The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-21
bOBd0n Life Assurance Company
Converted TO Homeopathy By the
Evidence OF Statistics,

The month Of December, 1854, makes
an epoch in ths history Of Homeopa
thy, the memory of which viii be ar
IDENTIFY cherished by every Homeopath
of the present generations; whilst TO
this period will frequent reference here
after be made as that from which is to
be dated remarkably rapid growth of
the system in public estimation.
On the 9th of December, 1864, there
met together at the Freemason's Hall,
in London, under the. presidency Of
Lord Henry Gordon, a number Of indi-
viduals-in no respect Identified with
Homeopathy, but simply concerned in
the promotion Of their own pecuniary
interests-to consider the bearing of
this system of medical treatment on the
health andl life OF the community. The
parties referred to are the Directors and
Shareholders Of company entitled,
The General Provident Assurance
Company"
The object of such institutions is, we
need hardly remark, commercial gain;
and one of the principal means en-
ployed, is an investigation, conducted
with scientific severity, into the dura-
ton of human life, with all the con-
comitant circumstances which tend TO
affect the health of individuals and
classes. Hitherto, the actuaries of
these valuable institutions have disre-
garded-and therefore omitted from
their calculations-the very important
consideration Of medical treatment
The keenness Of competition, how
ever, which chsracterizes every depart
ment Of trade, in the present day, and
stimulates to their utmost extent the
intellectual faculties of our men of bus
siness, has at length made itself felt,
even amongst those very conservative
establishments and, as consequence,
we find, in the case of the General
Provident Assurance Company" the
Actuary directed 10 make an invest
cation into the hitherto UNEMPLOYED
region of comparatiUs medical treatment
with what result it is scarcely necessary
10 inform the readers Of this journal.
To some, at least, of the Directors of
the ProYident, this result no doubt pre-
sented itself in the hight Of 8 discoV-
cry; to none could it be otherwise than
gratifying TO learn, that their labor had
been rewarded by the acquisition Of
data, capable Of being turned to very
profitable account, the following we'll
ascertained facts: That persons treated
by the Homaopsthie system e1joY more
robust health, are less frequently at
tackled BY disease, and, when attacked,
recover more rapidly than those treated
by any other systems thatwith respect
to the more fatal classes of disease, the
mortality under Homeopathy is snail
in comparison with that under Allo-
pathy; that there sre diseases not elra-
BE al all, under the latter system, which
are perffctkf esra5is under the former
finally, that the medicines prescribed
by homeopathic do not ipjure the con-
stitution, whereas those employed by
the AIlopaths not unfrequently entail
the most serious, and in many instan-
ces fatal consequences. EfITF
These data obtained, the Directors
had but one duty to perform, alike to
Themselves aCd 10 their constituents,
which was TO summon a meeting Of
their shareholders, and to lar before
them the facts they had collected, and
the decision at which they had arrived,
viz; ''76 open a special ssetioa for persons
created by tie Homeopathic system at
LOWER RATE OF PREnIuM THAN THAT cHARG-
n Of oTHER LIVES" And without dis
sentient voice this proposition Of
their Directors was adopted by the
shareholders Of the General Provident
Assurance Company.
Here, then, we HAYES testimony borne
10 the great practical value Of Hom@O-
patty which nothing can gAinsaY,
against which ridiOule and, abuse the
only weapons by which We have hith-
eFto been attacked, can avail nothing.
Ii is not with individual opinion" that
our opponents haFe none 70 deal, not
even with the opinion Of such men as
the late Archbishop Of Dublin; the late
d. Gregory, Professor Of Chemistry in
the University Of Edinburgh, and the
laIa DR.. Samuel Brown, man worthy
70 rank with the Hlustrious Faraday,
ali of whom lived and died IN the faith
Of the truth Of Hom@opathy,-not %
mention host Of other names Of men,
living snd dead, in every department
ofliterature, science and AIT Il il not
Win i.dliirids.ai epinies, We repeat that
our opponents have noV % deal They
are soc confronted with he result Of
an Investigation directed q Be made
bv : body Of commercial men, for com
,.arc;.l purposes, conducted with that
msrVelOus precision which has exalted
- investigations Of the Aasurance
ogsea. Of this country 10 toe rank Of
.cieptisc veriHes, ssd endorsed By
men whose intellectual faculties, shsn
summoned 70 decide, must hays besa