Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-02-20

doses. To this question devoted six
months OF clinical experiment, choosing such
cases both acute and chronic, as | felt as
sured ! should not iniure. AT the end of "a
few days the evidence that the medicines
did act was complete; nevertheless, I perse-
vered Tor six months. Ii then remained for
me to test the THERAPEUTIC value Of the meth
cd. AS for pneumonia, il required particular
precaution. In fact, no light responsibility
rests on him who ventures TO substitute in
the treatment of SO grave n disease, a new
method for one which experience sanctions.
| could consent 10 run no risk. managed
in this way. In ordinary treatment Of pneu-
monia, the first indication is blood letting.
This, properly administered, produces a re.
mission OF the febrile excitement with sweat,
sc. But there still remains the consoIidl-
tIon of the infamed lung to be resolved,
which is usually effected by tartar emetic
and blisters. 1t would be imprndent 10
abandon to itself the inflammation which still
remains. The fever would in that case light
up again, and the lung 60 OH to the suppura-
tion or carni6cation. venlured however,
in the case OF patient who had already been
subjected TO blood letting, TO substitute phos.
phorus =, so for tartar enelic, which should
otherwise (allopalhically) have admins cred.
The patient recovered without any relapse.
repeated this experiment many times
with the same rasult. But might reasona-
bly, attribute this success to the blood letting
ensrgetlcally employed at the outset. All,
therefore, that | could Justify conclude from
my first essays was, that if had done no
good, had at least, by my new method, done
no harm. | resolved then to diminish grad
ually the number of the bleedings at the
beginnings OF the treatment, and not to wait
the remission before having recourse to the
llahnemannlan treatment still keeping in
reserve however, the ordinary treatment in
case amelloratIon should not be speedily
manifest. | diminished, then, the bleedlnss
by one, by two, by three by four; n the
next patient, beginning the administration
Of the new remedies successfully nearer and
nearer the beginning of the treatment.
began with a dose Of aconite, followed by a
dose Of bryonia in twelve or twenty four
hours. The less bled, the more markedly
were the patients relieved after the admins
tration OF the infinitessimal remedies.
decided finally TO bleed no more, and to
have recourse entirely 10 the homeopathic
remedies
81 cannot express the anxiety with which
these first experiments filed me. In spite
the injuncllons left with the attendants TO
bleed as soon as an aggrava,lon should appear,
in spite of reiterated visits which | paid TO
these patients, it seemed always MS if some
great catastrophe were impending. Yet
nothing OF the kind occurred. The patients
first submitted TO the treatment recovered, and
the rest were rapidly relieved. For two years
but one has died. Two others who died
were received when already in the agones
of death. Since IlIat lime have employ ed
the same treatment in n great number OF
cases OF pneumonia, and my first fears have
disappeared. say no more. Facts speak
the rest. ."-Letto from an American in Lon
don 10 The Philadelphia Ere. Bulletin.