New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-06

HOMEOPATHY.

sFEcIs p "a W& ai. BY o"I'
? HONORARY FAIeLY RE'REsENrED By WILLIAM
HEsrEEsos ND. tys: pc O. philadelphia Lindsay
9. TIE HOMEOPATHIC mArERlA MEOicA By trirE
he f.nch and Eeed By Charles hempsi
4 A HoMEoPATHlC TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF
CH'LDhES BY A. TssTs Translated rom 10, French ~
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TIE Simultaneous Issue OF these volumes is an indca
ton of the importance attached to the Homeopathic
system in medical literature As faithful cbroncler1
of passing events it is duty 10 take some brief no.
tee of their contents without unde taking the gratI
tous talk of defending reutiDg their principles.
The author Of the work named a. the head of this
article has probably done more than any living writer
TO dssemiI ate and popularise the doctrines OF Hone
opstby ia this country. He early enere the field aud
fr many years has been unsparbg of labor for the pro-
motion Of bis fayorite science. Tae works which he
has written translated, and edited forn in themselves
an extensive Homeopathic library. Combining re-
markabe subley of tellect with great earnesness
of conviction On enthusiastic devotion to the nyestga
ton OF first principles with practical sagacty OF OF
seryaton, End gift of lucid and forcible statement
with rare fertility of illustration DIR. Hempel has
brought degree OF logic aud eoquence to the support
Of bis me jical views, which seldom find in scientific
writings Oh any subject
The volume low published, we think will add tobis
reputation an original thinker and rhetOrciau of
mastery skill although it will bring under suspicion
Lis loyal attachment to Homeopathic orthodoxy. IL
is in TACT lew token of The Inevitable tendency of
the age. Every science, as well as every sect now
numbers young Progressses and old iiuokers among
its adhcrents The division of Cathol, and Protestant,
Conservative and Reformer, Old School aud New
School Right aad Left, prevails in all portions of the
intellectual domain. The preteDson t., intalliblity IN
every party re,s slippery basis and in regard even
to the mos. legitimate authorities new kings that knew
not JOse,h are emily snatchug the scepter from
crsted hands and asserting :heir owo claims 10
the gal crown with all the fevor Of radical aud ic
ty. Thus DR. Bempel who has hitherto been file
leader smcng tire ranks Of HahnemanD. though he does
actually desert his cOlors gives decided symptoms
of rebeous disposition aud openly protests against
blind obedience to the founder of Homeopathy This
Movement will no doubt cause excitement in the
esmp Both the erninence OF ia author and the skill
of hs strategy must draw the eyes of the Hahnemann
School TO bis position.
II opening his subject DR. lIempel attacks the dis
position in the human mind to star in the develop nens
Of science from sensual basis ins:esd Of compre
lensiye devotion to integral truth This tendency,
Which has prevailed in all the forms OF intellectual life,
IN sciesce in ART in government. education social in
suObs and the organization of the church. has been
exhibited by the followers OF Habnemsnu in their
child Ike reception Of the words of their master aud
their blind and unreasonable acquiescence in his die
;a,es snd opinions. They have regarded Homeopathy
as his work and property. aud deemed it as great an
outrage TO alter iota Of its tenets without hi. con-
cent as il wouc be invade another mans home and
alter its arrangements without the permission OF the
owner. II was looked upon not as a divine science
belonging exclusively 70 God and which be cre,,ed for
tie common benefit Of the race bur as thing of hu.
man invention whose universal proportions were 10 be
narrowed down TO tie l!usory horizon OF tie finite
understanding HahnemaDn nlself probably be-
lieved that his discovery almost If not quite per.
feet and hence it is not strange that his disciples
,hould have accepted bis statements without discus
sicD. But argues DR. Hempe this species of fanati.
elem lie decidedly out OF place in the present age
especially it to be condemned in matters of science
ard when we come to sit the pretensons of those who
inculge in it, they exposed in their true light as
set OF money making. loud mOuthed, impertnent
drones, or ambitious veOgs in the world of ideas"
Tie existing practice OF Homeopathy, according c,
Or. H.-asi &c has held the opinion for segera
yebn-does Tot realize lis cair 10 the character ofa
clear, positive and certain science tae Maeria Med
lea of tie system lie filed with number of unreliable
srd useless symptoms; il includes many substances
which are Lot properly drugs and lieh cannot there
fore be treated remedial agents Ia the common az
septatob Of The tcrn-aDd hence the pcrposee OF SCI