The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-20
The homeopathic College.
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lecture on homeopathy was delivered Tuesday
evening by DR.. Smithhe first of tho winter courseat
the Now York Homeopathic Medical College, East Twen
ieth street. The lecture Of the college
nconveniently crowded by very intelligent audience
who paid marked attention to the interesting subject
ably treated by the learned lecturer. So ovcrcrowod
indeed the small space designated the lecture room
that long before the discourse concluded the au
dience and all, have deemed, in their own
minds, that the learned lecturer homeopathy was sub
uniting them TO double test il favor Of, and in oppos
ton TO, his fvorilc theory; for while they swcated
TO never moment contemplated in home
opa,hc practice they at the and by tluB
process brought to state VI dution and
beyond which homeopathy itself could expect CO.
IL - cs dent that great interest Is e: these lectures,
whether from the intrinsic Importance Of the subject
ite u the MINIS OF many from the peculiarly inviting
and attractive o.aory OF the learned lecturer,
il mast have occurred TO the disciples OF Hahnc-
manu. that IN Justice TO their they procure
more commodious premises, at least lecture nights.
ON making his appearance Dr. Smith was warmly
greeted. lie opened his subject by brief aluson to
the early days Of homeopathy ald its FIRST advocaieso
tie opposition il and they met--an opposition which
had yielded to the advance OF time and tho
which had attended its practice. The most sarmis
Ing part OF this opposition was that IL liz and
iestered by the medical professionalism portion Of II
who would condemn without trial But notwithstanding
this nvetcrate antpathy OF The alppahiss, their own
practice, great ext Mt, based the principles
OF Homeopathy In illustration OF this, the lecturer
drew the attention OF his audience TO the virtues and
curative powers of various medicines which he enunc
rated stating the effect Of each the human system,
and showing that while small doses Of particular medl
cines had curative effect upon the system in certain
state II disease, the medicine, taken in larger
doses into hcahful system, would reduce it to state
such it the object of the physician in the first
TO Peruvian bark, euinine, he said,
well known specific for intermittent fevers and agucs yet
it was we'll established tact that quinne, in larger
Doses would produce in previously healthy system
tiraly, the very dsea for winch that medicine
a specific. IoDca. also, was specific In asthma and
yet taken large doses, when the system did re-
Guire it, would produce artiGcally the symp.
toms OF asthma. He had himself tested the drug and
found this to b. inconcstblc fact Mercury, the
king OF medicines had the strange effect He main
tanned therefore, that minute subdivisions Of drugs gave
dynamite power TO tho human system which drugs in
their crude state and in larger buses would fail TO i'm
rart Opium another those drugs which used In
small quantities, most useful to the faculty but
which, IL taken in larger quantities produced death. The
learned lecturer treated forcbly this most interesting
subject, and concluding warmly applaudcl. The
lectures will be continued.