Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-28

old mode OF practice. My SOLO anu ou'J
object in offering this to the public IS pro
bono pi6Eico. And if it shall have the
effect to cause any practitioner OF the
dominant school to put the principles of
Homeopathy to the very severest, but q ialr
and honest test, then will my object and
their good, aud the welfare OF their pa
tients be well answered.
I do not hesitate to say that the old
mode of treatment cures diseasei nor do
hesitate to declare it still more frequently
fails to do so. And in this declaration,
am supported by its very best and most
candid practitioners. Nor. on the other
hand, is it claimed that Homeopathy is
intallible-that it can always save life;
but, it is contended that it will do so
where the other practice will signally fail.
Aud then the means used are pleasant
and safe, and these means do not PROSTATE
nor entail drug diseases.
Nor is it my object to elicit discussion
on the respective merits of the two sys-
tens. Neither would shrink from encoun-
teriug such an issue, conducted on fair,
legitimate and scientific principles, and
test the great worth or utter worthiessness
of the different modes of practice.
The position that the Homeopathic prac-
tice of medicine has acquired throughout
the entire civilized world, entities it TO the
respectful consideration of all those who
are sincere, just and honest, and who are
at all inclined to be progressive. The
time has passed by when the mere hack.
neyed cry of humbug or quackery Will
suffice to satisfy the inquisitive aud intelli-
gent public. The immense spread of the
practice everywhere, too fully confirms
this fact.
In New York City and Brooklyn-as
single instance, among many-there are
now one hundred and forty-five Homo
pathic physicians. And the Homeopathic
system, practiced truly as such, and by in
telligent and educated physicians, must
ever go on increasing in still greater
ratio.
Now let it not be supposed supereroga-
ton in me making the proposition which
now submit. In doing so l will again
say am influenced purely for the love of
science and the good of the sick and at
aicted. do go, too, most confidently from
ample individual experience, and the still
more extended experience of others.
We have all seen, yet perhaps not to the
full extent of its prevalence, how fatal has
been the effects of this -Diphtheria, or
throat disease, among: our community of
little children. have myself treated over
twenty-five well confirmed and unques-
tionable cases of DiphtheFia. A portion
of these were tolerRbly light, yet clearly
marked cases of the disease, several were
quite severe, and. few were so bad as to
lead to predictions. of immediate dissolu-
ton. In one case; especially the membrane
was fully formed, and extended into tire air
passages, with Almost fetid breath, and hay
ing been taken suddenly there was every
appearance ola quick and fatal termination,
yet the patient recovered, and recovered
quickly. l have yet. to lose one single
case. Now in none of the above cases, nor
is it cUeT done. in true Homeopathic prac-
tice, was there any topical treatment, such
rs cauterizatton or using nstringent CUR
giles, or swabbing with the same. The
sole reliance was simply on internal medi-
cines, except cold water compressed about
the neck, and that more for the purpose of
gratifying that desire that almost every
one has about the sick--to be doing some
thing. Ihave no doubt, the compress is of
grateful subsidiary comfort.
But the sole reliance IS on the ddD1tnIStTd-
tio'. of medicine internally. And that terri
bic membranous emulation drops off I'M
der such apparent contemplate means as
excrescences under the knife of the sur
geon.
Now imagination cannot be urged here
as the cause of cure, nor can it be
said that it is an especial Providence pre-
siding over H Homeopathic practice-nor is it
probable that fate SO arranges it that all
the favorable cases fall into the HOmRo-
pathic physicians hands. and all WnfaUor-
able ones into the AlloPathists hands, flor
patients arc taken as they come)-nOr do
say that it lies in superior skill, but it is
nil owing simply to the means used, and the
principle of cure by which these means are
nsed.
Then, if such results can and do daily
grow out of Homeopathic use, would it
not be we'll, humane, and scientifically
progressive, and deserving the attention of
the medical men of the old school to look
after, test, try and investigate this new
system of medicine, as hundreds, aye,
thousands are constantly dOing2 And If
it is true, adopt tiff it be false, discard
and denOunce it as such, but not without
fair, honest and intelligent testing.
Then, why need medicine be perversely
and stubbornly wrapped up in the mantle of
antiquity, and it be patronizingly supposed
that the wisdom of progress is closed up
in sack, with great stone in one end
and the meal in the other.
I now say, that if there is any one or
more in the medical fraternity of this city,
who, seeing how signNlly have their own
means failed in meeting the requirements
of this disease, and who may wish to ex-
plore or confirm the doctrine of HomRo-
patliy, will test and try, tOf course, fairly
and honestly, by formula,) under the Sc
verest form, the Homeopathic agents,
furnished by me, for the cure of Diphthe-
ria, and follow out the simple instructions
given, will be willing, on that result, to
stand before this community as the veriest
charlatan, practising the most arrant i'm
position upon an intelligent and Discerning
public.
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