Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-05-30
For tie QHasqueton Guardian.
MEDICTNES---TIIIE USES AND
MODE OF APPLICATION.
No. V.

terra Medica is pure record of the pro-
cess of drugs upon the healthy system.
In order to obtain these records, physi-
clans and others in the best health, of
different ages, sexes and temperaments,
take from day to day suitable quantities
Of the pure drugs, continuing the expert
ment for weeks together, making, during
the entire period, an exact and partic ular
record Of all the medicinal symptoms and
appearances that declare themselves. In
this manner, by repeated trials on differ
ent persons, perfect picture of the eff
fects of the drug is obtained, every organ
or tissue it effects, and every symptom 1t
produces is accurately known.
Homepathists have thus proved over
three hundred different articles, and have
exhibited in these trials an amount of
perseverance unparalleled in the history
of medicine, and have acquired from
1hSnfs a Or m2 ef remedial agents than
can be derived from any other mode. In
studying our Nateria INeaico, and indeed
all that pertains to Homeopathy, we
should follow the inductive method,
which POUNDS science in facts, instead of
assumptions. Of all the physical sci
ences, that of Therapeutics has been the
slowest in adopting the inductive meth
cd. Homeopathy individualises every
case of disease, treating it by and for it.
self
In diseases where a similar case has
never been seen before, or even if there
never was a similar one, if there be init
mate knowledge of the Kateria .Medicu
the physician will at once, after proper
examination, apply the suitable remedy,
by virtue of the law of similarity found
in the proving of his medicines.
Thus Hahnemann, before he had ever
seen a case of Asiatic Cholera, merely
from description of its symptoms by
others, pointed out the remedies that are
indicated for its treatment so accurately
that the same medicines he then suggest
ed have been extensively used in the
treatment of this disease with success
that has astonished even the most ultra
opponents of the system, and led many
to investigate and finally to adopt the
practice. Hence, on the appearance of
epidemic diseases, this system has been
enabled to treat them at once success
fully.
In no case has the new system more
clearly manifested its potent curative en-
ergies, than in the treatment Of cholera
and ethor and ,rue.li; nant forn,e of
disease. Homeopathic medicines are
prepared in such manner as to develope
their remedial powers in the highest pos
sible degree.
The most obnoxious portion Of the
Homeopathic creed, in the eyes of our
opponents, is the power of small doses
and attenuations. This doctrine, like
other parts of Homeopathy, is matter
of Undue ton. 1t may be proved by our
sensations. Hahnemann was led to it by
pure experience, not by speculative views.
Homeopathy arrests morbid secretons
and excrettons by restoring the diseased
organ to its natural condition. By en-
ploying specific medicines, which are
borne by their affinities to the suffering
part or organ, the diseased action is ar
rested, and of consequence the morbid
Sc cretions and excretions are suppressed.
Thus, while Allopathy would expel the
collecting in the trachea during
Group, by vomiting, Homeopathy would
medicine which should pre-
vent the secretion altogether, by restor-
ing the mucuS membrane to its normal
condition.
Homeopathic treatment tends to re-
move the predisposition to the return of
the same disease. In thousands of in
stances, persons suffering from frequent
attacks Of Group, rheumatism, bilious col
ic, and similar affections, after having
followed this treatment for time, have
been entirely exempted from their Gus
tomary attacks. Allopathic treatment
tends rather to invite than prevent re-
currence of the same disease, as the suf-
fering organ is weakened by the effect of
the treatment, by depletion, irritation or
excessive excretion; and in others, but
imperfectly cured by such repulsive ap
plication. Hence, ten dency to relapse,
or new invasion of the same disease, is
always present.
Yours Truly,
LEWIS DODGE, NJ. d.
Cleveland, Ohio.
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