The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-06-10
OKOLONA, MISS, JUNE 10, 1858.

cholera miasm, and have concentrated
preparation of the fear and chagrin which
have occ asioned the relapse OF your pa
tient, who was suffering with typhoid fe-
yer. Surely the Newton's, Franklin's and
"Veritas'," are still in the minority =
Homeopathists in the employment OF
their medicines are governed, so far as the
quantity is concerned, by the character
of the disease, whether acute or chronic,
by the temperament of the patient, wheth-
er nervous or Emphatic, and by the ma
ture of the medicine used, whether an
organic compound, or a proximate ele-
ment. These things carefully weighed
and considered in the mind of the ply
sician, actuate him in the exhibition OF
large or small doses. 1t makes no differ
ence how much medicine the Homeopa-
thists give, provided the exgency of the
malady demands it, and the medicine is
homeopathic to the disease. The guam
tity is optional with the homeopathic;
there are no rules, no rotine for him in
Posology or dosing. This is a matter of
his own experience and judgement.
Taking this explanation of infnitesimal
doses into consideration, what was the
use of calling into life the defunct and
puerile Misrepresentation of Prof. Simp-
son These great arguments exploded
long ago where they were coined. But
who was DR.. Simpson the public would
like to know. Well, he was Professor in
the University of Edingburg when DR..
Henderson, Professor of Pathology, aban-
doned their ranks for Homeopathy. He
thought he must contrive to do something
to prevent Henderson'S influence in the
propagation Of Homeopathy, for, like
DIR. Latta and the Cincinnati clique, and
"Veritas" included, he knew the "craft
was in danger" and somebody must cry,
"Great is Diana, the Goddess of the
Ephesians." Some one must attempt to
honeyfugle the people with the "cock
and bull story Of Allopathy;" the regu-
lar profession, the accumulated love of
two thousand years that Homeo-
pathy is quackery, and that they don't
give any medicine, or else they kill every
body with strychnine, &c. Itwas either
reprehensible prejudice and ignorance, or
"filthy lucre," the fear of loosing large
and comfortable income that induced him
to thrust on the public such tissue of
bubbles and sophisms. This same mo-
tive is the cause of the Review. Itseems
the Reviewer is posted as to the success
of Homeopathy in some parts Of our
country, and no doubt he would be truly
glad if he could prevent Homeopathy
from gaining the same popularity in this
part of the Union it has won in other
places. 1t is not the prostitution Of in
telect" or erratic genius, or the fear that
the people will be fed on chaff which
pains him; but it is the aggressive on
slaughts of truth, the dying struggles of
fogyism, and the spectre of Allopathy
which fits before, that goad him.
But this Reviewer did venture to come
to the point in one single instance in his
articles. In two communications he has
made but one real attack on Hom9o-
patby, though it really was but a (faint)
feint. He says of Cinchona bark: 1.-The
human stomach and intestines have been
filled with its active principle--quinine--
at the rate of one or two ounces every
"a hours; and yet not single case OF
tertian or quotidian ague has resulted
which could be attributed to this agent" "
This would be knock down argument
if it were only the fact; but it happens
to be an egregious mistake. Query-in-
asmuch as +" the regulars" have no prov
ings Of medicine, how do they know when
to attribute the symptoms of a case to
medicine or not Every homeopathic
who has had much practice, has seen
cases Of chills and fever which could be
directly traced to the use Of cinchona
and the sulphate of quinine, and in proof
of their hypothesis they gave an antidote
to the quinine and the chills, or quinine
cachexy soon disappeared. Not only have
they traced intermittent attacks of this
agent, but too often enlargement and
induration of the spleen, and deafness
could be attributed to its pernurious Of
fects, as used by some Of the regulars