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HOMEOPATHY AND HYDROPATHY

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HOMEOPATHY AND HYDROPATHY.
Mr.. EDIToR: have no party to serve, and no
interest, 50 far as know. simply want the truth
to prevail. ! was educated an Alopathic pllysi-
clan, and practiced some time upon that system
and adhered to it all my life, until within the last
few years. l have abandoned it, guess for
ever. My wife and children have heen sckly, and
we have used drugs pretty literally. The sugar
pills and water are now only remedies, and we
think we are healthier happier and richer than we
were under the old system. We think our change
is good one, and for this reason alone, so far as
we know, we are disposed to recommend it to 9th
ers. With this view. suspect | cannot do better
than to give extract from letter from a distn-
guished gentleman in the State of New York:
The time has been when the medical world be-
lieved that watcr acaS death IN fcrerS and old people
have mentioned cases in which the patient has been
compelled to fry out his existence unless he was
too tough to be killed by frying. Now, we know
that that maxim is false, and that the reverse of it
is true The wonder is, that well educated people
should have been so blind, and led by their bell
wethers so completely as to make no observations
of their course. In 1928 l visited q niece near
Philade pha. She and her husband met me at the
door; but the cold stage of aguo was upon him,
and he quick retired to his ROOM With his father
and aunt had long been acquainted, and I'VE sat
conversing in the parlor After a while my niece
came and said her husband was in n burning fever
and wanted to know whether could do anything
to relieve him. I said yes; and directed them to
get two wash-basins of cold water, and placing his
aunt near his head, and myself at his feet, we
washed him thoroughly, and he was comfortable
in few minutes. His father was astonished and
said he should have thought it would have killed
him. My friend was an observing man, and knew
that water was good to eYtinguish fire." But the
letter still goes on "a relative of Susan Ms
was with Dale Owen in his geological explorations
of the western country, several years, and there
studied physc, being now in practice in Ohio She
read me letter from him the other day, and al
lowed me to keepit for few days. lie is HON
@opathist, and says that it is seldom that patient
who has tried that treatment ever returns again to
ordinary drugs. Among physicians, I lave never
yet heard of one instance. The united testimony
cf all who have tried in their practice the two rival
systems, is in favor of the new. My partner, who
has practiced rs regular thirty-fve years, and
who, during many years looked upon Homeopathy
as system of quackery said that, when he COM
pares his success during the last five years with
that of any other five years of his professional
life, it makes him uncomfortable to think of how
much misery he might have saved by turn
ing his attention earlier to what he then des
pised."
! DIR. M. then goes on to mention that DR.. G., oil
New York, was the first, or father of Homeopathy
in America. Y. was young physician of good
practice, but had patient with some chronic dis
ease, whom he could not cure, and honestly told
him so. After long time, he met his former pa
tent, and was surprised to find him in good health
Mr.. A. told the doctor he had been taking medi
cine furnished by German, and wished to intro
duce them; but the doctor refused calling the
Berman ian ignorant Dutch quack." Some time
AFTER however, to please his old patient, he con
sented to go and see him and in the course o.
conversation repeated the offensive epithet. The
German then took from his trunk several square.
of parchment, showing that be had graduated il
Il celebrated medical school in Germany and thai
he had also been honored with a diploma from @
celebrated medical school in Paris DR.. G. was
softened and they parted mutually pleased-G
agreeing to call again. and give his medicine fail
trial.
Shortly AFTER G. had case in which he tried
the sugar pills with success but single case
could not convince him. He tried them in other
cases with similar result, but he could get nc
book to explain it-what the German had being in
manuscript, and in strange tongue. At length
he had case of puerperal fever in highly re-
spectacle family AT that time, at least nine cases
out of ten in that disease were lost; and since
then thirty out of thirtyone have been lost in the
New York Hospital DR.. G. again applied to the
German declaring if he would assist him in curing
his patient, he would close his Office and apply
himself to the study of Haenemann. The patient
recovered, and he fulfilled his promise. Dr. G.'s
practice is now said to be worth $4,000 year.
1 DR.. NJ. says that about eighteen months ago, al
the Royal College Of Surgeons of London, reso
luton was proposed to expel all those who hat
practiced Homeopathy but it was found that there
were fifty in that category so they resolved to b'
quiet
4 He also says that the London Non-conformis
gives an account of eight hundred Hom@opathist
in that city holding meeting for the purpose o
establishing Hospital, and that GA, 100 were con
tributed.
4 The great difficulty in people having faith in tn,
Homeopathic system ison account of the smallnes.
of the doses ;but this difficulty would dwindle into
Iinsignifcance if they would observe and reflect
little. If thoy would turn their attention to tht