The Columbian fountain., 1846-10-06


| Il is very Significantly asked by X. Y. what
the Homeopathic physicians would dos Il the
old naieSh medica is 80 defective - 4 has
been represented
II is MOI the articles Of the materia medica
that are detective, but is an ignorance Of their
real virtues and properties in the physiciPs
who use Them. and consequently, OF their ap-
pication to cases Of disease, that is complained
| Of. y. hss88 a
The correct application ofa remedy HomGo-
pathicay, is not in the least degree affected,
however much its use may have been abused
or perverted by Allopathy. Every article Of
the Homeopathic maieria medica is subjected
TO long and severe ordeal OF experiments made
with il upon the healthy The deviations from
healthy action produced by i, make US &C.
quainted with its properties and virtues; and
| these being thus discovered, enable US 10 use
il, intelligenty, in the treatment OF disease.
The assertion OF x. Y. that .'either Allopa-
lhic doses are administered in every case Of
| severe bilious disease or in lage majority OF
| cases the patient dies" unaccompanied as il is
by any proofs or facts or any thing else except,
| by another assertion, .sthat the pathology
of the disease jusfes him in saying il, it per-
fec,lY gratuitous, and as far as ] am concerned,
destitute or foundation, in fact have not yet,
Messrs. Editors, been so unfortunate as TO lose
single patient, since | have resided in this
city, either Of bilious or any other disease, nor
have Allopathic doses been employed; and
make this statement, not boastingly, but mere
| ly in self-defence, as feel myself personally
| alluded TO, when reference is made TO the
results Of Homeopathic treatment, by K.
Y. "in our meridian" Valuable as pure
pathological phenomena are TO the physicians,
| am at a loss 10 know how they can ever
inform us, of the size Of the doses, that
are necessary to be used. Besides, am
| satisfied from repeated observations, that under
Allopahic treatment, the pathological condi-.
tion Of the patient is seriously aggravated and
often dangerously heightened, by the very
means used to cure him. How then can any
conclusion be arrived at, as to the kind or quar-
tity Of medicine necessary to effect cure 3
And il x. refers 70 appearances on dissec
ton after death, his knowledge of the curative
creased. "What advantages, "says late AL
lopatic writer, .'have centuries OF dissection
contributed to the healing art2 We hear of a
great many, truly but lungs decomposed,
livers enlarged, bone, muscle and intestine, in
various stages of corruption, would seem to
comprise the whole. These are nevertheless
what modern professors put up in bottles and
cases, and exultingly show off, as beautiful
specimens!" ''Superb collections !" pointing
them out at the same time TO their credulous
pupils as the trophies of science, when they
might more truly describe them as the triumphs
of death over their own want OF skill. The
success of Homeopathic treatment, every
where, in severe and acute cases Of disease is
far above that of the ordinary practice; but its
besetting sin, in the eyes OF its opponents,
seems TO be, its inability to conquer every dis
ease-to cure every patient. In Cholera Asi-
atica, we have shewn that Homeopathic treat
ment cures more than 80 patients out Of 100;
whereas Allopathy cures scarcely SO in the
hundred In my 4,h communication il was
stated that DR.. Hermann lost but l patient out
Of Al cases Of Bilious Fever, in Hospital prac-
tice.
DR.. Fleishman physician of the hospitals of
the Barmherzigen Schwestern, (Sisters Of
Charity at Vienna, in which all patients are
treated HomGopathically, reports in his statis-
teal returns for the year l845, that he treated
l34 patients laboring under gastric and inter-
mittent fever, which were doubtless Of a bill.
Gus character, only one of whom died and A
remained under treatment at the time of max
ing the report. Of typus fever. a very severe
and dangerous form Of disease, he treated 2O9
cases, and 81 died, or 10 per cent, result be-
low the average number of deaths in the AL
lopathic hospitals, in Vepna, including all dis
eases. The average amount Of mortality in
this hospital, where more than 1000 patients
were treated, for the years l844, and As, for
all diseases is 6 per cent. As have no re-
turns Of the results in other hospitals in Wen
ma for these years, am not able TO exhibit
comparative view, but | can present statistical
results in the Homeopathic and AllGopathic
hospitals in Vienna, a few years back.
4ay f ALLGoPATHIc INSTITUTIONS. at#
Deaths IN 100.