The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-03-03

adhesion ID not genial. They below in unlsons-
"retIenchment and REFORM but they administer
it in small doses-so small as to be invisible The
political doctors distrust each other while advocating
the same mode OF treatment, and hence their prac-
tce amounts but to application of homeopathy
to the body petite 1t may be that there are amongst
them quacks of another sshool-the ThompsoIan
steam doctors; most assuredly they make Uncle
Sam sweat.
The homeopathic maxim is sin,ila simlibus cu-
rant,u, or that diseases are cured by small doses
Of the medicines which produce the same morbid
symptoms in healthy patient. The German physi-
clan Habemann came to this conclusion after hav-
ing made all the healthy people he could dose with
bark as fevsrish as malaria could make them Thus,
too, the political doctors, after having produced DIG
ease in healthy nation by their favorie specifics
hold that their nostrum, small doses, il the cure
for the evils which their specifics have produced in
robust subjects But the first discoverer Of the ho-
mGopathic principle was not Habemann, nor Par
acelsus but sage whose fame has been cherished
in our nurseries, and recorded in those familtf
lines:-
There wssa man Of The.aaiy,
And he was wondrous wise,
He jumped into quickest hedge, ~,.
And scratched out both his eyes;
And when he saw his eyes were out,
With bitter grief ed ps'a
He jumped into another hsdge
To scratch them In again.
This was homeopathy; tho wondrously wise man
of Thessaly having found that a quickest hedge
scratched out eyes, saw clearly that by another
quickest hedge only his eyes could be restored
The legend does not, however, tell that he took o
small dose ofthorn. Uncle Sam has evidently in-
tated this celebrated example, for there can be
no doubt that he has jumped into the
quickest hedge Of political quackery to scratch
in all that the quickest hedge Of political quackery
has scratched out of both his head and his far
precious part his pocket; but the faculty are one
part Thompsonan. one other part protesting homeee
p,thy but adopting Thompsonian practice, while the
rest act on the homeopathic principle, his recovery
ID questionable. There are some who advocate To-
litical homeopathy without knowing it ; they obvI.
ousy Imagine that great abuses can be cured BY
small measures of abuse, which they mistake fer
positive improvement; or perhaps they hold that
the 'reform" fever is to be cured by administering
the miuioneth part of grain Of reform. This is in
the strctest conformity with the doctrine of Habe-
mann, that the virtue Of the remedies increases with
the reduction Of their magnitude The recent
practice" of the doctors Of the House of Repre-
sentatves has been strange admixture Of Homeo.
pathy and Thompsonianism. The Homeopathisis
maintain the aatonc theory in reformation, (waiv-
ing the question whether what they contemplate is
reformation) and that efficiency belongs to the
smallest conceivable division solution Of it. Of
this character is the recovery which contents itself
with the saving the fraction of the salaries Of two
humble cerkships. In legislation, for the last few
days, thehom eP lthic practice has been seen. 1t
has been administered ia the smallest fractions Of
the smallest particle but the Thompsonians have
sweat Uncle Sam without conjunction. Of the
hermaphrodite practitioners to whom ausion has
been made, John McKeon is distinguished pro-
fessor he prescrbes reirenchment of small fractions
Of dollar; but by drawing his per diem for six
weeks while he was attending to other business
of private professional nature in New York, he
proved that in practice he isa Thompsonan.
The operation of these two systems in lhe. House
of Representatives may be worthy of further in
vestigation. Misrepresentation sweats Uncle Sam
to the amount of $1,000 per day for sessions of three
hours duration-(2i2 members at 50, three dele
gates at the same sum-the Speaker at double COM
pensatien, and the clerks and pages will give
greater gross sum but this may suffice)-that SUBJ
divided give S666 and fraction per hour and S2e2
and fraction for every call of the ayes and noes
which occupy at least twenty minutes What thea
are the records Of the practice Yesterday the
homeopathists agreed that the Secretary Of War
should report to them why and wherefore General
Scott had received some extra allowance on a
tam occasion this morning they spent forty min
utes in making some verbal amendment of the Jour-
nal and hence. presto, they became Thompsonians,
and sweat Uncle Sam to the tune Of S444 and a
fraction, which would not have been necessary but
for their own irregular practice yesterday. The
House next went into Committee of the Whole,
and while some of the learned doctors were
preparing q prescription the homnopathian
princple-the millioneth part of grain of re-
form-they were deserted by their compeers,
ard call Of the House was moved but a.
the call was objected 10, the ayes and noes
were ordered, and, according to the Thompsonian
practice, 222 drops {" Benon's) were sweated ont
of the suffering patient. The homeopathic egisla-
ton to-day the passage Of a resolution, instruct
| ing The Committee on Commerce to enquire into
| the expediency Of establishing Marine Hospital
at Memphis, Tennessee, and the adoption Of an.
amendment to, the Civil and Diplomatic appro-
pration bill, regulating the publication OF the public
advertisements, and the printing for the Executive
| departments-the advertising 10 be done in the
newspapers having the greatest number Of subscrlb-
en and this was an almest invisible grain Of le-
sisation, but it was positively all that was admin
is,ered. This dav. then, tho Thompsonians were
dominant. and the patient was steamed to pur-
nose. and how loue he will survive under this treat
men, the experiment win demonstrate. OF his pro-
| gress future " Bulletins" shall speak
i
baltimore.
fCorrsspoudsnce OF the Herald
BALrIxoRE, March q 1872
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