The Evansville daily journal., 1859-04-15
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Mr. EDIToR:-Coming, as Homeopathy
! does, directly in conflict with the deep-seat-
ed prejudices of large portion of eommu-
! nity-that acute and severe diseases require
large doses of crude drugs, and active meas
ures for their reEief, or measures which do
not produce drastic or active and decided ef-
fects upon the healthy organs, are useless in
their treatment-iti is not strange that those
who are ignorant of the system should meet
Homeopathy with contempt and ridicule, es-
pecially as these prejudices have been the
growth of more than. thirty centuries, and
nour;shed and strengthened by medical menot
all the different schools that have prevailed
during that long period. - ~
In order for US to understand the man-
ner in which remedies operate to cure dis
eases according to Homeopathy, it is neces-I
sary to remark that medicines are elective
in their action. that Is TO say, each medici-
nal agent acts upon particular part of the
organism Thus, some medicines, no mat
ter how introduced into the system, win act
on the brain; some on the stomach; some
on the bowels; some on the nervous system,
&c. I may remark, en- passaat, that this
specific action of medicines undoubtedly in
dicates the proper diseases for which they
should be administered giving medicine
to act upon the part diseased in accordance
with Homeopathic law. =
40 It must be recollected, too, that each med
icinal agent produces specific effects, or ef-
feets peculiar to itself, Thus there are sew
eral substances which act upon the brain,
but each substance viii produce effects and
symptoms different from each. other in kind
and character. Unlike causes cannot pro-
duee like effects, other things being equal
There are three principal reatons why
tue homeopathic small doses operate: - ~
I-ssl. Disease renders the parts peculiarly
asetsstios to the appropriate remedy. - p.
-. The medicine acts directly on the
dssordered parts. slqsa.s : 81 aia.lsa igas3 ss9s
3. The pewer of medicine is exalted
BY peculiar mode of preparation, -.gs'a,.o,
- First. 1t must be apparent to every one
that when a part is diseased it becomes
much more highly sensitive than it is in a
state of health. The sensibility and excita-
bility of part are greatly augmented in
disease, and it is rendered capable of taking
cognizance Of that which, in health, would
! produce no sppreciable effect. When the
stomach is infiamsd it will not tolerate the
most harmless ubstances-sometimes not
even ice and ice-water. The infamed eye
viii not tolerate the light of day. In some
diseases of the brain sound will greatly ag-
gravate the sufferings of the patient, and
must be guarded against But why multi
ply examples to prove that which is so OBJ
vions to every one. - ~
Second. The circumstance that disease
renders part peculiarly sensitive to i'm,
pressions would, of ITSELF seem to indicate
that when a certain medicine is given tc
operate on that part, it should be given il
very small doses. Homeopathic medicine.
p are given to act ON the part diseased, and
Z therefore, small doses must invariably b,
used. The medicine acts near at hand, ane
not ct a distance. Large doses cannot b,
given In accordance with the homeopathi,
, Law, for they will invariably aggravate th,
disease. Thus, hom9opathists are neve
required to give large doses of powerful
medicine to obtain their revulsive effects
and they thus avoid subjecting their patient
to the very dangerous and deleterious con
sequences of sneh practice, for, as the dis
tinguished allopathic author and-practition
er, Pereira, very justly remarks, that be
e tween the effects of the medicine and tn
: disease the patient has a narrow escape.
e Thrd.-The power of medicine j
/ greatly augmented by a peculiar mode {
Preparation. Their medicines are subjecte
! to long continued friction or succussio
: with suitable quantity of some inert sui
stance and are thus reduced as nearly s
!, possible to their ultimate particles condi
tion in which they are readily absorbed an
carried into the system. The aetire ingred
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: ents of medicine are alone used gkge-7
From consideration Of the foregoing, I'll
: philosophy Of using small doses will be al
: parent. Who can tell the amount of specif
n necessary to cure q disease? Are those VIII
: have never tried them the proper ones I
J, judge? Homeopathists have tried them
have been eminently successful in their u.
: are they not qualified to judge W.
:. ess Cousetl Proceedings. ~4
:. COUNCIL CHAMBER,
,ss r7islss April 8, 1859. I
i Council met. Present, His Honor Il
= q Mayor and Gouncilrnen. i.sa
After the new Council were sworn in, Il
following bills were allowed
For street labor, past week, 76