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IlB'r 4^.€IrOUDJMJ>,] I! HOMCEOPATHY: 
ITS DIFFICULTIES AND SOME OF THE 
PRINCIPAL ERRORS AGAINST IT. 
WITH 
HINTS ON DIETETICS, VIEWED IN RELATION 
TO THE LAWS OF DIGESTION; 
The Practice of Homoeopathic Medicine Simplified, 
ALSO, 
FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES, 
A HISTORY OF THE 
AND 
CINCINNATI HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL DISPENSARY. 
BY J. A. CLOUD, M. D. 
RESIDENT 
Formerly Surgeon of the First Division IlospjtaljSjixJhJA rfaiyjCj 
CINCINNATI: 
V. C. TIDBALL, PRINTER, f PwEST FO URTiT'ST'. 
1869. JiOyMCEOPATHY. 
PREFATORY NOTE. 
" When so much has been necessary heretofore, in cases precisely 
similar, how can such an imperceptibly small dose' have any 
effect?" is the question. This is a mighty objection to the un- 
thinking; and to clear away the rubbish of ignorance and mis- 
represesentation, and give truth a fair field, and to show the 
strength and truth of the system by pointing out some of the 
many difficulties it has already overcome, as well as to set the 
people-friends and foes alike-to thinking-for this is the only 
way of arriving at truth to one's own satisfaction-is the object 
for obtruding upon the public the poor efforts of an unskilled pen. 
IPtYIRT I. 
has had many difficulties to 
overcome, and many crosses to bear, since its 
S' institution, by Samuel Gottfried Ilahnneman, 
nearly a hundred years ago. The extremely radical 
change its theory taught, and practice wrought in 
the administration of drugs as remedial agents in 
disease, was, and is, its greatest obsticle. Added to 
to this we have systematic misrepresentation and 
ignorant misconception to contend with. 
To live is the strongest desire of the human heart; 
it is the foundation of all earthly happiness. With- 
out health, life becomes a burden, and no amount 4 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
of wealth, love, fame, power, and all other desirable 
earthly possessions, can bring us happiness; with it 
our greatest burdens are easily borne, and dark 
things seem bright. In proportion as life and 
health are dear and precious to us, will be our wari- 
ness in adopting any new mode of preserving, or 
restoring them; and especially so if this new mode 
be moderate in its pretensions, and modest in intro- 
ducing itself. 
This does not invalidate the saying that "the 
greater the humbug, the greater his success," for a 
time. There always have been, and it is to be feared, 
always will be, dupes enough, who forget that 
supernatural agencies have nothing to do with the 
every day affairs of our lives; that miracles are not 
of their day; to support the host of shameless un- 
conscionable traveling frauds, who profess, loudly, 
to make the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dumb 
to speak, the lame to leap and run, and to drive 
disease and death from their presence forever. This 
species of humbug is called upon, however, only in 
chronic and nondescript cases, where the "regular" 
physician has been tried and tried in vain ; he is 
tried only as an experiment, upon his own boasting 
recommendation. Of course he fails, he would 
have been very much surprised if he had not. His 
stay is short; he knew it would be; he had had his 
calculations made accordingly. Yes, your successful 
humbug is a sharp knave. lie knows his loud- 
mouthed pretensions cannot bear the test of time 
and trial-the two great friends and bulworks of HOMOEOPATHY. 
5 
truth, while they are the enemies and discoverers of 
falsehood. He knows a chimera will not stand. 
Being a wise knave, he knows himself and the 
weakness of his pretensions; he knows, too, the 
constitution of society ; he knows its wheat and its 
chaff. 
He makes much noise to begin with, and makes 
for himself of words a great reputation; he adver- 
tises himself, his wonders, his panaceas; he blows, 
and scatters his chaff broadcast, and it mingles with 
the chaff of society. After a sufficient blowing, he 
changes the current, and sucks, and the chaff all 
comes together, and is taken in. He makes money, 
which was his object; nor did conscience or self- 
respectstand in his way. But he is soon found out. 
As to reputation, he entered the large end, and must 
of necessity come out at the small end of the horn; 
pecuniarily, his dupes followed him. 
I do not propose here to give the history of the 
discovery and utilization of the law governing the 
Homoeopathic administration of remedial agents in 
disease. 
Not but that it would be well worth the reading, 
however, as showing the inevitable triumphal emer- 
gency of truth, clogged as it was by self-interest 
and thirty years of educated error, from the path- 
less labyrinth of dogmatic prejudice and bigoted 
intolerance; and the final triumph of its champion, 
by the raising of a monument to his memory, in the 
self-same town where thirty years before his house 
had been stoned, and he himself obliged to steal 6 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
away in the night, and all for the very same rea- 
son-advocating the cause of Homoeopathy. But 
is not this the history of all great and real discoveries? 
Nature's laws •will not be shaped and controlled 
by human prejudice and will; and, though Gallileo 
■was imprisoned, and his persecutors insisted on de- 
creeing that the earth should not go round: yet, still, 
no more nor less, we have our diurnal and yearly 
revolution. 
In, contradistinction from quacking, when a Ho- 
moeopathic physician locates in a community where 
the system has never been introduced, he unostenta- 
tiously opens his office, tacks on the shutter his un- 
pretending shingle, and sits quietly down to wait for 
patients, after having advised the people of his pres- 
ence; and exercises what patience he may have be- 
yond the possibility of dyspepsia in waiting, know- 
ing the power of truth, and having full faith in 
time and trial, he waits with assurance. He is 
scanned at first with a kind of wondering curiosity 
by those who have never heard of his kind before. 
By those who have heard just enough to render them 
wise in their own conceit, be is ridiculed, and his 
profession mentioned with scorn and a curl of the 
lip, born of ignorance by conceit. And by the "reg- 
ular" (self-styled) physician, he is forthwith pomp- 
ously denounced as a humbug. All this without their 
knowing anything comparatively of his school. No one, 
even when curiosity prompts, or when urged by the 
more potent desire, born of the hope, that some- 
thing may yet be done to restore failing health-no 7 
one, I say, cares to call down upon himself the 
anathema of Madam Grundy by being the first to 
try the "sugar pills" 
At length some independent individual, probably 
of New England extraction, a friend of progress, 
and who does his own thinking, and who knows 
that progress and novelty go handin hand, wanting 
to know for himself the truth or otherwise of these 
charges, seeks their sources. 
He asks the slanderers :-Is Homoeopathy a hum- 
bug ? " Why, yes." " How do you know ?" "Oh, 
there cannot be anything in it." "How do you 
know? have you studied it thoroughly? have you 
mastered its theory ? have you faithfully tried it 
practically? In order to try it fairly you must have 
spent years in its study, and have you done this ?" 
"No 1" "But don't you think it is unfair to condemn 
what you know almost nothing of?" Our friend finds 
be can learn nothing there, and his desire being 
stimulated by repulse, he determines to try it for 
himself in the first trifling ailment he may suffer 
from. The result generally is that he is made to 
feel its good effects, and is convinced and tells his ex- 
perience to others. 
It may be, however, as is too often the case, that 
fortune does not favor us with such a friend, and we 
must lay our foundation without his aid. Then we 
must wait until the novelty has worn off, when some 
poor sinner, suffering from a chronic disease which 
all the doctors within newspaper range had "hero- 
ically " but vainly attacked in turn, having probably 
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HOMOEOPATHY. 
heard that such men as Wm. II. Seward or U. S. 
Grant believed in and were treated by Homoeopathy, 
ventures in at our persevering Homoeopath's back 
door, (he is even yet in dread of Mrs. G.,) and asks 
if anything can be done for him. 
After taking all the morbid symptoms of the pa- 
tient, he generally finds a hydra-headed monster 
compounded of the original disease and a drug dis- 
ease corresponding to each course of treatment to 
which be has been subjected. Nothing daunted, he 
takes charge of the patient, and studies out his 
case. He is not satisfied to use the prescription of 
an hundred years ago, knowing that the same disease, 
so called, may assume a different form each year, and 
must be combated by a different remedy. He se- 
lects his remedy, (not a compound of half a dozen 
drugs of whose chemical effects, one upon the other, 
he has comparatively little knowledge). He selects 
it, too, with scientific precision, if he has made the 
best use of the means furnished by the Homoeo- 
pathic Law ; and administers it to the patient, who 
his sleeve" at its sweet diminutiveness, 
saying in said sleeve, " Ihave no faith." Thepatient 
is surprised to find, after taking a few doses, that he 
has been neither purged, vomited, blistered nor sal- 
ivated, nor poisoned in any way ; and is not sure that 
he will receive no benefit; because not having been 
made worse in any way, he cannot be made better. 
He forgets that medicine, as such, should never make ill. 
Notwithstanding his already weak frame has not 
been subjected to any of the above named wearing HOMEOPATHY. 
9 
processes, the patient, after a sufficient time, finds 
himself better; he has improved he knows not how. 
He has experienced no shock in any way, as has 
heretofore been his experience when under the 
hands of a doctor, and his bettered condition is un- 
accountable to him. 
It is so hard to get rid of old, even self-destruc- 
tive notions. He forgets that nature, in all of her 
progress, moves by imperceptible degrees-never by 
shocks-and in our best efforts we but imitate her; 
we can never set her a copy. 
The art of the physician is only to aid nature, 
either by stimulating the vital forces when they have 
been rendered torpid by some of the many perni- 
cious artificial habits of imperfect man, or by remov- 
ing obstructions that hinder their free action. When 
man presumes to do more than this, he gets beyond 
his light, and flounders in the darkness of ignorant 
presumption. Upon such cases the Homoeopathic 
physician must build his practice and reputation- 
cases the Old School have given up, many of which are 
incurable. And many are unjust enough to consider 
such cases a fair test of Homoeopathy. If it fails, 
they say: "Pooh ! there's nothing in it, we've tried it." 
Probably in a case of epilepsy or St. Vitus dance of a 
score of years standing. If he succeeds in spite of 
all, ten to one they say, "we would have got well 
any how." 
Another difficulty is, almost every family has its 
"family physician," in whom it has the most un- 
bounded confidence, and whose advice in relation 10 
to health, &c., is regarded as beyond question. His 
opinion is asked in regard to this new tangled doc- 
tor and his medicines, and of course being set in 
his own course, with his eyes closed to its precarious 
and unsatisfactory results, and that course being as 
different from the one in question as health is from 
disease, as up-hill is from down, as medicine is from 
drug poison, he ignorantly, though probably with 
honesty, asserts in substance, that Homoeopathy is a 
humbug; that all who practice or believe in it are 
either fools or knaves; knaves for knowingly prac- 
ticing a deceit, or fools for being deceived; and 
nine in ten of those thus instructed believe all and 
more. The tenth, who is the thinking one of the 
lot, resolves if he ever has occasion, in a mild case, 
to give this novelty a trial. Thus, the poor Ho- 
moeopathist has less than one chance in ten, even for a 
trial! It is well for him that he has the might of 
right on his side. 
Many reasons, potent with the ignorant, less so 
with the educated thinkers, are urged to support 
these decrees. First and most prominent, is the ob- 
jection of all our opponents, and even some of our 
friends, to the smallness of the dose. Taking allo- 
pathic practice as a criterion, our dose does seem 
very small. But the dose has nothing whatever to 
do with the law governing the Homoeopathic system 
of medicine, as comprehensively expressed by " sim- 
ilia, similibus curantur:'-"like cures like." The 
question as to dose is simply one of expediency- 
the large and the small dose advocates write and 
HOMOEOPATHY. II0MCE0PATI1Y. 
11 
speak forceable and truly in favor of their respec- 
tive notions and experience in practice. But' there 
is entire unity upon the fundamental law itself. 
All agree upon that, however widely they differ in 
regard to minor questions; just as the various de- 
nominations of the Christian church, while they 
unite upon Christ as their head, have various notions 
about modes and means. Yet some of the ablest 
men of this very intelligent community urge the 
smallness of the dose as an insuperable objection to 
the Homoeopathic _L«w. Why? Because, however 
bright they may be naturally, and however well 
versed in their own immediate calling, and in mat- 
ters of general interest and discussion, they are 
withal comparatively ignorant of Homceopathia pura. 
It seems to me presumptuous and unfair, to say the 
least, for such persons, who have the confidence of 
the community on other matters, and can therefore 
do the more harm if wrong, to condemn unreserved- 
ly, without first having acquainted themselves thor- 
oughly with its every part, especially anything-so 
important as a system of medicine, and that system 
believed in, sanctioned and adopted into their fam- 
ilies by a large proportion of their equals, in their 
own community, and by hundreds of thousands of 
the brightest men of this and other enlightened 
countries; and they having advantage, too, of prac- 
tical experiment; having seen and felt its good effects. 
Men do not, as a general thing, trifle with the lives 
and healths of their families. It is certainly assum- 
ing a grave responsibility without sufficient warrant. 12 
HOMEOPATHY. 
It would be scarcely less presumptuous for "Blind 
Tom " to criticize Michael Angelo's greatest efforts, 
or for a deaf person to pass judgment upon a sym- 
phony of Beethoven. For the sake of learning 
something, however, let us entertain this question 
of dose: We do advocate and use small-infinitesi- 
mally small doses; doses just sufficiently large to 
effect the cure, but leave behind no bad drug se- 
quelae. 
Our friends have approximated this desirable re- 
sult by patient, pure experiment, not for the purpose 
of bolstering up a pet theory, but that they might 
arrive at a very important truth. They began with 
the crude drug, but found in practice that the reme- 
dygiven in the gross material frequently aggravated 
the complaint, and that, too, in proportion as the 
drug symptoms, (discovered by experiment upon 
the healthy body,) more perfectly corresponded with 
the symptoms of the patient to whom it had been 
given. This led to the dfluting, potentizing or dy- 
namizing of the drugs, by means of penetrating 
non medical substances, and a more prompt cura- 
tive action was produced without the aggravation. 
By this means the 30th and higher potencies were 
reached, tried and found curative; not, however, with 
all drugs nor in all cases. Before pronouncing a dose 
too small to be of use because of its small- 
ness, one should know and be able to demonstrate 
precisely how and through what medium the vari- 
ous influences, curative or otherwise, act upon the 
human organism. HOMOEOPATHY. 
13 
But who knows this? The effects are patent to 
all : but who knows precisely how they are pro- 
duced ? If this action were chemical or mechanical, 
as the old school seem to suppose, we might learn 
approximately. 
But is it reasonable to suppose that the violent 
convulsions and death produced by arsenic poison- 
ing are the results of merely mechanical or chemi- 
cal action upon the stomach, bowels, or blood? 
Does it not seem as though there was some more 
subtle dynamic power at work, through the nervous 
system upon the seat of life. 
Who can explain that horrible disease, hydro- 
phobia, from its inception, perhaps months previous 
to the distressing convulsions and dreadful death ? 
Who understands andean tell us the mode of opera- 
tion, of distressing news, suddenly divulged, as it 
produces disease, even unto death? Life is, as yet, a 
mystery, even to the most advanced in knowledge. 
Discussion upon this subject, must, of necessity, 
therefore, be negative; and I will endeavor simply 
to show that the popular objections to Homoeopathy 
cannot be sustained. 
In answer to the small dose objection, it may be 
asked: How much of the hydrophobia poison could 
remain upon the tusk of a mad dog after having 
passed through several thicknesses of clothing, and 
in some cases the boot-leg ? Certainly sufficient to 
produce disease and death in its most terrible form! 
but could it have been seen, tasted, and felt ? How 
great a quantity of small pox virus adhered to and 14 
IIOMCEOPATHY. 
was carried hundreds of miles upon a note written 
in the room of the patient, but not by the patient 
himself? Enough to infect the distant recipient, 
to be sure; but was there any mechanical or chemi- 
cal effect? Still less material was there in the pain- 
ful emotion which induced disease and death, or, in 
the pleasurable emotion which restored health and 
strength ! How much less than our smallest dose 
was either or all of these-yet how decided their 
effects! 
Matter is indestructible, and if we have a certain 
amount of given substance in a vessel, and dilute 
this by adding, repeatedly, quantities of a penetrat- 
ing, non-medical material, which is known to pro- 
duce no radical change in the substance itself, but 
simply operates in dividing and sub-dividing its 
mass, thereby developing its latent power, as seen in 
the case of silex, salt, gold, graphite, charcoal, etc., 
which are inert in the crude state, but which tritu- 
ration and dilution render our most potent curative 
agents:, who shall say where the component parti- 
cles exist, and where they do not exist? Who can 
say that in each and every drop of the 30th or what- 
ever potency, there are not particles of this sub- 
stance. 
It being a scientific fact that matter'may be divid- 
ed and subdivided until the most powerful magni- 
fier known to art fails to discover the particles, what 
means have we of knowing when this subdivision 
ends, and when the ultimate atom is reached? Un- 
til this point be gained we may reasonably expect IIOMfflOPATnY. 
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action. Each subdivision but exposes more surface, and 
it is the surface only of a substance that acts upon exter- 
nal objects. Like a cubic foot of wood, for example, 
here we have six feet square of surface; saw it in- 
to inch slabs, and each division gives us two ad- 
ditional feet square of surface-twenty-four feet in 
all. Cut it now into inch blocks; this gives us again 
twenty-four feet additional of surface. Here we 
have added forty-eight feet of surface to the origi- 
nal six, without increase of bulk or material, and 
were this an odorous substance, just forty-eight 
times more of odorous particles would be given off 
than before the division. In short, whatever in- 
trinsic properties the substance was endowed with, 
would be increased just so much, and would con- 
tinue increasing as long as we should continue to 
separate the particles. 
But it has been shown that we are unable to know, 
even when our natural senses are aided by the finest 
power of art, when this subdivision ceases; there- 
fore it is absurd to say "it ends there," or "it is not 
here." When on exhibition it fails to produce its 
known legitimate effect, then, and not till then, 
may we deny or doubt its existence. 
In this manner each drug has been diluted to its 
highest effective point, step by step, until its cura- 
tive action ceased, the object being to find the smal- 
lest possible curative dose. 
As all drugs are, in a normal condition of things, 
in direct antagonism to animal life, and when in 
abnormal conditions they are needed to attack and 16 
HOMEOPATHY. 
drive off disease-a lesser evil introduced to expel 
a greater; just as war was administered to cure us 
of rebellion, as law was instituted to prevent crime, 
-why, the less we take, compatible with cure, the 
better. 
A grain of musk will scent a large room for years 
without sensible diminution of material; yet we 
know that material particles of that musk must 
have come into contact with our olfactory nerves in 
order for us to become aware of its existence. 
A drop of our highest attenuations would be 
massive in comparison; and if the effect is to be 
measured by the quantity of material, that would 
be proportionably great. All we can say about the 
matter only goes to show that the only satisfactory 
argument is practical experiment. We are eager 
for the test. 
Again : our opponents say, when we are success- 
ful, that our patients would have recovered with- 
out aid, and required only good nursing, or what is 
called the " expectant" treatment. This question 
had been unsatisfactorily discussed in the hospitals 
at Vienna, and resort was had to practical experi- 
ment, (a theory is of no use unless it can be demonstrat- 
ed practicallyin this wise : 
Three wards were opened in one of the Hospi- 
tals, into which patients were received alternately, 
without regard to ailment, for a specified time: one 
ward was placed under Ilomceapathic treatment, an- 
other under Allopathic treatment, and a third under 
the "Expectant." Statistics were kept of the mor- HOMOEOPATHY. 
17 
tality in these three wards. At the end of the 
term, a comparison showed that there was a larger 
per centage of deaths under the old school treat- 
ment than under the "expectant," and a larger per 
centage under the latter than under the Homoeo- 
pathic treatment. Facts are strong friends and, stub- 
born enemies! and these are public facts that cannot 
be gainsaid. They settle the question in dispute. 
Other facts and statistics speak loudly in favor of 
Homoeopathy, as contrasted with other schools and 
meet another objection to its use, viz: that the doses 
are too small to be of use in violent diseases, as 
cholera, small pox, malignant fevers, etc. It is in 
such diseases that she appears to the best advantage 
-though she does not receive the credit due her for 
destroying many of those pests in embryo, which, 
under other treatment, develop, grow to their full 
stature, {and higher from the weakening of their natural 
opponent, the vital forces, bg depletive treatment, and "run 
their course" 
Some years ago, wide-awake capitalists, in the 
life insurance business, in London, with nothing in 
view but the pocket and wherewith to fill it, be- 
thought themselves that it might be well 
into the results of the various systems of medical 
treatment as affecting life and health, and of course 
their business. They did so, and after a careful 
comparison of statistics, found the result would jus- 
tify them in assuring the lives of applicants treated 
by the Homoeopathic system at ten per cent, less than 
those treated by any other system; that these were 18 
IIOMtEOPATHY. 
less often sick, their attacks were shorter and less 
violent, and their general health was better and 
their average life longer. 
it Many companies have been started upon the same 
basis since, at least four of which are in the United 
States. One of these Companies says: 
"This Company has been founded with this name, 
andon this plan of discriminating in favor of a cer- 
tain school of medical practice, not merely in the 
spirit of partisanship, nor entirely for the purpose 
or with the expectation of making more money 
than by following some other system, or no system at 
all. 
" The motive is a higher one, and reaches farther 
than the triumph of a party, or the pecuniary bene- 
fit of a few individuals. Our purpose is to popu- 
larize the vitally important facts and arguments 
that have convinced us of the truth and the inesti- 
mable value of the Homoeopathic practice. We 
wish to show the people the dreadful consequences 
which flow, and always have flowed, to our race, 
from the universal use of drugs in great quantities, 
as administered in the old school practice. We 
wish to convince men and women that the new 
school administers no drug in such quantities as to 
produce the well known "drug disease." which an 
old English Allopathic (Dr. Farre) declared, com- 
prised "nine-tenths of all the diseases physicians 
were called to treat." We aim to teach that in- 
stead of bloodletting and dosing, the sick need to 
aid nature in her invariable efforts to restore health HOMCEOPATHY. 
19 
by removing all unfavorable influences, by eschew- 
ing whatever is unwholesome, breathing fresh air, 
and cultivating cleanliness and a cheerful spirit. 
These are part of the new system, and all good IIo- 
moeopathists teach them as conditions of a sound 
and comfortable life. 
"And in order to sustain our position, we exhibit 
the statistics, which have been carefully collected by 
both sides, of the results of their respective systems. 
"Besides these we point to the honest confession of 
those who, while still maintaining their relations to 
the old school practice, are too candid to deny what 
they can not but see to be true. 
"We content ourselves, of necessity, in this place, 
with comparatively few of the more striking statis- 
tics on these subjects, but at the office of the Com- 
pany we are prepared to present more at length the 
evidences of the great superiority of the Homoeo- 
pathic practice. 
" A writer in the Medical Times (England) says : 
'There is a wonderful difference between our treat- 
ing ourselves and the public. You seldom see a 
long line of empty bottles in a medical man's bed- 
room, addressed to himself. Many of our patients 
know that the drug-senJer is not the drug-ta/cer.' 
"This is a statement well calculated to awaken 
thought. Dr. James Johnson says: 'I declare it to 
be my most conscientious opinion, that if there 
were not a single physician (Allopathic) or surgeon, 
or apothecary, or man-midwife, there would be 
less modality among mankind than there is now. 20 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
"On the 4th of May, 1863, the Surgeon-General 
of the Army of the United States ordered calomel 
and tartar-emetic to be struck from the list of army 
supplies. 
"Dr. John Forbes, physician (Allopathic) to 
Queen Victoria, says that Nature often cures in spite 
of the doctor, and adds : 'things have come to such 
a pitch that they must either mend or end.' 
" According to Dr. Routh (a distinguished Allo - 
pathic physician) the statistics of diseases treated 
homceopathically and allopathically are as follows: 
DEATHS UNDER 
H0MCE0PATHY. 
DEATHS UNDER 
ALLOPATHY. 
Inflammation of 
the lungs 5 in 100 
23 in 100 
Dysentery 
3 in 100 
22 in 100 
Pleurisy 
3 in 100 
13 in 100 
Inflammation of 
the bowels 3 in 100 
13 in 100 
According to a document ordered, on 21st of 
May, 1855, by the House of Commons, to be print- 
ed, and which ought to be in the library of every 
Homceopath and every philanthropist in the world, 
the comparative death rate during the fearful epi- 
demic of Asiatic cholera, in 1854, was. under Homoe- 
opathic treatment, 16.4 in every 100 cases; while 
under Allopathic treatment the mortality was 59.2 
in every 100 cases. 
"Although the statistics relating to the treatment 
of Asiatic cholera at the Homoeopathic hospital were 
certified by Dr. Macloughlin, Allopathic physician 
and Medical Inspector of the General Board of 
Health, these statistics were suppressed by a joint homeopathy. 
21 
resolution of Dr. Paris, the President of the Royal 
College of Physicians, and the other members of 
the Medical Council. Lord Robert Grosvenor, 
(now Lord Ebury), aware that Dr. Macloughlin had 
inspected the Homoeopathic hospital in Golden 
Square, and observing that the statistics of this hos- 
pital were not included in the general returns made 
to Parliament, moved for 'copies of the returns that 
have been rejected by the Medical Council.' The 
motion was agreed to by the House of Commons, 
when the above revelation-astounding to those 
who were not previously acquainted with homoeo- 
pathy-was made. Dr. Homer pronounces this pro- 
ceeding on the part of the Royal College of Physi- 
cians, as a 'conspiracy against the truth and against 
humanity itself.' 
" The importance of Homoeopathy is not found 
solely in its tendency to lengthen life. Its effect in 
diminishing the frequency and duration of sickness, 
is of vast moment, especially to the working classes, 
to whom a lost day is a serious calamity. 
"By a careful calculation, giving every doubtful 
point to the Allopathic system, it is shown to be 
plain, that the habitual adoption of the II moeo- 
pathic system may be relied on, in the average, to 
save each of us from 394 days of sickness between 
the ages of 16 and 56, and from 1271 days of sick- 
ness between 15 and 85 years." 
"At St. Louis, in 1864, reports were made of the 
results of treatment in two hospitals, one of which, 
under Allopathic management, treated 990 patients 22 
HOMCEOPATIIY. 
for all sorts of ailments, and lost 120, or a little over 
12 per cent; while the other, under Homoeopathic 
charge, treated 883 cases of the same diseases, but 
lost 5, or six tenths of one per cent. 
Average length of time in Allopathic hospital, 
Nineteen Days: in the Homoeopathic, Twelve Days. 
These facts naturally lead to the startling question: 
If the homoeopathic physician does nothing, what 
in the name of suffering humanity, does the Allo- 
pathist accomplish, according to their own showing? 
In the same breath that they say Ilomoepathy is 
nothing, that "there's nothing in it, that it can effect 
nothing," they acknowledge, especially those in the 
large cit.es, where are our best representatives, and 
■where the practice has made such inroads upon the 
old school as to command their unwilling respeet and 
attention, that it is owing to theexample of Homoeo- 
pathy that bleeding was discarded as barbarous and 
inexcusable; that their dose of crude drugs were re- 
duced from twenty, thirty, or fifty grains, to one, five, 
or ten. Although there are still legions of practi- 
tioners in the old school who bleed, and who measure 
out their drugs on the (to their minds) good old way of 
a hundred years ago, still, in the best Allopathic 
Colleges in Philadelphia or New York, a student 
will not be granted the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
cine who advocates bleeding. These are certainly 
radical changes-great results; and, though a mira- 
cle has not been wrought, they have come of nothing 
-or Homoeopathy I HOMEOPATHY. 
23 
Many honest and intelligent persons object to the 
system because, they say, "its practitioners are not 
educated as thoroughly as those of the old school; 
they were never taught, have never learned, and 
know nothing about surgery, anatomy, physiology, 
and obstetrics; all they know is to retail out little 
pellets, in accordance with the prescription of the 
little 'domestic physician,' written only for family 
use." To be sure there are many quacks-self- 
styled doctors-flourishing under the wing of Ho- 
moeopathy, but for which she is no more responsi- 
ble than is the Christian church for depradations 
of the wolves in sheep's clothing that operate 
among her members. The very fact that many of 
these illiterate ignoramuses'(and I am sorry to say 
we have by far too large a number of them here in 
our very midst) are eminently and undeniably suc- 
cessful, is a potent argument in favor of the system ? 
for if such good success attends its ignorance-clog- 
ged administration, how much better results may we not 
hope for with educated intelligence at the helm? If hav- 
ing quacksand boobies sailing under its colors, con- 
demns a system, what, long ere this, would have 
been the fate of Allopathy, which has the obloquy 
of a hundred such to bear for each one that Homoe- 
opathy suffers for. A mill-stone about her stiff 
neck would not sink her half as deep. 
I would, however, inform such as hold this objec- 
tion, that we have Colleges-chartered institutions, 
with a1! the privileges of the University of Penn- 
sylvania-in which all branches pertaining to a 24 
HOMEOPATHY. 
medical and surgical education are as thoroughly 
taught as in either of the above institutions; and 
by men whose knowledge, intelligence and experi- 
ence, conscience-guided, as made public in their 
medical writings and in the lecture room, are second 
to none in the land. 
We have at least eight of these institutions in 
the United States, and their attendants are increas- 
ing in numbers and intelligence every year, notwith- 
standing our enemies say, in the face of every item 
of true evidence bearing upon the question, that 
Homoeopathy is dying out. It may not be increas- 
ing as fast as it might, for want of physicians to sup- 
ply the demand, but that it is dying out is unwar- 
rantably false. On the contrary it is steadily and 
rapidly on the increase, despite the mass of bigoted 
and unscrupulous opposition. 
Homoeopathy is not yet fully developed, and is of 
course far from perfect, but it is only the imperfec- 
tion of the child as compared with the man in his 
prime-a lack which time will supply. 
There is a wholesome revolution going on as well 
in medicine as in other matters important to hu- 
manity ; and the time will come when crude drugs, 
lancets, setons, &c., will be almost unknown as re- 
medial agents in the sick room; when all conscien- 
tious and intelligent practitioners will stand upon 
the same scientific and comparatively sure basis, and 
come out from groping in the darkness, or an end- 
less agglomeration of disconnected, disorderly and 
questionable assertions of the experiences of their HOMCEOPATHY. 
25 
preceptors, grand, great-grand, great-great-grand 
preceptors, which afford so little satisfaction to 
themselves, and so much misery, with little relief, to 
their patients. 
The time will come when the only difference be- 
tween the schools will be in name, and "there's 
nothing in a name." But there may be in the idea 
it conveys; and time often loses the name in the 
idea. Thus, Nero expresses to-day as much the 
idea of cruelty as it does the name of an individual. 
" Judas" presents to our minds the idea of selfish 
treachery as readily as it does the name by which a 
certain man was known in history. And "Hahne- 
mann,"a name that shall live until is heard the death 
knell of disease itself, will present to the minds of 
generations yet unborn, not only the image of a di- 
vine old man, with bent and thoughtful brow, toil- 
ing in want and exile for the development of a na- 
tural law to guide us in the healing art; but it will 
also call to mind more strongly the idea of the in- 
ception of a God-sent revolution in the practice of 
medicine that has stripped disease of its terrors, and 
robbed afflicted man of half the ills his flesh is 
heir to. 
" The feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms, 
On some tall light-house dash their little forms, 
And the rude granite scatters for their pains- 
Those small deposits which were meant for braiH$ 
Yet, the proud fabric in the morning sun 
Stands all unconscious of the mischief done; 
Still the red beacon pours its evening rays 26 
HOMOEOPATHY, 
For the lost pilot with as "broad a blaze; 
Nay, shines all radiances o'er the scattered fleel 
Of gull and boobies, brainless at its feet. 
" See, where aloft its hoary forehead rears 
The towering pride of twice a thousand years 1 
Far, far below the vast incumbent pile 
Sleeps the broad rock from art's JEgean isle; 
Its massive courses, circling as they rise, 
Swell from the waves, and mingle with the skies ; 
There every quarry lends its marble spoil, 
And clustering ages blend their common toil. 
The Greek, the Roman reared its mighty walls, 
The silent Arab arched its mystic balls ; 
In that fair niche, by countless billows laved, 
Trace the deep lines that Sydenham engraved, 
On yon broad front that breast the changing swell; 
Mark where the pondrous sledge of Hnnter fell, 
By that square buttress where Louis stands, 
The stone yet warm from his uplifted hands, 
And say, O! Science, shall thy life-blood freeze, 
"When fluttering folly flaps on walls like these.. 
"Yes, here, 'Aloft its hoary forehead rears 
This towering pride of twice a thousand years ;' 
The work of Grecian, Roman, Arab hands, 
(Where Hunter, Sydenham wrought, where Louis stands,) 
Above the reefs that wreck the human race, 
It sheds its beacon rays-to mark the place ; 
From jaggard rock and yawning quicksand-grave, 
Gleaming to warn-but impotent to save. 
"Around this towering pile so proud and old, 
The countless wrecks of hapless men behold, 
Who, pressed by blinding storm and tossed by wave. 
Fled to the light for help and found-a grave. 
Yet 'the proud fabric in the morning sun, 
Stands all unconscious of the mischief done.' HOMCEOPATHY. 
27 
"No trusty pilot, though most sore bested, 
Would this way turn for aid his vessel's head, 
But, hauling off and tautening every brace, 
Prefer the winds' and ocean's worst, to face, 
To sink, if must be, or a hulk to swim; 
But shun, at any risk, this light-house grim. 
"This boastful science of two thousand years, 
Which mocks men's hopes and doubles all their fears; 
Traces their maladies with fingers sure, 
Shows how and why they die-but cannot cure- 
Who seek its portal, hoping cure thereat, 
Are 'gulls and boobies,' and deserve their fate 1" PART II. 
2he Principles of Pietetics Viewed in Pela 
lion lo the Paws of Pig es lion. 
THE TWELVE GOLDEN RULES, 
Which should be observed by every body, but more particularly 
by persons who are under Homoeopathic Treatment, or 
who habitually resort to it in sickness, or gene- 
rally favor the Homoeopathic doctrines 
and mode of practice. 
In all acute diseases, the diet and general treat- 
ment of the patient is, of course, strictly regulated 
by the attending physician or nurse, agreeably to 
the exigencies of the case; the following rules are 
designed only for persons in health, or for chronic 
patients whose general health seems satisfactory, or 
for all those -who are not obliged, by particular cir- 
cumstances, to deviate from them. HOMEOPATHY. 
29 
RULE I. 
Rise early, and make it a point to retire at ten 
o'clock; seven hours'sleep should suffice; although 
less may do in some cases, and, in others, more may 
be required. 
RULE II. 
Wash your whole body from head to foot, with 
cold water, every morning, winter and summer, im- 
mediately after leaving the bed; and rub yourself 
well with a flesh-brush or coarse towel, immediately 
after washing. 
rule in. 
Never sleep in a warm room, or in a room that has 
not been properly ventilated in the day-time. 
RULE IV. 
Never sit or sleep in a draught of air; this rule is 
almost universally violated, but a draught of air is 
generally hurtful, more in one case than in another, 
and more especially when persons are over-heated, 
or covered with perspiration. 
rule v. 
Dress according to the season ; but be careful not 
to leave off your winter clothes before the warm 
weather has fairly set in. This rule should be par- 
ticularly observed by persons who are subject to sore 
throat, bronchitis, chronic cough, and such like 
weaknesses. 30 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
RULE VI. 
Avoid all kinds of heavy and indigestible food, 
such as rich pastry, fat, heavy farinaceous diet, warm 
bread, spices, mustard, pepper, etc. 
RULE VII. 
Avoid all stimulating drinks, brandy, beer, wine, 
and content yourself with cold water, milk, light 
and unspiced chocolate, weak black tea, and syrups 
made of currants, raspberries, strawberries, or other 
kinds of wholesome and unmedicinal fruit. Never 
use tobacco in any shape, except for medicinal pur- 
poses. 
RULE VIII. 
Never keep on wet or damp clothes, stockings, 
etc., and never sleep on damp sheets. 
RULE IX. 
Do not expose yourself to keen, sharp winds, and 
avoid the raw and damp evening air. 
rule x. 
Live as nearly as possible in the same tempera- 
ture ; keep your room moderately warm, and make 
it a point never to sit near the tire. 
RULE XI. 
Eat your meals at regular hours; eat slowly; 
chew every mouthful well, and do not swallow it 
until it is properly mixed up with saliva. If possi- HOMOEOPATHY. 
31 
ble, take about an hour for each meal, and never 
eat so much as to leave the table with a sense of re- 
pletion and oppression ; do not forget to clean your 
teeth with a soft tooth-brush after eating, and never 
indulge in the abominable habit of picking them. 
RULE XII. 
Avoid every kind of food or drink which natu- 
rally disagrees with you; take a little exercise in the 
open air every day, but not in any kind of weather ; 
select particularly fine, bracing or balmy weather 
for a walk or ride; exposure to rainy, windy, raw 
or damp weather never does any body any good. 
TABLE SHOWING THE MEAN TIME OF DIGESTION OF THE 
DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF DIET. 
Articles of Diet. 
Mode of 
Preparation. 
Time required 
for Digestion. 
H. M. 
Rice . 
....Boiled 
1 
Sago 
.... Do. 
1 45 
Tapioca 
.... Do. 
2 
Barley . 
.... Do. 
2 
Milk ,. 
.... Do. 
2 
Ditto 
. ...Raw 
2 15 
Gelatine 
....Boiled 
2 30 
Pigs' feet, soused 
.... Do. 
1 
Tripe, soused 
.... Do. 
1 
Brains 
.... Do. 
1 45 
Venison steak > „ 
.......... 
....Broiled 
1 35 
Spinal marrow. 
....Boiled 
2 40 
Turkey, domestic 
.... Roasted 
2 30 
Do. do. 
.... Boiled 
2 25 
Do. Wild 
....Roasted 
2 18 
Goose 
.... Do. 
2 30 
Pig, sucking 
.... Do. 
2 30 
Liver, beefs, fresh 
....Broiled 
2 
Lamb, fresh . 
.... Do. 
2 30 32 
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Chicken, full-grown Fricassee 2 45 
Eggs, fresh Hard boiled 3 30 
Do. do Soft do. 3 
Do. do Fried 3 30 
Do. do Roasted 2 15 
Do. do Raw 2 
Do. whipped Do. 1 30 
Custard Baked 2 45 
Codfish, cured, dry Boiled 2 
Trout, Salmon, fresh Do. 1 30 
Do. do Fried 1 30 
Bass, striped, fresh Broiled 3 
Flounder, do Fried 3 30 
Catfish, do Do. 3 30 
Salmon, salted Boiled 4 
Oysters, fresh Raw 2 55 
Do. do Roasted 3 15 
Do. do Stewed 3 30 
Beef, fresh, lean, rare ....Roasted 3 
Do. do. dry Do. 3 30 
Do. steak Broiled 3 
Do. with salt only Boiled 2 45 
Do. with mustard, &c Do. 3 30 
Do. fresh, lean Fried 4 
Do. old, hard, salted Boiled 4 15 
Pork-steak Broiled 3 15 
Pork, fat and lean Roasted 5 15 
Do. recently salted Boiled 4 30 
Do. do Fried 4 15 
Do. do Broiled 3 15 
Do. do. Raw 3 
Do. do. Stewed 3 
Mutton, fresh Roasted 3 15 
Do. do Broiled 3 
Do. do Boiled 3 
Veal, fresh Broiled 4 
Do. do Fried 4 30 
Fowls, domestic .....Boiled 4 
Do. do Roasted 4 
Ducks. do Do. 4 
Do. wild Do. 4 30 
Suet, beef, fresh Boiled 5 3 
Suet, mutton Do. 4 30 
Soup, beef, vegetables and bread Boi'ed 4 
Do. marrow-bones Do. 4 15 
Do. beans Do. 3 
Do. barley Do. 1 30 
Do. mutton Do. 3 30 HOMEOPATHY. 
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Butter Melted 3 30 
Cheese, old, strong Raw 3 30 
Green corn and beans ....... Do. 3 45 
Chicken soup Boiled 3 
Oyster soup Do. 3 30 
Hash, meat and vegetables .....Warmed 2 30 
Sausage, fresh Broiled 3 20 
Heart, animal Fried 4 
Tendon Boiled 5 30 
Cartilage Do. 4 15 
Aponeurosis Do. 3 
Beans, pod Do. 2 30 
Bread, wheaten, fresh Baked 3 30 
Do. corn Do. 3 15 
Cake, do Do. 3 
Do sponge Do. 2 30 
Dumpling, apple Boiled 3 
Apples, sour and hard Raw 2 50 
Do. do. mellow Do. 2 
Do. sweet do Do. 1 30 
Parsnips Boiled 2 30 
Carrot, orange Do. 3 15 
Beet Do. 3 45 
Turnips, flat Do. 3 30 
Potatoes, Irish Do. 3 30 
Do. do Roasted 2 30 
Do. do Baked 2 30 
Cabbage, head Raw 2 30 
Do. with vinegar Do. 2 
Do. do. Boiled 4 30 
This table is very interesting, but the results must 
not be too much relied upon, or regarded as repre- 
senting X\iQuniform rate of digestibility. 
THE APPETITES. 
HUNGER AND THIRST, WHAT THEY ARE. 
It is needless to waste words in attempting to de- 
scribe what hunger and thirst are; every one has 
felt them, and no one could understand them with- 34 
HOMEOPATHY. 
out such experience, any more than sweetness or 
sourness could be understood without tasting sweet 
or sour objects. Their end is manifestly to proclaim 
that farther nourishment is required for the support 
of the system, and our first business is therefore to 
explain their nature and seat, in so far at least as a 
knowledge of these may be conducive to our wel- 
fare. 
The sensation of hunger is commonly referred to 
the stomach ; and that of thirst, to the upper part 
of the throat and back of the mouth, and correctly 
enough to this extent, that a certain condition of 
the stomach and throat tends to produce them. 
But in reality, the sensations themselves, like all 
other mental affections and emotions, have their 
seat in the brain, to which a sense of the condition 
of the stomach is conveyed through the medium of 
the nerves. In this respect, appetite resembles the 
senses of seeing, hearing and feeling, and no greater 
difficulty attends the explanation of the one than 
the others. Thus, the cause which excites the sen- 
sation of color, is certain rays of light striking up- 
on the nerve of the eye; and the cause which excites 
the perception of sound, is the atmospherical vibra- 
tions striking upon the nerve of the ear; but the sen- 
sations themselves take place in the brain, to which, 
as the organ of the mind, the respective impressions 
are conveyed. 
In like manner, the cause which excites appetite 
is an impression made on the nerves of thestomach ; 
but the feeling itself is experienced in the brain, to IIOMCEOPATHY. 
35 
which that impression is conveyed. Accordingly, 
just as in health, no sound is ever heard except when 
the external vibrating atmosphere has actually im- 
pressed the ear, and no color is perceived unless an 
object be presented to the eye ; so is appetite never 
felt, except when, from want of food, the stomach 
is in that state which forms the proper stimulus to 
it, and the brain is left free and unobstructed. 
But as in certain morbid states of the brain and 
nerves, voices and sounds are heard, or colors and 
objects are seen, when no external cause is present 
to act upon the ear or the eye, so, in disease, a 
craving is often felt when no real want of food ex- 
ists, and where, consequently, indulgence in it can be 
productive of nothing but mischief. Such an aber- 
ration is common in nervous and mental diseases, 
and not unfrequently adds greatly to their severity 
and obstinacy. 
In indolent, unemployed persons, who spend their 
days in meditating on their own feelings, this crav- 
ing is very common, and from being regarded and 
indulged in as if it were a healthy appetite, is pro- 
ductive of many dyspeptic affections. 
It is, then, no idle whim of the physician to insist 
on active exercise as the best promoter of appetite 
and digestion. Exercise is, in fact, the condition 
without which, exhalation and excretion can not go 
on sufficiently fast to clear the system of materials 
previously taken in, and when no waste is incurred 
there is no need of a fresh supply, and consequently, 
in a healthy state of the system, no natural appetite 36 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
can exist. It is therefore not less unreasonable than 
vain for any one to insist on possessing, at the same 
time, the incompatible enjoyments of luxurious in- 
dolence and a vigorous appetite, sound digestion of 
a hearty meal and general health of body, and no one 
who is aware of the relation subsisting between 
waste and appetite can fail to perceive the fact, and 
to wonder at the contrary notion having ever been 
entertained. 
Appetite, it ought to be observed, may, like other 
sensations, be educated or trained to considerable 
deviations from the ordinary standard of quantity 
and quality, and this obviously for the purpose of 
enabling man to live in different climates and under 
different circumstances, and avoid being fixed down 
to one spot and to one occupation. 
The most common source, however, of the errors 
into which we are apt to fall in taking appetite as 
our only guide, is unquestionably the confounding 
of appetite with taste, and continuing to eat for the 
gratification of the latter long after the former is 
satisfied. In fact, the whole science of a skillful 
cook is expended in producing this willing mistake 
on our part, and he is considered decidedly the best 
artist whose dishes shall recommend themselves 
most irresistibly to the callous palate of the gour- 
mand, and excite in it such a sensation as shall at 
least remind him of the enviable excellence of a na- 
tural appetite. If we were willing to limit the of- 
fice of taste to its proper sphere, and to cease eating 
when appetite expressed content, indigestion would HOMEOPATHY. 
37 
be a much rarer occurrence in civilized communities 
than it is observed to be. 
Thirst, like appetite for food, is intended to di- 
rect us when and in what quantity we ought to drink; 
and so long as we confine ourselves to the fluids 
with which nature provides us, there is little chance 
of our going far wrongby listening to its calls. But 
when we come to the use of fermented and stimula- 
ting liquors, which excite a thirst not recognized 
by nature, the principle ceases to operate. 
Times of Eating.-If we look to the exposition 
of the objects of eating already given in treating of 
appetite, it will be obvious that nature intended us 
to regulate our meals by the demands of the system, 
and not to eat at stated hours as a matter of course, 
whether nourishment were required or not. If we 
are engaged in exercise which induces a rapid ex- 
penditure of material, or if growth is going on so 
rapidly as to require unusually ample supplies, food 
ought to be taken both more frequently and in 
larger quantity than when we are differently circum- 
stanced ; or in other words, food ought to bear a rela- 
tion to the mode of life and circumstances of the individ- 
ual, and not be determined by a reference to time 
alone. 
As a general rule, five or six hours should elapse 
between one meal and another-longer if the mode 
of life be indolent-shorten if very active. Diges- 
tion occupies from three to four or five hours, and 
the stomach requires an interval of rest after the 
process is finished, to enable it to recover its tone 38 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
before it can again enter upon the vigorous perform- 
ance of its function. Appetite, accordingly, does 
not begin to show itself till some time after the 
stomach has been empty, and if food be taken be- 
fore it has recovered its tone, the secretion of gastric 
juice and the contracting of its muscular fibers are 
alike imperfect, and digestion consequently becomes 
impaired. 
The interval between each meal ought to be longer 
or shorter in proportion to the quantity eaten, and 
to the more or less active habits of the individual; 
and it would be absurd to fix the same standard for 
all. A strong, laboring man, whose system is sub- 
jected to great waste from being engaged all day in 
hard work, will require not only more frequent, but 
more copious meals than an indolent and sedentary 
man, and those who eat very little will require to eat 
at shorter intervals than those whose meals are 
heavy. 
Nature, then, has fixed no particular hours for eat- 
ing, but has left us to adapt our regimen to our re- 
spective ages, constitutions and modes of life. 
Where the mode of life is uniform, fixed hours may 
be adopted; where it is irregular, we ought to be 
guided by the real wants of the system as indicated 
by appetite. 
According to this principle, meals ought to be 
early or late in proportion to the habits of the indi- 
vidual. If, adhering to the order of nature, we 
work by day and sleep by night, then early break- 
fast, early dinner, and an early evening meal, will IIOMCEOPATIIY. 
39 
undoubtedly be the most conducive to sound diges- 
tion and the enjoyment of health. But if, against 
the laws of nature, we rise from bed late in the fore- 
noon, reserve our activity till late in the afternoon, 
and do not go to sleep till two or three hours before 
daybreak, then, assuredly, the late breakfast and 
dinners of the fashionable society of the present 
day are the best for our comfort that can be devised, 
and the chief error lies in the practice of those who, 
while they in other respects live in conformity with 
nature, adopt the hours which are suitable for those 
only who turn night into day, and day into night. 
The proper time for taking breakfast depends a 
good deal on the individual, constitution and mode 
of life. Those who eat supper ought not to break- 
fast till one or two hours at least after rising, but 
persons who dine late and eat nothing afterward, 
require breakfast sooner. 
Individuals of a delicate frame are often unable 
for either bodily or mental exertion in the morning, 
and are invariably injured by any attempt at exer- 
cise or serious thinking before breakfast. Experi- 
ence is the only sure guide in such cases, but, as a 
general rule, breakfast about half an hour or an 
hour after rising, will be found most benefical, and 
those who rise very early will do well to follow the 
French custom of taking a small cup of coffee or 
tea and bread on getting up, and reserve their ap- 
petite for a more substantial breakfast three hours 
later. 
Thia is an invaluable rule for students, who often 40 
HOMEOPATHY. 
seriously impair their digestive functions by study- 
ing for hours in the morning, regardless of the 
craving of the system for nourishment and support. 
If exposure of any kind is to be incurred in the 
morning, whether to the weather or to the causes of 
disease, it becomes a matter of much importance 
that breakfast should be taken previously. 
It is well known that the system is more suscep- 
tible of infection, and of the influence of cold, mi- 
asma, and other morbid causes, in the morning, be- 
fore eating, than at any other time, and hence it has 
become a point of duty with all military and naval 
commanders, especially in bad climates, always to 
give their men breakfast before exposing them to 
morning dews and other noxious influences. Sir 
Geo. Ballingall even mentions a regiment quartered 
in Newcastle, in which typhus fever was very preva- 
lent, and in which of all the means used to check its 
progress, nothing proved nearly so successful as an 
early breakfast of warm coffee. 
In aguish countries, also, experience has shown 
us that the proportion of sick among those who 
are exposed to the open air before getting anything 
to eat, is infinitely greater than among those who 
have been fortified by a comfortable breakfast. 
Where there is any delicacy of constitution, the 
risk is of course increased. 
In setting out early to travel, a light breakfast 
before starting is a great protection against colds 
and subsequent fatigue or exhaustion. I am quite 
aware that robust and healthy men can and do take HOMOEOPATHY. 
41 
much active exercise before breakfast, with appa- 
rent impunity, if not benefit, and I have often done 
so myself; but experience ultimately taught me 
that I became sooner exhausted on continuing the 
exertion through the day, than when I began by 
eating a little. 
During the first winter of my studies in Philadel- 
phia, I regularly attended the surgical visits at the 
Penn Hospital, which began at half-past six in the 
morning, and lasted till eight,or frequently half-past 
eight. Not being then aware of the principle under 
discussion, I ate nothing till my return home; but I 
felt more weariness before the day was done than the 
mere exertion ought to have produced 
At last on noticing for a time the regularity with 
which many of the working people passing along 
paid their respects at a small shop, the only one then 
open, where fancy rolls were sold, along with coffee 
and tea, I thought of following their example, and 
trying how far a roll would add to my comfort, and 
impart additional vigor to the system. I soon found 
great reason to be pleased with the expedient, and 
discovered that I was not only less exhausted dur- 
ing the day, but more able to follow the lecture 
which concluded the visit, and in possession of a 
keener appetite for breakfast at my return, and ever 
since I have acted on the principle now inculcated, 
and with marked benefit. 
During the prevalence of cholera, both here and 
on the continent, it was often remarked that a large 
proportion of the attacks occurred early in the 42 
morning', in persons who had gone to bed appar- 
ently well. Chronic invalids and persons of a deli- 
cate habit of body, are also familiar with the fact of 
the animal heat and general vigor diminishing to- 
wards morning. 
From these facts, the general inference is clearly 
warranted, that delicate persons ought to have some 
kind of food soon after rising, and that even those 
who are healthy will act wisely in not exposing 
themselves unnecessarily to fatigue, infection, or 
other morbid causes, without having previously sup- 
plied the wants of the system, either partially by a 
cup of coflee or tea, or entirely by a regular break- 
fast. 
Where fever, for example, is in a family, the dan- 
ger of infection will be much greater to a person 
going directly from his own bed to the bedside of 
the patient, than to one who first takes the precau- 
tion of drinking, were it only a cup of coffee. 
In boarding-schools for the young and growing, 
who require plenty of sustenance, and are often 
obliged to rise early, an early breakfast is an almost 
indispensable condition of health. 
In recommending what I conceive ought to be 
the general rule, let me not be understood as wish- 
ing to extend it so far as to advise those whose con- 
stitutions admit of two or three hours' activity be- 
fore breakfast, to abandon what experience proves 
to be beneficial to them. 
My only wish is to help those who are in doubt 
as to choosing the plan which is most likely to be 
HOMOEOPATHY. HOMOEOPATHY. 
43 
of advantage, and to relieve those who are already 
suffering from ignorance. 
As a general rule, then, not more than five hours 
ought to intervene between breakfast and dinner. If 
the mode of life be such as involves great activity 
in the open air, or the period of life be one of rapid 
growth or filling up (as during youth or convales- 
ence from illness) the interval may, with propriety, 
be shortened; whereas, if the mode of life be se- 
dentary, and unattended with much activity of nu- 
trition, the interval may be considerably protracted 
without inconvenience. 
Supposing nine o'clock to be the hour of break- 
fast, the natural dinner hour would thus be two 
o'clock; and such, accordingly, is that sanctioned 
by the most extended experience, and which ought 
to be adhered to by all w'hose occupation will admit 
of its observance, and who wish to enjoy the highest 
health of which they are susceptible. 
Artificially arranged, however, as society now is, 
whole classes of the community find it impossible to 
dine till much later in the day. The question then 
comes to be-as we cannot follow the system laid 
down by nature, what is the next best thing to be 
done? 
Ought.we to eat nothing till we can find time to 
dine at five, or six, or seven o'clock ? or ought we 
rather to take a light meal at the natural time, about 
one or two o'clock, and reserve our appetite chiefly 
for the substantial meal which we have leisure to 
digest? 44 
IIOMCEOPATHY. 
When dinner cannot be taken earlier than seven 
or eight hours after breakfast, most people will find 
it advantageous to partake of some slight refresh- 
ment in the meantime-enough to blunt the keen- 
ness of the appetite, but not entirely to destroy it. 
If business admits of it, and the person can then 
command two hours of relaxation, the best plan un- 
questionably, is to dine about five or six hours after 
breakfast. But if this be impossible, and active ex- 
ertion of mind or body must be continued for sever- 
al hours longer, it will be far better to eat some light 
refreshment in the forenoon, and to postpone din- 
ner, not only till business is over, but till half an 
hour or an hours' repose has allowed its attendant 
excitement or fatigue to subside. 
By this means the stomach will enter upon its 
duties with vigor and the dinner be digested with 
greater comfort and dispatch, than if we sit down 
to table the moment our work is finished. 
In this way the tedious quarter of an hour pro- 
ceeding the announcement of dinner is far from 
being lost to the subsequent digestion. 
Very few people, indeed, can eat a good dinner 
and return immediately to bodily and intellectual 
labor with continued impunity. 
On this account, actors, for example, whose voca- 
tion requires exertion of both mind and body, al- 
most all either dine very early, or take their chief 
meal at night, on their return home; the latter 
being the most common practice. Students, liter- 
ary men, and persons intently engaged in business, HOMCEOPATHY. 
45 
are very apt to damage themselves by neglecting 
relaxation at and after meals. 
The time for dinner ought, then, to vary according 
to the constitution, occupation and mode of life of 
the individual; and the nearer the whole of these 
can be made to approximate to the intentions of na- 
ture, the more vigorous will be the powers of diges- 
tion, and the more complete the nutrition of the 
body. 
It would be a waste of time to discuss gravely 
whether tea and coffee ought to be allowed in the 
evening. 
Custom has already decided the point, and experi- 
ence has shown that, taken in moderation, they ra- 
ther promote than impede digestion. When the 
dinner is early-say one, or two, or three o'clock-a 
light meal of tea and bread in the evening, is very 
suitable, afS it saves the necessity of eating a heavier 
supper. 
If the individual be accustomed to much active 
exertion in the afternoon, so as to cause considerable 
waste in the system, and especially if he be young, 
a small addition of animal food may be made with 
great propriety to the evening meal. 
But, on the other hand, when the dinner is late, 
or little exertion is incurred after it-tea or coffee 
ought to be used more as a diluent than as a meal. 
A great deal has been said and written about the 
properties of tea and coffee as articles of diet. At 
present, however, we have to do with them only as 
elements of a third meal, and must reserve discus- 46 
110MCEOPATHY. 
sion of the other branch of the subject to a future 
opportunity. 
Now, to sum up the whole, the grand rule in fix- 
ing the number and periods of our meals is, to pro- 
portion them to the real wants of the system,as modified 
by age, sex, health and manner of life, and as indicated 
by the true returns of appetite, and, as an approximate 
guide, to bear in mind that under ordinary circum- 
stances of activity and health, three, four, or five 
hours are required for the digestion of a full meal, 
and one or two hours more of repose before the 
stomach can again become fit for the resumption of 
its labors. 
Among the circumstances which favor digestion, 
the observance of bodily rest and mental tranquili- 
ty for some time before and after every meal, is 
perhaps the most important; its influence depends 
on a well-known law of the animal economy, viz: 
-whenever any living part is called into vivid ac- 
tion, an increased flow of blood and of nervous 
energy towards it immediately commences, to en- 
able it to sustain the requisite degree of excite- 
ment, and continues till some time after the activity 
has ceased. In accordance with this law, whenever 
food is swallowed,the lining membrane of the stomach 
becomes suffused with blood, and owing to the 
greater distension of its vessels, its color changes 
from a pink to a deep red hue. After digestion is 
completed, and the unusual supply of blood is no 
longer required, the vessels again diminish, and the 
color returns to its original tint. HOMCEOPATHY. 
47 
It is obvious, however, that the grand afflux of 
blood which takes place towards the stomach and 
intestines during digestion, cannot occur without a 
corresponding diminution in the quantity circulat- 
ing on the surface and in other distant parts of the 
body, attended, of course, with a diminished power 
of action in them. 
Hence, for some time after a full meal, there is an 
inaptitude for vigorous thinking and bodily exer- 
tion, a depression of respiration, and, in delicate 
persons, a degree of coldness and chill felt over the 
whole body. But, under ordinary circumstances, 
this depression is not of long continuance. 
After the requisite secretions have been provided 
for the solution of the food and the formation of the 
chyle, a re-action and change in the distribution of 
the blood, now partially renewed by admixture of 
nutritive chyle, ensues, and by the stimulus which 
they afford, soon fit the person for the active re- 
smmption of his ordinary duties. 
That this impaired activity of the other func- 
tions after a full meal is natural, and intentionally 
arranged by the Creator, is plain, both from its uni- 
versality among all kinds of animals, and from the 
mode in which it is produced. Among the lower 
creatures, the sluggishnessinduced by eating increas- 
es in proportion to the degree, in which they gorge 
themselves with food. The boa constrictor, after a 
splendid repast, slumbers for a week, and the glut- 
ton of our species, in similar circumstances, drops 
into a stertorous sleep of several hours. If active 48 
IIOMCEOPATIIY. 
exertion immediately after a full meal be rendered 
compulsory by any external cause, such as the 
presence of danger urging to flight, the aliment often 
remains for hours in the stomach undigested. Again, 
the very distension of the stomach inseparable from 
a hearty meal necessarily impairs the activity of sev- 
eral of the functions, by directly pressing upon the 
vessels which supply their organs with blood, and 
consequently diminishing the stimulus essential to 
their activity. 
The obvious practical inference to be deduced 
from a consideration of the principle under discus- 
sion is, that rest of body and tranquility of mind 
for a short time both before and after eating, are 
necessary, and conducive to healthy digestion. And 
yet the same man who would unhesitatingly dis- 
miss his groom for feeding his horse immediately 
after a fatiguing chase or a gallop home, would 
probably think nothing of walking into the house 
and ordering dinner to be instantly served for him- 
self in similar circumstances. In the army, the 
difficulty of managing recruits, on a march, in this 
respect, has often been remarked. Fatigued with 
days' exertions, they are impatient for food, and, 
when they get it, can scarcely refrain so long 'from 
devouring it as to admit of its being even moder- 
ately cooked. They consequently labor under the 
double disadvantage of eating bqfore the system is 
in a sufficient state of repose to benefit by the sup- 
ply, and of having the food itself in a condition un- 
fit for easy digestion. HOMOEOPATHY. 
49 
The old campaigner, on the other hand, instruct- 
ed by former experinece, restrains his appetite, sys- 
tematically kindles his tire, cooks his victuals, and 
makes his arrangements for the night, with a cool- 
ness of deliberation which surprises the recruit; and 
he is amply repaid for his temporary self-denial, by 
the greater enjoyment and support which he de- 
rives from the very same materials, which the im- 
patience of the other has caused him in a great 
measure to waste. 
Many a valuable horse has been killed by being 
prematurely fed after fatiguing exercise, and man 
himself is no exception to the rule. 
Again, the state of the mind, indeed, exerts a 
powerful influence not only on the stomach, but on 
the whole process of nutrition, and greatly modifies 
the quantity which may be safely eaten. If the 
mind be gay and joyous, appetite will be compara- 
tively keen, digestion effective and rapid, and nu- 
trition complete. Examples of this kind abound 
in childhood, and among an easy-minded, well-fed 
peasantry. Whereas, if the mind be harassed by 
care and anxiety, or devoured by grief, envy, jeal- 
ousy, or other troubles and disquieting passions, the 
healthy calls of appetite will be scarcely known, and 
digestion and nutrition will be equally impaired. 
This fact is exemplified on a la-ge scale in every 
commercial country, and especially in times of pub- 
lic distress and political change. 
Shakspeare obviously had the principle in view 
when be made Caesar exclaim : 50 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
"Let me have men about me that are fat, 
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep b'nights, 
Yond* Cassius has a lean and hungry look', 
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. 
Anthony-Fear him not, Caesar, he's not dangerous, 
He is a noble Boman,and well given. 
Ccesar-Would he were fatter, but I fear him not; 
Yet if my name were liable to fear, 
I do not know the man I should avoid 
So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much. 
He is a great observer, and he looks 
Quite through the deeds of men! he loves no plays, 
As thou dost, Anthony ! he hears no music, 
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort 
As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit 
That could be moved to smile at anything. 
Such men as he be never at heart's ease 
While they behold a greater than themselves, 
And therefore are they very dangerous." 
Iii denouncing active exertion of mind or body, 
immediately after eating, as inimical to digestion, it 
is not meant that we should go to sleep, or indulge 
in absolute listlessness. A weak constitution may 
require something like complete repose, but a per- 
son in ordinary health may indulge in a leisurely 
saunter or pleasant conversation, not only without 
injury but with positive benefit, and perhaps there 
is no situation in which digestion goes on so favor- 
ably, as during the cheerful play of sentiment in 
the after-dinner small-talk of a well-assorted circle. 
On the subject of drinks two questions naturally 
occur: Where ought we to drink? and what ought 
we to drink ? Ou both I shall offer a few very 
brief remarks: HOM(EOPATHY. 
51 
As a general rule, the desire for liquids will in it- 
self be an indication of their propriety! but in 
gratifying it, we should be careful not to drink so 
fast as either to distend the stomach beyond proper 
bounds, or to disturb the process of digestion by un- 
due dilution too soon after eating. 
The question of drink is of little importance as 
regards breakfast. 
During the night, the chief expenditure of the 
system-by perspiration, urine, and exhalation from 
the lungs-is of a fluid nature, and hence there is a 
marked and general preference of fluids as a part 
of our first meal. In this country, tea, coffee, and 
chocolate are in almost universal use for breakfast, 
and no other liquid is required merely as drink. If, 
from the mode of life, or other causes, thirst be ex- 
cited in the forenoon, no valid objection can be 
urged against its moderate and reasonable gratifica- 
tion. 
The temperature at which liquids are taken, is a 
matter of perhaps greater consequence than it is 
usually considered. 
As regards the teeth, they being living parts, and 
at the same time endowed with a mechanical func- 
tion, are liable to injury in both capacities. . 4 
Being composed chiefly of earthy matter, such as 
phosphate and carbonate of lime, the contact of 
strong acids decompose their substances, and leads to 
their rapid decay. Hence, the whiteness produced 
by acid tooth-powders and washes, is not less de- 
ceitful than ruinous in its consequences 1 and hence 52 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
also great caution is necessary in swallowing the 
acid diops so frequently prescribed by the old school 
physician, which ought never to be allowed to come 
in contact with the teeth. 
Being constantly moistened with saliva, the teeth 
have a tendency to become incrusted with the tar- 
tar, or earthy matter, which it contains in solution, 
and which is separated from it partly by the evapo- 
ration of the more fluid constituents in breathing, 
and partly by chemical decomposition. As this in- 
crustation not only destroys the beauty of the 
teeth, but also promotes their decay, it becomes an 
object of care to remove it as soon as it is formed, 
and the most effectual mode of doing so is to brush 
the teeth regularly twice a day, especially in the 
morning, when the quantity is greatest-with a 
brush dipped in soft water, till every particle is re- 
moved. 
The addition of any soft impalpable powder will 
assist in the effect; but nothing capable of acting 
chemically on the teeth, or of injuring them by 
friction, ought ever to be resorted to. Washing the 
mouth after every meal is also a good preservative, 
and should never be neglected. 
Considered as living parts, the teeth require some 
additional care. In that capacity they are exceed- 
ingly apt to suffer from sudden changes of tempera- 
ture. Being from their solidity rapid conductors of 
heat, their internal nerve speedily becomes affected 
by the alterations of temperature to which they are 
daily exposed, both in taking food, and in the chan- HOMCEOPATHY. 
53 
ges from a warm to a cold atmosphere. It is a not 
uncommon practice, for example, to take a glass of 
cold wine or water immediately after finishing a 
plateful of very hot soup ; and it is quite usual to 
take tea and coffee, and every kind of meat, as hot 
as they can possibly be swallowed-than which 
practices it would be difficult to imagine anything 
more hurtful t© the teeth. 
For the same reason, in going out at night from 
a warm room to the cold air, it is desirable to pro- 
tect the teeth from the influence of the sudden 
change, by breathing through two or three folds of 
a silk handkerchief, or through a woolen comforter. 
When the teeth and lower part of the face are left 
exposed in such circumstances, rheumatism and 
toothache not unfrequently ensue from the direct 
impression of the cold air upon parts rendered more 
susceptible by the preceding heat. 
As regards the temperature of liquids taken into 
the stomach the same principle holds true, and when 
we consider the multitude and intricacy of its ner- 
vous connections with other vital organs, we can- 
not be surprised at even sudden death being fre- 
quently caused by drinking ice-cold water when the 
body is weakened by profuse perspiration. 
When great thirst has been excited either by 
bodily labor dr by external heat, it will generally be 
more effectually, as well as safely, quenched by 
drinking moderately of tepid than of cold fluids. 
A tepid draught-a cup of tea for example-pro- 
duces no disturbing action in the stomach, and being 54 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
immediately absorbed, supplies the deficiency of 
fluid without changing the balance of the circula- 
tion; whereas, cold drink, by the suddenness ot its 
impression, disturbs the balance of the circulation, 
and excites a degree of reaction which increases the 
original discomfort. If the system is at the same 
time weakened by fatigue, cold drinks are always 
injurious. 
On the subject of the kind of drinks which ought 
to be taken a great deal might be said, were it nec- 
essary to discuss here the qualities of all the liquors 
that are in use. But as my purpose is very differ- 
ent, a few general remarks will be enough. 
Water is a safe drink for all constitutions, provided 
it be resorted to in obedience to the dictates of 
natural thirst only, and not of habit, and with 
the precautions already pointed out; but unless 
the desire for it is felt, there is no occasion 
for its use during a meal, for the mere purpose of 
obeying a general rule. Toast and water, whey, 
beer, barley water, aerated and soda water, and other 
liquids of similar kind, which are little stronger 
than pure water, may be used, according to the 
same general principle, by those who prefer them 
and find them agreeable to the stomach. But with 
regard to such fermented liquors as porter, ale, 
spirits and wine, much greater restriction is neces- 
sary, because much good or evil may be done by 
them when properly or improperly administered. 
The primary effect of all distilled and fermented 
liquors is to stimulate to nervous system and quicken the 
circulation. HOMEOPATHY. 
55 
In all conditions, therefore, in which the action of 
those requires to be increased or supported, they 
are calculated to be useful; and, on the contrary, 
where it requires to be soothed and abated, they are 
sure to be prejudicial. 
As the sole object of Part Second of this volume 
is to make the reader acquainted with the natural 
laws of the animal economy, and with the means by 
which aberrations from them may be prevented and 
health preserved, I shall not enter at all upon the 
discussion either of the morbid conditions of the 
bowels, or of the remedies by which these may be 
cured, but will take them up in alphabetical order in 
Part Third. 
As to the choice of different articles of food it 
would be easy to fill many pages with disquisitions 
about the preference due to individual articles of 
food, were such the purpose which I had in view. 
But books devoted to this branch of the subject 
abound, and are already in general circulation, and 
as I have nothing new to add to what is contained 
in them, it would be making a needless demand on 
the patience of the reader merely to repeat what is 
to be found in so many other works. 
My object is the exposition of practical principles 
rather than of minute details; if I have succeeded 
in the attempt I shall be greatly pleased. PART III. 
Phe Practice of JPomozopathic Medicine Sim- 
plified /or the use of .Families. 
It is often remarked that the domestic works on 
Homoeopathy seem to contain every phase and symp- 
tom of disease except the particular one which it 
is required to treat, and from the plan upon which 
most of the Domestic Treatises are written, it is 
necessarily difficult to embrace many of these fea- 
tures of disease which commonly arise, without be- 
ing very lengthy, and therefore perplexing in the 
direction given. With a view of obviating this dif- 
ficulty I have compiled from the various Homoeo- 
pathic works at my command the following pages. 
The medicines are mentioned in the order of their 
well known curative properties, and only the princi- 
pal or "key notes" are given, so as to avoid confu- 
sion and delay in selecting a remedy. 
BOILS. Bell.-in repeated doses and of a low di- 
lution if you commence in the inflammatory 
stage and before matter has formed; if they 
have got beyond this stage they must be treated HOMEOPATHY. 
57 
locally, which is a surgical matter, but sup- 
puration may be favored by a few doses of IIe- 
par or Sil. 
Sul.-where there is a constitutional ten- 
dency. 
CATARRH. Act.-once followed by Camp., but 
if the fever has already set in, and the temper- 
ature is still rising, Act. alone should be given. 
If it is a running cold with pains in the bones, 
Mer. may be alternated with Act. 
Dulc.-when the Catarrh is brought on by 
exposure to dampness. 
Ars.-where it rages as an epidemic, and if 
the bone pains are very distressing a few doses 
ofKEuPAT. in alternation, would be of advan- 
tage. 
CHAPS OF THE SKIN. Cal. Carb.-Rough and 
dry skin, most suitable to persons who work in 
water. 
Hepar-cracks and chops. Unhealthy skin. 
Mer.-cracks deep and bleeding; it is also 
advisable to anoint the hands at night on retir- 
ing, with Althea Ointment. 
COLIC-from indigestion, brought on by either over- 
loading the stomach or from improper or un- 
healthy nourishment. 
Nux-after coffee, brandy and large meals. 
Pulsat.-after fat food, pastry and flatulent 
food. 
Ipec.-after sour and acrid fruits and salads. 
Ars.-after ice-water and ice-cream. 58 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
COLIC--flatulent, characterized by distention of the 
abdomen, gurgling in the bowels causing pain 
and shortness of breath. 
Bell.-a tendency to congestion of the head. 
Carb. Veg.-sour belching which affords no 
relief. 
Cham.-abdomen drum-like, with small quan- 
tities of wind passing off which afford no re- 
lief. 
Nux-when there is great pressure upward. 
COLIC-rheumatic, follows upon suddenly taking 
cold or getting wet. 
Act.-after exposure to sharp north-west 
wind, suppressed perspiration. 
Colocy.-hot or cold skin, contracting, pinch- 
ing, cutting pains, causing patient to sit doubled 
up. 
Dul.-the cramp is attended with nausea in 
stomach followed by diarrhoea. 
Rhus.-getting wet all over. 
CONSTIPATION, ACUTE. Opil-where there 
seems to be an accumlation of faeces and a slug- 
gishness of the peristaltic action. 
CONSTIPATION, CHRONIC. Sul.-a few doses 
at the commencement, following this with Bry., 
if the person leads a sedentary life-is subject 
to rheumatism; or Nux if the patient is sub- 
ject to piles, and abuses the use of spirituous 
liquors. 
Phos.-in consumptive and old people. 
Mer, Viv.-stool black, tenacious, (pitch like) 
bitter taste, but no loss of appetite. HOMCEOPATIIY. 
59 
COUGH. Ars.-asthmatic subjects, worse in the 
evening, and at night after lying down. 
Bell.-dry spasmodic cough with determi- 
nation of blood to the head, also second stage of 
hooping cough. 
Bry.-cough dry, worse in the day-time, tick- 
ling and soreness behind breast bone, stitches 
in side and pain in head. 
Ipec.-spasmodic cough, causing blueness of 
the face, with retching and vomiting and mu- 
cous expectorations. First stage of hooping 
cough. 
Mer. Viv.-excited by tickling, or a feeling 
of dryness in the throat, a disposition to per- 
spire, worse at night. 
Rhus.-cough on awaking in the morning, 
with bitter taste, and vomiting of food taken. 
Spong.-dry, hollow, barking cough day and 
night, with burning in chest. 
CROUP. This is one of the most important of 
children's diseases, and from its strong tendency 
to end in death, its violent symptoms and acute 
accession, it requires prompt and skillful treat- 
ment. 
Act. and Spong.-in alternation every quarter 
or half hour to every hour, generally suffices 
in cases of so-called catarrhal croup. 
Bcenhausen says the true symptoms of croup 
nearly always disappear after administering the 
following remedies: Act., Hep. and Spong. 
He gives five powders, thus, No. 1 and 2, Act. 60 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
3 and 5. Hepar, and 4, Spong, and allows from 
one to three hours to pass between the adminis- 
tration of each powder. 
DIARRHCEA, ACUTE. China-when there is 
simply an increase in the frequency and quan- 
tity with griping pains in the abdomen. 
Verat.-if stools are very watery and ex- 
pelled with violence, and there is but little 
griping, and the attack commences with vomit- 
ing. 
Ars.-violent thirst, worse after midnight, 
great debility. 
Mer.-slimy, frothy, bilious evacuations. 
DYSENTERY. Mer.-in alternation with Act., 
is generally sufficient; if there is much tormina, 
it may be alternated with Colocy., and if there 
is great tenesmus, alternate it with Ipec. 
Ars.-great debility and involuntary evacua- 
tions. 
E A R A ('HE. Bell.-great sensibility to the least 
noise, shooting and tearing pains extending into 
throat. 
Puls.-when the external ear is affected with 
darting, tearing pains, hardness of hearing, 
especially from a cold or suppressed measles. 
Nux-if the pains extend into the temples, 
forehead and bones of the face. 
EYE-LIDS, STYES ON THE. A few doses of 
Puls, generally arrests the progress of the dis- 
ease, and if there is a disposition to recurrence, 
Sul. will check it. H0MCE0PATI1Y. 
61 
EYES, INFLAMMATION OF. AcT.-in most cases 
at the commencement; great dread of light, 
burning, sticking pains, with dark redness of 
the vessels. Arn., if from an injury. 
Bell.-pains around the eyes, aggravated by 
motion; very sensitive to the light, and pain 
in the head. 
Bry.-pain in head when eyes are opened, 
with swollen lids. 
Mer.-sensation of sand under the lids, worse 
in the evening, or when getting warm in bed, 
itching. 
Puls.-great dryness or copious lachryma- 
tion, swelling of the lids. 
Rhus-when there is an crysipclous tendency 
with continued burning. 
Sul.-vesicles, ulcers and pustules round the 
eyes. 
FATIGUE, SUFFERING FROM. Arn.-if from 
labor or bodily exertion. 
Bell.-headache after study. 
Calc.-the least exertion or conversation fa- 
tigues one. 
Chin.-after bodily exertion with profuse 
sweat. 
Nux.-from studying, and when leading sed- 
entary life; worse in the open air. 
Puls.-relief in the open air. 
GIDDINESS. Act.-red face, cloudiness before the 
eyes, worse on raising the head when lying or 
stooping. 62 
homceopathy. 
Bell.-pressure on the forehead with a sensa- 
tion of fulness, staggering, swimming in head 
with partial loss of consciousness. 
Mer.-on arising in the morning or in the 
evening with nausea and dimness. 
Nux-if from wine, coffee or excessive men- 
tal exertions, buzzing in the ears, danger of fall- 
ing during or after a meal. 
Puls.-nausea, pale face when raising the 
eyes, relieved in the open air, or from eating 
rich food. 
Sul.-when sitting, or ascending an emi- 
nence. 
GUMBOIL. Act. and Bell.-in repeated doses, 
if given in time will often cut the disease short. 
Mer. or Pros.-if the trouble is produced by 
a diseased fang. 
HEADACHE. Act.-red, bloated face, burning, 
contractive pains, especially over the root of 
the nose. 
Bell.-pains over the eyes, with violent 
throbbing, and pressure as though the head 
would split open; can not bear the least noise, 
light or motion. 
Bry.-pain worse when moving, sensation as 
though the head was being compressed, when 
produced by bad weather or heat. 
China-aggravated by contact, scalp very 
sensitive to the touch. 
Mer. Viv.-worse at night, and when getting 
warm in bed. HOMOEOPATHY. 
63 
Nux-from spirituous liquors, excessive study, 
constipation, worse when stooping in the open 
air or after eating; head feels very heavy. 
Puls.-pale face, worse during rest or in the 
evening, better in the open air, shooting, tear- 
ing, humming in the ears. 
HOARSENESS. Carb Veg.-worse in the even- 
ing, and after talking ; burning under the breast 
bone. 
Mer. Viv.-great thirst, sweat without relief, 
throat feels dry, worse in the evening. 
Pnos.-violent catarrh with hoarseness. 
HOOPING COUGH. Act. and Ipec.-in alterna- 
tion at the commencement; if the spasmodic 
stage is well marked ''Drosera." 
Bell.-where there is marked head symp- 
toms. 
INFANTS, COLD IN THE HEAD OF. Cham.- 
one cheek red and the other one pale ; discharge 
of water from the nose. 
Nux.-dry stoppage of the nose, &c. 
Carb. Veg.-if aggravated in the evening. 
Dul.-if aggraved in the open air. 
NF ANTS, COLIC OF. Cham.-Child cries and 
bends double, face red. 
Bell.-Face pale. 
Ipec.-Cries, with fermented diarrhoea. 
INFANTS, CONSTIPATION OF. Bry.-Stool 
large-sized, hard and tough. 
Nux.-Ineffectual urging to stool, with ap- 
parent inactivity of the bowels. 64 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
INFANTS, SPASMS OR CONVULSIONS OF. 
Bell.-Dilated pupils, coldness of the whole 
body. 
Cham.-Redness of one cheek, involuntary 
movements of the head. 
Ignat.-When we are not certain from what 
the fits arise, when they return every day at the 
same hour. 
INFANTS, CRYING OF. Bell.-When crying 
without any apparent cause. 
Cham.-One red cheek, if there is head-ache 
or ear-ache. 
IEFANTS, DENTITION OF.-Restless, obstinate, 
wakeful,-Coffee, unless the mother is in the 
habit of drinking coffee, then give Act. and in 
some cases it will have to be followed by Cham., 
or if mother drinks coffee and child's face is 
red without fever, give Opii. 
Cal-Carb. if the teeth are slow in coming 
through. 
Nux.-If there is constipation with fever and 
a dry hacking cough. Ipec.-if there is vomit- 
ting and diarrhoea. 
Bell.- Starting and jerking through the 
whole body during sleep, with evening exacer- 
bations. 
INFANTS, DIARRCEA OF. Rhei.-Tenesmus, 
stools smell sour, and the child also. 
Cham.-Stools greenish, colic, red face. 
Bell.-Violent colic, face pale. 
Ipec. or Nux.-When jt manifests itself in 
the heat of summer. HOMCEOPATHY. 
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Bry. or Carb. Veg.-Returning when the 
weather becomes warmer. 
Dul.-Returning when the weather becomes 
cooler. 
Ars.-Emaciation, great weakness, pallor, 
worse after midnight. 
INFANTS, EXCORIATION OF. Cham.-Easily 
excoriated with great sensitiveness to the touch. 
Sul.-If there is a rash and in obstinate cases. 
INFANTS, INDIGESTION OF. Ipec-Vomiting, 
with diarrhoea. 
Nux-Vomiting, with constipation. 
Puls.-If arising from pastry or rich food, or 
if Ipec. is insufficient. 
INFANTS, RED GITM OF. Bry.-White miliary 
eruptions, with constipation and distension of 
the bowels. 
Sul. in most stages of the disease. 
LABOR-PAINS. Cham.-Pains too acute and too 
long and spasmodic, convulsions or spasm dur- 
ing the pains. 
Coffee.-When patient is almost driven to 
despair. 
Puls.-The pains succeeding each other 
slowly, inactivity of the uterus after the birth. 
LEUCORRHCEA, (Whites). This can hardly be 
called a disease, but rather a symptom of some 
of the many uterine maladies. 
The most common form is that occurring in 
those who have had severe abortions, or who 66 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
. have borne children too frequently-in such 
cases Lep. is chief remedy. 
Puls, may be used when there is great debili- 
ty, with cutting pains in the'back, and the dis- 
charge is thick and corrosive. 
Cal. Carb,-Flowing before the menses and 
by fits, like milk, producing a burning and itch- 
ing sensation. 
MEASLES. Act. is the chief medicine and should 
be continued throughout the disease. 
Puls. -may be given in alternation with 
Act., to facilitate the erruption. 
Bry.-is recommended for recalling the erup- 
tion, especially where there is much suffering in 
the chest from its retrocession. 
MENSTRUATION, PAINFUL. Cham.-pressure 
extending from the small of the back to the 
abdomen and downwards; pains resembling 
labor pains. 
Nux.-giddiness, debility, tendency of blood 
to the head, nausea, with fainting early in the 
morning. 
Puls.-discharge black and coagulated; colic 
and nausea. 
MENSTRUATION, SUPPRESSED. Puls.-from 
getting wet or catching cold ; palpitation of 
the heart, most suitable to individuals of a mild 
disposition. 
Graphites (stands next to Puls.) constipa- 
tion, with heaviness of the limbs and conges- 
tion of blood to the head. 
Act.;-if from fright. HOMOEOPATHY. 
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MILK, EXCESSIVE FLOW OF. Bell.-pulsa- 
tions in the breasts, with fulness and hardness. 
Bry.-breasts swollen, hard and knotty. 
MILK, SUPPRESSION OF.~ Puls.-if caused by 
a chill; in most cases. 
Bell and Bry.-may be falternated if the 
abdominal organs are affected and the breasts 
become hard and knotty. 
FEVER. Act.-if there is redness and tension in 
the breasts, accompanied with fever. 
Bry.-may be alternated with Act. if there 
is constipation and rheumatic pains. 
Cham, if caused by violent emotion or a chill 
and there is great nervous excitement. 
MUMPS, Mer. and Act.-if patient be feverish. 
Puls.-if there is metastasis to the testicles 
or mammae, 
Bell.-if there is mestatasis to the brain. 
NEURALGIA. Ars.- pains intensely agonizing 
and of a darting, burning character, great rest- 
lessness and anguish, which is at first relieved 
by cold applications, but in a few moments it 
is increased ; worse during rest; diminished dur- 
ing exercise. Pains intermittent in character. 
Bell.-violent pain when rubbing or press- 
ing the parts. Worsen when exposed to the 
light, motion or noise. When in each attack of 
of the pain the face flushes up, the cheeks 
burning hot, the eyes red and watering. 
Rhus.-I would suggest a trial of this reme- 
dy in chronic cases. J 68 
H0MCE0PATHY. 
NIPPLES, EXCORIATING. Arn.-for simple sore- 
ness both locally and internally ; if this proved 
insufficient I should give a few doses of Sul. 
Cham, is chiefly suitable where the nipples 
are highly inflamed, or where they are ulcer- 
ated. 
PILES. Sul. and Nux.-in alternation where there 
is little or no bleeding, but are very annoying 
from their fulness. 
Hamamelis-in bleeding piles and if there 
is much fever any of these remedies may be 
alternated with Act. 
PLEURISY. Act. and Bry.-in alternation gener- 
ally suffices, but to complete the cure we may 
follow this with Sill. 
PNEUMONIA. Act.-always to commence the 
treatment with, and if in twenty-four hours 
there is no material abatement, we must have 
recourse to Phos. or Bry. 
Piios.-for broncho-pneumonia 
Bry.-for pl eu ro -pn eu monia. 
Sul.-(a few doses of) whenever ameliora- 
tion takes place but is not permanent. 
PREGNANCY, SLEEPLESSNESS OF. Act.- 
if attended with fever. 
Nux.-when patient sleeps well on first re- 
tiring, but wakes early in the morning and can 
not get to sleep again. 
Coffee.- when the patient cannot get to 
sleep for a long time after retiring. HOMCEOPATIIY. 
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Ciiam.-in the latter months when sleep is 
often hindered by cramps in the calves, etc., 
generally called fidgets. 
PREGNANCY, VOMITING DURING. Ipec.-in 
simple uncomplicated cases. 
Nux.-nausea and vomiting every morning 
on rising, headache, constipation and a hemor- 
hoidal tendency. 
Leac.-inclination to vomit early in the 
morning, in bed; vomiting of food. 
PREG. CONSTIPATION DURING. Bry.-hard 
tough stool. 
Nux.-from sedentary habits, ineffectual urg- 
ing, inactivity of the bowels. 
QUINSY. Bell.-choking and spasmodic constric- 
tion of the throat, inflammation and swelling of 
the palate, uvula and tonsils, so that swallow- 
ing is almost impossible. Shooting and dart- 
ing pains in throat. 
Mer.-when the stiches in the throat and 
tonsils extend to the ears and glands, with a 
tendency to suppuration. 
RHEUMATISM, ACUTE. Act.-shooting pains, 
worse at night, light fever, and after the fever 
has subsided follow this with Bry. 
RHEUMATISM, CHRONIC. Bry.-if there is 
much heat and swelling. 
Ruus.-when the tendons, nerves, &c., are 
chiefly affected, and where motion at first in- 
creases the pain, but continued motion relieves 
it; worse in damp weather. 70 
HOMOEOPATHY. 
Puls.-when the knee and ankle joints are 
involved, fingers become stiff and curved. 
SCARLET FEVER. Act. and Bell.-in alterna- 
tion in simple and uncomplicated cases, generally 
relieves the patient, and even in the more 
grave forms it would be advisable to administer 
a few doses of the above while waiting for the 
arrival of the physician, the call for whom 
should not be postponed till the eleventh hour, 
causing the patient thereby unnecessary suffer- 
ing. 
SORE THROAT. Bell.-the membrane highly 
inflamed without much swelling; a feeling of 
rawness, and where there is much fever and a 
pricking sensation in the throat, Act. may be 
alternated. 
Mer. if Bell, does not relieve the symptoms, 
and there is a tendency to ulceration. 
Lac.-where the left side is specially affected, 
and where Bell, and Mer. are not sufficient, 
and there is a constant desire to swallow. 
TOOTHACHE. Bry. (mother tincture)-applied lo- 
cally on cotton held between the gum and check, 
will generally relieve the pain in a few min- 
utes; in addition to this, one of the following 
remedies may be administered: 
China-dull pains, worse at night, or after the 
least contact. 
Nux-jerking pain, swelling and throbbing 
of the gums, worse in the open air or at night 
in persons who lead a sedentary life and are 
fond of coffee or wine. HOMOEOPATHY. 
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Puls.-shooting pains which extend into the 
ears, eye, face and head; face pale, relieved by 
cold application. 
Cham.-pains driving almost to despair, with 
swollen, red, hot cheeks, or especially on one 
side, worse from warm applications, and especi- 
ally at night in bed. 
Bell.-more especially adapted to females 
and children in inflammatory and congestive 
toothache ; great thirst, worse by contact with 
food. 
VOMITING. Bry.-especially after eating food 
which one relishes, of bitter water, or of bile. 
Ipec.-occurring after eating or drinking ever 
so little. 
Puls.-from overloading the stomach, or af- 
ter eating fat, rich food. 
Nux-periodical attacks after wines and spir- 
ituous liquors, or from weakness of stomach. 
Verat-stomach very sensitive to the touch, 
with burning pains, vomiting occurring before, 
during or immediately after a stool, great pros- 
tration, frothy. 
WORMS. Viol. Orda., 6th-a dose every 4 hours 
for three days, and follow this with Stan. 30th, 
one dose every third night for twelve days gen- 
erally relieves all of the symptoms. 
Cina-pale, bloated face, livid circles around 
the eyes, abdomen swollen and drum-like, fever 
and colic. PART IV. 
THE CINCINNATI HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL DISPENSARY. 
ITS HISTORY. 
On November twelfth, 1867, pursuant to a call 
issued through the papers of this city, there assem- 
bled at the Burnet House, for the purpose of organ- 
izinga benevolent Association, the following named 
persons: S. C. Newton, John P. Epply, J. W. Can- 
field, Hugh McBirney, P. P. Lane, Dr. T. C. Brad- 
ford, Dr. E. B. Thomas, Dr. Wm. Owens, F. Eckstein, 
Jethro Mitchel, C. Taylor Jones, and John E. Bell. 
Mr. S. C. Newton being called to the chair and 
John E. Bell to act as Secretary, the following reso- 
lution was adopted, viz. 
"That we, the undersigned, form ourselves into an 
association to be incorporated and known as the 
Cincinnati Homoeopathic Medical Dispensary, the 
object of which shall be the gratuitous dispensing 
of Homoeopathic medicine to the sick poor of Cin- 
cinnati and vicinity." 
At a subsequent meeting the following gentlemen 
were elected Trustees for the first year. HOMCEOPATHY. 
73 
TRUSTEES FOR 1868. 
Hugh McBirney, 
C. Taylor Jones, 
P. W. Strader, 
Alfred Gaither, 
A. H. Hinkle, 
J. K. Sterrett, 
Gazzum Gano, 
Fred. Eckstein, 
S. S. Davis, 
John Shillito, 
John E. Bell, Clerk. 
J. W. Canfield, 
N S. Jones, 
Wesley Taylor, 
S. C. Newton, 
P. P. Lane, 
Howell Gano, 
John P. Epply, 
J. H. Cheever, 
*M. B. Hagans, 
Bellamy Storer, 
OFFICERS FOR 1868. 
S. C. Newton, President. 
Hugh McBirney, Vice-President, 
Gazzum Gano, Treasurer. 
John E. Bell, Secretary. 
STANDING COMMITTEES. 
J. II. Cheever, 
Wesley Taylor, 
f John P. Epply, 
FINANCE. 
A. H. Hinkle, ' 
P. W. Strader, 
Gazzum Grano, 
P. P. Lane, 
J. K. Sterrett, 
DISPENSARY. 
M. B. Hagans, 
Howell Gano, 
C. Taylor Jones. 
*Resigned, and Jos. Emery was apponted to fill vacancy, 
f Resigned, and Hugh McBirney was appointed to fill vacancy. 74 
II0MCE0PATHY. 
HOSPITAL. 
Alfred Gaither, 
N. S. Jones, 
J. W. Canfield, 
B. Storer, 
John Shillito. 
On February the twenty-fifth, 1868, the Finance 
Committee reported having secured subscriptions 
amounting to twelve hundred and fifty dollars, as 
donations, and also ten annual subscribers, at five dol- 
lars each. 
On the same date the Dispensary Committee re- 
ported having rented No. 308 Race St., for dispen- 
sary purposes, at a rent of six hundred dollars per 
year. 
The Committee was then instructed to fit up the 
said building for dispensary use at a cost not ex- 
ceeding five hundred dollars, and also to select and 
employ a resident physician. 
On March tenth. 1868, the Dispensary Commit- 
tee reported the rooms at 308 Face St., ready for 
occupancy, and that one Dr. W. Draper had been 
employed as resident physician. 
From this date (March 10, 1868,) there was liitle 
or nothing of importance transacted till August 27, 
when the resignation of Dr. Draper being excepted, 
the Dispensary Committee were instructed to secure 
the services of some competent person to fill the 
vacancy, and at an adjourned meeting held Septem- 
ber first, reported that they had secured the services 
of one Dr. J. A. Cloud. HOMCEOPATHY. 
75 
Dr. Cloud entered upon his duties as resident 
physician, September 3d, up to which period there 
had been but thirty-seven patients treated, and at 
that date there were no patients under treatment. 
The following table will show the progress that has 
been made under Dr. Cloud's management: 
Patients treated from Sept. 3, to Sept. 16, inclusive 20 
"• " " Sept. 17 to Oct. 15 do 37 
" " " Oct. 16 to Nov, 3d. do 39 
" " " Nov. 4, to Dec. 3 do 92 
" " " Dec. 4 to Dec. 31st, do 130 
" " " Jan. 1 1869 to to Jan. 31 do 139 
" " " Feb. 1 to Feb 28 do 137 
" " " March 1 to March 31 do 144 
The Dispensary up to this time has been sus- 
tained by private subscription, but the increased 
number of patients demands a larger outlay than 
those subscriptions will furnish, so the Trustees re- 
solved to hold a Fair to supply this demand, trust- 
ing to the generosity of the good people of Cincin- 
nati and vicinity to make this, their Fair, a success. 
The resident physician, to extend the benefit of the 
institution, has from time to time visited nearly two 
thousand families, and distributed over two thou- 
sand five hundred cards. 
From September 1st. 1868, to April 1st. 1869, the 
following labor has been performed by the resident 
physician : 
Number of office patients treated 477 
" " Out-door patients treated 144 
" " Visits made 641 
" " Prescriptions made 1623 76 
HOMOEOPATHY. 
Number of Medical cases attended 577 
" " Surgical cases treated 20 
" " Vaccinations performed 33 
" " Obstetrical cases attended 5 
" " Cases sent to hospital, 20 
" " Cases recovered 343 
" " Deaths 2 
At the present time there is from one hundred and 
fifty to two hundred patients treated monthly by 
the resident physician, and in addition to attending 
to the wants of his fellow sufferers in Cincinnati, 
there is frequently calls left, and answered, for Cov- 
ington, Newport, Fulton, Hamilton, Walnut Hills, 
Mt. Auburn, and College Hill, and as a very large 
number of these patients live some distance from 
the line of our street railways, and therefore can 
only be reached by foot (there being no private 
conveyance at present furnished to the resident 
physician) a great amount of valuable time is thus 
consumed which might be turned to a more profit- 
able account by visiting the poor and seeking out 
the sick, for this is the only way by which we can 
accomplish the end we all so much desire; for an 
institution of this kind, where all, irrespective of 
age, sex, color, religion or nativity, may come and 
be healed, is comparatively such a new thing in this 
city, that two-thirds of the class its benefits are in- 
tended to reach, are not even aware of 
and never will be unless some one visits them and 
explains the whole matter to them, and who shall 
do this, but the resident physician ? True, the lay- 
men can do a great deal by sending any worthy HOMOEOPATHY. 
77 
sick persons that come under their notice, to the 
Dispensary, for medical aid and advice, but as the 
number thus sent is comparatively small, and as the 
past is beyond recall, the present only is ours and 
the future what we make it; the resident physician 
hopes, that the laymen, one and all., will hereafter 
bear in mind, that there is such an institution, and 
give it their support and countenance, at least in this 
respect. 
INCORPORATION AND BY-LAWS. 
The institution was incorporated and the follow- 
ing By-Laws adopted December 17, 1867 : 
Art. 1. Any person who shall at one time con- 
tribute the sum of five dollars shall be a member of 
the corporation for one year. 
Art. 2. Any person who shall contribute at one 
time dollars, to the permanent fund of the Dis- 
pensary shall be a life member and entitled to all 
the privileges of membership. 
Art. 3. Any person who shall contribute at one 
time one hundred dollars to the permanent fund of 
the Dispensary shall be a patron and entitled to all 
the privileges of membership. 
Art. 4. The members of the corporation shall hold 
an annual meeting on the second Monday in Janu- 
ary of each year, at which the annual reports shall 
be submitted and twenty persons elected to servo 
as Trustees for the next year. 
Art. 5. The Board of Trustees shall hold regular 78 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
meetings on the first Thursday following the first 
Monday of each month, and such other special meet- 
ings as may be called by the Secretary on applica- 
tion of three members of the Board; at which five 
members shall be a quorum for the transaction of 
business. 
Art. 6. The Board shall, at its first meeting after 
election appoint three standing Committees of five 
persons each who shall serve for one year viz : one 
on Dispensary, one on Finance, and one on Hospital, 
who shall report in writing to each meeting of the 
Board, or wheneverrequired. for 1869.. 
TRUSTEES. 
Dr. E. B. THOMAS, 
F. ECKSTEIN, 
J. EMORY, 
JNO. P. EPPLY, 
E. H. CARTER, 
GAZZIUM GA.NO, 
Dr. WM. OWENS, 
P. P. LANE, 
S. C. NEWTON, 
J. H. CHEEVER, 
ROBERT ALLISON, 
J. WEBB, Jr. 
A. FONTAYNE, 
WM. NAST, D. D., 
HOWELL GA.NO, 
A. H. HINKLE, 
P. W. STRADER, 
JAMES M. BISHOP, 
WM. SUMNER, 
WESLEY TAYLOR. 
OFFICERS. 
Mr. S. C. NEWTON, President. 
Mr. F. ECKSTEIN, Vice President. 
Mr. GAZZUM GANO, Treasurer. 
Dr. J. A. CLOUD, Secretary. 
STANDING COMMITTEES. 
'Dispensary. 
JNO. P. EPPLY, 
J. H. CHEEVER, 
J. WEBB. Jr. 
WESLEY TAYLOR, 
S. C. NEWTON, 80 
HOMCEOPATHf. 
Hospital. 
Dr. E. B. THOMAS, 
E. H. CARTER, 
HOWELL GANO. 
A. FONTAYNE, 
ROBERT ALLISON, 
Finance. 
GAZZIUM GANG, 
P. P. LANE, 
P. W. STRADER. 
F. ECKSTEIN, 
A. II. HINKLE, 
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN. 
Dr. J. A. CLOUD, 
ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS. 
C. T. Jones, .$5 00 
A. Judson Davis, 5 00 
A. Van Agthoven, 5 00 
W. R. Kidd, 5 00 
D. S. Garrison, 5 00 
Mrs. S. H. Burton,.... 5 00 
P. P. Lane, 5 00 
A. Harris, 5 00 
J. C. Hussey, 5 00 
Aug. Wessell, 5 00 
A. Fontayne, 5 00 
Jacob Elsas, 5 00 
Wm. Holmes, 5 00 
S. C. Foster, 5 00 
Lowell Fletcher, .. 5 00 
Jno. B. Ryan, $5 00 
Wm. Resor, Jr., 5 00 
J. T. Lockman, 5 00 
Sain'l C. Tatem, 5 00 
Wm. E. London, 5 00 
H. Neave, 5 00 
T. Pickering, 5 00 
Dr. G. W. Bigler, 5 00 
Dr. E. B. Thomas, 5 00 
C. Hitchcock, 5 00 
Wm. Nast, D. D., 5 OO 
Wm. Williamson, 5 00 
H. S. Holmes, 5 00 
L. C. Cheever, 5 00 
H. Haacke, 5 00 IIOMCEOPATHY. 
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LIFE MEMBERS. 
F. Eckstein,$50 00 Gazzium Grano$50 00 
S. C. Newton, 50 00 A. H. Hinkle, 50 00 
S. M. Haughton, 50 00 Jno. P. Epply, 50 00 
Hugh McBirney, 50 00 Howell Gano, 50 00 
P. W. Strader, 50 00 W. J. Breed, 50 00 
C. H. Gould, 50 00 R. Mitchell, 50 00 
Jno D. Minor, 50 00 J. H. Cheever, 50 00 
Wm. Sumner, 50 00 Jno. R. Wright, 50 00 
D. W. Corwin,' 50 00 Wesley Taylor, 50 00 
R. A. Holden, 50 00 J. Cunningham, 50 00 
Sam'l C. Tatem, 50 00 Alfred Gaither, 50 00 
D. H. Hunnewell,.... 50 00 
PATRON. 
P. P. Lane,$100 00 
DONATIONS, 
J. S. Hill, .$25 00 W. P. Devon,$10 00 
J. M. Secrist, 25 00 N. S. Jones, ... 20 00 
James L. Haven, 25 00 W. H. Doane, 25 00 
C. F. Wilstach, 25 00 J. K. Sterrett, 25 00 
Wm, E. London....... 25 00 Meader & Son, 29 50 
Mrs. S. C. Newton, proceeds of Parlor Concert,100 00 
Mrs. Dr. Thomas, proceeds of Parlor Concert,135 00 
Mrs. Dr. Slosson, proceeds of Parlor Concert,120 00 
J. W. Anderson & Co., printing one thousand envelopes. 
Bradley & Powers, printing one hundred circulars. 
Willis & Co's., Homoeopathic Pharmacy, No. 19 west 
Fourth Street, one Pocket Case. 82 
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As it would be impossible to give a complete list 
of all the articles donated, with the names of the 
donors, and also impracticable to name the different 
ladies and their assistants who have charge of and 
officiate at the tables, I will here notice only those 
of the Executive Committees. 
Officers of .Ladies' LJxectctire Committee. 
Mrs. WESLEY TAYLOR, President. 
Mrs. E. H. CARTER, Vice President. 
Mrs. J. W. CANFIELD, Treasurer. 
Mrs. Dr. CLOUD, Secretary. 
Gentlemen's JExecutive Committee. 
Dr. E. B. THOMAS, President. 
Dr. J. A. CLOUD, Sec'y. 
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S. C. NEWTON, 
E. H. CARTER, 
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