Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-04-04
For lie QaaSqae:oa Guardian.
MEDICINES. THEIR Uses, AND NODE
OF APPLICATION.


Mr.. EDIToR:-As strict Homeopathic
practice does not tend TO excite lateral
it must, as its ultimate effect,
bring the system to a point either back
ward or forward Of that which the dis
ease would have hurried it, and to a
point, SO to speak, on the same track ; in
other words it must stay the disease or
aggravate it, make it better or worse
If Homeopathic physicians generally
made their patients worse it would be a
matter of notoriety.
Here we can confidently challenge a
between results obtained by
opposites { the common method } and by
stnHcrs.
Cathartics move the bowels, but leave
them afterwards less capable Of moving
naturally. A plausible common sense
tells the physicing physician that he is
removing costiveness. Reason and ex
perience should teach him that he is only
stereotyping it. To relieve pain and
nervous irritation, the community are
perpetually drugged with opiates and
other narcotics, which increase The sleep
lessness and nervousness, and even the
the cough and pain, unless the drug is
continually repeated. This last is the
usual cxpedient If patient would
know the curative effect OF q medicine,
let him suspend its use for time If
the symptoms disappear when the medi-
cine is taken, and rcappcar when it is
omitted, the medicine is doing absolutely
nothing towards a cure.
Homeopathy can safely appeal to this
test, for she uses no mere palliatives. A
single homeopathic dose often will. after
a slight retrograde impulse, move the pa
tent forward on the track of improve
ment, and other doses of the same carry
him forward to perfect and permanent
health. But while Homeopathy never
sacrifices the future to the present, she on
the other hand never sacrifices the pres
ent to the future. She arrests the most
violent and rapid diseases more speedily
than any other system.
We will next consider that the size of
the dose must be small in homeopathic
practice, because the medicines act di-
rectly on the seat of the disease hence
the necessity of small doses.
70 employ Homeopathic medicines in
Allopathic doses, would destroy the pa
tient, and such events have undoubtedly
taken place when large doses of Quinine
or Bark have been given at the COM
mencement of an ague chill or even a
modern Allopathic does of Opium, given
to a patient during the cold stage of few
or hos Quietly denrivpd Tho unfo,tupatn
person of life.
An ordinary Allopathic dose of calo-
mel given to a person suffering with Sc
we're dysentery, may cause his death,
whereas infnitesimal doses may be suffi-
cient to effect permanent cure i'll short
time. Numerous other examples of this
kind can be mentioned.
1t appears truly surprising that such
minute doses of medicine will produce
such prompt and certain effects, when
in accordance with the Ho.
meopathic law of cure.
Nature, however, furnishes lis with
many illustrations equally surprising and
wonderful. The power of attraction, thai
holds the universe in harmonious order,
extending through unlimited space, ex-
crting its power on all bodies, from the
sun to the most distant planet or wander
ing comet, causing all to perform their
wonderful revolutions with exact certain
ty, in their appointed time, is substance
SO minute that we only know its existence
by its effects, although we are constantly
under its influence.
Light, although coming distance of
eight millions of miles, and moving at
the amazing rapidity of more than elov-
en- millions OF miles in one minute, still
comes to our sight so mildly as TO pro-
duce only the sensation of pleasure when
in health although its bright rays may
produce extreme pain TO tie eye affected
with active inflammation. This agent is
so minute that we can neither weigh nor
measure it; yet it exerts so essential an
nal life can be susL..ncg eIabl9 ~, nor anjlrr
any length of time. The Atmospha
Electricity, and Carbon. or Heat fur.
nlshes illustrations equally plain, of the
immense power contained in matter much
more highly attennated than the liyhtcst
dose of homeopathic medicine ever al.
ministered by tie most visionary