to age or sex. “ It is Nature which Cures.” — “The course of diet and general good care are so wise that they cure the patients; besides, I think they HOMOEOPATHY : get well tec Just they have tie medicine, for dosing is useless!” If this pi an cures, why docs not the old school adopt it, and cease — at least in the class of cases which they think cured by careful regimen — to use such duugcruus weapous? But is it diet which quickly relieves a distressing cough, quiets a dangerous iiillauunation of the heart, and makes comparatively harmless such diseases as croup, diphtheria, scarlet fever, dysentery, convulsions, aud saves a large percentage of the most terrible cases of the plague and cholera ? K*licrimcuti> have been made, showing hornceo- pathic treatment to be better titan treatment with diet alone. In the Irish famine of 184/. three classes of hospitals were instituted with the following results: Ordinary treatment—mortality, thirteen per cent j hnmizopntlnc treatment, two per cent; no medicine, but siuiuly cleanliness and good diet, ten per cent. Here the old treatment shows Itse'f to T>e worse than none by three per cent. The treatment of an epidemic of tvphus fever in iKit, by Hahnemann himself, is a prominent instance of this kind, where nearly two hundred patients were treated, without the loss of a single ease, at the time when an enor- mous mortality attended the mode of practice sanc- tioned by ages. — Kidd. ITS JtlsASO.N*. 19 '* Hiimtroimrhi-c C*r<» tiro from faith fit thn Trrutmmt.*.( it Where the sick are cared by the visit from the doctor, or by his saying lie can help them, lie who inspires this faith is a useful man. “ Faith” has 20 been so miseducatcd that the patient of the old school is led to place his faith in nausea and griping, which he is taught to believe are good for him, when he can have instead, under right treatment, quick relief without these unpleasant effects of his medicine added to the pains of his disease. To insist that it is faith alone which cures is, however, very silly, because the majority of our patients have resorted to us, at first, not only without faith, but prejudiced against the system. Our opponents furnish us an argument when they say, “The medicine is good only for children ” ; for an infant cares little what school of medicine has quieted his cries. 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