New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-21

miited 10 repel. He says
In Hospital in this country few years agony
informant, who obtained il confidence will no, allow
mo m mention where !, was not in this Ci,y ror vi
cui,- though experiment would probably have made il
true OF apy of them certainly in tina, one in which we
were told Inc other day by Alderman in his place the
deaths were seventy five per greater Than in am
other sime. Institution IN this country. In this Hospi-
,a then the physicians agreed for one whole year 20
treat all their fever patiencs without medicine Of any
Kind They did What was the result 60 i'm
1essey In favor OF The poor patients tina. the managers
dare not speak Of openly lest plan,s should
from the former that they subjected to expert
men;s Tais pas practical Homeopathy
It's my candid opinion that, taking tie whole OF
the cases treated in any given period of time by the
administration OF Allopalhic drugs Including Chro-
no.Thcrmalism with its Nitrate of Silver which
turns q patient black. and ouinine which makes
him crazy) more injury than benef, is conferred
upon the sick By the doctors This both Dr.. Turner
and DR.. Forbes seem determined 10 prove, and this
could easily be established beyond reasonable cues
ton If all the facts that already exist were accessible
for the purpose So utterly illusory and faacious are
the meaningless remedial measures taught by the old
school OF Medicine that it is only the rash and head
strong enthusiast, panoplied by his fresh diploma
who ventures very freelyto use them A few years
of experience and common sense make him dis
MAYED a, the impotence of the art he has spent so
much time in acquiring, and he never orders one of
those ineffablc compounds called Prescriptions with
out an involuntary shudder at the probable conse-
quences of his reckless assault upon human life
Both conscience and humanity unite in inducing
him 10 spare as far possible that is, as far as
consistent with professional etiquette, the heaiths
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thus the consumption of bread pills, sarsaparilla
,inctures and other harmless but looking
boluses, in any regular physicians practice is in
corresponding ratio 10 the development OF his or
CANS of conscientiousness and benevolence. But
it is poor spirited revenge TO take upon Hompo-
pathy to attempt to for its brilliant and IN
paralleed success-ts astonishing increase of popu
lariy-by saying that is simply the absence medi
cine Yet we find the old school physicians reduced
TO the humiliating necessity admitting that all their
two thousand years Of experience their noun
tains OF experiments and facts-all their colleges
and publications their lectures, their ciniques their
hospitals-are absolutely nothing and worse than
nothing and that Homeopathy effects its aston
ishing cures merely because it gives no medicine
at all
But to leave all this, and come TO what more es-
peciay claim space fora brief explanation OF the
real Theory of Hompopathy-of which both the
writers in question appear 10 be ignorant. am
well aware that at the first look it appears utterly
preposterous to attempt 10 cure serious disease by
administering the mlonth or bionth or decillionlh
OF a grain of medicine. But | hope few plain
words will serve to clear away this difficulty.
The most prevailing error which Homeopathy
has TO combat is the idea that medicines must, in
order to cure disease, act apprecatvely or mechan-
icaly upon the system. For instance, man has
fever with constipation Of the bowels the doctor
gives him a heavy dose of calomel TO clear out the
bowels, unlock the liver &c. &c.-thus produc-
ing direct mechanical action upon the system by
the medicine administered. This doctrine, in all its
ramihcations and under every aspect Homeopathy
denies 1t holds that one disease in the system at
time is enough It's theory of cure, them is this:
Induct;ve reasoning leads necessarily to the admis
sion orders of creative forces of which may
be designated by the term harmonic the other by the
subr9s,ce The harmonic iorces by their action
upon matter produce those substances, animals plants
ard minerals which are necessary to the Development
OF the harmonious healthy organism the suoversve
forces on the contrary those forces which produce
the substances adapted 10 the organism IN usturOdnce
and destined il TO lis original conditions OF
health Both those forces by their action upon matter
embody themselves III visible FORMS each form repre-
senting or typyng peculiar variety OF those forces
The types or which those forces create by their
action upon matter united those forces by that
ndvsble bond which unites the effect TO Its cause
Iiseyident that the animal organism not the type
natural order OF existence Of those subversve forces
Hence there is bond OF union between these forces
aud the organism and must be possible TO separate
them AS the Invasion Of the organism by thcse forces
and their attempts adapting the organism 20 them
selves constitute disease does the separation OF hoae
forces from the organism constitute the cure OF that dis
ease The question then is how those forces TO be
separated from the organism 7
The answer this question Is perfectly srnple and
sefevident We introduce into the organism the natu-
raj types forms oil existence OF that variety OF suover
sve forces which has Invaded the organism. These
types being united the forces by that ndvsibe bond
which have shown TO exist between effects and their
causes the disease will of its own accord. and with
readiness leave the organism whsh is not It's natural
product or type and embOdy itself in its natural type
which is the medicinal substance. How this embodyng
takes place is be shown by the farther progress OF
science Il is probable that the typical substance acts
upon the subversve force with power Of attraction
The subversive force flows into converges IN the me-
dicna substance which is its type In the same way DO
the SUMS rays converge In the focus OF burning glass;
does the magnetic sphere OF this globe converge in the
point OF needle and its attractive force act upon the
smallest rolecue. In order TO find out what medicinal
substance is typical OF any given variety OF the suover-
sve forces we in the first place try TO discover the
symptoms of the diseases which embodied in the
various medicinal substances For this purpose we Try
them upon the healthy organism. The symptoms which
are thus evoked in the organism are indications OF the
effects which certain order of subyersiye forces Is ca
pab!e of producing in the organism. To the medicinal
substances producing those 81 ptoms this certain or
der OF subverve forces is therefore related causes
are TO their effects and they are brought il
contact with each other they become indssou5y uni
ted the disease becomes material point, and is
separated from the organism in perfect freedom and
what is essential, in peTteet order.
J. Hempe's Preface to HshnemarnS Chronic Dis
eases
This theory thus perspicuousy SET forth by one
of the most enthusiastic and philosophical Of the
advocates of Homeopathy seems to me TO be pc
cuarly deserving OF attention as being in itself
one OF the most beautiful, symmetrical and logical
theories ever developed upon any subject The
capable intellect cannot fail 10 become deeply i'm
pressed with the rraisemblaace, the extreme proba-
bility, of this theory, its proportions one by one
become clear to the mental vision and at length the
Whole stands out in its harmonious proportions
r. ,La sopl oF man instnctiyelv nerceiyes that