Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-06-01

memory he assails. and total want of knowl-
edge of the subject he attempts to review
1t lily becomes an intelligent practitioner to
attempt to cloud the reputation Of men who
have left behind them record full of scien-
tific research, benevolence and good will to
mankind, that he may destroy their fair
fame, and construct from the fragments a
ladder by which he may climb the dizzy
height of newspaper notoriety. He should
remember that "Pigmies are Pigmies still,
though perched on Alps"
The learned doctors onslaught on the
character of HAHNEMANN, will serve to amuse
those who are fully acquainted with the life
and history of that old man; and, Of course,
with such his efforts would be as pointless as
his uH But those who are not familiar with
the story of his labors and prosecutions, might
give some credence to the Doctors represen-
tations. Therefore feel it incumbent upon
me, as one who has had some little acquaint-
ance with both systems, to lay the matter
fairly before the intelligent readers of the
GAZETTE. ...-,
The doctor says, in the commencement of
his article, that he els not prompted by any
personal or ill-feeling," in commenting in what
he calls an an "unsparing manner" This
in either case, and are equally subject to crit
icism. Now I've no objection to his denounc-
ing PARAcELsus as quack, for such believe
he was; yet, nevertheless, it is to PARAcELsUs
that the Allopathic medical world owes its
present system of practice. IT'S to him that
we owe the introduction of those antimonial
and mercurial preparations which constitute
the great strength of the Allopathic materia
medica, with its devastating power on the
human constitution. But when he classes
HAHNEMANN in the same catalogue with PAR
AcELsus, PERKINS, etc, he runs before his
horse to market" for if we take the authori-
ty of the medical journals of that day, which
were cotemporaneous with Hahnemann, al
though they strongly combated his theories,
We're just enough to admit his genius. Even
| Hufeland, who edited one of the leading
European medical journals. although opposed
to his doctrines, says: =" He was one who
ranked among the first scholars in Europe.
and was entirely devoted to his profession. !"
Yet Dr. Pierce says he was quack, and had
"imbibed strong dislike to his profession"
think the learned GU doctor, himself, must
have Misunderstanding, perhaps one of his
ocn prescriptions by mistake, or something
equally fatal to his discernment, or else his
biographical ideas would not not have become
so sadly warped. He says that Hahnemann,
latter forgetting what little he ever knew
about medicine, started a system of his own."
| ask DR.. Pierce if he considers this just p
Will he, as a candid man, read the writings
of Samuel IIahnemann, carefully, impartially
those written six or eight years previous to
the time he says he started Homeopathy,
1896, and then say, He had forgotten what
little he knew of mediciney' But the doc
tor says he had forgotten medicine while
translating German works." 1t would be
very strange that he should have forgotten
that subject, when the very works he was
translating were almost all of them of med
zeal character Again he says, at does not
appear that he ever practiccd physic as taught
at Leipsic" Here again the scholastic doc
tor shows how little he knows of the subject
he has undertaken to review. He says, in
his profound article, that Hahnemann publish
ed his first essay in the year 1900. Now ac-
cording to DIR. Dudgeon, celebrated Eng
fish writer, and one whom presume DR..
Pierce will admit as good authority, as he
happened to have graduated at the "royal
college of surgeons and was perfectly famil-
lar with the history Of Hahnemann, s.ys
that, /" Hahncmann had charge of the Hospi.
tai at Dresden previous to the year 1889, and
in this same year Q7S9O he published his
celebrated work on Syphilis, which was de-
cided Allopathic work, and is yet quoted as
authority by many eminent men. yet in tbs
profession" This is the testimony a man
who is classed among the first medical writ.
ers of his age, and who was cotempOrancous
and familiar with the man--Samuel Hahne.
mann. Yet DR.. Pierce says, He was q grca,
quack, and one who had forgotten what httlt
he ever knew of medicine" What impu.
dencc, and unparalleled affrontery for man
to review subject of which he is so grossly
ignorant.
just for a moment glance at his article,
which appeared in the GAZETTE of the 18th
inst. He says that Hahnemann was oorn in
1875, and, after graduating, spent tuenty
years in translating German works, and other
miscellaneous employment, and then publish.
ed his first essay on homeopathy, in the year
1876. Now deduct the twenty years which
DIR. Pierce says Hahncmann spent as above
stated, from the twenty -onc years, the differ
ence in time from 1875, (the year which the
DR.. says Hahnemann was born,) to 1896, (ths
time he says he published his sssay,) it leaves
one year. Consequently, if DIR. Pierce is cor
rect, Hahnemann must have graduated at tho
age Of teelre months. 1t is evident from thu
ridiculous misstatemcnts that the erudite DR.
has thus presented, that he knows less, i
possi6le, of his doctrines, than he does of hi:
own. He docs not even know how to spell
his nome, yet he says Hahncmann was /.
quack and charlatan. wonder he did moi
include Harvey and Jenner in the same cata
logue. They too were denounced by tho
professional Tite Barnacles" of fogyism ir
that day, and the great truths which they
presented were denied by those who had moi
the genius to originate single idea, or thu
generosity to admit them when presented by
others.
/ concluded meet seeek.)
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