New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-02

Rrie guryr o. Progress Iiese!t 3td'o
uompopa,iia in Europe BY 4. oEk1iD tiULL' hi'
u Ipp PAS, l2ms) Wn. Radde, 622 Broadway
". presume the public desire rather to know
what homeopathic is than what we may happen
70 think OF il. Most general readers doubtless
aware that i,s essential, vital principle imports that
a disease IS to be cured by a medicine a0hich
uould produce SIMILAR symptoms IN healthy per-
son. Connected with this IS theory that very
small doses Of medicines every way preferable
TO those usually given. This is not Homeopathy,
but an opinion generally entertained and promul-
gated BY Homnopathiss. The author Of this
work, after promising that the discovery of speci-
ics and The law of specifics for diseases was tor
merly but little attended by the Medical fra
ternty, proceeds:
Some years ago, the attention Of a native OF
M5isscn, in Saxony, who had been educated Tor
the medical profession, attracted TO 1t, ana LED
by some striking phenomena which appeared on
his first essay with Cinchona, he determined 10 IN
stitute q series Of experiments for the purpose OF
determining IT possible, first whether there was III
fact such thing law of specihcty; and second
II, ii such turned out be the case, TO apply that
lay to the curative properties OF all other medicines
so as to establish the in which every other indl-
Vidual Deuiclnal SUBSTANCE sFe,ihI IL
will be at once evident hat the first step, in such an
extensive inquiry, must be to determine with ac-
curacy the peculiar properties Of each individual
rneudicament those by which each was distinguish
ed from eve,y other; and as the knowledge OF the
medical world on this subject was very defective,
extending no farther tlan 10 some general proper
ties which belonged to several in common, he re-
solved first OF all discover, by actual experiment
on himself u the properties of those substances
which acted as specifics, and next, to continue
those experiments carefully on other therapeutic
agents
at cannot be doubted that his suferings during
the course of this investigations continued as 1t
was for many years must have been very great.
Whatever they were, he bore them with perse-
verance which is more worthy of imitation than
likely 10 find imitators, until, having with the
greatest accuracy noted down every symptom which
each medicament capable of producing, he
found himself in possession of copous index,
not merely tc all the symptoms which the various
medicines he tried could produce in the human or
ganisIn, but to nearly all those which n,orbifc
agents are capable of producing as well; that IS to
say, he had produced by some medicine or other,
symptoms corresponding TO almost all those OF ma
tura maladics He had been in the beginning
struck with the singular resemblance between the
SYMPTOMS caused by some specifics and the dis
eases which those specifics cured. He found, tor
Instance that Peruvian bark excited q species OF
ague very similar to that it cured; that mercury
caused symptoms so like syphil,c ones as to be in
dis,ineushable from them. And suspectlng that
this similarity WAS the very principle by means OF
which The cure was effected he had nc sooner OBJ
tainect competent knowledge of the properties OF
different medicaments, ,hilan he began to apply
that principle TO he healing of diseases. The sue
A. - hoe pnoplpf Al
he been indeed what some have not blushed to call
him. Charlatan, he might have lived unassaied
and died wealthy but his noble enature spurned such
contempliblc nluc cemcnts: with splendid llber-
ali,Y which we are pro,d TO say is 10y no means rare
in the annals of medicine he gave 10 the world at
once the whole theory and practice OF his art, ana
laid open every secret which it had cost HIM 80
many arduous hoars of labor and years OF suterirg
to discover Let it not be forgotten whea the
name Of Hahnemann is mentioned; neither let ms
reward be forgotten--obloquy, reProach, insult
and persecution. Wihno other object than to re-
leve suffering human nature, with no other wish
than TO establish and extend the truth above selhsh
ness and beyond feer, he published all ne had dis
covered; his requita for a long time, was such
treatment as he would have deserved II ne had
wasted his hours in devislng means tor increasing
suffering. if he had lavshed his talents in crushing
truth or occupied himself in Disgusting with hard
names the errors OF system which had nothing
but antiquity to recommend II. Lucky 1t Is fer
him that he iad smother tribunal toapPeal TO, even
pasterity, who will adopt his discovery, If it turn
out TO be correct, or respect his motives II t'h'e
should fail to confirm it.
The editor of this work, in summing up the
opinions OF ancient Medical authorities in favor o.
the Homeopathic principle, cites Paracelsus
Cardanus, Basil alentine, Detharding, Bertholon
Boulauc &c. Sc He also cites cases from al
most all the greatest Medical writers wherein
Arsenic Hyoscyamus Opium and Stramonium
have been successfully used TO cure diseases simi
lar to those they would have excited or healthy
person.
Anonc eminent Medical authorities OF the old
school who have borne testimony to the merits o
Homeopathy, DR.. Hull cites the names and ePin
ions Of Hufeand, Kopp, Broussas, Brera, Nlillin'
sen, aad AcNaushton; while has list OF eminent
converts 10 the new doctrine Is much more eA'ea
siys. OF Doctors of Med icine, Professors IN Eu
ropean Universities, who now advocate Hom@epa
thy, he gives list of titty,six; os Medicai r"S
Counselc,s three; State Counselors thmly hve
Mciicai Counselors seyenteen-all st whom mus
have attained eminence both in Science and Medl
cine before achieving their present stations. U
Court ti'YSicians who are Homoaepa,hists ht
names twenty-five; ot Array Surgeons twenty three
Ia eleven OF the principal Universities of Europe
there are regular Professors of or Lecturers upsI
omcnpathiA. About seven hundred ditieren
works in exposition and defence of the doctrine
have already been published. There are seventeen
periodical, now OF recently published devoted te
the Homeopathic cause There are eighteer