American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-02-19

velous. It's principles were obscure,
It's practice extrayagantly refined, and
it naturally found the proper field for
It's wonderful power in obscure diseas-
es, the nature of whose cause still baf-
fled the Investigations of science
Thiswas the chosen theater of all med
ical cmpiricism. That it had it's ad-
hercnts among the Intelligent portions
of the community was an argument
that applied with equal force to every
system Of medical empiricism. The
appealed in vain to the ad-
herents of Homeopathy to point to a
single medical man among its sadvocates
in this city whose scientific attainments
in his own profession would. cntitle his
opinion to confidence. And the rec
ords of science show that all those
who truly advance the several depart
ments Of medicine, both in this and
foreign countries, without exception,
belonged to the ranks of the so-called
regular system. Hug 81
The Committee then speak of the
"royal touch, or the imposition of
royal hands, which was believed in
England to. effect miraculous cures for
all diseases, and also the delusion Of
Perkins Tractors which were delusions
analogous to the Homeopatic system
of practice. They cite, as bearing
nponthe question, the conclusions Of
a commission appointed to test Homeo-
pathic remedies in 1929, by order of
the King ofNaples. Theresult of this
trial of forty days was the conclusion
that not only was this treatment of no
effect, but that in certain diseases it
had the inconvenience of preventing
the employment of remedies capable
Of eifecting a cure. The physiciansiin
attendance was M. de Horatus, author
of a Homeopathic work, and who had
boasted of the most marvellous cures.
A medical council of the Viceroy of
Egypt, after witnessing the results of
the treatment ola German Hemeopath-
Iic physician, came to a conclusion that
the cures obtained were due simply to
tho hygicnic and dictetic treatment
adopted, and not at all to the infni-
tessimal doses, and,so unsuccessful was
the trial, that the practitioner was
obliged to leave the country.
La 1882, ward, with thirty beds.
in the Hotel Diou dc Lyon, was plal
ced in charge OF NJ. Guerard, the most
distinguished Homeopathic physician
Of that city, with liberty to select his
patients. He selected fifteen, suffer
ing from febrilc affections, pneumon-
las, erysipilas, catarrhs, &c., and yisi.
ted them daily, and prescribed Homeo-
pathic remedies. The experiment con-
tinucd seventeen days, when the ply
sician voluntarily retired. He attrib-
uted his failure to the action of the
doleterous miasmas always existing
in hospitals, and from which ho could
not protect his patients, and he ac.
knowledged that the remedies which
produced such powerful effects in pri-
vate, utterly failed in hospitals, owing
to the emanations from the bodies Of
persons collected together, which neu.
tralized the infnitessimal doses.
In,1834M. Andral employedHomeo
pathic remedies in 140 cases in the
Hospital de la Pitie of Paris. The
result of the trial proded the entire
incflicicncy of tho remedies,
In 1885 the Homeopathic Society
of Paris petitioned the authorities to
establish a Homeopathic Hospital and
Dispensary. The Minister referred
the matter to the academy of Medi-
cins, which appointed a Commissioner
to draw up report. The Commission
reported in substance, that they had
submitted the systom Of Homeopathy
to tho most rigid tests in practice with.
out obtaining any other than negative
results, SO far as tho action Of the rem
edicswere concerned, while observation
proved that great dangers were liable
to follow its adoption in severe dis
eases, from the neglect Of proper and
reliable remedies. They therefore ad-
vised that the petition be not granted,
and the Minister of Public Instruction,
acting upon the advice of this report,
refused the petition.
In 1929, the Gear of Russia order
cd that the systcm Of Homeopathy be
tried in several military hospital8.-
For several years the practice was con-
tinued, and reports Of marvellous sue
cess were annually published, but il had
entirely failed of obtaining the conf
dence Of the Government, and by
recent edict, is was forbidden to prao.
tice Homeopathy in the Russian terri
tories.
In 1886, Homeopathy and Allopathy
woro tried in the hospital Of Fultschin
for two months, with tho following re-
suits: In the Allopathic hospital, 457
were entered, 364 cured, mono died,