New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-23
HOMEOPATHY re. ALLOPATAY.

Tie question Of giving 10 the Homeopathic Irac.i-
TONERS Of :his city One-haf Of the wards OF BleVHe
Hospital 10 the value Of the Homeopathic treat
men as evidenced by IL results az compared with Inc
results Of the Auopahc treatment, has been agtHed
for come year. among the medical men OF the new
school in THE city, but the proposition ha- been met
with encouragement by those who have had control
Of the matter During last year however the follow
ing resolution offered before the Boa-d Of len
Governors:
"Resolrcd That il he referred 70 Select G. nmi..ee
20 report upon the property OF 80 amending the law
organizing the Bellevue Hospital Medical depar' nent
az 10 provide that hall OF such institution shall be
set apart for the practice of Homeopathy, under The
of Medical Board, nominated by the Home -
pathic Society of this city, aud that each Gaze aunt
led in said oso,al shall be transferred to the care OF
the Alopaths and Homeepaths alternately.
The resolution adopted, and Governors BepJa-
| min F., Pnckney, =. G. Moloney and Washington
Smith were appointed Committee to report upon the
| subject. The Committee were divided upon the SUB
ject the majority-Messrs. MOOney and Sni.n-oppos
ing and Mr. Pinckney favoring the trial Of lomeopa-
| thy. Their respective reports are now before the
Board and will probably be acted on at IN early day
| Appended is the substance of the two documents.
The Majority Committee state the fact, that until ten
years since, when the Bellevue Hospital was entirely
ment, giving rise to an alarming mortality among the
| inmates. That in the organization it was placed
| under the control Of Board Of medical gentlemen,
| among them the most eminent of the city, and
| that the change did not dlsappont the antlcl-
| patons of the authorities of the Department,
and it's mortality had fallen off from twenty to
nine per cent. and its internal arrangements had
been perfected, and every department character
lied by the most rigid and salutary discipline. 80
great were the advantages afforded for the practical
Hhal
students had been allowed TO accompany the physl-
clans and surgeons their of duty, and 10 wit
the nature and progress of disease, and the re-
suits of the treatment; and the high standing Of the
Medical Board had also given TO Bellevue ma
Ona reputation in the medical profession, and had
rendered il object OF inquiry and compliment abroad
The Committee asked what necessity there was Tor
a change of its medical government. Had tins Board
lost confidence in the professional ability OF Valentine
Mott, John w. Francis, Alexander II. Stevens, VIII
lard Parker, James X. Wood, John I. Metcalt,
AlonZo Clark and the other gentlemen connected with
that hospital men who, to-day, enjoy the full conf
dence of this community, both in their professional
capacity and a. citizens After ten years generous
devotion to the public interests of that institution,
and of gratuitous service in the of its inmates
it righnay, i polite for this Board to sup
plant these gentlemen, and to place That hospital or
any portion of il in the charge of persons having no
experience in the economic or medical affairs OF the
hospital But from whom did the petition for the
change emanate From the inmates of the hospital
who were to be the subjects of the experiment Did
the sick themselves complain of the ncompetency oi
the medical officers Did these petitions then eman-
ate from the honest aboring classes Of our city, whom
vicissitudes of life and the misiortunes Of poverty
might at any time. TO the wards of Bellevue
for relief to their bodily ills
The Committee then proceed to examine into the
system of Homeopathy. They pronounce it 10 be a
sney Mh To- the ce aRf
Of the masses, who are fond OF the marvellous. It's
principles obscure, its practice e1travagantly
refined and it naturally found the proper field for ITS
N GlgN
whose still baflcd the Investigations OF science.
This was the chosen theater OF all medical emprcism
That il had it's adherents among the intelligent pOr
| tons of the community argument tina applied
with equal force to every system of medical empr-
icsm. The investigator appealed in vain to the
adherens of Homeopathy to point to single medical
man among its advocates in this city whose scientific
attainments in his own profession would entltle his
| opinion to confidence And the records of science
show that all those who truly advance the several de-
partments of medicine both in this and foreign coun
tries, without exception, belonged to the ranks OF the
sO-called regular system
| The Committee then speak of the "rOyal touch"
| or the imposition of royal hands, which was believed
in England 10 effect miraculous for all diseases
| and also the delusion of Perkins Tractors which
Were delusiOns analogous 70 the Homeopathic System
of practice. They cite. as bearing upon the question
the conclusions Of commission appointed ~ test
Homeopathic remedies in 1879 by order of the King
of Naples The result of this trial of forty days
the conclusion that not only this treatment Of no
effect but that in certain diseases it had the incOn
venience of preventing the employment OF remedies
capable of etecting cure. The physician in attend
Srce was VI. he HOratus, author of Homeopathic
work, and who had boosted OF the most marvellous
cures.
medical council of the Vcerey of Egypt, after
witnessing the results of the treatment OF German
Homeopathic physician, came TO conclusion that the
cures obtained were due simply to the hygenic and
detetc treatment adopted, and not at all TO the ntn
tlsma doses, and so unsuccessful was the trial. that
the practitioner was obliged TO leave the country.
In I'll b .~txy lala HI H.
de Lyon, was placed in charge of NJ. Glerard, the
most distinguished HOMEOPATHIC physician of tina.
CITY, with liberty TO select his patients. He selected
fifteen, suffering from febre affections pneumonias
erysipias catarrhs, &c. and visited them daily and
prescribed Homeopathic remedies. The experiment
continued seventeen days, when the physician voun-
tariy retired. He attributed his failure TO the action
Of the deleterious masmas always existing in hospitals
and from which he could not protect his patients, and
he acknowledged that the remedies which produced
such powerful effects in private, utterly failed in hospi
tails owing to the emanaons from the bodies of persons
collected together, which neutralzed the inntesinal
doses.
In 1884 NJ Andral employed Homeopathic remedies
in l4O cases in the Hospital dc Ia Ptie OF Paris The
result OF the ta proved ihe entire inetcency Of the
remedies
In 1885 the Homeopathic Society o. Paris pettored
the authorities TO establish a Homeopathic Hospital
and Dspepsary. The Minister referred the matter 10
the Academy OF Medicine, which appointed q Com
mission 10 draw up report. The Commission reported
in substance, that they had submitted the system of
Homeopathy to the most rigid tests in practice with
out obtaining any other than negative results 80 far
as the action of the remedies concerned, while
observation proved ;hG, great dangers liable
follow it's adoption in severe diseases om the neglect
OF proper and reliable remedies They therefore sd-
vlsed that the petition be not granted, and the Minis
ter of Public Instruction, acting upon the advice OF
tins report, refused the petition
lS}s, the Gar OF Russia ordered that the system
o; Homeopathy be tried in several military hospitals
for several years the practice was continued and re-
pci's OF marvellous success were annually published,
OS. u 4ad entirely failed of obtaining the confidence