Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-17
Anopathy VS.. Homeopathy.

1t is undeniabIe that little by little the disciples OF
Hahnemann encroaching upon the domains Of al
lopatic practice, and every year sees the friends OF
homeopathy more numerous, more jealous, and more
confident than the previous IL Is not for to decide
which Of the pdhies is best for our readers patron
ize in of sickness but hgures, which people are
accustomed to say and believe cannot lie, do present
very encouraging facts for the friends of infn
tessnal doses. great has been the of the
homeopathic practitioners New York that they de-
sire more extended facilities for proving that their
theory is better when put in practice than the allo
patbc-that is that greater portion of the patients
treated according TO the system OF Hahnemann re-
cover than of those treated on the -honored
SYSTEM of the regular doctors"
A petition. signed by many of the most influential
and respectable citizens of New York, sometime
last year. presented TO the Ten Governors Of the Aims
House asking that a certain number Of the wards Of
Bellevue Hospital should be mtrusted 10 board oil
homeopathic physicians in order that The system might
be tried side by SIDE and on equal terms with the al
lopathc practice Considering the honorable position
that the hom9Opathsts have won Tor themselves
this proposition is perfectly fair one II is useless for
the alopathiss pretend TO abate the homoopathsts
as quacks and irregulars such attempt would only
result-as the effort exclude the press from the
Academy of Medicine did-in covering its advocates
with rdicue. The allopathists no longer possess
monopoly of the healing art and the most surprising
cuTes' Of the day do not follow their treatment By
and by in the march Of Improvement, II would not be
surprising if the scklers for professional etiquette
should find that they themselves are looked upon
quacks and that their only hope OF popularity lies in
accepting every Improvement as last as presented to
them ENGRAVING upon their musty system every
theory that tends to alleviate or cure disease and
The petition for the admission of the homeopathic
practice into Bellevue gave rise to the following reso-
luton which adopted by the board OF Ten Cover
of the Aims House:
ssReSoIped That it be referred TO a Select Committee
to report upon the propriety Of amending the law
organizing the Bellevue Hospital Medical Department,
provide that one half of such Institution shall be
apart for the practice Of Homeopathy, under the
of Medical Board, nominated by the Homeo-
pathic Society of this city and that each case admitted
in said hospital shall be transferred 10 the care OF the
Allopaths and HomeOpaths alternately"
Governors Benz. +. Pinckney, p. G. Moloney, and
Washington Smith, were appointed to examine and re-
port upon the subject and entered upon their iabOrs
with much earnestness From the start the committee
divided, and the members probably set about
finding facts TO confirm performed opinions and theo-
RES instead OF hunting up facts from when 10 eluci-
date theory. People who are preJudlced In ad-
vance, matter how honestly they may desire To ar
rive at the TRUTH generally only the facts that bear
out their favOrite system Consequently, the commit
tee have presented two repOrts-the majority, by
Messrs Mooney and Smith in favor of allopathy and
a minority report, by Mr Pinckney, sustaining homoeo-
patty. The reports now before the Board OF
Governors, and will be discussed ON the 23d inst The
documents Numerically opposed to each other in
many their assertions but the bulk of the figure
proOf-Inuch the most important in this practical age
is apparently in favor OF the new school.
he majority pathetcaly ask if the Board have lost
confidence in Drs Valentine Mott, J. W. Francis, A II.
Stevens. Willard Parker, J. r. Wood j. T. Metcalf,
AlonZo Clark, and other allopathiSts who now have
charge OF the hospital, and apparently forget that
proper respect for those distinguished physicians is
quite compat bic with recognition of the equal merits
of others less distinguished, who belong 10 differ
ent and more modern school. The majority in look
ing for their facts present only general summaries of
experiments made in Europe, and the tests of the
systems III most cases quoted, lasting only few Gays
The minority report the contrary presents figures
show the result Of experiments that continued
for years Foe instance: In the Hospital OF st. Mar
guerite of Paris, wards under the charge of
4 homeopathic physician and two under aloTathst,
side by side These reports for the years 1s49 1850,
and 1S5l-three years-showed the following results:
Gases Deaths. Per ct.
Homeopathic .4 1855 399 s.55
Anopathic. IA All HOB
In IA work entitled " Fallacies of Homeopathy, - by
c. IL. +. Routh, NJ D., +. r. C. :, published in Lon
don in 1852, is the following summary Of comparative