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HOMCEPATHIA REVEALED.
BRIEF EXPOSITION
THE   WHOLE   SYSTEM,
ADAPTED
GENERAL COMPREHENSION.
WITH A NOTICE OF PSORA AND DR. DURINGE's OBJECTIONS.
BY ALEXIS EUSTAPHIEVE,
      NEW-YORK:
G. & C. CARVILL & CO.
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INVOCATION.
Hail, Fountain Nymph!   Hail to thy cup of health,
Bought cheaply with an Empire's treasur'd wealth !
No Poet's dream, no Fiction's pleasing guile,
Lurk in thy form, or light a doubtful smile ;
Thy breatb is life :  and they themselves must blame,
Who orud°e thee welcome, and scarce know thy name.
'Tis but to ask—and all thy flowing stores,
More precious than  Golconda's mines,  are ours.
All hail! most noble, fair, rich-gifted maid,
So young, so wise:  we now invoke thy aid!
Genius and Fame, to whom thy birth we owe,
Impress'd their signets on thy infant brow;
Who then shall stay thee in thy bright career '!
Come, take thy crown !   Thou hast but to  appear......
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                ORIGIN

                     OF

HOMCEPATHIA,

                     AND

       GROUNDS OF BELIEF.
   The fair health-bearer delights not in the darkness of
concealment, and, so far from seeking disguise, to be seen
is all she asks to be revealed.  Of her renowned sire, the
long persecuted but never discomfited Hahnemann, it is less
easy to decide, whether he is now most adored and glorified,
or most hated and feared ;  than to predict his future station
in the eyes of posterity, as one of the brightest luminaries
that ever shed light  upon the medical world.  For his sur-
prising early proficiency in the study of  medicine, which,
without any patronage or collateral  support, procured him
several honourable and responsible  appointments, and in-
stalled him as " Doctor of Physic," in a lucrative practice,
before he had reached his 25th year; as well as for his total
renunciation of tha't practice, with the profession itself, on
the ground that his conscience was not satisfied with either,
the  reader is respectfully referred to the "Encyclopoedia
Americana," where  an epitome  of  his life is  given with
sufficient impartiality  and correctness.  It  is enough, that
his subsequent  studies, and  particularly that of chemistry,

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 by a fortuitous detection of the true  principle upon which
 the Peruvian  bark produces an  ague, similar to the  one
 against which it is the acknowledged specific,  led him to a
 series of experiments and discoveries, which finally termi-
 nated in the creation of a system of his own, entirely new,
 and so much to his mind, as to have removed all his former
 scruples and objections.
   Such is the origin of Homospathia !
   This new system, or rather the system-destroying system,
 besides the weight of character imparted to it by its  no
 longer slighted  author,  has been since  espoused by  so
 many eminent physicians, well known  for their  talents,
 works, and  extensive practice; and its progress, in  conse-
 quence, has been  so extraordinary, that it is scarcely wise
 or  possible to treat it now with tlje passing notice of a
 sneer, or refuse its pressing  claims to the consideration of
 the public roost interested in its promises  of health.  It is
 time  that this science, for such it undoubtedly is, should  be
 fairly, and in the clearest  manner, exhibited to the eyes of
 all, in order that full justice, incompatible with ignorance,
 may be done to its merits and demerits; and that its final
 condemnation, should such be its fate, may cause no linger-
ing regret hereafter for a gift thrown away on the miscon-
 ception of its value ; one too, which Hahnemann proclaims
emphatically as " the precious gift of Divinity."*
  It is under this solemn impression, that the public are now
presented with "Homcepathia Revealed;" a humble attempt
to embody the whole  system in a form more  concise, and
popularly intelligible, than is known yet to have been done :
the works relating to it being but  few in English, and  in
other languages  too  diffuse,  and encumbered with techni-
calities unfavourable  to  ordinary  comprehension.   An
exception may be justly claimed in favour of the labours of
  * "Homfflpathic treatment of chronic diseases," page 3. French translation, by J. L.
Jeurdan, Member of the Royal Academy. 
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distinguished   American   Homoepathists,  advantageously
known in Europe ;  but, while their talents and industry are
fully appreciated, there is still a void to be filled up: a work—
a  full length miniature scanned  at a  glance—seems to be
still wanting ;  and  not the less so, as, for obvious reasons,
it  should also be one possessed of the advantage of standing
on its own exclusive ground, nowise connected with the pro-
fession, and removed from all suspicion of being influenced
by private speculations, party  spirit, local interests, or time-
serving discussions.  It is likewise  believed,  that the best
mode of  communicating knowledge is the one by which it
was acquire^; and  that, therefore, an amateur  student may
impart the fruits of his acquisition to the uninformed ma-
jority, more  acceptably than a learned professor habitually
writing for the learned minority.
   The author has also a private motive for this  undertaking.
Several  of  his friends, for  whom he  entertains sincere
regard, seem to be quite disposed, from  what  escaped him
on this subject in his "letter on Hydrophobia,"*  to assign him
a conspicuous place among  the waking dreamers of the age!
he ventures, therefore, to  invoke the arbitration of the pub-
lic, and to indulge  a hope that,  by placing in full sight, in
its utmost distinctness, the  very  substance of his shadowy
dream, he may disprove all claim on his part to  this unenvia-
ble reputation; or at least obtain  for his  error, if it be one,
the countenance of the like error, committed, and persevered
  ♦Published in the Courier and Enquirer of 6th August, 1836.  This  letter, from the very
nature of its subject, could not well have been dismissed without an effort to discover, and
an anxious desire to point out some means, some signs of relief ever so faintly indicated;  and,
as i he Homoepathic treatment appeared most entitled to confidence, it was accordingly noticed
and recommended, as  the  only probable resource against Hydrophobia manifested in all its
rage and terrors.  So many circumstances have since combined to strengthen this confidence,
that the author has no reason to regret,—but, on the contrary, he thinks it his duty, solemnly
and on all occasions, to reiterate what he then stated at the conclusion, which is, that " among
the high destinies that await her, (Homrcpathia,) the power of destroying the Destroyer,
sooner or later, if not now, may be confidently anticipated."  In short, he is more and mora
convinced, that, with  respect to this dreadful malady, Homoepathia alone affords, as yet, %
resting place for the hopes of afflicted humanity. 
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in, by men of acknowledged celebrity, occupying at present
the most prominent stations on the field of science.
  So far as belief in Homcepathia is concerned,  the author
has certainly compromitted himself, and his first impulse was
to plead at once guilty to the charge; but on second thoughts?
as "the plea of guilty" might have an air of defiance foreign
to his intentions, it has  appeared to him that his first and
most proper step was to state fairly his  grounds of belief
and, by a  respectful defence at the outset, place himself in
the true position of a sincere believer, anxious, and deeming
it his solemn duty to share, what he considers a great blessing,
with his fellow-creatures; and this shall be doi|e forthwith.
  It was his happy lot, and there are few to whom it could
have been otherwise, to have, some years since, attracted the
notice, and to have preserved up to this time the favourable
opinion  of Admiral Mordvinow, a nobleman generally  so
styled, by reason of the preference he gives to this over all
his  other titles.   This is  the venerable Mecaenas, who, at the
age which brings decrepitude to the less favoured of man-
kind, seems to ward off all bodily decay by the active vigour
of his mind.  A patriot  and philanthropist almost from  his
cradle ; his sword  and life at the command of his country ;
his  pen at the service of  science and useful literature, and
his  purse ever open to the support of liberal public and pri-
vate institutions; confidential adviser  and correspondent of
crowned heads ; president of the national council of state;
by  rank and weight of  character the head of the Russian
nobility; the object of reverence  to his compatriots  he is
the last of the great men who upheld and adorned the splen-
did reign of Catharine II., and the first that has had discern-
ment and courage enough, when the  Asiatic cholera inva-
ded the southern  provinces of the empire, to entrust him-
self, h s family, and his numerous peasantry, to the care and
treatment of Homcepathia !   How well this confidence  has
been repaid, will appear from the following, among other
documents, published by him for the interests of humanity, 
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and  for the  pecuniary benefit of " the  free  economical
society" at St. Petersburg.
  No.  1.    Extract from a letter of Madam Lvoff,
to her father,  Admiral Mordvinow,  dated  in the go-
vernment  of Saratow, August 6th,  1831.
  " The  dreadful cholera broke out last month in our own
village and its vicinity with the greatest fury.  My husband
was the first person attacked ; but, thanks to Homcepathia,
was cured in  a few days.   From a  desire to  relieve the
sufferings of humanity,  he  visited  all the places in the
neighbourhood, wherever the disease  raged the most; ad-
ministered the remedies; instructed the  priests  and the
elders  in the use of them; and was whole weeks thus em-
ployed, while I remained at home occupied with the prepa-
ration  of Homoepathic powders.   Four  hundred cholera
patients, saved and restored to perfect health, was the  grati-
fying reward of his  zeal, and the triumphant result of Ho-
moepathic doses, liberally distributed to all who applied for
them.  We are all now so well convinced of the miraculous
power of this system, that we cannot sufficiently deplore
the ignorance that cannot, and still more, the obstinate pre-
judice  that will not invoke its aid,  and thereby rescue rela-
tives and friends from certain death.  The Asiatic cholera,
preceded by terror, ushered in by danger,  and  followed by
desolation, comes now, remains, and departs a harmless thing.
Its cure isin reality easier than that of a fever. Multiplied ex-
periments, and consequent confidence in Homoepathic  treat-
ment, have divested  it of all  its appalling attributes, by sub-
jugating it entirely to the skill of  man.   We had fifty pa-
tients in our own village,  and not one of them died.  On the
estate of my sister-in-law, there were likewise a good  many
cases, but no deaths.  There is also an abundance of reason to
believe, that the fatal termination of the disease, wherever
it occurred,  was occasioned altogether by neglect, want  of
necessary precaution, and deviation from the rules of regi-
men prescribed by Homcepathia.   All the sick who took
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 medicine in strict conformity to the rules, were  saved,  al-
 though some of them  were already in a state of collapse,
 which apparently  precluded all  hope.  In this  last stage
 there were not a few with their teeth clenched so fast, that
 it was necessary to force them open, for the purpose of  in-
 troducing the medicine ; and yet, on the very day following,
 they were relieved  and convalescent!   My good husband,
 from the constant intercourse with  the sick, took the infec-
 tion several times, but in  every instance was restored by a
 few Homoepathic globules.  In short, wo consider ourselves
 perfectly safe from  this dreaded scourge, whatever may be
 its potency and virulence.  The  repeated numerous trials
 have more than satisfied us, that in the presence of Homce-
 pathia, with  its five remedies only,"  {camphor,  veratrum
 album, cupricum metallicum, carbo vegatabilis, and metallum
 album,) " the Asiatic cholera  is not a  mortal disease, and
 still less so when encountered  at the commencement."
  No. 2.   Results of homospathic  treatment of the
Asiatic cholera in 1830  and 1831,  reported to  Admi-
ral Mordvinow from  various places, by public and pri-
vate committees, and the proprietors themselves.
                                           Sick. Cured.  Dead:
" In several villages and hamlets in the government of
  Saratow,.......................................   625   564    61
On the estate of Mr. Lvoff,......do....... do.....   50   50    __
Estate of Mr. Povalishin,........ do.......do.....   38   36    2
  Do.   do. Stalipin,.......... do.......do.....   13   12    1
  Do.   do. Bitiutsky.......... do: ......do.....   19   16    3
  Do.  BaronBode,.............do.......do.....   188   177    11
In the government-city of Saratow...................   39   36    3
In the gymnasium of the same city,..................   20   20
In a village within the possessions of the Don Czacks,.   59   53    6
In two settlements on the Caucasus line,..............   85   67    15
Two estates of Mr.  Tulinew and Poltoratzky, govern-
  ment of Tambou,................................   92   87    5
Estate of Poltoratzky, government of T wer,..........   45   44    1

                                           1273  1162   108 
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   ** N. B. Not a single death has occurred, where Homoe-
pathic treatment was resorted to in the incipient symptoms
of the cholera.  It was also remarked, that all the patients
cured bv Homcepathia, regained, in a very short time, their
former health  and strength; while those  who survived  .
other treatments, were left in a state of weakness, which
lasted for several  months, and but too often terminated in
another disease which proved fatal."
   These  documents, with  the Admiral's  original  work,
" Glance at Homcepathia,"  and his translation of Hart-
laub's celebrated exposition of the same, have been forward-
ed to  the author byjthe Admiral himself, three  years ago,
with a long letter so convincingly instructive, and withal
written so close, and in characters so small, yet legible, that
it  deserves to be mentioned  as an extraordinary production
in itself, being  the autograph of one who has ceased to be
an octogenarian, works almost always by the night-lamp,
and never wears spectacles !  With such vouchers before
him, how can the author refuse his belief in Homcepathia?
But even this authority he can  now dispense with, having
been since convinced by the  irresistible evidence  of  his
own senses.   There have occurred in this very city,  and
within his own personal knowledge, cases of Homoepathic
cure, in serious chronic, and particularly consumptive mala-
dies, which would have made a convert of him in spite of
the strongest resolution to the contrary.  Let but the pub-
lic spirit of inquiry go forth in good earnest, and he hesitates
not to predict, that there will  be many converts besides
himself, among those even, who are desirous and predeter-
mined not to be converted.   Indeed, his task, if he do no
more than give impulse to this spirit,  will have been per-
formed quite  well enough to secure him against all  disap-
pointment on the score of ambition.
   He  will now state, as  briefly and correctly  as he can,
first, the doctrines of Homcepathia; secondly, the principles,
as deduced from those doctrines ; and, lastly, the means of 
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  action, viz:  the minute doses employed  for the restoration
  of health.  Any deficiency or mistake, should he not be able
  to avoid them, will be  easily made  up and corrected  by
  more experienced professional  Homcepathists,  without  di-
% minishing, in the least, his satisfaction of having presented
  to the public an object, not of mere  curiosity, but of vital
  importance, exactly as he sees it, unobscured by a single
  speck of that fictitious mist, which, by the aid of distance,
  has been conjured up to  hide it.  It must be fairly under-
  stood, however, that  he does not hold himself responsible
  for anything, in matter or expression,  objectionable in itself,
  which he may truly give out in the name of Homcepathia ;
  because, in this part of his task, he is not the defender, but
  an interpreter, resolved strictly to adhere to his duty.  An
  arbitrary departure from  this resolution may, perhaps, be
  inferred  against him from the apparent fact, that not a few
  of his positions, as far as he knows, are not to be found any
  where in the same form and  terms,  being, in  truth,  laid
  down for the very purpose of supplying this omission; he
  is  fully  confident,  nevertheless, that, laying apart  some
  minor inaccuracies, already referred to  the proper source
  of correction, he has advanced nothing which is not war-
 ranted by a general comprehensive view of the whole, or
 not in accordance  with the spirit of Homcepathia, diffused
 throughout the "Organon," and other works,  and  thence
 drawn and concentrated into one prominent unit, more easi-
 ly  recognised, and admitting of a more satisfactory defini-
 tion.
   As this is all he intended to do, and  all that was done
 at  first, he is  quite sensible that his subsequent  step beyond
 the bounds prefixed by himself, must expose him to a charge
 of  inconsistency, more  palpable, and too serious to be  left
 without some explanation ; he  begs leave, therefore, to state
 that, having finished his task within the contemplated limits,
 he  became convinced that it could not  be complete without
 including the doctrine of  Psora, so essentially connected 
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with Homcepathia.  This necessarily involved him in an ar-
gument, which, for the special reasons given in their places,
he could not well refuse to a respectable opponent, who, as
far as is known here, has not been answered in Europe ac-
cording to his merits.   The author considers this step, how-
ever, as a solitary instance,  enforced by peculiar circum-
stances, and no wise interfering with his firm resolution not
to enter, or suffer himself to be provoked hereafter into any
discussion of this kind, which belongs more properly to the
professed practical advocate of the new system.   His own
views of the  system can only be right or wrong: if right,
no disputation can make it more so; if wrong, he is ready
to be corrected; and the pledge he has given at the outset,
will be fully redeemed to such of the readers as are dispo-
sed to stop short of Psora, and  thus confine themselves to
the main subject, leaving what follows to stand on its own
detached foundation.
• 
DOCTRINES.
   Death is no disease, but the natural  end of a natural
beginning—the pre-ordained condition of  life, placed from
the first, far and for ever, beyond the ken and  cognizance
of man.  The same may be said of all those irremediable
defects, mal-conformations,  or deformities, preceding  the
birth, which are only deviations from the ordinary form of
existence, but no obstacles to it, and, consequently, no disea-
ses.   In as  much,  then, as  the  primitive law of life  and
death is an abstraction resting on its own immutable, ever-
enduring foundation, inaccessible to the will or skill of man ;
by so much the phenomenon of disease, having no such  dis-
tinct foundation, must be, and can  only take place,  within
the reach of humanity,  where, like  any other  accident, it
may be avoided or prevented, and, on the pledge of either,
may also be removed.  There can be, therefore, no such
thing in reality, as  an incurable disease, as long as the af-
fected organ is not destroyed, or the reparative force of
Nature crushed by  supervening violence.   Thus, then, the
true  art of  healing—such  as Homcepathia aspires to—the
art of conducting a living being safe, and without the agency
of maladyy to the closing scene of old age,—is not only at-
tainable, but consonant to the designs of Providence, which
grants no favours  for the purpose of thwarting them,  and
which, in entrusting the  gift of life to the receiver himself,
must have endowed him at the same time with powers quite
adequate, if  he knows how to use them,  to  preserve  the
trust until the end of its appointed term. 
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  Among the adequate powers, granted by Providence to
preserve this trust, there is none so obvious, efficient, and
easy of adoption, as Temperance in its general sense;  and
no system in medicine can prosper, that has not this special
virtue for its principal basis, or does not adhere to it with
as much tenacity and firmness, as is inseparable from the
very means of action employed by Homcepathia, most  safe
and certain of success in their exalted  state of unity and
comminution, but in the same proportion liable to be seri-
ously affected by any uncalled-for medicinal agent in the
way, and therefore, admitting of no  deviation  in the rigid
observance of a wholesome, nourishing, but simple diet, free
from all ingredients of a higher  quality than that  of mere
nutrition.

  All]theories, leading to no useful practical issues—all at-
tempts to comprehend the incomprehensible,  to discover the
undiscoverable, to unveil  the ever-forbidden  mystery of
" vitality"—the hidden, invisible, immaterial primitive cause
of health as well  as disease, which, even if  known, would
in no degree facilitate the efforts and the obvious task  of a
physician, cannot be too soon renounced, as pernicious chi-
meras, engendered only to perplex the genius of medicine,
by interposing their deceitful glare and  bewildering sha-
dows, between his eagle-eye  and the sun of true science.

  Equally forbidden and  useless is the waste of time and
labour in the pursuit of materiality where it does not exist—
in the vain attempts to trace in the out-breakings  of a dis-
ease its unsubstantial form, and the impenetrable  secret of
its action, without regarding the all-important fact  that
vitality alone, when deranged, gives rise to the disease, and
necessarily imparts to it its own impalpable nature, imaged
in the  mirror  of  intellect, but never to be reached by the
senses: and it follows, of course, that the  remedy, to effect
a successful cure, must be alike impalpable (dynamic) as far 
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 as human art and means are capable of subjecting it to the
 process of sublimation.

   The physician's study must be solely and wholly confi-
 ned to what he  is permitted to know—the actual presence
 of a disease indicated by unerring symptoms, and the choice
 of suitable remedies directed by a positive previous know-
 ledge of their properties and effects.

  In the art of healing, that is, in the application of remedies,
 nothing must be left to conjecture, supposition, or mere in-
 fluence of opinion, but every thing must be done on the au-
 thority of facts  experimentally proved, and fixed upon an
 immoveable  basis.

   Nature can never minister to herself, without great risk,
 and imminent danger; because,  the  greater and  the more
 successful are  her struggles with the  disease immediately
 pressing  upon her, the more she is in the situation of a be-
 sieged general, who, by drawing his forces to one particular
 point of defence, leaves the rest of the fortress exposed to
 fresh and more vigourous attacks, the less likely to be re-
 pelled, as they come from a quarter the least suspected.
 An exception seems to present  itself in  acute  diseases,
 where there is generally a  crisis  and cessation; but  this
 appears to be the  mere result of that  extreme activity in
 the disease itself, which accelerates and brings it to maturity
 soon enough  to  give nature  time to recover from her pros-
trate condition, and to resume the seat  from which she was
 so forcibly displaced.

  Although Nature, when left to herself, cannot in any case
repel her enemy with impunity, yet, when  assisted  in the
right way, she alone is always the real conqueror; the re-
medies being only her auxiliaries—the guardians, not the
 constituent drops, of the mysterious fountain of life. 
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  The notion, that medicines possess in themselves a  po-
sitive healing or curative virtue, powerful enough to exter-
minate disease, is the  popular error of ages, as fatal to  the
progress of medical science, as the fruitless, presumptuous
search after vitality, " vis mediatrix,'" or by whatever name
the inscrutable principle of life may have been designated ;
and the mischief it has already caused, can never be fully
atoned  even by its complete abjuration, demanded in  a
loud voice by the no longer eludible truth, that to dislodge
disease is the only way to overcome it; that there is no such
thing as healing, except in surgical cases; that diseases are
never destroyed, but only removed; and that what is called
cure, is  nothing more than expulsion.

   Whenever two analogous  or similar diseases  happen to
meet together in the same body, they will, if their force be
equal, either disappear by neutralizing each other, or termi-
nate  in a third new one produced by their combination ;
and, if unequal, the weaker will be absorbed by the stronger,
as is often witnessed in cases of pregnancy.

   No local  malady is admitted into the creed of Homce-
pathia; because all  apparently local  morbid indications,
excepting always surgical cases  of external violence, are
only symptoms of a cause  acting  internally,  and to be
treated as such.  Remove the cause, and the  symptoms
disappear at once.   This, too, is the reason why Homcepa-
thia  excludes  the  application of local  remedies, such as
setons, embrocations, caustics, ointments,  etc., etc.,—un-
necessary, because they do  not  reach  the source of  mis-
chief; treacherous, because  they  deceive by a temporary
 relief; and dangerous—the most dangerous when they seem
 most  successful—because the cure they  are supposed  to
 have  effected, is nothing better  than a  forcible  deposit,
 within the centre of the animal system, of all those seeds
 of future diseases, which nature  was engaged, and, but for
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this ill-judged interference,  would have, with  proper aid
succeeded in  throwing out.    External use of sulphur,  for
the diseases of the skin, has laid many a victim in the pre-
mature grave ; yet there is scarcely any thing that will cure
those same diseases with more expedition and safety, than
this  very substance internally given.   Bleeding, blistering,
purging, and vomiting, as remedies, are likewise prohibited;
because they partake of the character of external applica-
tions, and either prostrate nature when she has most need of
all her strength, or distract her active vigilance by multipli-
ed and misplaced irritations, or else, divert her conservative
forces by lateral attacks from the post of danger,  and thus
enable the enemy to enter the breach unmolested.

  As in a well-going clock,  where the mechanism is in per-
fect order, the least change,  produced  by an  unguarded
touch, is a change for  the worse ;  and  as disease,  in all
cases, is nothing else than a disturbance, more or less, of the
internal mechanism, that is, the  healthy (normal) condition
of the body—it follows, of course, that medicine, introduced
into a healthy body, being not an article of food, but a  po-
tential substance, must always  be the immediate  cause of
such' disturbance; and  that  consequently  its operation,
while it lasts, is a positive disease artificially produced, and,
in this alone, differing from the natural, which is beyond  our
influence, and obtrudes itself without our leave and know-
ledge.

  Naturalor primary diseases, although often obstinate and
fatal, and although their causes are beyond our knowledge
and control, are, nevertheless, since  so many escape them,
less certain, uniform,  and regular in  their approach or ag-
gression,  than the artificial or secondary, produced by me-
dicine, invariable in its effect, and, for this very reason, sub-
jected to our command, so that it  may be protracted or 
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shortened, as we may  choose to  continue  or suspend its
action:  hence it is both our advantage and duty to encoun-
ter the natural uncontrollable by the  artificial controllable, and
not to withdraw the latter, until it has matured or absorbed
the other, and thus  afforded a respite to nature, sufficient to
enable her to  expel  the  invader, and resume her wonted
course.

   In order that the natural disease may be matured or ab-
sorbed by the artificial, and thus expelled altogether, the
latter must be of proportionate strength,* and correspond-
ing in sympathy, for which purpose  there must be  a  pre-
vious due examination  and thorough conviction of the spe-
cific virtue of the cause, that is, of the medicine selected for
the occasion.

   As it would be an obvious error  to argue in favour of any
change in the above-mentioned well regulated clock, on the
ground that  a change is both necessary and useful in its de-
ranged state ;  so all conclusions, as to the genuine invaria-
ble quality of  any particular  medicine, would be  equally
unsafe  and erroneous,  if predicated  only on its secondary
benignant influence in the presence of another primary dis-
ease—conclusions which, in spite of their antiquity, are not
more sound than would be an attempt to define the element
of fire exclusively from the comfort it affords : it is evident,
therefore, that the real specific virtue of  a medicine must
be tried, judged, and identified by its effects a priori, not' a
posteriori—by its  aggressive,  (pathogenie,) not  relieving
{thereapeutic) force ;  in the same way as the true nature of
fire is recognised, by its  destructive, not  soothing power;
and, what is true of the one being also true of the other, a
medicine, to be known as it should be, must be known not
  * It must be somewhat stronger, otherwise it acts only as a preventive : thus, the vaccine
prevents, not cures, the small-pox, because the latter is the stronger of the two. 
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 as a slave in our service, but as the master, in the full possess-
 ion and free exercise of his independent powers.

   A previous  thorough knowledge of remedial  forces, in
 their primary  state of  aggression, as  they affect a healthy
 body, not as they relieve its sufferings, is clearly unattaina-
 ble under the  ordinary compound practice;  because, in a
 mixed dose it  is impossible, in case of success, to ascertain
 which of the medicines in particular has produced that suc-
 cess, or what are the respective aggressive as well as cura-
 tive virtues of each,  of more than one, or of all of them in
 combination ;  and  because such practice presupposes a dis-
 tinct individual action  of each ingredient  in  the mixture,
 contrary to the established law of nature, that a  chemical
 union, unavoidable in  this instance, of various substances,
 whether analogous or  dissimilar, always produces a new
 substance entirely  different from  every such  substance in
its state of separation: yet as this knowledge is  absolutely
indispensable,  forming  as it does the very foundation of safe
practice, there exists a manifest necessity for resorting to
the only means by which such knowledge can be obtained—
means so simple and obvious, as to excite no less regret than
astonishment at their baving been so  long overlooked—the
administering  of never  more than one remedy at a time, and
the subjecting  of every special medicine  to the previous test
of analysis and practical examination.

  The essential, aggressive remedial forces  being ascer-
tained, and the agents for producing artificial diseases being
thus secured, it becomes the paramount duty, not only to
find out and to estimate with precision the relative charac-
ter of the artificial to the natural diseases which they have
to combat, but to fix  also on  the best and safest of the only
three modes by which  such agents can  be introduced, and
 which are, Allopathia, (mixed or remote suffering,) the
present  universally adopted  practice; Enantiopathia or 
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 Antipathia, (contra-suffering,) connected  with the prece-
 ding;  and Homcepathia, (similar suffering,) a new comer,
 standing  alone, but in opposition to both.  Allopathia,
 with its arbitrary uncertain mixed doses, promises nothing
 better than some chance-creation of a disease, independent
 in itself, an additional  unwelcome intruder, who will either
 take and  hold more tenaciously the place of the one already
 on the premises, or commence and carry on depredations
 in another quarter on his own account, until  there are no
 more spoils left  for either.  Enantiopathia, whose doses
 are likewise mixed, may produce something like a palliation,
 but no more, unless it be the danger ever lurking in the rear
 of  contending  forces—victory on either side leaving deep
 traces behind.   If  fire overcomes water, the conflagration
 rages  with redoubled force; if  water  proves the victor,
 there is ruin in the inundation.  Homospathia administers
 the  pure  unalloyed medicine  by itself, whose aggressive
 force produces a disease in all respects like the one to be
 removed ; and it would be  difficult to  disprove that she is
 on the right path ; for, whoever has seen forests and prairies
 on fire, knows well that not only fire is best extinguished by
 another,* but, what is of  the first consequence in the prac-
 tice of medicine, this extinction of each other,  divested of
 all posthumous mischief, is effected in less time than could
 be  achieved by the  overwhelming masses of a Niagara:
 nor can the safety of this astonishing operation be sufficient-
 ly appreciated without  contrasting it  with the peril averted
 —the peril of the antagonist-force acting with the same in-
 stantaneous rapidity.   True, this miraculous  rapidity,  so
beneficial  in its own element, and so  destructive out of it,
exists but in the former state, and can only  be  partially ac-
quired in the latter; yet this partial acquisition may become
a power too fearfully disproportionate to be invoked against
* The common expression, "the sun puts out the fire," implies a fact strictly Homoepathic.
•i 
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a local evil: and this is precisely what takes place, more or
less, both in Allopathia and Enantiopathia, where, it is ten
to one, as has been said  already, the friend will prove a
more troublesome and pertinacious guest, than  the  foe he
was invited to assist in driving away.   It is evident, there-
fore, that to command and secure the services of this friend,
with as much advantage  as expedition—to put it out of his
power to do harm, or to be idle in doing good—is the en-
viable privilege of Homcepathia ; and the most that her ad-
versaries can do, is to afford a temporary alleviation, which
is  sure to be followed by the  reaction and increased irrita-
tion of the original disease.

   It being conceded, that in  a healthy body mercury pro-
duces a syphilis ;  sulphur cutaneous diseases ; cinchona an
ague ; ipecacuanna vomiting;  rhubarb  a diarrhoea ; vaccina-
tion a  small-pox ;  and it being a well known fact that the
syphilis is removed by mercury ; cutaneous  diseases by sul-
phur; the ague by  cinchona; vomiting by ipecacuanna;
and the small-pox  prevented  by vaccination; not to men-
tion other similar cases ;  one  cannot but wonder, how the
pregnant truth—that all such least uncertain cures are in the
strictest  sense  Homcepathic—could have so long escaped
the notice of  physicians,  who came quite within its reach,
when they classed the remedies themselves under the head
of specifics, and who actually lay their fingers upon it every
time they prescribe ipecacuanna, for instance, as a tonic in
small, and as a vomitive in large doses !   If, therefore,  this
truth is now disinterred from the lumber of useless learning;
if it be no  longer  questionable that all remedies produce
diseases  in the healthy, and cure such as are analogous to
them in the  morbid state of  the body;  and that every re-
medy is a specific  against a disease whose  symptoms cor-
respond with its own; if,  by extending the specific principle
to  the entire materia medica,  every part of the noble fabric 
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has been strengthened, so as to consolidate the whole, the
merit of the  achievement is due to Homcepathia; and by
this alone, had she done nothing more, she has acquired  a
just and lasting claim to universal respect, and the gratitude
of mankind.

  As true quackery consists either in the attempt to impose
a remedy or  remedies destitute of the virtues ascribed to
them, or in the higher and still more  absurd pretensions to
cure all kinds of maladies by some secret specific; so every
system in medicine which has a specific basis for its founda-
tion, a general uniformly preferred rule of action, a.pre-con-
ceived notion, a pre-established principle to which the treat-
ment of diseases must be accomodated—and there is scarcely
one of them, from the Sangradian to the Brunonian, that does
not in some measure partake of this character—must be more
or less a modification of quackery, with this only difference in
its favour, and against the patient, that it is almost irrespon-
sible, endowed with impunity,  and empowered to dispose
of human life  at pleasure.   Homcepathia, therefore, if  a
system  at all, is the only one untainted with quackery, in-
asmuch as it has no other basis to stand upon but the de-
struction of quackery, privileged as well as tolerated, by her
rejection of all specific systems whatsoever.
  The organism of life, as far as its phenomena present
themselves to our observation—such for example as the
growth  of grass quickened  by the scythe, of  hair by the
razor, or of  young shoots by the pruning knife, is unques-
tionably endowed with that spring-like elasticity, which re-
coils upon itself from the blow, and with increasing vigour
returns  to repair the  injury done; and it is here that we
find an additional reason, and a satisfactory explanation of
the fact, that natural  or primary diseases are  removed by
such  only artificial or secondary, as are the nearest assimi-
lated in their character and symptoms : for  here the slight-
est  touch (any blow would be too much) bearing directly 
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on the part already affected, provokes  it into action, and
excites its recoiling as well as repulsive energy to a point,
at which both diseases, or rather two in one,  the natural
being matured or  absorbed  by the artificial, give way and
disappear, as soon  as the stimulating cause in the  form of
medicine  is withdrawn; and it is quite clear that this re-
sult cannot be  produced either by the Allopathic or Anti-
pathic processes, because, in either, the touch would be  a
blow, and the blow itself would fall  on  some other part of
the spring, where, if too light, it would not be felt, if strong
enough, or too  strong, would only press too much  in the
wrong place, and weaken the whole, so as to frustrate  all
efforts to effect a cure: and if now and then have appeared
some favourable exceptions, they were owing either  to the
reaction of the vital spring in spite of remedies, or  to the
unsuspected, chance-directed application of specific  Ho-
moepathic principles.  ,  Thus,  then, the  all-important fact,
" the  like cure the like," espied but not pursued by several
eminent physicians, and  practised, without  being known,
by the ignorant peasant, whenever he rubs  the frost-bitten
part with snow, holds the burnt finger to the fire, or  thaws
frozen provisions  in  cold water, is at length triumphantly
established by  Homcepathia; and full well has she won the
right to wear on her  shield  the motto of " similia similibus
curantur." 
PRINCIPLES.
   The foregoing doctrines, comprising, as it is believed, the
whole theory of Homcepathia, naturally resolve themselves
into certain fixed principles, considered as axioms, which
serve as  guides and rules in practice, and which  may be
summed  up as follows:                       f

   Human skill fails in  the presence of death, not  because
this  skill is powerless  against diseases, but because death
is no disease.

  Natural deformity, when incurable, is so not as a contin-
gent cause  of disease, but as a state of being not incompati-
ble with  health, and consequently not a disease in  itself.

  To keep  off death until the natural termination of old age,
is the requisite perfection of  the healing  art.

  No disease is incurable, which is  not preceded by a  de-
struction of the organ  affected, or a prostration  of vital
power.

  The  power of curing all diseases that are really such, is
not only  attainable, but implied in the very gift of  life.
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  Medicine, the curing power,  can only be sustained by
Temperance, the health-preserving power.

  The best of curative systems is that which, from its very
nature, stands on the exclusive  basis of temperance, and
of necessity can have no other.

  The principle of vitality is forbidden to our knowledge,
and useless if known.

  Vitality, whatever else it may be, is the source of that
elastic, recoiling and reactive power, with which the animal
organism is so perceptibly endowed

  Vitality, whenever  deranged,  becomes the source  of
disease.                  •

  Disease, the effect of deranged vitality, partakes of the
impalpable nature of the cause.

  The impalpable can only be cured by the impalpable.

  Disease, as it reveals itself by its symptoms, is  the sole
legitimate object of the physician's study.

  Absolute certainty, as regards the nature and effects  of
remedies, is the only principle  on which they are  to be ad-
ministered.

  Nature,  unassisted,  is incapable of self-cure otherwise
than at the risk of exposure to new maladies.

  Nature, assisted, is the sole agent that effects the cure.

  Nature requires no other aid than what is necessary to 
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 insure, and gives her time to profit by the reaction of that
 mysterious, elastic organism of life, over which she  pre-
 sides alone.

   Medicines have no healing or curative power in them-
 selves.

   There is no such thing as local malady, disconnected from
 surgical cases, brought on by extraneous violence.

   Cure is  merely an expulsion of disease.

   Two or more similar diseases cannot co-exist in the same
 body.

   The stronger of the co-existent diseases, whether it be ar-
 tificial or natural, will absorb the weaker.

   The cause alone, remote or immediate, as far as it can be
 traced, not the  symptoms, is the true  object  of medical
 treatment.

   Disease  is  a disturbance of the healthy functions of the
 body.

   Every medicine disturbs the ordinary healthy functions,
 and consequently produces a disease.

   All remedies produce  diseases in the healthy, and cure
the like in  the morbid state of the body.

   Artificial diseases, caused by medicine, must be of requi-
site strength,  and always analogous to  the natural,  which
are to be removed. 
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  Natural diseases are less certain and uniform in their ag-
gression and operation than the artificial, and thence, ad-
vantageously controlled by the latter.

   Aggressive, not curative quality, is the only index of a
remedial power.

  The true index of a remedial power can only be obtained
from the use of one medicine at a time.

  Nothing, internal or external, that is possessed of medi-
cinal virtue, must be  allowed to interfere, by admixture or
near vicinity, with the medicine administered singly.

  Mixed or compound doses are absolutely inadmissible.

  All true remedies are specifics.

  Every remedy  is specific against disease which  resem-
bles the one produced  by itself.

  The action of each remedy has its own special period of
duration, with  certain  hours, atmospheres, temperatures,
and even bodily positions,  particularly adverse or favoura-
ble to it, and, therefore, rigidly  to be observed.

  Bleeding, blistering,  purging  and vomiting, as remedies,
are worse than useless, and, like other external applications,
not to be employed.

  Disease, when at its height or  crisis, is brought  to full
muturity by its  own ouer-action, while passive nature has
strength enough to withstand the shock. 
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  Disease cannot survive its  own maturity, and for that
reason is made to reach this point, by aggravation and ab-
sorption, before it has destroyed the organism of life.

  Timely acceleration  of disease  to maturity, is the true
and the only mode of effecting a cure by expulsion.

  The timely acceleration  can be performed in  no other
way,  than  by union and co-operation  of the artificial with
the natural disease.

  All diseases, without exception, are cured: that is, expel-
led, on the great principle, involving all others,  " The like
cure the like," or similia similibus curantur. 
THE MEANS  OF  ACTION  OR  DOSES.
  The artificial or secondary disease, produced  by medi-
cine, being always such as to bear directly upon the organ
affected by the natural or primary disease which is to be
removed;  and the  sensibility of this particular organ being
consequently more excitable than that of any other, it was
soon found that scarcely any touch could be applied here
with sufficient delicacy and caution: and hence the origin
and explanation of those minute Homoepathic doses, which,
necessarily regulated  by imperceptible  augmentations of
morbid ascendancy on one hand, and  the requisite  corres-
ponding diminutions of pressure on  the other,  have been
gradually attenuated  almost beyond  the  reach  of  human
calculation.  The tyrant, defying all open attacks, has been
made to yield to that soft, insinuating, sympathetic force,
operative in proportion to its sublimation, which penetrates
in an instant to his strongest hold, lulls him asleep, and at
the physician's command, delivers him up a fettered, harm-
less captive.
  That the decillionth part of agrain.be the medicine what
it may, should have the power to expel a formidable disease,
is certainly an operation at once  wonderful and  incompre-
hensible ; yet, that  it  is actually performed, no better guar-
antee can be produced  than Homcepathia herself, who, as 
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 has been shown already, wastes no time upon mysteries—
 watches and  studies  facts alone, and does  nothing at
 hazard.  Morever, as the fundamental principles and doc-
 trines on which she has built her edifice, can be nowise im-
 paired by any imperfection imputed  to her  doses,  which
 are only her working tools; and  as both policy and con-
 venience would dictate to her the employment of large or-
 dinary doses, as the best possible mode of shutting up the
 principal armory from  which her opponents  draw their
 weapons of offence against her, it  is to be presumed that
 nothing  short  of conviction could have  induced her  to
 adopt and persevere in the opposite course; and this is really
 the case.
   Experience has soon taught her, that, although large or-
 dinary doses produce, in a healthy body, their  characteristic
 diseases, fully developed and identified : yet  that  they do
 not only fail, when brought to act in their secondary cura-
 tive capacity  against  similar diseases pre-occupying the
 ground to be  contested; but that the failure, paradoxical
 as  it may seem, is owing entirely to  their being both too
 strong and too weak—too  strong, because the superfluous
 bulk and weight of  matter deposited by them,  presses too
 much upon the affected organ, and aggravates the disease
 beyond the point required; and too weak, because the irri-
 tation, thus produced, communicates itself too soon to the
 other parts -of the organism, whereby the whole is ejected
 by the alimentary canal or otherwise, before it had time to
 perform its office as to the disease  present, whatever mis-
 chief it may have done in other respects : and this is a suffi-
cient solution of the apparent difficulty—much derided and
insisted upon by the adverse party—of reconciling the ex-
treme lightness  with the  signal potency of  Homoepathic
doses.
  There can be no doubt that this difficulty was serious, and
must have appeared  at one time insurmountable; but Ho- 
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moepathia, or rather he whose child and representative she
is, and who must  be understood  whenever her name  is
mentioned, overcame it by one of those inspirations which
belong to genius alone.   She bethought herself of trituration
in solids, and agitation in  fluids, and the wonder was done !
The remedial essence, thus disengaged from gross and inert
matter—subtle, quick, elastic, tenacious, and almost allied to
vitality, sprung at once to the seat of disease, breathed gently
but effectually upon the wound, fastened upon the wounder,
and held him passive, spell-bound, till the concentrated react-
ing energy of the organism  has struck him in its turn, and hurl-
ed him from the citadel of health!   Such is the untangible,
or, as it is technically termed, dynamic power of these mi-
nute doses!  It seems not only infinitely ductile,  but  al-
most  indestructible; since the point at which it ceases to
act has not yet been reached, although two celebrated Ho-
moepathists, Hartman of Germany, and Korsakoff of Rus-
sia, have pushed the process of attenuation to the utmost ex-
treme ; the latter,  in particular, by experiments upon five
thousand persons, has carried this process to the  one hun-
dred and  fiftieth dilution of three hundred O's to the unit,
without eliciting any other result than the assurance of the
presence  of its insinuating faculty, rendered,  if possible,
still more  searching!
  The foregoing exposition may well seem fanciful, since
any attempt to  obtain  what  is inexplicable  must  needs
wear  that aspect; yet it  is certain,  that this  mysterious
power is reflected in many images which nature daily pre-
sents to our contemplation.  The spider's exquisite  and  al-
most endless fibre, compressed within the globule of a grain,
yet strong enough to hold up his own weight, with  all his
weaving stores, and the suspended prey besides; the stroke
of the serpent's fang that destroys life; the drop of Prussic
acid,  that prostrates an   elephant;  the  scarcely  visible
speck of morbid matter on the  lancet's point, that conveys 
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disease  and death  itself  into  our veins; the pestilential
miasm, that viewless  sweeps  along, and strews the earth
with the unmourned,  unburied dead ; the first  perceptible
ray of the  sun,  that  strikes the  earth  with  the crushing
velocity of one hundred million miles in  eight minutes, and
yet is so attenuated as to be scarcely felt; the steam that
is rarified even to freezing, yet still rising in  strength; the
galvanic spark that melts  platina, and gives the shock  to a
thousand beings at once; the electric flash that splits the
rocks ; the magnetic spell that controls the obedient needle ;
the baleful light that blasts the stout but careless  sleeper
beneath the Equatorial moon; the torpedo, that, at a touch,
paralizes the arm of the hardy  fisherman; the boundless
diffusion of odour;  the fainting produced by the  presence
of a flower ; the smell by which one detects the unseen ob-
ject of his antipathy; the scent  by which the dog traces
his absent and far-distant master ; the instinctive sight, thai,
from a distant, unfamiliar region, guides  the carrier-pigeon
straight to his home; the strange but exact presension of
winds,  rains,  and  all atmospheric changes, which  distin-
guishes several animals, and occasionally man himself; the
unknown, but well authenticated influence upon the nerves
of stone and metal amulets worn  about the body ;  the  sud-
den, unperceived, but often certain blow of death, that comes
from terror, grief, and even joy itself; and, lastly, the mar-
vel of animal  magnetism  vouched for by the most  respec-
table medical  authorities: are so many manifestations, ex-
emplifications, and evidences of the active, penetrating ele-
ment of imponderous Homoepathic doses.
  But the most striking illustration, on account of its close
analogyand distinctness,  is the  well known  ductility of
gold, one grain of  which,  as seems to have been demon-
strated by Reaumer,  can  be expanded into a leaf, impervi-
ous to light and water, yet large enough  to cover a house !
The leaf being a  solid body, and, as such, divisible into its
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minutest particles,  it will be found, that more than one of
these particles, palpable to the senses, are actually present
in the highest Homoepathic dilation of this metal.  More-
over, who doubts, that each millionth part of a  Homoepa-
thic grain or drop, one being equal to the other, can be sup-
plied, not with atoms,  but with organized  living beings,
from  one drop of water?  Who disputes the mathematical
position, that an entity can never pass into non-entity: that
a something cannot  be reduced to nothing, and that matter,
at the extremest point of divisibility, still leaves some rem-
nant  behind 1  Who, because unable to realize, will deny
the possibility so indispensable to the perfection of the laws
of equilibrium, of balancing a huge rock  so that the addi-
tional weight of a single fly will overturn it ?  Belief, then,
is not always credulity,  nor scepticism a mark of wisdom.
The  most active imagination would try  in vain to measure
that minimum portion of a drop, which first insinuates itself
into the heart of a  solid mass capable of being decompo-
sed by water; yet,  that such is the commencement of the
work of decomposition, no rational philosophy will permit
itself to question.   It would be scarcely less difficult to  fix
the  size or weight of a spark struck from the flint:  yet, of
what mighty mischief it is  the source and cause, we have
the painful confirmation in cities laid in  ashes, and millions
of lives suddenly  and prematurely destroyed.
  It is a self-evident  truth, that constituents cannot impart
to their integer  any  quality not possessed originally in them-
selves.  If atoms, therefore, exert so much power in combi-
nation, which, by the by, is all we know of them besides the
name, by what crooked ways of a logic, erected upon our
own ignorance, can we  conduct the mind  to the gratuitous
conclusion, that they  are powerless,  when separated from
each other ?  Should not sound reasoning lead us rather to
the opposite conclusion, that power is inherent in them, and
that,  in proportion  as it retrogrades towards  the primitive 
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state of unity, it becomes certainly less ponderous, over-
whelming, and irresistible—but for this very reason, more
elastic, insinuating, and operative,  even as the primary fi-
bres, when detached from the main artificial or natural body,
gain in fineness what they lose in bulk, or as the keen point
of a small sword  penetrates far deeper than the  axe, and
by its very lightness becomes  more effective?  If  this be
not so, what  is there  in  a slight  touch, or a  momentary
breath, that conveys the plague from one person to another ?
What is it, but a transmissible and transitive  atom, evolved
from the infection in a high state of fermentation, diffusion,
and exhalation ?  That such is really the case, and that the
principle, adopted  in  this instance by Homcepathia, is the
true one, acted upon and thereby sanctioned by nature, the
following, as presented by herself,  is a conclusive evidence:
   The genuine virus  of Hydrophobia,  which, according to
Dr. Marochetti,*  is concentrated  in one or  more pustules
under the tongue, of the size of a pin's head, has not yet, as
far as is known, been extracted, and added to the materia
medica, and consequently, has never yet been detected, seen,
or exposed to  practical  investigation; and  to  identify it,
as has been done, with the saliva of a rabid animal, is to invest
a vulgar error with the dignity  of a science.   What then
is this saliva, the well known medium of infection?  It is
the constant distinguishing sign, more or less obtrusive, of
the convulsed agitation of the nerves, and, of course, most
fearful and unsightly,  when the nerves are acted upon with
concentrated  virulence  by the  most  potent  of diseases.
That it  is to a certain degree impregnated with  poison,
there can be no question ; but that there is  any particular
affinity or reciprocal  attraction in the case, is, to  say the
 * Vide the "'Letter on Hydrophobia," published in the Courier and Enquirer, of August,
6th, 1836, where Dr. Marochetti's account of the Ukranian mode of treating Hydrophobia
is given in detail. 
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least, very doubtful.  To no pre-eminence of malignity in
itself, but solely to its proximity and immediate connection
with the chief instrument of  execution, the tooth, it is ob-
viously indebted for the undeserved distinction of  being the
chosen favourite vehicle of the fell destroyer.   Its capacity
to receive and to propagate the virus may increase with the
emission of its own quantity, rising with the excited action
of the glands; but whatever it thus contains, can only be a
portion of that extreme  dilution, which has reached every
part of the  frame, and probably rendered all other secre-
tions, if infused into a wound, equally fatal.  In  short, the
saliva is truly, distinctly,  in every respect, and in  the strict-
est sense,  a Homoepathic preparation, elaborated  in the
pharmacy of nature!  Divide it as you please,  and into as
many parts  as possible, it will  give  but so many Homoe-
pathic doses, in a state of comminution to which  Homcepa-
thia herself is comparatively a stranger.   How infinite must
needs be their attenuation, the most resolute effort of  con-
jecture is baffled by the  astounding fact, that even of the
minute portion conveyed by the tooth, much is lost  by the
friction before reaching  the wound,  although the virus, so
inconceivably diluted, when it first entered the system, was
itself an atom,  emanating, through a series of the like in-
termediate atoms and dilutions, from that  original source,
which is itself a mystery  not yet solved, and not likely to be
so.  Well!—To unbelievers, who form  the great majority
of the multitude, the idea of such attenuation will probably
be quite acceptable as a  subject of merriment and derision ;
and not a few of them may, perhaps, go so far as to declare
that there is no danger at all from a poison, which, accord-
ing to their notion, cannot possibly survive so much  waste,
amounting to downright  annihilation : if so, are they wil-
ling and ready to prove  their sincerity ?   Will  they  dare
the trial ?   Will the bravest of them bare his arm to the
lancet dipped in this infinite  dilution?   No.   They know 
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better.   They know that the least absorption of the least
portion that can sustain itself on the invisible point, will raise
a  burning  lava in  their  veins, extinguished but with life.
Their stoutest, lion-hearted men will shrink with terror from
the perilous attempt.     And  yet, this  fearful thing in  the
hands of Homcepathia, is  but  a safe  and  useful remedy,
which  she well knows how to employ.
   Illustrations, however, are  no longer needed.   These mi-
nute doses are now questioned only by the uninformed, or
such as  are loth to lose so favourite a point of attack.  Their
potency has been fully acknowledged by all those who have
tried them, even when there  was  no  predisposition  to  be
convinced.    Dr. Duringe, one of the ablest  argumentative
opponents of Homcepathia, not only admits this potency in its
full extent, and cites cases in which he has proved it himself,
but he affirms farther, that there are few men strong enough to
bear one whole grain, or even half a grain of a Homoepathic
dose. " Un malade ne doit prendre ni plus ni moins que la
dose prescrite, et il faut remarquer qu'il n'existe que trespeu
d'individus assez robustes pour supporter la dose d'un grain,
ou meme d'une demi-grain."*
  * Vide page 73. " L'Homajpathy, nouveau system en medicine, ses advantages et ses dan-
gers, par le Dr. Duringe, membre de l'Universite de Goettung, & cet.—For cases and  proofs,
vide ibidem, pages 78,99,113 & 134.
  Dr. Duringe goes still farther, and actually challenges the unbelievers to try the Hydropho-
bic virus in the manner proposed : so that, next to Hahnemann himself, and Admiral Mordvi-
now, Homcepathia is indebted to this very professed, but at times liberal opponent, for some
of the mo'st convincing illustrations presented now to .the reader, of the potency of Homoe-
pathic doses.
  If, notwithstanding all these authorities, a seeing and believing proof,  one nearer at hand,
should still be insisted upon, it is furnished in a recent experiment made upon himself by Dr.
Elliot, the distinguished oculist of this city, whose casual information upon the subject of Ho-
mcepathia went just far enough to excite his curiosity, and fix him in the rejection  of all belief
in minute Homoepathic doses. Subsequent discussions, appealing to his liberality and sense
of justice, had induced him to ascertain the truth by a better and more conclusive ovidence
than that of his own previous incredulity, a practice  so general among the opponents of the
new system ;  and he resolved to judge and decide by the test of his own feelings and sensations.
Common charcoal, for the very reason that it is a well known harmless substance, taken with
impunity at discretion, was selected for the trial, and given him in pills of the 4th degree  of 
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   It would be unjust to omit here other essential advanta-
ges which Homcepathia derives from her doses, and which
cannot be realized by any  other known system  whatever.
First, the extreme smallness of the  dose permits its  being
so completely disguised, and made palatable, that the most
feeble, delicate, and irritated  stomach  retains it, while  the
most wayward child, and even the infant at the  breast, will
swallow it with avidity ;  secondly, the strength  of the dose
being  always in the inverse ratio of the strength of the dis-
ease, the greater the danger  to  be  encountered, the less
chance is there of doing harm by any error in  the  choice
of medicine, which, in such case, has no effect at all;  third-
ly, the wrong medicine being  always recognised  by  its
want of effect, and not by its injury, it may be changed with
perfect safety to the  patient, until  the  right  one  is found,
and  the relief obtained ;  and, fourthly, all irritating, tor-
menting, external applications, or auxiliary remedies, being
dispensed with, the patient is relieved of all those extrane-
ous sufferings, which, in addition  to the pains of disease, are
generally inflicted by the system now in vogue and  general
practice :  so that to the main salutary efficacy of these doses
must be  superadded the extreme facility in administering
them—the absolute impossibility of doing harm by mistake—
the auspicious certainty of applying at last the proper rem-
edy, and a total exemption of the patient from all accessory
trouble, personal inconvenience, and needless torture.
dilution, that is, each pill containing one X millionth part of a grain of charcoal, three of them
to be taken every day, and the whole in the course of six ! ! Great indeed was his astonishment,
when in spite of his resolution to go on, he found himself compelled to stop on the fourth day;
for by this time the overpowering effect of what, he had already taken, was quite sufficient, and
painfully so, to convince him of tho extreme danger of advancing farther.  In short, he was
perfectly  satisfied, and so would be any one who is not a wilful rebel ageinst the paramount
principle, that condemnation should follow, not precede the trial.  It is to be hoped that this
experiment, stated with the Doctor's permission, will, in this city at least, fully establish the
efficacy of these minute doses, and, as this is the only point in dispute, the credit of Homce-
pathia, and her claim to something more substantial than a dream, or at best, a word of prom-
ise to the ear alone. 
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   This is not all.  The  strict  exclusion  of all medicinal
substances capable of interrupting the effects of doses so ex-
tremely delicate, such particularly as alcohol in all its modi-
fications, required by Homoepathic  treatment,  and cheer-
fully submitted to by the patient in his natural anxiety for
health, brings on insensibly a change of habit for the  bet-
ter, which, once acquired, is apt to be retained forever after,
as has often been the case with habitual drunkards and to-
bacco consumers, tobacco being likewise an article  strictly
forbidden ; so  that  Homcepathia goes hand  in hand  with
temperance,  and is a host within herself, having the power
to achieve more in this good cause in  one month, than can
be done by a temperance society in a whole year, or by all
the societies  together in a given period of time.  Surely a
system, possessed of such accumulated and highly important
advantages over all others, deserves at least to be well un-
derstood before it is  rejected !
   As to the precise manner in which these diminutive atonic
doses  operate upon the animal  system,  Homoepathists
themselves do not even pretend to be  acquainted with it.
They see  the effect, and they require no  more.  With the
worthy author* of the " Glance at Homcepathia," I consider
the operation  in question as that of  " Inoculation ;" but
inoculation, however familiar in name,  is itself a mystery,
and this is all that will ever be known of it by the  wisest
of men.   We must needs be content with our ignorance in
this respect, as we are  with our excellent old planet—the
limits of both being  impassable.
* Mordvinow. 
PSORA.
  Psora, although intimately connected with Homcepathia,
and directly emanating from it, is, nevertheless, a subse-
quent discovery of Hahnemann's, distinct in itself.   He had
observed, for  some time,  that chronic diseases in particu-
lar often resisted  the salutary effect of well approved, and,
in every respect, well chosen Homoepathic medicines, which
in ordinary circumstances, where similar  diseases were in
their  primary state, independent  of other causes—acted
with their uniform success, and with  all the  certainty of
specifics.  To a mind so daring, indefatigable, and exhaust-
less in resources, this obstacle, which would have  sunk any
other into utter despair, was but an additional spur to ac-
tion ; and accordingly, after years of intense study, his sus-
picion was directed to the probable existence  of  some re-
mote original  cause,  itself invisible,  but producing  from
time to  time, whenever roused  into action,  various chronic
diseases, which, though seemingly distinct, are, in reality, its
own extended modifications, exhibited under different forms
and aspects.   The suspicion being once excited,  the trail
was soon found and followed up with tenacious  sagacity,
until the labyrinth of the yet hidden mysteries of nature was
still farther explored,  and the perseverance  of search re-
warded by the discovery of three individual principles, in a
certain  sense permanent, some of which are present in  most,
if not all constitutions—sometimes insinuating themselves 
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from  without, and sometimes internally transmitted from
generation to generation, and often dormant, quiescent, and,
in the absence of particular excitement, undetected, and
not even suspected during the whole term of life.
   These are Sycosis, Syphilis, and Psora.   The last is  the
only one now under consideration ; for, besides being espe-
cially denounced as the representative of the other two, its
paramount importance is attested  by  Hahnemann himself,
who imputes to  it eight tenths of all the obstinate chronic
diseases with which poor humanity is afflicted.  He has de-
tected its secret  operation in many instances, and traced it
back to the primitive ages.  He explains it to be the itch-
principle, gives it the technical name of Psora, and proves
its indentity with the ancient leprosy, which,  although less
apparent in our  days, has never yet ceased  to exist.  He
maintains that not only the pervading presence of this mor-
bific element is to be feared and suspected,  where remedies
fail of effect, but that the very progress  of civilization, fur-
nishing whole communities with better means for  its  ap-
parent subjugation, has  placed the succeeding generations
more and more at its mercy.  As long as nature  can drive
this enemy to the outer walls, and keep there his bannered
forces, so long the struggle may be continued with compara-
tive  safety to the seat of life ; but the moment  any addi-
tional, well-intentioned, but mistaken influence enables these
forces to re-enter, the struggle, which appears suspended, is
in reality given up in favour of the invader ;  and the seem-
ing cessation is nothing else than the interval afforded him
to plot new and  more serious aggressions, to concoct and
concentrate his  multifarious poisons, and  to  diffuse  them,
now that there is no  outlet to the  surface,  through  all the
interior paths and, inmost recesses of the human frame.
   Thus,  the  lacerated  skin of  the  ancients, covered
with disgusting foulness, and irritated to torture, was a pro-
tection to the vital power within ;  while with us, the clean
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exterior, kept  free  of unsightly  eruptions by improved
artificial means, is a shelter for  the malignant, deep-seated
Polypus, whose arms, when extruded and  lopped of their
extremities, turn to self-reproduction, and  set at nought all
the power and resources of the healing art.  The outward
suffering of old, was the price of inward security^; our  ap-
parent  security,  the  pledge of internal  disorder.  Lep-
rosy was then a polluting Harpy, preying on all the visible
decencies of social and private life ;  now it is the ravenous
Promethean vulture, chained to the heart, and feeding upon
the entrails.
   Such is the doctrine of Psora ; and, that it is not without
foundation, may be inferred from the success  with which
this miasm  has been combatted by  suitable remedies  de-
nominated anti-psoric, and forming a part of the same dis-
covery, which otherwise would  have been  useless.   It may
be well supposed that Hahnemann was not likely to content
himself with the abstract honour of solving a mystery, or of
illustrating  some theoretic point, leading  to  no  practical
benefit.  He drew forth an occult evil, not for the purpose
of exhibiting it as a specimen of his skill  and  penetration,
but in order to lay it bare to the paralizing touch of medi-
cine, and he rested not, until this object  also  was  fully at-
tained.
   The annunciation of this discovery was  a signal for new
attacks, more than ever fierce and determined ; and Psora
became the rallying point of all the inveterate enemies, great
and small, of Homcepathia.  Dr. Duringe, otherwise a  fair
adversary, who has already been quoted, assails this new
doctrine with unqualified denunciations and gratuitous as-
sertions, with ridicule, and at the same time with bitterness,
which impair all his former professions  and indications of
liberality, justice and moderation.  He has persuaded him-
self that this is the weakest and  vulnerable part of his great
antagonist,  and. with no charitable spirit, is determined to 
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probe to the utmost the wound which  he thinks he has in-
flicted.  In his  imagination  he bestrides the  noble sire of
Homcepathia, all bridled and tamed to his purpose, and plies
his spurs without  mercy or a moment's relaxation.  He for-
gets, however, that there is a trunk to sweep down,  and a
foot to crush, even the mighty lion, seeking to plant him-
self on the back of an elephant !
  How far the present aspirant has escaped the  trunk and
the foot in his fancied elevation, may be  judged from what
follows—not as a deviation  from the avowed  resolution to
adhere strictly to the  office  of interpreter, and avoid  all
discussion wher£  facts should speak for themselves ;  but as
an exception authorized and demanded by the double  call of
]\istlce,first to allow a witness, the professed opponent, who
has already been summoned in favour of the cause, to give
the rest of his testimony against it ;  and  secondly, not  to suf-
fer objections to derive any fictitious force,  not possessed in
themselves, from the previous comparatively liberal admis-
 sions and confessions. 
DR.  DURINGE'S  OBJECTIONS.
   As far as it can be extracted and compressed into a few
 words, the unfavourable part of  the deliberate judgment of
 Dr. Duringe, pronounced in a tone of decision, and asserted
 to be the result of personal experience and practice, is that
 Homcepathia, although  fully entitled to be engrafted on the
 old stock as a new branch, never can, and never will realize
 her lofty pretensions, inasmuch as she falls short of Allopa-
 thia in effective power and fertility of resources; degrades the
 dignity of intellect and science; is wavering and fallible, un-
 satisfactory and unsafe; limited in her operations; based upon
false assumptions; supported by a denial ofcorrect principles;
 depending on contradictory caprices, and faithless to herself.
 Consequently, so far from  being the true exclusive system,
 capable of uprooting and replacing all others, Homcepathia,
 overloaded  as she is by the paternal hand, has no strength
 to sustain herself alone, and must soon pass away, like  the
phantom of Psora, with which it has been so unfortunately
 associated.
   For the sake of conveniency, the  arguments in support
 of this judgment will be considered and answered in sub-
 divisions; and the author has to renew his former declara-
 tion, that, although for the  reasons just  mentioned, he has
 allowed  himself, in this  only instance, to deviate into a  line 
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of defence, "he does not hold himself responsible" for the
temper of  the weapons which Homcepathia has placed in
his hands, and left him  no choice but to use them.

                       Argument.

  Homcepathia falls short of Allopathia in effective power
and fertility of resources ; because the latter makes use of
more decisive means, and, instead of tyeing, like Homcepa-
thia, restricted to one mode of proceeding, ranges at large—
employs  without hesitation  all  known kinds of treatment,
internally or  externally,  as  may  seem most eligible; and
has remedies at command to multiply the chances of cure,
not only by their abundance, but, what is  of the  highest
importance, by their infinite  variety of combination.

                       Comment.

  No one will dispute that Allopathia sticks at nothing, and
has a summary process, her own par excellence, of disposing
of her patients ;  but the question is not what kills but what
saves; and the last, being the greater power, and the only
one in requisition, reverses the decision in favour of Homce-
pathia, to  which it  belongs also par excellence.   As to  the
comparative  fertility of resources,  with regard to which
both systems are or may be  in the same position, the ques-
tion again is not which  has the most, but which employs  the
most—which is the first on the road of certitude, which is
the  last on the path of discovery: and any one acquainted
with the  course and practice of either, will decide  at once
where the preference ought to be  given.
  The boasted advantage of various  other modes of treat-
ment, and of all those high-sounding expedients, which, clas-
sified under the different heads of astringents,  emollients-,
diaphoretics, and the like, form so cabalistical and imposing 
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a nomenclature, might well be envied as insuring the pre-
eminence claimed, were it really an advantage, and were it
not that Homcepathia  rejects it,  not because she cannot
reach it,  but because she has found it, by repeated experi-
ence, to be a positive evil; and because, preferring what is
sure to what is doubtful, she contents herself with the choice
of a method on which alone she can always rely for success.
She has no need of palliatives, and accepts of none for the
best possible reason, that she deals only in curatives—opium
itself in her hands being  compelled to cure, while the only
services  it performs for  the old school, are  alleviation or
death.
   The learned Doctor, more than once, in the course of his
work, alludes  with unqualified approbation to that unique
elevated prerogative of Homcepathia, by which " she can do
no harm:" therefore, as he admits at the same time and de-
fends, to their full extent, the aggressive as well as curative
potency of Homoepathic doses, tried and proved by his own
practice, and depending altogether on the use of one medi-
cine at a time, not weakened or diverted by any accessory
whatever ; and as he acknowledges, moreover, the benefit
of discoveries contributed  by her to the general stock of
medicine, to  be such as  ought to have contented her with
the honour thus  acquired, it is quite clear  that  he  is the
best possible witness against himself, and that the whole of
the argument, with the position it was intended to support,
is completely and triumphantly refuted by himself.

                       Argument.

   Homcepathia degrades the dignity of intellect and science;
because she checks the higher aspirations of the mind,  brings
it down to the earth, when it fains to soar on the track of
the mysterious spirit of  Eternity, and plants it by the sick 
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bed, to watch like the humble nurse, or to note like the plod-
ding clerk,  symptoms after symptoms, always  symptoms,
and nothing but symptoms ; so  that a mere matter-of-fact
proceeding is substituted for profound study, the rationale
of medicine—that which requires the interposing and gui-
ding agency of reason—subjected to the contracted domin-
ion of the senses, and the noble science  itself, divested  of
all its conceptive, imaginative, and speculative attributes, is
reduced to  a  mere mechanical occupation.

                       Comment.

   If there be any point in pathology  higher on the scale of
professional study than these same toujours perdris symp-
toms, the discovery has yet to be made and pointed out for
the benefit of the uninformed.  What is it that the sick require
of a physician ?  Is it a learned and eloquent discourse on the
nature of diseases in general,  or is it the experienced eye
that detects the  special disease, and the no less experienced
hand that applies the right remedy ?  When the ship is ready
for sea, it is not the astronomer, but the  practical  seaman
that is  wanted for a commander, and if both should  be uni-
ted in  one person, so much the better; but, of the two apart,
we listen to the first, and sail with the second.
   The child of genius and inspiration, Homcepathia, cannot,
if she would, descend to a lower region, and inhale a grosser
atmosphere,  than what were assigned to her at her birth ;
and the true dignity of science, identified with herself, can-
not be  more effectually vindicated, than by her  refusing to
recognise as such the dreaming alchymy, that, in the illusive
search of the elixir of immortality, in the fruitless  attempt
to discover forbidden secrets, useless if discovered, has for
so many centuries diverted a  mass of human intelligence
from the pursuit of truth,  wasted a world of mental labour,
and produced that very retrograde, rather than progressive 
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state of medical science which it is her main object to advance,
and against the  errors of which,  so  prejudicial to public
health,  her greatest  efforts are particularly directed.   So
far from dispensing with  the  mind, Homcepathia taxes it
with an intensity of application,  sufficient  to have induced
her adversaries to accuse  her of  imposing  upon the obser-
ver of her symptoms "a by no means sinecure office," of re-
quiring in general too much, and of being withal so dynamic
and spiritualized  in all her operations, that the space of a
whole life is not sufficient  to produce a Homoepathist in the
true sense,  and that " whole ages must elapse" before her
demands and prescriptions in this respect can be properly
understood and reduced to practice ! !
   To comprehend  the  whole  constructive force  of this
strangely inconsistent accusation, it is  only necessary  to
know, that  it is drawn from the repeated assertions of the
once more self-refuting witness, the learned Doctor him-
self!!!

                       Argument.

   Homcepathia is wavering and fallible ; because hesitation
is the unavoidable result of a confused  crowd of symptoms,
jostling and crossing each other in every direction, and of the
extreme consequent perplexity in forming them into the re-
quisite distinct images of disease and remedy, of a sufficient
resemblance to indicate the proper treatment ; and because
one failure  being the earnest of another, Homcepathia ha-
ving failed  before, particularly in chronic maladies, is pretty
sure to fail  again, notwithstanding that  her new pretensions
to infallibility are, like the former, urged with zeal and as-
surance, well calculated to impose and mislead. 
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                       Comment.

  In starting the objection to a confused crowd of symp-
toms, with which it seems Allopathia does not allow her-
self to be much incommoded, the erudite professor has add-
ed another item in refutation of his  charge, on the score of
intellectual degradation ;  the difficulty, however, is frankly
acknowledged, with the reservation that it is not insuperable.
As to infallibility, it is no where assumed, and exists only in
his own  gratuitous inference.   His reasoning, to  be just,
ought to  be reversed ;  and then the right conclusion will be,
that the avowal of a failure, and subsequent precautions, are
the best possible guaranty against its recurrence. The works
of man, like himself, must necessarily be  imperfect ; and
where so much has been  done by one individual yet living,
the wonder is, not that there  should  be failures, but that
these failures should be so few as 10 become  mere  excep-
tions to the general rule—exceptions  which, so far as infal-
libility itself is only relative or comparative, tend rather  to
establish than to disprove it.
 The simple truth is, that the learned professor, in opposition
to his own memory and discretion, has permitted, in this in-
stance, his overweening zeal to blind  him  to the peculiar
advantages of Homcepathia, possessed by her alone, which
are sufficient at all times to guard her against the danger of
wavering, and failing in  consequence.  With her phalanx
of 200 specifics, so well trained, that if they sometimes miss
the enemy, they never hit the friend ; with power to raise
antidotes at will, alert in need, and scrupulous in executing
her commands ;  no error in the choice of medicine can
check her course, or scare her from her duty.  Her vigi-
lance detects it ; her substitutes replace it ;  her patient feels
it not ; so that, what in other hands works out such fearful
peril, performs in  hers the office of  a  faithful guide.  Thus,
step by step, invertingthe progress of the hazard, she reaches
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the true point of action, where decision, promptitude, and
security, attest her finished task, while her adversaries re-
joice  yet in the dream of her wavering and fallibility.
  Suppose, by way of illustration, that two persons, attack-
ed with a sudden violent headache, have sent, one for a Ho-
moepathic, and the  other  for an Allopathic physician, and
that both these gentlemen,  on their arrival, mistaking alike
the serious nature of the malady, have administered  their
remedies accordingly.  The Homoepathist, who well knows
the effect he intended, waits for its appearance, as in duty
bound.  It conies not, or it comes  in variance with itself.
His suspicions are immediately excited.  New  symptoms
are anxiously watched, and he discovers that the supposed
slight affection is the congestion of blood to the  head, indica-
ting the morbific agency, similar to that of opium.   At once
the medicine already administered  is driven out or suspend-
ed by its antidote—a minute dose of opium is given instead ;
and the relief is almost magic, the cure is certain, and the
patient is saved !
  Not so with the Allopathist.   His  work may  be easier,
quicker, and  perchance more  sure ; but  not quite within
the spirit of the contract.   Proceeding on the soothing prin-
ciple, he has already begun with 20 or 30 drops of lauda-
num, and his beginnings the end.  The malady, being itself
of the  kind produced  by an overdose of laudanum,   is of
course aggravated and accelerated beyond what the organ-
ism can bear.  Thus 20 or 30 drops more, harmless or al-
leviating in other circumstances, act here exactly as if they
were  superadded to what was already taken in  a quantity
sufficient to destroy.   The  consequence, too, is exactly the
same. The patient sleeps, and wakes no more !   Such  is
the difference between the two treatments, or rather sys-
tems, which respectively influence them !
   How many victims have been dispatched in the like sum-
mary manner, can never be known,  for the  dead tell no 
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tales ;  something, however, of this secret of the grave may
be guessed by the well authenticated fact, that the average
mortality among a rude people, unacquainted with the lux-
ury of regular physic, is not greater  than that of  civili-
zed communities, in the  full  enjoyment of this  blessing ;
and that, in truth, it is  much less, since it is sufficient to bal-
ance the number of deaths in infancy, which, owing to  the
discomforts and privations of savage life, is supposed to be
as 2 to 1, when compared with the deaths at the same ten-
der age, in a state of civilization.

                      Argument.

  Homcepathia  is unsatisfactory and unsafe ; because, do-
ing too little being at times as dangerous as doing loo  much,
no physician who cares for his patient or for his own  repu-
tation, would be rash enough to resort to her feeble and dila-
tory aid in acute pressing diseases, such as  apoplexy,  et ceL

                        Comment.

  This multum inparvo objection would be the most seri-
ous of all, if it were true—if it did not wholly rest upon that
which renders it impossible—a contingency which is yet to
take place. The fear of harm is no proof of it; and though it
may induce one man to abstain from a certain attempt, it
is no rule for the like forbearance in others.   As well  the
verdict of guilty may be pronounced upon a criminal whose
parents have not  yet been called into existence ! !   The
attempt ought to have  precedence at all events ; and since
the Doctor has not only declined it for himself, but will nei-
ther suffer it to be made, nor see it when  made by others,
his objection is too suspiciously prophetic  to  be taken on
-credit, where deeds alone pass current
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 Among the prominent rules, systematically laid down, and
generally adopted in the practice of Homcepathia, the  very
first is, " that the more acute or rapid the disease, the sooner
can its issue  be  decided ; and that in acute diseases,  such
as apoplexy, elcet., 10 or 15 minutes are sufficient for the
purpose."  Now, a rule which limits the time, necessarily
implies the corresponding means of action ; otherwise one
of the Doctor's best prescriptions must be presumed to nul-
lify its own use and  application ! !   If he did not know this
rule, or drew no inference from it, he must give up his claim
either to his intimacy with Homcepathia, or to the acuteness
and sound morality of his logic.  He may,  however, dis-
miss now all his apprehensions, since a  short inquiry  will
satisfy him, that in these very extremes which so greatly
excited his fears for Homcepathia, she has been fairly tried,
and her metal  has been  found pure  sterling.  Apoplexy,
and its numerous  train of cousins-German, have been mas-
tered  by her quite quick enough, if there  be any expedition
in doing it within 15 minutes ! !  She did  more—she cu-
red, radically cured the patient.  The work, where it could
be done, was done so well, that no  spectre of a  departed
disease came  back in the  form of relapse, to snatch the
reprieved victim from her hands—a visitation to which Allo-
pathia is but too often exposed, all  her spells not  being po-
tent enough to lay the troublesome g\jost in the red sea !!
 The  learned professor is too much of a gentleman to give the
downright lie to such reports of cures as rest exclusively on
Homoepathic authority ;  yet there  is "a lurking devil in his
eye"—a sneer on his lip, which indicates, as plain as plain can
be, that  he does not, or pretends not to believe one word
of such reports: Be it so !   Will he  then question the truth of
the official records of St. Petersburg ?   He  will  not—he
cannot ;  for well  he  knows  that  no falsehood  is daring
enough to  soil their pages on the state of public health.
Well, then, he  has but to look that way, and he will find there
more  than eleven cures to one death—more than eleven 
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patients out of twelve saved from that dreadful scourge, the
Asiatic Cholera, which fills no small space on the list of
acute and pressing  diseases, calling for instant aid,  and
at the same time defying the utmost efforts of human  skill
and  science !   Let him compare this mighty  achievement
with the puny feats of Allopathia against the same  formi-
dable enemy—and  that nothing may be wanting,  let  him
recall to mind his own triumphant defence of the potency
of Homoepathic doses :  and he  not only will have no far-
ther misgivings about  the power, which he stigmatizes as
unsatisfactory and unsafe, but to this power—to Homcepa-
thia alone, will he apply hereafter, even in that most terrific
of all inflictions, Hydrophobia !

                       Argument.

   Homcepathia is limited in her operations ; because expe*
rience has demonstrated that, although some individuals are
particularly accessible to her influence, there are many oth?
ers who are proof against it, and yet easily yield to that  of
Allopathia ; consequently, what does not reach all, and acts
not upon all alike, is and must be limited in its operations,

                       Cor.m?nt.

   All this is perfectly true, but not exclusively so.   Mercu?
ry,  which is  used by both systems, is not the less  a  sper
cific power,  general  in its application and effect, because
the Doctor has met with some constitutions in no  degree
affected by it—a fact well known to many besides himself.
The term limited is therefore one of comparison only ; and
in this sense, it is much more likely to be the property of
Allopathia, than of her youthful rival, whose influence  must
naturally be more  extensive, in consequence of its mildr
ness and insinuating  quality, backed by the assurance that 
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it cannot he felt without being salutary—an assurance which
io too often reversed by the other.   «

                      Argument.

  Homcepathia is based upon false assumptions; because,
among other things, she takes for granted that the property
of every medicine is morbific per  se, whereas, the  Doctor
has cured  more than one person with a few drops  of pure
spring water, necessarily divested of such property.

                      Comment.

  As the learned Doctor does  not say what those " other
things" are, but confines himself to the  pure spring water
alone, which in the city of New-York, for instance, would
no doubt be a restorative worth all  the drugs in the shops
of apothecaries—the exception is too partial to make out
the general case of false assumption,  and might as well have
been  omitted.  Pure  water is certainly  a preserver of
health—so is good and wholesome bread; but they are not
medicines. Food  is the means, not the machinery of life.
One can no more be cured  of  famine and  thirst by bread
and water, than a  steam-boat  of stoppage by fuel, or a
gristmill of draught by a fresh stream.  Cure is that which
puts in order the machinery itself when deranged ;  not that
which sets and keeps it in motion.  While nature continues
the sole undisturbed mistress of her mansion, presiding over
the interior arrangements, and  disposing of her stores to
the best advantage at her own will  and  discretion, the
agent that supplies the daily wants of her household is her
purveyor, and no more : but, when  she  is rudely assailed,
struck down,  and threatened with ejection, that which re-
places heron her lawful seat, reinstates her  in her  domain,
expels and prostrates the usurper of her rights, is something 
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more than a mere help—it is a  power stronger than  the
usurper himself, and consequently able, if so circumstanced,
to do her the like injury to an extent still greater.  It is a
power that, from its very nature, must be salutary or mor-
bific, that is, curative or aggressive, according as it  comes
an invited friend, or an intruding enemy ; and cannot  exist
at all, except in this  relative or reciprocal state of  action.
It is the true  power of medicine, and medicine  is  this true
power.
   Convertfood itself into medicine, and it becomes instantly
this same double acting power.  If the pure spring water
administered by the Doctor, really effected  the  cure  he
mentions, it was medicinal, and would have been found so
upon a trial.   What is there more innoxious, more in ordi-
nary use, or more conducive to our daily enjoyments, than
the salt which  seasons, and renders  both  wholesome and
palatable our daily repasts ?  Well!  take one grain  of this
very salt, subject it to the  Homoepathic process, reduce  it
to pills, so that each will contain  one X millionth part of the
grain—then invite the learned Doctor, while in full health, to
swallow three of these pills in  24 hours, for 4 or 5 days suc-
cessively.  Will he do it ?  Be assured he knows too well,
and has proved too much,  not to  decline the invitation.  He
needs no experiment like  that  of charcoal, mentioned in a
preceding  note, to satisfy himself, that he would thereby
fall into the hands of troublesome  companions, who might,
perchance, lay him  up on the  fifth day in a  manner not
very agreeable to himself, or to his neglected patients.   Of
all men, therefore, the learned Doctor has the least reason to
dispute the  morbific or aggressive property of every medi-
cine, acknowledged as such ; and it is quite  evident that
the doctrine which is proof against his own weapons, is too
strong to be battered down by any other. 
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                        Argument.

   Homcepathia is supported by  a denial of correct princi-
 ples ;  because, in denying the power of nature to minister
 to herself, and  in substituting for the prompt aid of bleed-
 ing  the tardier one of medicine,  which, if successful, produ-
 ces  the  same effect  in the end, she makes war upon the
 principles universally acknowledged—established by the dai-
 ly experience of ages, and, with regard to bleeding, indi-
 cated from time to time by spontaneous effusions, the pur-
 port of which cannot be misunderstood for  a moment.

                        Comment.

  This again is  a principle, which, whether true or not, is
 isolated,  and too abstract to impair the general  usefulness
 and soundness of a system.  Nature, as long as she is so
 well served by Homcepathia, cannot be seriously incommo-
 ded  or offended by any attempt,  on the part of the  latter,
 to diminish  the  nominal  credit of her resources.  Besides,
 what Hahnemann maintains, is not that nature cannot cure
 herself, for he  expressly alludes to her  crisis-operating
 power, but that she cannot do so  without  self-exposure, in
 other respects, to imminent danger, and this  will scarcely be
 denied by any reflecting pathologist.  In  constituting  her
 the sole agent of  cure, and by  strictly limiting all his re-
 medies to the office of auxiliaries, Hahnemann has in truth
 paid her a greater compliment than Allopathia, which often
 undertakes to control her, and not always to her advantage.
  The difference between him and his antagonists is, after
 all, the difference of terms; for,  what they  call  the cure
of nature, he denominates a revolution, that is, a maturity
of disease—a point which it is his main object  and chief
aim  to attain by artificial  means where  others  fail, and
which, once being gained,  the disease is no more, and  na-
ture  is herself again! 
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   With respect to  the sameness  of effect  produced  by
bleeding and corresponding medicines, it is a fallacy on the
very face of it.   Bleeding allays  the inflammation—aconite
or wolfsbane does the  same.   So far the effect may be the
same;  but, as regards  health, it is fearfully unlike.   There,
poor nature is weakened into submission, and made to pro-
pitiate  the  tyrant at the expense  of her future safety ;  here,
the  tyrant   himself is encountered  hand  to hand,  subdued,
and compelled  to leave nature in the full possession of her
forces.  In one  case the fermentation is  stopped,  and the
contents are  saved; in  the  other, the contents are  spilled to
check the fermentation, and the more there is drawn off, the
more will rise to the issue  to be  drawn off again, until little
or nothing  is left within.   This last is the  true  process  by
which  the  precious  fluid is wasted, vitality impaired, the
extremities  completely drained, and the dissolution of  the
sufferer commences  at the moment that  the inflammation
ceases.  If this be  not a  daily occurrence—if the sick do
not generally  die of exhaustion*  subsequent  to,  andcon-
  *That such is really the case, is fully acknowledged by the Allopathists themselves, and
against themselves, whenever they decline,  as they do sometimes, to bleed an old subject,
where they would have tapped and re-tapped a young one without stopping to calculate the
cost. .Ask then the reason, and you will be informed, that they are full of apprehensions,
lest the feebleness of age should sink under the operation, so easily sustained by the strength
of youth and manhood. What is this but a plain confession, that the best chance of life is
not in the hope of surviving such operation, but in the act of avoiding it altogether'? The
remedy, too bad and dangerous to be adopted in one case, must be equally so in all; for, flio
sword that kills one, and only wounds another, is not the less an instrument of destruction in
itself.  But why call forth hope where assurance can so easily replace it 7 Why use at all what
is so much better not used, and multiply the d'fficulties to bo overcome, when there is a way
to diminish end remove them at the outset ?  The erudite gentlemen will reply again, that a
robust constitution is more susceptible of  serious inflammation, and, that, having no other
means to reduce it, they resort to bleeding, as the least of the two evils. The reply is too
true.   They have, indeed, no other means—but Homcepathia has: and, what is still more
conclusive of her superiority, it is not possible to deprivo her of such means, or even to par-
ticipate in them, without coming over to her standard. Allopathia may certainly use them ;
but if she does it otherwise than under the auspices andjnstructions of Homcepathia—if she
does it on her own account without exchanging her character of the mistress for that of the
servant—the substitute will prove more fatal than the lancet itself. The truth is, that there
is not the same steady light, the same unerring clue to guide the Allopathist through the
dark labyrinth of uncertainties ; and it must have been the full consciousness of this perplexi-
ty, that induced one of the same school, the late distinguished professor of medicine, Dr.
Gregory, to exclaim, in the bitterness of his disappointment, and in the presence of his scho-
lars, that " ninety-nine out of a hundred of medical facts are medical lies, and all medical
doctrines stark, staring nonsense."
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 sequent on, the paroxysm—then the present prevailing prac-
 tice is most grossly belied, and king Sangrado, unless he is
 kind enough to begin with himself, may reign and bleed
 until there is not a single subject left for the favourite ex-
 ercise of his insatiate lancet!
   The true difference between the act of bleeding and the
 substituted  dose—Homoepathic dose of course,  for none
 else will answer the  purpose—is that the first  takes away
 from the source of  life  what it cannot replenish:  while
 the last restores and  preserves it in all its purity—which is
 the precise difference between the two  systems.
   As to the indications by spontaneous effusion, bleeding at
 the  nose, etc., etc., they are  most wofully misunderstood,.
 notwithstanding the Doctor's  authoritative assertion to the
 contrary.   They show an irregular accumulation, or unusual
 flow of blood in some parts,  to  the  detriment of  others,.
 and  this is all; the idea  of having too  much  blood being as
 preposterous as that of a vessel containing more water than
 its capacity will  admit.   A superabundance of the means
 of life is a doctrine well worthy of ignorance or a disordered
 imagination!  Restore the equality of circulation, and the
 patient is cured  at once  !  This is what Homcepathia does
 without bleeding.   This is the way in  which she  removes
 apoplexy with so little danger of relapse.  This is the way
 in which she has cured, in a few days, the most acute pleu-
 risy  that ever  occurred in this city, contrary to the predic-
 tions of speedy death, with which Allopathia consoled her-
 self,  for being repulsed in her attempts to open the sluices
 of life.
  To aid  nature by crippling her—to heal by reducing the
 chances of  recovery—to purify the fountain of health by
desiccation, or by cutting off its main supplies—to  give life
by taking it  away—in short, to bleed—is a barbarous piece
 of absurdity, no  less destructive in itself, than disgraceful
 to the present state  of  science and general civilization.
 Sound reason and sober reflection view it as a monster pri-
 vileged to kill; and a  case of internal disease, where bleed- 
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ing  is  indispensable  as a remedy, exists only in the conven-
tional  but despotic rules of an unfeeling, remorseless school,
that, according to the Doctor's own  implied confessions, will
not  yield  a  single  fibre of her  cobweb  precedents  to the
pleading voice and pressing claims  of  humanity.*
  * The author begs leave to explain, that this remark is not intended to bo general, but that
{t refers to a particular instance, in which, severe as it undoubtedly is, he is sorry to cay, it is by
no means undeserved  With all due respect lor the ancient school, whose standard is follow-
ed by some of his most valued friends; with the best inclination  to d.j homage  to the vene-
rable Alma Matku, ripe with the wisdom of years, and consecrated by noble recollections ;
with no disposition to quarrel with her somewhat overstrained solicitude 10 keep  to herself all
pressing as well as other diseases, to the exclusion of new comers whose credit has yet to be
established with the public ; w.th all this, he cannot forego the charge, that, notwithstanding
her avowed impotence, anu  utter prostration in the presence of Hydrophobia, in no  case of
this  hopeless  disease  has she yet shown the  due preference of a chance of safety in other
hands, to the  certainty of peril in her own ; and that, rather than give up one of  the patients
to the  care and entreaties of Homcepathia, she has repeatedly exposed them  to be sweated
blistered, drugged, and, as the surest, bled to death !  A load ot guilt and fearful responsibility
rests upon her head, and there is no exception, no negative to throw it off!  If  the aid of Ho-
mcepathia had been accepted and proved successful, her friends would certainly have report-
ed  it; if, on the contrary, accepted and unsuccessful, ten thousand triple throats of Cerberus
would have been set to rend the air with her defeat and signal  ruin ; for it is not the least of
her hardships, that, what passes in others for a slight, ordinary, or unavoidable  error, is bla-
zoned forth as an offence in her decisive of her fate; that, what aie faults and error* of indi-
vidual practice  for which no system  is responsible, are visited on her as her own unpardona-
ble sins ; and that, while her detractors are exalted to the third heaven for not destroying all,
she  is absolutely condemned for not saving all; as if she were  both, a lying  impostor in-
debted to nature alone for her pretended cures, and, at the same time, a merciless spirit, ha-
ving the power over death, but refusing to exercise it!
  Homoepathic treatment in cases of Hydrophobia has been repeatedly suggested and recom-
mended through the medium of the public press.  The power, therefore, that shuns not, but
Beeks a conflict with this tremendous scourge, is no longer a stranger here—at least it ought
not to be such to those whose duty it is to be well informed.   Yet what is the result ?  It is
too painfully  attested by the victims that fall, one  by one, as heretofore, beneath the scythe
of the unsparing fiend ; while the redeeming  power, the friend who wails but  for a nod to
tempt the rescue, stands, in  full sight, inactive,  motionless—for he receives no si<*n !  Can
such things come, and go off in a dumb show ? -Impossible.  One voice at least shall not be
silent,  however  feeble it may be. Grant that Horr.cep ithia will fail, where the  whole com-
plicated machinery of the old school has been trampled into dust: yet, until she does fail__
until she is tried and convicted, she must be presumed to be innocent.  The trial is worth ma-
king ; and, as long as it is not miide, the more that is said against it, the more of wanton cruelty
will be .idded to the criminal neglect. To reject aid on the mere assumption of inefficiency, is
never a mark of wisdom ; but an attempt to sustain the second by the first, and thus justify
error by itself—a fixed design to repel a friend in  need, not because he  was tried and found
wanting, but because he is willing to be put to the proof— leads to the horrible suspicion that
his  success is  more feared than desired.
  As little can it serve for an excuse, that the victims themselves—misled by ill-bestowed con-
fidence, and deluded by the false hopes and promises of a disease—grasping monopoly, refu-
sing both to undeceive and to instruct—have overlooked  and neglected to seize the hand
stretched for their succour.   A slender thread, where nothing else presents itself, nay chanca 
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                                Argument.

   Homcepathia is depending on contradictory caprices; be-
cause  her  despotic  master  lays  down  rules  and  doctrines
which he afterwards revokes at pleasure, unsays and undoes
his  sayings and doings, and  is,  in short, not the  same  Hah-
nemann in 1828 that he  was in  1810.

                                 Comment.

   This is the unkindest cut of all, not only  at Homcepathia,
but  at every science  under  heaven,  since  none could  ad-
to save a wretch from drowning ; but where is he, that having none to throw himself, would cut
it off when thrown by others, on the plea that to him alone the first cry for help was addressed,
and that tins sufferer was the voluntary cause of his own peril 1  If  such a being exists any
where but in fable—and that it does exist, the cutting of the thread is  a sufficient indication—
he is none " of woman born!"  Engendered in the crucible—exhaled with the  fumes of the
drugs, he can only be the offspring of abused,  debased, callous, unpitying art! It must bo
that unnatural outcast, whose professional conscience, it is said, never hesitates to sacrifice a
fellow creature to the immunity of prescriptive rules; or whose systematic, well regulated
sympathy evaporates itself with a visit, or, at best, atones for the most  atrocious of failures,
by tasking itself with a tale of horror, related, for the edification of the curious, with scien-
tific skill and precision !  It must be that learned, bigoted, relentless, no longer feigned wor-
shipper of the sacred fire of science, who, ralher than the god should be obscured for a mo-
ment,  would feed him with whole hecatombs of human victims !  " Down with quackery," is
his constant, favourite cry ;  yet, purblind  mole, he perceives not 1hnt it is his own senseless,
misdirected opposition,  that serves most the cause of quackery, and furnishes her with power
to erect a Pagoda for herself; to rear her  unblushing front in the open day ; to strut at large
on stilts of self-exaltation, and to hurl at  the very altar of his god, her scorn,  defiance, and
war, with an impunity which differs from success in name alone!   Human nature  for  her
own credit would fain deny the existence of such a monster ; but if he really lives  and moves
in the form of man, no lash is lacerating enough to scourge him—no tongue is loud enough
to wake the world from its torpor, and point him out to its just indignation !
  The author, unable to repress his feelings on this painful theme, can only declare, in the
most solemn  manner, that,  were he  the very arch-priest of the temple—the Esculapius him-
self—ho  could not without  gross and conscious imposture, pretend to the knowledge of any
antidote  to Hydrophobia, deposited as yot within  that ancient edifice ; and, in a case fo des-
perate, no motive could prevail on him to violate so far all his duties at once, as to spurn any
modes or remedies offered for trial, however he might distrust their efficacy, or despise their
source.  No matter how remote the chance—thus placed beyond the sphere of his regular ope-
rations, all hopeless and useless in this instance, itt's still a change ;  and its wilful rejection,
while the victim was expiring in his hands, would constitute him in the sight of God and man
a felonious homicide, whose crime is aggravated by the very impunity which attends its com-
mission.  Nay, should  the trial, so declined, prove eventually successful, he would think ill
of the laws and justice of the country, if he were not  indicted forthwith  for a deliberate
MCRDER! 
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vance a step without those posterior  successive improve-
ments, which are made here a matter of reproach.  An out-
cry against a noble structure of gigantic dimensions, the
splendid monument of the genius and toil of one man—be-
cause not so superhumanly faultless as not to require, after
eighteen years'  standing, some repair in detail, and detail
alone, partakes, to say the least, of the burning ambition of
the youth  of Ephesus; and Hahnemann may well be proud
of the distinction of being reviled for what others  would
have been extolled to the skies—for the zeal, devotion, and
frankness with which he effected and announced his sub-
sequent discoveries and ameliorations.
   And what is the amount and importance of these suppo-
sed contradiclory caprices ?  Why, the most prominent, by
which one may judge of all the rest, is the  original pre-
scription  to  administer  unmixed but otherwise ordinary
Allopathic doses in experiments upon persons  in health,
which prescription is now extended, and, indeed, transferred
to minute Homoepathic doses, it  being subsequently ascer-
tained that the effect of both is  alike satisfactory, and that
inert substances, such as charcoal, salt, silex, et eel., cannot be
given at all as medicines, unless  previously subjected to the
Homoepathic process !   This is all, and has as much to do
with the  general merits and strength of the  system, as a
longer or  shorter mane with the  vigour of an Eclipse start-
ing for the  race !   Let  it be, however, rightly interpreted,
and it will become the  most striking and conclusive of all
proofs, that an edifice, in which, after a lapse of years, there
was found so little to alter on the score of beauty, symme-
try, and solidity, can have  no other foundation than that of
immutable, perpetual, immortal  truth !

                       Argument.

   Homcepathia is faithless to herself; because, since her ill-
chosen connection with Psora, she has called to her aid the 
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counteracting anti-psoric medicines, resorted to the trick of
mystification, and thus became false to her own professions,
which had so disdainfully rejected the one and the other.

                        Comment.

   The all-sufficient  reason why the anti-psoric remedy is
not, and should not be Homoepathically in unison with the
apparent  or approximate disease which  is to  be cured, is
that it is not given for this disease at all, but directed exclu-
sively against the source whence it is supposed to have origi-
nated.  The  medicine,  with regard  to this source, being
never otherwise than strictly Homoepathic, the great per-
vading principle,  "the  like  cure the  like,"  is preserved
throughout with scrupulous fidelity ; and the  learned Doctor
ought to have known better than to  make  a  mistake, so
liable to the suspicion of being intentional.   Nor can Psora
itself, although  a latent source  of diseases, be  justly  con-
founded  with any imaginary objects  of medical alchymy;
since  it is a palpable morbific matter, too well known and
authenticated to pass for a mere trick of mystification.  If
European experiments are doubted, there  is no want of
them  here, in this very city, where, among other cases, there
has occurred one of  an ague, technically intermittent marsh
fever, so  obstinate  that it baffled and  effectually resisted
both Allopathia and  Homcepathia; and the two great speci-
fics, cinchona and arsenic, produced no other result than that
of aggravation.  The ruddy health of the patient, previously
to the  disease,  precluded  all suspicion  of  Psora,  and
after  most careful  inquiries, not the least trace of it could
be detected.  Nevertheless, as there was no other resource
left, the case was treated as that of Psora, and sulphur, one
of the anti-psoric remedies, was given in Homoepathic pro-
portions.   The astonishment of those who were in the se-
cret was great indeed, when,  in a few days after the  first 
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dose, the ague was completely subdued, and disappeared to
return no more!   The disease in this instance was not the
produce of Psora, but it roused this latent principle into
action, strong enough to obtain the mastery :  as otherwise,
if the disease had retained its own preponderance, it would
have required a dose of specific medicine for itself, after the
anti-psoric one had been continued long enough to produce
the effect intended.

                       Argument.

   Consequently, so far from being the true exclusive system,
capable of uprooting and replacing all others, Homozpathia,
overloaded as  she is by the paternal hand, has no strength
to sustain herself alone,  and must soon pass  away, like the
vision of Psora, with which  it has been so unfortunately as-
sociated.

                        Comment.

  Whether Homcepathia is destined soon to pass away, or
last till the world's end, time alone  can decide; and if the
phantom of Psora be the criterion to judge of the future by
the present, her friends need not despair of  her longevity,.
since this phantom has  been  shown to be any thing but " an
airy nothing," and since her elements of durability, her
constituent parts, and her very foundation, are all merged
in the great principle  "similia similibus  curantur"—one
which, if false, is no principle at all—if true, admits of  no
modification, no substitution, no amalgamation!  Does the
learned Doctor deny this principle?  So far from this, he
claims it in favour of Allopathia, and, considers it too great
an honour to allow  Hahnemann to enjoy it,  unshared by
others.  What is the strangest thing of all, this honour is
actually disputed upon the authority of Hahnemann himself, 
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who has taken great pains to collect and publish, in his "Or-
ganon," upwards of two hundred examples of eminent phy-
sicians, ancient and modern, wherein this principle was es-
pied, put occasionally into practice, and by some few, par-
ticularly Stahl of Denmark, actually  declared  as the  sole
true basis of the healing art!  And who  is he, that has had
the candour to announce all this ?   Here is his portrait by
the learned Doctor himself!
  " In judging Hahnemann impartially, as the founder and
chief of a new doctrine and system,  however one may
blame his faults and errors, a due  homage must  be render-
ed to the vast capacity and genius, of  which he has  given
such brilliant proofs.  No other man has pushed  farther the
study of chemistry, and the practical observation of  thera-
peutic phenomena. Bold in his designs, circumspect in their
execution, he  never turns for  an instant from the object he
has in view, and in  certain cases, has penetrated deeper into
the mystery of organic  nature,  than has yet fallen  to the
lot of man.  There will always remain for  him a  distin-
guished place in the history of science,  and  the immortal
glory  of having revealed, on one  hand, the specific virtues
of a great number of medicines, and, on the other, the  par-
ticular  sensibility of the  human organism to their specific
action."  Vide page 13.
   Now, a truly great man, having so many laurels of his own,
is as unlikely to usurp them from others, as to deal in  "hum-
bug" doctrines and systems ; and,  accordingly, Hahnemann
declares, with perfect  simplicity, that all  those examples
were but transient and incidental  glimpses of the truth, and
that he was the first to seize it entire, and to  lay it down as
the solid and permanent foundation of  a new temple  of sci-
ence.   This is  all he claims: and  who will dispute the
claim ?  Who will say that  in this sense he is not the foun-
der of a new system ?   Certainly not  the Doctor, who has
already volunteered  the affirmative, and thus  once more 
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furnished evidence against himself.  The real  state of the
case, as regards this gentleman, is, that while inclination and
perhaps interest often lead him to the side of prejudice and
hostility, good sense and innate candour as often bring him
back to that of justice ; and  it is not surprising, therefore,
that he demolishes with a few words  his whole  work of
opposition, when, in addition to what he concedes to Hah-
nemann, he admits distinctly, and  unequivocally, that Ho-
mcepathia is entitled to a prominent rank in the department
of medical science ; that with all persons of susceptible con-
stitutions she succeeds to admiration; and that, with  respect
to  women and children,  she is their best  protectress, and
does for them what Allopathia may as well confess to be be-
yond her power!
  Thus, with  ample concessions  to  the genius  of Hahne-
mann ;  with such strength of admissions in favour of Ho-
mcepathia ; with  such weakness of objections against her;
and, lastly, with the full acknowledgment of a principle,
whose immutability must impart itself to its superstructure,
it is impossible not to come to the conclusion, that, according
to the  learned Doctor himself, Homcepathia, and she alone,
if there be such a thing as an exclusive system, is entitled
to that distinction, being the true, and  therefore the only
one capable of uprooting and replacing  all others.
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CONCLUSION.
   How far the  foregoing general deductions in favour of
Homcepathia are supported by faith and facts, which, in
certain proportions, are equally necessary to the formation
and existence of a system, a glance at both will  easily sa-
tisfy those who are at all times disposed to be liberal in the
use of their memory, reasoning faculties, and powers of ex-
amination.   Any attempt to overcome predetermined incre-
dulity, would, of course, be worse than useless ;  since, were
it possible to cure blindness, deafness, or any other defect
that happens to be intentional, convalescence would be the
state of pain and resentment, not that of pleasure and grati-
tude.
  In science, as  in religion^ the value of a particular creed
is indicated,  no less by the nature of difficulties it had to
overcome, than by the constancy and fidelity  of its adhe-
rents ; but, above all, it is  depressed  or elevated in the
scale of public estimation, by the weight of moral and in-
tellectual worth exhibited in its support.
  In applying this test to Homcepathia, it is only necessary
to point to her astonishing progress—a progress, to which,
since the date of Christianity, there has been no parallel in
history.   Like Christianity,  she came forth, not as  a frag-
ment to be modified, or incorporated with  the  edifices al-
ready known—not  as a leaf to be suspended to an  aged 
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tree, or a branch  to be added to an ancient forest—but as
an original, independent power, striking at  the root of pre-
existing institutions, and admitting of no alternative but their
total subversion.  She came to break the altars,  and over-
turn the temples, raised by the toil, cherished by the affec-
tions, fostered by the care, sustained by the zeal, and conse-
crated by the homage of generations 1   She  came  to  mor-
tify the pride of learning, by announcing its ways to be the
ways of darkness !  She came to bid the most powerful pas-
sion of the  human breast, the  love  of lucre, to  resign its
spoils, and give up the certain gains of a profitable traffic,*
almost without equivalent or consideration !  She  came to
do all  this, alone, poor,  unsupported, her  very breath en-
kindling strife and deadly opposition ;  yet still  her march
is  onward,  and her foot  has already  crossed the  Atlantic
wave  ! She has succeeded where an army of giants would
 have failed, and where it was a miracle not to be crushed 1
 Star after star, of the first  magnitude, have spontaneously
 quitted their stations in the old firmament, and passed within
 her  orbit.   New  stars  are  constantly rising  to take their
 places in the splendid galaxy of talent that marks her path
 of triumph.  Whence is this prodigy ?   Is there  any mystery
 in it ?   No.    The whole is the achievement of simple truth.
    Truth alone is permanent.   This is a  position which
 no one will  venture to controvert ;  and, consequently, what
  * By a calculation made for the state of New-York, it appears that drugs administered ac-
cording  to the Homoepathic process of attenuation, could be supplied for the whole popula-
tion at the rate of one hundred dollars a year !  Can it be, then, a matter of surprise, that an
innovation threatening so serious a reduction in the long-enjoyed profits of a powerful set of
men, should be resisted by them to the last extremity ? Is it not, on the contrary, quite natu-
ral, that Pharmacopolists, like other men deeply interested in the trade by which they live,
should exert their utmost energy, and use all their influence with physicians, with whom they
are necessarily more or less connected, to avert a visitation so ominous to their worldly pros-
perity ?  In this they do but follow the first of laws—the law of self-preservation,  and it
would be unjust to cast any reproach on them ; but it is absolutely necessary to bo informed
■of the true sourco of opposition to Homcepathia, in order to do full justice to her merits. The
wonder is, that she should have been able to make the first step, and not that she should advance
as she now does, with a  pace which may be retarded for a while, but which it is no longer
within the power of any combination of men to arrest. 
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is not permanent,  in  science  as  well as ethics, must  be,
and is necessarily false.   In adopting this standard of rea-
soning, it may be  argued that Homcepathia, although till
now unchanged in her course and  aspect, has not yet exist-
ed long enough to establish her claim to  stability:  Be it so !
Uncertainty still lingers on her traces, but then it is already
distanced by hope, expectation, and confidence  in the fu-
ture.
  Allopathia has unquestionably the advantage of certainty,
but it  is the unenviable certainty of proof, that her gorgeous
plumage falls off at the slightest touch of scrutiny ; that  her
pompous pretensions to superiority are founded on nothing
better than toleration and acquiescence on the part of  the
uninitiated; that her contradictions,  oscillations, mutations,
and practical errors, admitted by  the most experienced  of
her own teachers, are infallible tokens  of  unwilling,   but
conscious imposture ; that she is not an entity existing  and
acting by itself, but only  an offspring, or modification of the
many which have preceded it—a sample of those plausible
chimeras, which, in the forms of systems, had sprung up at
stated periods, like mushrooms, in  rapid  succession—falsi-
fied and replaced one another, and each in  its turn vanish-
ed in  the chaos of oblivion ; and that, consequently, being
one thing to-day and another to-morrow,  she must be at dif-
ferent times false to herself, false to humanity, and false in
her promises, enterprises, relations and operations.
  The most zealous defender of Allopathia will not dare to
impeach the self-evident principle, that so many conflicting
systems cannot all be true ; and that, if not  all false, one of
them only can be true, for truth is  a unit  by  itself.    It
follows then, of course, that Allopathia  can never be  this
unit, since she is a part or a compound of those  same con-
flicting systems, which would  have  been equally opposed,
had they, in the same degree, menaced the interests of an
important branch of industry,  dependent on the present 
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state of medicine.  Thus, the main point of inquiry must
be, what this only one true system is ; and  to  ascertain
this, it is  only necessary to define that to be a  true  system,
which is  the most successful in  atlaining the great object of
all such systems, by the most suitable means;  and then  to
explain the object and the means, so that the question,  who
is right and who is wrong, may be decided at once, to the
satisfaction of the  sincere and impartial examiner.
   The great object of the healing art is, not merely, as
appears  upon the face  of it, to heal  diseases, but, as  has
been  shown elsewhere, to conduct a living being safe through
the natural period  of life, in a manner best  adapted to pre-
vent, as well as to  cure diseases, with the least possible  an-
noyance to the  invalid.
   The means by which all this is accomplished, are indi-
viduality in the  treatment of diseases, removal  of morbid
causes instead of their effects, simplicity  of proceeding, eco-
nomy of the forces of nature, conveniency and comfort of the
sick, guaranty from harm, certainty of cure, celerity of ope-
ration, and speedy convalescence.  By these, in succession,
shall the two systems be tried.
   Individuality in the treatment of diseases.  Allopa-
thia, either from a desire to save trouble, or from  an  immo-
derate love of the parade  of learning, or, what is most pro-
bable, from both these motives,  has divided  all  diseases,
according to their  resemblances,  into separate  groups, and
classified them under different heads, as febrile, inflammato-
ry, eruptive, cerebral, nervous, gastric,  intestinal,  profiuent,
refluent, constitutional, and local, and, of course, treats each
group or class, as  if it were one  lump, with  the  remedies
particularly appropriated   to it, pretty much  in  the same
manner as  some empiric would dose all black men with one
kind of drugs, all white  men with another, all red men with
another yet, and so on, deviating so far only from the prac-
tice of the ignorant rustic, that this last  marks all  his sheep, 
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black, white, and parti-coloured, with the same unchanging
hue of the red ochre !  !
   Now, as no two things in nature are strictly and abso-
lutely alike, not even  two drops of water ; and as this dif-
ference is more especially obvious and  striking in the hu-
man species, Homcepathia, neither scared by toil, nor tempt-
ed by the  glare of erudition,  rejects  all such generalities,
classifications, and  specifications ; and, considering  every
disease as partaking of the idiocracy of the person affected,
studies each case separately by itself, and makes its  pecu-
liarity, that is, individuality, the absolute rule in the choice
of medicine, and the  mode  of treatment.   On which side
preponderate common sense and reason, may be decided
without  the aid of an oracle.
   Removal of morbid causes, instead of their effects,
Tolle causam, is a precept, on  which there is no difference
of opinion.   Remove the cause, has been the constant cry of
Allopathia; and,  if it  turns out, as it often does, all cry and
no wool, the merit of the hoax is fairly monopolized by her-
self!  By a  singular  fatality,  she seems to  be impressed
with a conviction,  that a  previous personal acquaintance
with the cause is  the indispensable condition of its removal;
and, accordingly, spares neither pains nor importunities to
obtain an introduction to this mysterious something, which,
rudely enough, but not the less perseveringly, rejects the in-
tended honour, eludes pursuit, refuses to shake hands even
through  a grating,  and never  for an instant lays aside the
dark veil that conceals its unexplored countenance.  The
consequence  is, that  she either becomes  the dupe of her
own imagination, by mistaking something else for the some-
thing sought for, or,  at all events, loses so much time, that
the intended removal  is often  postponed until the removal
of the patient himself!
   Not so with Homcepathia!  The cry of the other is with
her the period of action.  Knowing well that she never can
5se,e the cause face to  face, she cares nothing about it, con- 
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tents herself with examining its visible traces, and proceeds
at once to the business.  If, on entering the premises, she
perceives some smoke in a corner, she pours out water upon
it, without waiting to  see the fire; or, if there be indica-
tions of noxious vermin harboured in accessible holes, she
does not stop to  ascertain whether it be mice, rats, weasels,
or the  like—and still less does she wait to catch  a glimpse
of whatever it may be—but straight  ignites the charcoal,
shuts up the room, and ends at once the mischief and the
cause.
   Simplicity of proceeding. Here probably lies the very
pith of the  offeWe, committed by Homcepathia in the eyes
of such of the profession,  as form unfavourable exceptions
to the liberal character, by which it is generally distinguish-
ed ; for, be  it  observed  once for all, that war is made here
upon the system and  not on the professors, whose personal
respectability is proverbial.    In sober truth, however, one
can scarcely blame even  those who form such exceptions,.
when  it is scarcely possible  not to infer, that their prosperi-
ty is  not likely to be promoted by that  of Homcepathia,
Without the least fear of  masonic penalties, she has divul-
ged the secrets of the  craft—demolished all its imposing em-
blem?, and swept away all its drapery of mystification, with
such want of  tenderness and consideration, as to expose it
to the pern  of nullification,  by enabling every man to be his
own physician.   The worst is, that for this  unscrupulous
simplification, there is no remedy, unless it be to enlist under
her banners.  The public, however, is a gainer by the pro-
cess, and has much  less reason to complain than to  be
thankful.
   Economy of  the  forces of nature,  is  emphatically
the terra incognita of the Allopathists, where, if they should
visit it  in their dreams, they would find havoc and devas-
tation enough to startle the most hardened of them, on being
told that it is  all their own handy-work,  not the less cruel 
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 and inexpiable, because they were  not aware of it them-
 selves.
   Under this head it is sufficient to say, that Homcepathia
 never bleeds,  and Allopathia  almost always  begins,  and
 often ends with bleeding.  There is something in this fatal
 operation—nay, in the word itself, that acts upon the facul-
 ties of an  Allopathist  like some  potent  spell, from which
 he can no  more free himself,  than a bird from  the  fascina-
 tion of the serpent's  glare.  It is  the malignant ignis faluus,
 that plays  constantly  before  his eyes,  and draws him on
 towards some treacherous bog-hole—treacherous so far only
 as it  sucks  in all  that  comes   within its  reach, except
 himself—the greedy elves  being trappers of too shrewd a
 cast not  to preserve, as long as need  be, the decoy for the
 sake of  the prey.
   In no  other way can th:s phenomenon be explained, un-
 less it springs from the more ignoble motives, which induce
the ignorant or lazy surgeon to begin always with the first let-
ter of the alphabet, as it stands in A-mputation,* because, when
the limb is off, he knows how to proceed, and has the  ad-
vantage of being relieved from all the care, embarrassment,
and responsibility, to which an attempt to cure would neces-
sarily have subjected him!
   If bleeding be  the veritable sovereign remedy, as is as-
serted, in cases of inflammation, in what manner does it  act,
and upon what known principles are its vaunted effects pro-
duced?  If it be true, that  inflammation is allayed by it,
and removed without injury to the constitution, what is in-
flammation  itself?  Mysteries,  like  certain bugbears, as
you approach  them,  grow less in size, and disappear; and
so, the curtain  shall  be drawn aside.....
 * This was actually the prevailing practice in the British navy and army, some thirty years
Bince, as stated on the authority of Mrr Chevalier, an eminent surgeon  of London, who
wrote a valuable work upon the subject. 
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  Look at yori noble stream, that, fanned by the refreshing
breeze, speeds onward,  like some gallant  courser,  in  the
pride of freedom, health,  and strength!   How  gay  and
bright, yet how measured  and self-controlled—at all times
full, but never overflowing !  There is velocity to keep it
pure, and hidden springs just rich enough to compensate its
daily tribute to the  thirsty sun.   Look there!—A  crushing
weight of  noxious filth, torn from the flank of an impending
cliff, is hurled and  lodged within its  breast, where, part
seen, and part buried, it  lies too firm to  be removed by
outer force.   Observe,  how quick  to  the  first recoil suc-
ceeds the accelerated movement—the simultaneous  rush of
waters to displace the nuisance, and wash its traces  from
the spot!  The effort has failed !   A second recoil takes
place; the eddies  multiply their fast-receding circles ; the de-
posit of filthy sediment commences; the motion is more and
mord retarded ; the accumulated matter swells  and breaks
into masses—the current  stops,  stagnation follows, corrup-
tion spreads, and the stream, late so bouyant, becomes a
dead pool!   Look on with a thinking eye, and you  will re-
cognise in the stream the blood that flows in our  veins ; in
the precipitated missile the stroke of disease ; in the  encum-
bered spot the seat of inflammation; in the accumulation of
matter the gathering ulcer, and  in all the subsequent chan-
ges, the exact, progressive, and rapid transition from life to
 death!
   Inflammation, then,  is that  vitiated deposit, which the
blood, checked and deranged in its course, and thence deterio-
rated in its quality, leaves  on the spot struck by disease, after
the first rush and unsuccessful efforts to repair the injury
 inflicted by the blow.*

  * While these sheets^vere in the press, the fifth volume, containing the 37th and 38th numbers
 6f the " Archives and Journal de la  Medicine Homrspathique," published in Paris, has
 reached the author's hands,  and realized , his ideas by a confirmation so strong, and  at the
 same time so extraordinary, as to appear like a direct inspiration from heaven.  It seems
 that all-merciful Providence, having delegated Hahnemann to deliver the sick from the
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   The candid  and intelligent reader, if  he is  satisfied  with
the illustration and the definition preceding,  will be convin-
ced at once, that the event of life  or death,  in the presence
clutches of reckless theorists.—conservators in name, executioners in practice—vouchsafed at
length, in sight of all, to seal the truth of his exalted mission by the physical agency, and the
incontrovertible testimony of the unbelievers themselves.
  The learned and justly celebrated Allopathic physician, Ferdinand Jahn  of Meiningen, in
a communication occupying 298—302 pages of the above journal, and commencing with a
declaration, that "he is not and never will be a Homcepathist," because he prefers to cull
what he  thinks best from all systems, performs the following act of justice to Homcepathia,
and of duty to his fellow-creatures.
  " Dr. Ralterbrunner, the friend too soon lost to me, was enabled, by means of a microscope,
to detect the following process  and results of an inflammation artificially produced.  ' As
soon as a wound is inflicted, an accelerated motion and intumescence of blood take place in
the vessels nearest to  the wound, and thence extend themselves, more or less, in various direc-
tions.  In some spots, in the immediate vicinity, the blood, disturbed in its course, appears to
start out from its usual channels, in some it hurries on in irregular masses, and  in others
again it attaches itself to the Parenchyma, (the spongy flesh serving as a filter to the blood,)
and there forms small sanguineous islets, while the Parenchyma itself becomes much inflated.'
This state  of derangement, more or less  aggravated by the force and extent of tho wound
which caused it, being evidently that of disease, is called by Ealtenbrunner morbid inflamma-
tion.  He was shortly convinced, that, in order to restore every thing to its former healthy con-
dition, a second change perfectly similar to the first was indispensable ; for, on farther obser-
vation, he soon perceived that nature was already at work to effect such change, which he,
accordingly, denominated curative inflammation.  ' Propelled by the increased  vehemence of
action, globules  of blood, in detached masses, are driven to and fro beyond their channels,
and diffuse themselves through the Parenchyma of the  part inflamed, where they  appear in
bright red spots or islets, and the Parenchyma in all its interstices swells with perceptible ra-
pidity.  This second  inflammatory phenomenon, which appears much later, and is  the exact
resemblance of the original, encircles the seat of disease, constantly approaches the  centre,
and gradually covers and extinguishes  all the indications of the morbid inflammation.1
  " Taking it for granted that the physician is [only the  agent of nature, I ask, can there be
any thing better demonstrated than the Homoepathic principle by these discoveries 1 If the
answer cannot be otherwise than confirmatory of the completeness of this demonstration, I
ask again, can the principles of the system now in vogue be established on the like solid basis 1
The answer must be in the negative, for Allopathia has no such  microscopic and pathogenic
revelations  to vouch  for her veracity."
  The above, furnished by a professed opponent, or, at least, no friend of Homcepathia, ought
to settle the question  of bleeding for ever.  It is shown  there, as clear as day, that a diminu-
tion of blood would have deprived nature of her only means of relief, and thus prevented the
cure ; and this is precisely what takes place in all inflammatory cases Allopatbically treated.
  Take that of Scarlatina as an example.  The patient is bled  as  a matter of course.  The
loss of blood is the loss of its strength, of its activity, and of its purity. ,  The force necessary
to repair the injury is taken away from it, and vitiated deposit is the immediate consequence.
The lancet is succeeded by the cups, leeches, and  Spanish  flies, and thus aggravations are
superadded to aggravations.  The  deposited matter  goes on increasing in quantity and pru-
riency,  and soon degenerates into corroding ulcers.  Finally, caustics  are applied,  and irri-
tation is at its height.  The ulcers, partially burned, spread, multiply, become  putrescent,
close the passage of the  throat,  and the patient is laid on his  last bed !   Then comes the
mighty consolation, that all was done that could be done by the skill of man, but  that the dis-
ease wis top malignant, too potent to be overcome by human means. Cruel sophistry!  The 
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of  a  highly inflammatory dangerous disease, depends en-
tirely on the  invigoration or  reduction of the conservative
powers of the blood itself;  and that the manner in  which
these powers  are affected by  the practice of Homcepathia
and Allopathia, is the best possible criterion of their respect-
ive merits.
   CONVENIENCY AND COMFORT OF_ THE  INVALID are  totally
incompatible with the Allopathic treatment, where the wan-
ton spilling of blood, besides  its  first or  immediate effects,
so injurious to the constitution, leads to all those secondary me-
dical inflictions, not the least of which is fasting and hunger,
 imposed upon the patient when he can least bear them, and
 is  most in need of food.  It is sufficient, therefore, to say
 here, that Homcepathia,  by the single act of abjuring all
 kinds of  blood-spilling, is enabled to spare the  patient  all
 subsequent torture, and never for a moment subjects hini to
 the additional privation of a wholesome  and nourishing diet.
     Guarantee from harm, and certainty  of  cure, have
 already been  explained in the safety and efficacy of  minute
 Homoepathic  doses, whose power of action expires the mo-
reverse of all this is the fact. All that was done by the skill of man was done to destroy,
and the disease became malignant and potent, because it was not checked in time, but, on the
contrary, in every possible way was made irresistible.
  Give that same case to Homcepathia, and the scene of misery is changed in an instant! She
brings her aid not as the mistress, but as the pupil of nature.  She preserves the blood, increa-
ses its activity, restores its purity, equalizes its deranged circulation,  and thus enables it to
overcome obstruction, and to effect a cure, in the only way in which it can ever be effected—by its
own recovered energies. Does any one doubt if? Let him consult the records—let him ponder
on the astounding fact, that in scarlet fever her cures exceed tho whole amount of Allopathic
failures !  She saves 48 out of 50! She saves all, where there is no relapse, or delay in ap-
plying for aid, and no impaired  organism worn out by long friction, or seriously injured by
previous diseases. If the followers, as well as the leaders of the present dominant school are
not acquainted with this fact—with the absolute control which Homcepathia  exercises over
scarlet fever—their want of information is shameful and unpardonable ;i if they are, and
will not profit by  the knowledge, they are even more guilty than they have been with respect
to Hydrophobia,  where they had, at least, the excuse of a doubt.  Here there are no doubts,
no uncertainties.  AH is plain—all is a matter of daily occurrence:. They have but to enquire—
and need not travel far in search of conversion.
  la Ehort, the physician that does not henceforth renounce the use  of the lancot, must be
held as one culpably ignorant, or wilfully criminal—no other choice is left him. 
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ment it ceases to be salutary,  and whose effects are never
felt, except as a sure pledge of success.   The  idea of the
negative mischief attributed to Homcepathia in not doing
enough, or in  not being quick enough, is an absurdity full
worthy of the motives and general character of her better
informed opponents.  In the  first  instance, any evil  from
this  source, if it did exist at all,  would never equal the
twentieth part of the evil caused by Allopathic overdoings
and  misdoings;  and, in the second, such a result is an im-
possibility, because in critical diseases  requiring an instant
aid, Homcepathia,  to say the  least, is as well prepared as
Allopathia,  and, in  all others, her  aid  comes always in
support of that ability of nature, which, down to this period,
has  already been found adequate to the  preservation of
existence,
  Celerity of operation.-^Were it possible to enumerate
here the many instances, where a single  dose has perform-
ed a seeming miracle of resurrection, it would astonish the
most obdurate of skeptics, and convince all, who are open
to conviction, that where Allopathia talks, halts, walks, and
runs, Homcepathia acts, walks, runs, and  gallops;  and
that, where  the  former alleviates and  weakens a disease in
five weeks or  days, the latter arrests and cures it in three :
this being the  general proportion of success between them,
of the truth of which any one may satisfy himself by a pro-
per  reference to Homoepathic physicians,  who  will fur-
nish him with an abundance  of croups,  whooping  coughs,
scarlatinas,  cerebral fevers, et cet., effectually cured : at the
point of time at which Allopathia  begins only to hope, and
look with some confidence to a successful issue.
F? Speedy convalescence, although the last in order, is of
the first importance, when it is considered, that it is in the
state of .exhaustion that  life  is most frequently the price of
a short respite.   Allopathia spills blood with the  wanton-
ness of a boy who spills water, and, like him, although *he 
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profits less by the lesson,  she soon  finds that what is sport
to one is deathto another, and that it is much easier to empty
a bucket, than to fill it up again from a small valve, yielding
but a few  drops at  a time. The secondary state of weak-
ness, wherein the patienfis kept quiet, soothed, nursed, and
just preserved from  starvation ; and the third or last one of
convalescence, wherein he is drugged with tonics, and sub-
jected to the  long, slow and tedious operation of distilling
fresh blood, by  the process of cookery, and pumping it into
his veins, are the exclusive creation of Allopathic enterprize
and resources.   Nature and Homcepathia  know nothing of
either.   With them, the crisis of disease is  the signal of re-
stored health, and the space of convalescence is annihilated.
   But it is time to conclude.   The reflecting reader must
now be in possession of all the data, upon which to form his
final judgment, as to the respective claims of the old and the
new system.  He can be at no loss to decide which of them
is the true, the only one, when he can no longer doubt, that,
with the exception of slight or fanciful diseases, in all cases
of recovery under the Allopathic treatment, the patient lives
in spite of it, and not by its special  favour; and that, where
a poor fellow has to swim for his life, nature will keep his
head above water,  Homcepathia will place corks under his
arms, and Allopathia will fasten a rmill-stone to his neck ; so
that with the first he may be generally safe, with the second
he is sure to reach the shore, and with the last he must inevi-
tably go to the bottom, unless he is lucky enough to have a life
or two  in reserve—a blessing, which,  it  seems, is often
granted by the benignant all-foreseeing Providence.