Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-03-21

From them Y. Mirror.
ns~~spashy, Aiispashy ssA Ys~ss Phys'e.
Fifty years aset word Homeopathy was the
krst time lisped in an obscure town in Germany,
and from that time to this, the science desigua.
ted by that word has spread with lightning speed
to the remotest corners Of Europe, And has pene.
trated the forests of America, even to the Rocky
mcontains. 7N toafa -
Fifty years ago, and to express belief Of the
truth Of this derded science, was to bring on the
rash believers head the ansthemas Of the schools,
and the propositions Of legal e"sctments. and to
the charge Of German mysticism, at that time,
synonymous almost with being leasued with the
foul fend.
At first. Contempt, silent and digni6ed; next
Ridieue. noisy and confident; at length, Envy
and her offspring ralsehood. have sought. each in
its turn, to crush the infant rebel against hoary.
headed usage.
Fifty years have passed, and 10! the change
The houseless wanderer thrown upon the tender
mercies Of selfish world, to battle with the
psmpered ninion Of twenty centuries, in the
words Of our author, "comes before us now, not
in the garb of a suppliast, unknown and helpless,
but as conquerer, powerful, famous and trium-
phant. The disciples of Hahnemann are spread
over the whole civilized world. There is not a
town of any considerable size in Germany,
France, Italy, England or America that does not
boast of possessing one or more homeopathic ply.
sicians, not a few of whom are men Of high res.
pectabiIity and learning; many Of them in large
practice and patronized especially by persons of
rank. New books on homeopathy issue in abun.
dance from the press; and journals exclusively
devoted to its cause and printed and widely cir.
culated in Europe and America. Numerous hos.
ptals and dispensaries for the treatment of the
poor on the new system have been established,
many of which publish reports blazoning it snc-
cess, not merely in warm phrases, but in the hard
words and harder figures of statistical tables.
The very fact of the publication of a third edi.
tion Of such large and expensive work as DR..
Laurie's Is vo., p2 SIG, London, ls4e) proves
how widely the practice is spread among the
public generally. The last triumph which no.
meopathy has achieved, is the conversion Of Doc.
tor Henderson, the Professor Of Pathology in the
University OF Edinburg from the old faith"
In our own city, where ten years ago there
were not as many homeopathic physicians, the
Homeopathic Society now numbers between 40
and so members, while the number throughout
the United States cannot be less than 700; and
within the last year, several important works
have issued from the press; among them, trans.
actions of Hahnemanns Chronic Diseases, and
Materia Medica Bchning. Dausen's Treatise on
Intermittent Fever; Ruekert's Therapeutics and
Hartmann's remedies. We have also monthly
journal, the Examiner, and one published in the
western part of this state The ablest period.
cal however, in English, is decidedly the Bre.
fish Journal Of Homeopathy, edited by Drs. Drys.
dale of Liverpool, and Russell of Ednburg. In
French there have been published since the year
1893, seven different journals, which have con-.
tributed during that period nearly 40 volumes
In German we have the Hygea, now in its goth
volume; the ANegemeine Homepat;sche Zeitung,
now in its 2sth volume the Areiir. in its 2i.t
volume, and the Austrian Journal Of Homcopath,
recently established at Vienna by Fleisehmann,
of which three numbers have been published,
containing about $50 pages
Among the distinguished men in various parts
of the world who have engaged in the inves.
tigation of the truth Of Homeopathic law, we
may mention Professor d'Amador, ofth Univer.
sity of Montpelier; Professor J. w. Arnold,
late of the University of Zurich: Professor Hen
denson, ofthe University of Edinburg, and Pro
fessor Andral, of the Partisan School Of Medi
cine, all of whom. excepting the last, bave decla
red in favor Of Homeopathy. The opponents oi
Homeopathy refer with great satisfaction to the
experiments of Andral, undertaken as they were
by authority Of the academic de Medicine Of Pa
ris The unfairness and incorrectness Of these
experiments have been 30 often proved, that w
will not here repeat them, but merely show from
Professor Andral's own testimony. his unftnes,
for the task he undertook. DR.. Curie, in hi
Irine,pks Of Homeopathy, says "A short tim'
indeed previous to the discussion Of the question
of Homeopathy by the Academic de Medicine, DR.
the author Of this work, that although he bad di
rected his attention to the subject, his mind wa
not made upas to its merits, and frankly avowe
that he knew very lit:le about the practice invol
we'd in the new doctrines. How then could MI
Andral, who acknowledged that he had scarcel
acquired the elements of Homeopathic practice
venture to pronounce sentence on these doctrines
What opinion would be formed ofa jury, whic
should condemn before it made itself aequainte
with the facts Of a case Yet such preeisel
was Mr.. Andral's position.