f ALLACIES AND CLAIMS ; 
A WORD TO THE WORLD 
ON 
HOMOEOPATHY. 
BY 
Dr. E. H. RUDDOCK. 
Reading, England, 
FIRST AMERICAN EpiTlON. 
C--S.-«AtSSY' 
Homoeopathic Pharmaceutist 
66 Lake St., Chicago, 111. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the 
year 1869, 
C. S. Halsey, 
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the 
U. S. for the Northern District of Illinois. 
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and envelope, requires only single postage.  anti (Claims: 
A OX j^OMCEOPATHY. 
FALLACIES. 
The following are some of the most common 
fallacies and objections prevalent in regard to 
Homoeopathy. An attempt is made to state 
them fairly and meet them fully, in the hope 
that conviction of the truth of Homoeopathy 
may result: 
I. “ Homoeopathic Medicines are do- 
nothinf/ remedies : they do neither good nor 
harm : bread-pills would do as well; in fact you 
cure by diet.” To the professional man who 
makes this statement I say, “Then go you and 
do likewise.” But first tell me what diet it is 
which cures Asiatic cholera ? and what system 
of hygiene is it that cures croup ? And, once 
more, tell me also, when you lose a case of rheu- 
matic fever, is it because you do not pay attention 
to diet and hygiene ? 6 
NATURE AND HOMCEOPATHY. 
Further still, we are told that recoveries which 
have taken place in connection with Homoeo- 
pathy were dependent on the unaided efforts of 
nature that our medicines were powerless in 
the matter. But in reply to that objection, I 
have just one thing to say: Given two cases of 
acute rheumatism, in all respects equal: you 
shall treat yours either on the real do-nothing 
system, or by diet, or by both; and I with our 
medicines, and my case will be convalescent 
some days before yours, and the sufferings will 
have been less. This is every-day experience. 
Y. “ Homoeopathy cures fry faith.” Now 
it must at once strike us here, that if this charge 
were true, still Homoeopathy is a very precious 
thing. We might naturally suppose that every 
one would prefer to be cured in this si mple way, 
rather than by unpleasant mixtures from an 
apothecary’s shop. Imagine, for example, that 
you had inflammation of the lungs; that the 
doctor told you it would cure you if you took a 
teaspoonfull of water, or looked every half hour 
in a glass; and that, beside, it were a fact that 
this would really happen if you could make up 
your mind to take him at his word. Imagine 
this, I say, and is it not certain that, like a 
sensible person, as you are, you would adopt this HOMCEOPATHY NOT FAITH. 
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treatment, rather than empty a dozen pill-boxes 
and four-ounce physic-bottles, and only the 
chemist knows what beside ? Of course you 
would ! It would not be your fault if your faith 
were weak ! 
But faith has nothing whatever to do with 
cures by Homoeopathy. For example our 
system is daily gaining ground with farmers, 
and is largely adopted in counties where cattle 
are bred and grazed. Who would be wild en- 
ough to say that the pig indulges in imagination, 
or that the sheep and cow exercise faith ? And 
yet hundreds of them have been cured by 
Homceopathic treatment. An ass in ancient 
time forbade the madness of a prophet; so in 
modern days, the brute, healed of its disease by 
Homoeopathy, is a standing rebuke to those who 
deny that our medicines exercise any power 
over the human frame. It may fairly be con- 
cluded that, if Homoeopathy can cure cattle, it is 
simply because there is virtue in its medicines. 
The same may be said in reference to infants, 
and patients in delirium, in the treatment of 
whom it is remarkably successful. Now, in 
view of this, the inference is plain. What is 
good forthe gander, is good for the goose. Since 
Homoeopathy can cure a calf, we may depend on 
it, ■> would cure even an Allopathic doctor, 8 
THE PRINCIPLE OF SELECTION. 
should he happen to be ill, in spite of his utter 
unbelief! In other words, it is wholly inde- 
pendent of the patient. Its innumerable cures 
are not the result of faith, but solely of valuable 
medicines applied by skillful hands. 
3. “ Homoeopathy moans small <l»sos.” 
Such an assertion is a great blunder. Homoeo- 
pathy is no more a pilule or globule than 
Allopathy is a pill. Were the Allopath to use 
drops and grains instead of scruples and 
drachms, he would be still an Allopath. Or, 
on the other hand, let the Homoeopath give 
ounces instead of drops, and he still would re- 
main a Homoeopath. Why ? Because Homoe- 
opathy is not quantity, but a particular principle 
of selection. Obviously, when a work is to be 
done, the most important thing is to use a proper 
tool; hence the common maxim, “The right 
man in the right place.” A drayman may be a 
big fellow, but no one would think of making 
him a cabinet minister on that account. A first- 
rate hand amongst the barrels, he would be a 
poor one in parliament. Just so, the grand aim 
of every doctor should be to find the medicine 
suited to the disease. He may make his choice 
on one of two principles : either he may choose 
a medicine which, in a healthy person, would UNMIXED MEDICINES. 
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produce symptoms contrary to or different from 
those which his patient has, or else one which 
in a healthy man would produce symptoms like 
them, if given in large doses. The first plan 
would represent Allopathy ; the second Homoe- 
opathy. The difference between the one and the 
other is not, as some think, in the use of differ- 
ent medicines; but in selecting the medicines on 
a different plan—the two plans being as far as 
the poles asunder. 
Homoeopathy learns how to restore the dis- 
eased by experimenting on the healthy. Now, 
Allopathy does the very contrary to this; and 
hence, by experimenting on the weak, it often 
kills them I 
Observe, too, this further consequence. The 
Homoeopathic doctor gives but one medicine at 
a time. But the Allopath may, and (witness 
his prescriptions) often does, give you half a 
dozen; hoping that, out of the number, one, at 
all events, will do! Thus, as a late physician 
to the Queen—Sir John Forbes—aptly expressed 
it, a number of drugs are left to “fight together 
in the dark ; ” some may hit the disease ; but it 
is not to he wondered at if some hit the patient 
also. Experience will teach you which system 
is best; is it, then, too much to ask you to put 
them to the proof ?  LARGE AND SMALL DOSES. 
4. ■* Small doses can not. work great 
cures.” You think so, do you? Hence you 
laug'h at a pilule, but praise a pill, and, forsooth, 
prefer a black-draught to either. Hence, too, the 
stronger the dose, the better the doctor, and the 
greater the hope. 
And so power depends upon size ! 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! 
But you are mistaken, friend I The smallest 
things are often most remarkable for force. The 
tinvwood-worm will eat up a man-of-war quicker 
than a whale would A spark will destroy a 
score of lives, or shiver a rock to atoms I Eigh- 
teen centuries ago, a wise man, noticing the 
remarkable power of little things, wrote these 
striking sentences : “ Behold the ships, which, 
though they be so great, and are driven of fierce 
winds, yet are they turned about with a very 
small helm. . . . Behold how great a mat- 
ter a little fire kindleth I 
And in this we have a practical illustration of 
the truth that results depend less on bulk than 
on the adaptation of means to the end. You 
would ridicule the mechanic who, when a small ADAPTATION. 
hole only was required, should use an instrument 
that would make a very large one; or when a 
small nail was needed, should require a steam- 
hammer with which to drive it. Is not your 
folly equal to his, if, when a small dose would 
cure you, you insist upon a larger one, simply 
because you think a large one would be more 
powerful, and hence more likely to rid you of 
your complaint ? 
Bulk has less to do with the power of medi- 
cines than the patient’s condition. And this is 
the best reply to our objector. In a diseased 
state the whole system is highly sensitive; and 
what in health might be taken with impunity or 
with little effect, in time of sickness operates 
with aggravated force. For instance, a healthy 
man may eat several apples, and not only be 
none the worse, but perhaps all the better* for 
them. But then a single apple might convulse 
the same man with spasms if he were suffering 
from diarrhoea. To a person with brain-fever, a 
glass of wine might prove fatal; while that same 
individual, when in health, might perhaps lake 
two or three without any perceptible injury'. It 
is hence very plain that medicines may be more 
potent to the sick than to the strong, and, there- 
fore, that a much-diminished dose may suffice. 
It is upon this principle we regulate the dose; 12 
POWER OF SMALL DOSES. 
it is found by experience that in most cases 
comparatively small doses have curative power; 
and experience is the proper test. 
A word or two here on minute doses, apart 
from any system of medicine. Professor Taylor 
would tell you that the quantity of carbonate of 
lead which produces colic and paralysis in 
workmen in white-lead factories is not appreci- 
able. Herapath also states that water containing 
the five-thousandth part of lead could not be 
used with impunity; while we have continued 
testimony to the fact that the emanations of 
arsenic from green paper-hangings are highly 
injurious. Why, then, should not the curative 
power of equally unappreciable quantities be as 
great ?■ 
“ A celebrated chemist tested some pilules of 
a dilution of Nux Vomica, and was unable, by 
his most delicate tests, to discover the presence 
of the drug with which they were medicated: 
ergo, the fact was accepted by many as proof 
positive that in Homoeopathic medicines there 
was no medicinal property ! But the most search- 
ing chemical analysis, we opine, would not de- 
tect salt in a solution of one part of the drug in 
a million times a million parts of water: yet we 
find that a solution containing only '000,000,000, 
000,000,455 of its weight of this salt ( Chloride SPECTRUM ANALYSIS. 
13 
of Sodium) nevertheless gives the characteristic 
line when tested by the spectrum !” * In nke 
ni;inner, nature is the best test for the efficiency 
of small doses. 
5, “ Homoeopathic medicines mahe no 
impression on the system, and therefore 
cannot do any good: they never purge, and, 
therefore, cannot effect that thorough clearing 
out of the system which is so frequently neces- 
saryP Then you suppose that the purgative 
runs up and down the system, catches up every 
particle of “humor,” “bad blood,” and the 
various agents which are supposed to make a 
man ill, dispatches them hastily into the bowel, 
whence they are promptly' discharged 1 Well, if 
this were not less than moonshine, it might be 
a beautiful idea. But what is the fact? Why, 
we find that those who, as theythink, most need, 
and therefore practice this clearing-put system, 
so far from having purity'of blood, freedom frPm 
humor, and perfect health, have the reverse. 
Homoeopathic medicines make no impression 
on the system! It is quite true in that seilse; 
mercury, given Homceopathically in curative 
doses does not impress its destructive element 
On the tissues of the body. And, pray, what 
* From The Homceopathic World, March, 1869. 
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SAFETY OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
impression does the body need ? None 1 It is 
the disease which needs to be acted upon and 
exterminated, not the organism which is so 
fearfully and wonderfully made. Here is the 
mistake which you have learnt from your doc- 
tors, who learnt it from their teachers, and they 
again from theirs. Allopathy has to weaken 
the patient in order to weaken the disease; to 
reduce'the patient before it can reduce his fever; 
and, alas! in too many cases has had to kill the 
patient before it could kill the disease. Is not 
this true? Is not the same principle acted upon 
daily. Yon know it is. And do not such tactics 
remind you of the man and his horse, whose 
cure of hunger was simultaneous with the death 
of the victim of his experiment? Homoeopathy 
does not affect the integrity of the body; but it 
does “ make an impression” on the disease. Its 
medicines are so prepared, and prescribed on a 
principle which is proved in every-day practice, 
and which you may any time prove for yourself 
to be sufficient to effect the good without harm. 
Apropos to the roundabout method we are 
just considering, I will give you a story by 
Charles Lamb, from which it appears that it 
used to be thought necessary to burn a whole 
house down to produce “ roast pig ! ” The narra- 
tor affects to have derived his information from a 
r CHARLES LAMB’S STORY. 
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Chinese manuscript, wherein it is related that 
the son of a swineherd having accidentally set 
fire to their cottage, a litter of pigs perished 
therein. In handling one of these untimely 
sufferers, the boy burned his fingers, and to coo] 
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 of the new roast, kept it secret; 
but as often as the sow farrowed, his house was 
burned. Finally he was watched, arrested, 
tried, and—the jury getting a taste of the roast 
pig—acquitted. But the secret was divulged, 
and nothing but fires were seen in every direc- 
tion, 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 vertigo or 
delirium: strychnine, till there are spasms; 
arsenic, till the eyes are blood-shot, and so on, as 
allowed by the regular practice, we may assume 
the Allopathic art of cure to stand at an epoch ALLOPATHY INJURIOUS. 
corresponding to that marked in the art of cook- 
ery, by burning the house to roast a pig-! ” 
But it is gratifying to find that the old plan is 
getting out of date; its advanced practitioners 
feel it to be so, and are seeking a better way, and 
many are, confessedly' or not, adopting Homoe- 
opathy. 
6. “ Homoeopathy uses deadly poisons, 
such as Arsenic, Deadly-nightshade, and 
Strychnine, and is an extremely danger- 
ous system.” By using this argument you 
mean to say that Allopathy is safe compared 
with Homoeopathy. But what does Allopathy 
use ? The very remedies it chiefly relies upon 
are such as those you have mentioned. And 
how do its practitioners use these virulent 
poisons ? Take mercury for instance. Kefer 
to any manual of the practice of physic, and 
you will find that mercury' is generally to be 
given until salivation is produced. But remem- 
ber this,that before mercury reaches the salivary 
glands it has to enter the blood, and course 
through the whole system, a portion of the 
subtle poison being left in various parts of the 
body, while the remainder rushes along with 
the circulation as if to be speedy in its destruc- 
tive work ; and all this—for what? To irritate HOMCEOPATHY NOT INJURIOUS. 
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the salivary glands till they pour forth their 
secretion profusely, poisoned as it is, in order 
to suit some theory about “ counter irritation.’’ 
Well, now, Homoeopathy uses the same drug, 
but in such diminished doses that, while potent 
to cure, slow poisoning is impossible. Which, 
then, is the most dangerous ? Let the numbers 
of people who are now suffering from chronic 
indigestion from the loss of their teeth, from 
mercurial tremor, paralysis, eczema, bone dis- 
eases, etc., which mercury has wrought for 
them, answer the question; and we will let this 
drug answer for the rest. 
7. “ But your •medicines are so long in 
taking effect Mistaken again, friend, for 
our treatment is quick in its effects, safe in its 
adoption, and pleasant to the patient. 
As to a small dose being longer in taking 
effect than a large one, if it be a curative effect 
you mean, then, I answer, Homoeopathic medi- 
cines act most quickly. And it is a grand 
consequence of the principle on which we pre- 
scribe our drugs, that the more acute the disease, 
the more readily is the medicine appropriated by 
the suffering organ; on the other hand, when 
the malady is chronic, the cure is proportionally 
slow; but under both conditions, is more rapid  HOMOEOPATHY AND CROUP. 
under medicines prescribed Homoeopathically 
than Allopathically. For instance, did you ever 
see Allopathy permanently relieve the spasm of 
infantile croup in less than an hour, conval- 
escence rapidly following, so that in a lew hours 
the babe was as well as before ? No, you never 
did, for there is nothing in the system to do it: 
but you have seen the struggles, and touching 
look of appeal of the helpless innocent, and 
heard its screams of terror, while nauseous 
drugs and torturing blisters have been adminis- 
tered in the attempt to relieve what 1 have 
repeatedly seen cured by one or two drops of 
medicine Homoeopathic to the condition, given 
at brief intervals. Look on this picture and on 
that; and be assured that other acute diseases, 
not only of infants, but of stalwart men, are 
equally amenable to Homoeopathic treatment. 
8. “ Hut Homoeopathy does not cure 
i-neryhrdi/.,> No, it does not prevent people 
from dying. “ I know that,” say you, “ for I 
had a friend who was given up by the Allopathic 
doctor and went under Homoeopathic treatment, 
but he died,” Likely, very likely; and I had a 
friend who, not being cured by Homoeopathy, 
tried an Allopathic doctor and was not cured by 
him. but died. Your argument might have DIED UNDER HOMCEOPATHY ! 
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some force if death were rare under Allopathic 
treatment. But. though such is not the case, 
people do not give up Allopathy because their 
friends die under it; they say, “ everything was 
done which could be done, but the disease was 
so deep-seated, or so complicated, that recovery 
was impossible.” Yet when recourse is had to 
Homoeopathy at the last moment, too late for the 
organism to respond, even to the gentlest treat- 
ment, then, forsooth, it is said, “ Homoeopathy 
was tried, but proved a signal failure! ” Of 
this, however, be assured, that the Homoeopathic 
treatment is more favorable to the prolongation 
of life and the alleviation of suffering, and in 
curable cases is more effectual in its results, 
than any other.* 
Another advantage is, that the Homoeopath 
suffers less frequently from acute diseases 
upon the old principle that a stitch in time saves 
nine and he knows the right kind of stitch 
too. 
* Several life insurance companies now in- 
sure at a discount of 10 per cent, from their 
usual rates, persons who employ Homcepathic 
practice—and it is proved that they can well 
afford it.  HOMOEOPATHY AND THE FACULTY. 
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0. “Homoeopathy may do for women 
(and children, but it is not adapted to the 
acute maladies of robust men.” How do 
you know ? Have you tried it fairly and hon- 
estly? giving to it a fraction of the space of 
time you have spent in trying Allopathy? No, 
you have not. Suffice it to say that there is no 
curable disease, however serious or complicated, 
in man, woman, or child, under whatever cir- 
cumstances, which is not more amenable to 
Homoeopathic treatment than to Allopathic. 
You regard it as a sort of pleasant fancy suit- 
able to amuse and interest those who are weak en- 
ough to believe it; its medicines being tasteless, 
or sweet and harmless, children are pleased to 
take them. True; and these are advantages not 
to be despised. The instinctive dislike of child- 
ren to Allopathic drugging is in itself a signifi- 
cant fact. - 
10. “ Hut if all that you say be true, 
how is it that the profession as a body does 
not adopt Homoeopathy ?” “ I will answer 
you this question,” says Dr. M. Granier, of 
•\ismes, in his admirable Conferences upon 
Homeopathy, “ when you have told me why 
truth is always persecuted, and every discovery EFFECTS OF OPPOSITION. 
21 
met at its birth by the monster of opposition, 
seeking to devour it. 
“ Homoeopathy is repulsed by the Academies; 
so much the better. It does but accomplish its 
destiny. If the Academies were the just pro- 
tectors of discovery, the simple fact that they 
condemn Homoeopathy would show that our 
doctrine ought to be considered the most bare- 
faced error. But as they endeavor to check all 
new ideas, and are the antagonists of scientific 
truth, it is an honor to be condemned by them. 
“There is no condemnation so terrible as 
silence. Nothing develops our strength like 
action. The footsteps of Homoeopathy outstrip 
the age—its portion is with the persecuted nov> 
(1S58), but the triumph of the future will be its 
reward.” 
Since Dr. Granier wrote the above lines, our 
science has made great progress; many eminent 
physicians have enrolled themselves under its 
banner; thousands upon thousands of sufferers 
have accepted it as their exclusive method of 
treatment; and in the very country of whose 
Academies Dr. Granier had so bitterly to com- 
plain, the government has lately appointed Dr. 
Leon Simon lecturer on Homoeopathy at the 
Sorbonne. 22 
EFFECTS OF OPPOSITION. 
Societies, and especially Medical Associations, 
only receive new doctrines, however true, when 
they can no longer be opposed to them without 
running counter to public feeling. 
in a few words I will now point out some of 
the claims of Homoeopathy on your confidence. HOMOEOPATHY A TRUE GUIDE. 
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CLAIMS. 
Homoeopathy is a true guide to correct 
treatment. The meaning of the word, em- 
bodied in the formula similia similibus curan- 
tur, is—“ likes are cured by likes.” Thus, if 
ipecacuanha in a large dose produce simple 
vomiting, it will cure when given in small 
doses, a similar simple vomiting arising from 
other causes. To know' what drugs are capable 
of doing, Homoeopathic physicians take them 
in large doses while they are in perfect health, 
and note their poisonous effects. When a dis- 
ease comes to them for treatment, they select 
from amongst the drugs they have thus tested 
or “ proved,” one which simulates the action 
ot the disease; and they find, by every-day ex- 
perience, that this is the rule which leads them 
to the most successful practice that was ever 
yet attained in medicine. It is not my place to 
ask how this is; it is enough that such is the 
fact. You may any day prove it for yourself. 
Hahnemann was the first to propound this rule 24 
PRECISION, SAFETY. 
or principle of drug-selection as adapted to uni- 
versal application in all curable diseases. 
The advantages accruing from the use of this 
therapeutic compass are immense; the physician 
is enabled to steer safely into the harbor of 
health without misgivings as to his course. It 
renders the practice of medicine more scientific 
than it could otherwise be. It is at once precise, 
effectual, quick, pleasant, safe, ami leaves no ill 
effects. 
Compare this with Allopathy. Allopathy is a 
ship without compass or rudder; its officers are 
divided in their tactics; its crew is unanimous 
only in its allegiance to the uncertain opinions, 
whims, and fancies of cue superiors, while the 
ship itself founders, leaks, is tossed about by 
billow after billow, and chances occasionally to 
run into harbor. 
The safety of Homoeopathy is self-evident. 
The danger of old physic is also apparent, and 
need not be enlarged upon here. 
The pleasantness of Homoeopathic cures is 
attested bv the conduct of the veriest infant 
when the medicines are administered to it; by 
children, who regard the means of restoration 
from their illnesses with pleasure; and by 
thousands of mothers, in the brevity of their 
children’s sufferings, and the absence of the PLEASANTNESS, AND EFFICIENCY. 
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necessity for any of the scenes so frequently 
witnessed previously in every nursery in the 
kingdom, when a little innocent was forcibly 
held by two or three persons, till some vile 
draught was poured down its throat by order of 
the doctor, who ought to have been present to 
watch the effects of such an outrage on the na- 
ture of the child. 
It may not be out of place if I plainly put be- 
fore you another—although a lower—argument 
in favor of Homoeopathy. 
It is cheap. Now, Ido not argue that the fee 
of the Homoeopath should be lower than that of 
an Allopath. Circumstances will rule this in 
many cases; superior skill will always fetch its 
price; it creates demand, and the demand may 
swell the fee. 
But Homoeopathy will affect your purse in this 
way. You will not be purged, nor bled, nor 
weakened by any such methods : consequently, 
your restoration will be quicker, for our system 
works a swifter cure, and does not leave you 
with a debilitated frame. This is most import- 
ant. With most men, time is money. Whatever 
shortens the duration of disease is therefore so 
much gain. Let the working man especially 
think of this! Length of illness is always a 
serious thing to him. Perhaps his employment 26 
ECONOMY OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
is precarious. Perhaps, too, he has a wife and 
family to keep. Besides which, no one, even 
though he may have a fortune, likes to be 
nursed, and dosed, and slopped longer than he 
can help. 
Lastly, Homceopathy is a tremendous fact. 
True, it has been laughed at, and still is. But 
what of that ? Everything worth much has, and 
this tells in its favor—not against it. Harvey 
was persecuted when he proclaimed the circula- 
tion of the blood, and Stephenson was ridiculed 
for the steam-engine. Who does not remember, 
too, how scientific breath not only tried to stop 
the locomotive, but also to put out the gas ? But 
for all that the engine moves, the gas burns— 
and, despite contempt, Homceopathy thrives. 
Seventy years ago Hahnemann planted the 
small but vigorous shoot, and now behold its 
roots spreading into all countries—its branches 
overshadow the whole earth. It is naturalized 
in Austria, Switzerland, Prussia, France, Italy, 
Russia, Germany, Spain, Brazil, America. In 
New York alone upwards of 400 qualified prac- 
titioners dispense it; in France about 300. 
In England several hundred medical men 
openly practice Homoeopathically, and the num- 
ber is daily increasing. “There is also a con- 
siderable number of men, of less moral courage, PREVALENCE OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
27 
who are secretly practicing the system, but who 
hesitate to avow their faith in it while it is only 
supported by a minority. 
“These medical practitioners and their lay 
supporters promulgate their principles through 
quarterly and monthly journals. There are also 
six Homoeopathic Medical Societies for scien- 
tific discussion; four hospitals ; seventy dispen- 
saries for the treatment of the poor—a very 
large amount of public and gratuitous work, 
when we consider that it has to be carried on by 
about three hundred practitioners. It offers a 
strong testimony in favor of their activity and 
benevolence.”* 
In the United States of America there arc 
nearly 5000 Homoeopathic physicians; six col- 
leges; several hospitals, and one or more free 
dispensaries in each of the large cities. 
Our system is confided in by all grades, from 
the cottager to the nobility of the land; cabi- 
net and prime ministers rely on it, and it is 
patronized by Royalty itself. 
In fact, in the words of the fiery orator of 
Carthage in his defense of the persecuted Chris- 
tians before the senate of Rome seventeen cen- 
turies ago, Homoeopaths may truly say: 
* From Dr. Bayes’ Homoeopathy in 1869. 28 
FINAL APPEAL. 
“We are a people of yesterday, and yet we 
have filled every place belonging' to you; cities, 
islands, towns, assemblies, your very camp, your 
tribes, companies, palaces, senate, forum ; we 
leave you your temples only.” 
Now, what I want you to do is this : To con- 
sider how great this system is; how rapidly it 
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Well! if you are sensible, I can tell you what. 
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