New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-19
lime which would have appeared short under Inc
naos, onorra,ic ,reaiment Of Allopathy.

most energetic treatment OF AHopaluy
The Reviewer next passes to work by Dr. zen,
derson containing report OF one hundteu anu
,,,.on,,,ro CAGES of disease treated by him homeo
-,,h;c.n,, The fret twenty. four cases are Oh not
eove,e disease and are dismissed as furnishing
m evidence of importance pro or con- Every
.h,,s;ci,n of experience Says Dr. F. would have
aw,oc,ed them TO get well under any treatment
7, ia bn, fair however, say that they go, well as
fos, apparently under DR.. Hendersons treatment as
they would have done under ordinary medication
"Tbe twenty. fifth and twenty-sixth cases are
zYe,l. marked cases of acute rheumatism. They ter
minated in the short space of about five days under
the use OF bryonia assisted occasionally by aconte
and beliadonna in doses Of billionth OF a gram
The twentynnth and thrtieth cases are cases OF Sc
we're neuralgia. the former speedily relieved after
one dose of dulcamara the latter after one dose Of
aconi,e 1t would be unfair to deny tina, the result
obtained in these -four last cases would have oeen
regarded as very satisfactory under any MODE OF
allopathic treatment
DIR. Henderson's cases, No. SO 10 IS inclusive,
are examples of headache chiefly chronic, many
severe. of long standing and several OF them re-
bellious TO all former treatment The results OF the
treatment OF these cases are. upon the whole, very
favorable; and several Of the cures would, unques-
,ionably if occurring under ordinary treatment,
have been regarded not only as striking but tri-
umphant.
of the stomach and bowels, under the various forms
of gastralgia vomiting, dyspepsia constipation.
with headaches &c. They are OF the same general
complexion both TO character and result, as Inc
cases of more formal headache. Several oil ihem
are certainly striking examples OF rapid and most
brilliant curescures, that ls Just as good ana Us
well authenticated as those of Allopathy-post hoc'
ergo proPter hoe.
In fine. the Reviewer sums up his analysis OF evil
dence by the general and broad admission that we
do not hesitate to declare that the amount OF sue
cess obtained BY Dr. Henderson in the treatment Of
his cases would have been considered by ourselves
as cery satisfactory had we been treating the same
cases according TO the rules OF ordinary medicine
Very good, Doctor; you admit, then, unquallhecly
that Homeopathy is $50 far as evidence goes quite
as GOOD as Allopathy-athough you think the for
mer decidedly false and bad-useess to the suf
ferer and degrading to the physician! Now, then,
lie, US come 10 your objections against Homeopathy
Saws the Reviewer, as if suddenly aware OF the d.
lemma into which he had written himself
Bat many of our readers we expect will be OF
opinion that, in admitting what we have done, we
are betraying the OF Legitimate Medicine ana
lending our aid 10 extend the heresy OF Homeopathy
If such should be the result of our admissions, we
cannot help it. Wehave said only what we believe
to be true; and if what We believe is in realty the
truth the PRONUNCIATION of il cannot lead to evil
Truth is good If the art of medicine, as we pro.
fess and practice il, cannot bear investigation, and
shrinks before the light of truth, from whatsoever
quarter il may come, il is high time that II should
cease TO be sanctioned and upheld by philosophers
and honest men. IT, on the contrary II be true and
good-even if it be only but partially true and
moderately good-the stirring touch OF inquiry and
the stimulus OF opposition cannot TAIL TO benefit II IN
the end.
"What then il will be naturally asked, is the eX-
plannton of the momentous fact we have announced,
that considerable number of diseases have been,
and perhaps continue to be, treated rs successfully
by Hompopathists as by Allopathsts! is IT, that
tie one Kind of treatment as as good as the 0ther
Is IT. THAT HOMEOPATHY Is TRUE
ITO both OF these queries we give an unequivo-
cal and decided negative, so far at least, as this
can be given in case where we have, as yet, no
demonsirative proof on one of the sides of the
question
This is certainly a cool beginning-a kind OF anti
phlogstic, which ought 10 keep at least in excel
lent humor. The process by which Dr. Forbes pro-
poses to test the truth of Homeopathy must be
given in his own words:
Nothing, in short, will suffice but experimenting
crucis of a comparative trial, on large scale, oil
It's powers on the one hand, and OF natures pow.
ers on the other. Until it can be proved by clinical
experience on an extended field, and on two par
allel groups of similar diseases, that Homeopathy
cures better than nature, we are warranted oy eve
~ principle Of philosophy, not merely IN douotlnG'
but in denying its truth
but, such being estimate OF the character
and powers of Homeopathy, on what principle can
we explain the fact above admitted, that diseases
have been cured and continue 10 be cured. ankle IN
der its minisration as under that OF ordinary prac-
JS II INIT r
as 49, that, TO obtain explanation Of the t1ct IRE
must pass 6y both and fr some other THIRD
POWER, coincident ,cth both, get belonging TO net
tier
I'VE cannot give to these queries, as to the for
mer, either simple negative, or simple positive
reply. In answer to the first, we should say that
Alopatby is certainly true in a limited sense, that
is to say. it unques,ionably possesses to certain
extent, the power of curing diseases II Is. how
ever not true in an absolute sense, in the sense
in which 1t is regarded by some. nasaluch as II does
not cure great proportion OF the diseases II is
supposed 20 cure. In answer to the second, we ad-
init that there is third power. common TO or COIN
cident with both, which, while it explains all the
triumphs of Homeopathy reduces those Of Alopa'
thy within much narrower limits than its more zeal
GUS voares wont TO assign it: thiS IS THE pow
En- OF NATURE.
Here the whole secret has leaked out, and we are
presented at once with clear view of the tao
tics TO be employed against Homeopathy 1t is no
longer to be judged Of or tested relatively with
Allopa,hy-,ha, ground its adversares have been
compelled to abandon in confusion and disgrace
But ii is now TO be compared alone with Nature
Medicines no longer diseases-they are abso
lu,ely productive of more harm than good-and al
the astonishing results of Homeopathy are to be &C
counted for simply by the absence OF medicine
Thus CRY the enemies of HomGopaihy-the advo
Gates of forty grain doses of calome literally inter
spersed with opium, edged off with ipecac, embel
Ished with tartar emetic and served up with corro
sive sublimate and asafeiida in Is, IS and So IN
Vulnerable. by way of pleasant condiment! Tc
this arc reduced the stanch and reuorseless advo'
Gates of leeching cupping, bleeding, bsters' cata
plssms. ounterrriations and all the other choice
delicacies of the Allopaihic Bill OF Fare whose
very names are beginning TO be forgotten! Fol-
some years poor Homeopathy was laughed al ane
ridiculed by every DOCTOR apprentice who had be
gun to be able TO distinguish squills from Godfrey