The Portland daily press., 1871-06-16

To the Editor OF the Press:
"a certain insect springs in the morning G!s
of the muck heap, and about ioul oio0h Th
head is gray, and at sun-ses 10 sho;. Jou TT
ia o,c,ocL With them. and their sun will soon
act F" So saws DIR. Calvin Seavey of Bangor.
Tho statements in his address concerning
the st ,tus of Homeopathy are we'll calculated
70 deceive those not familiar with its present |
prosperity. 1t is system of practice that has |
always troubled the Old School physicians, al |
though according to their conception, it Is
utterly without foundation, and entirely I'M
worthy their serious consideration; yet its
shadow seems to frighten them and call into
action variety of emotions-frst Indignation,
then indifference, and last and most marvel
lous, devotional exercises are advised. There
is always hope of illumination when men
come into the state here counselled, and if their
eyes are ever opened they will behold not an
Old gray headed man. but young ana Vigor-
GUS giant whose footsteps they will be able 10
trace in every depart ment of medical science.
The Acknowledgement of the homeopathic
| fraternity seems to be favorte field for the
display of eloquence, and the attack that is
made at every annual meeting of the Maine
MeulCdi ooOiSpy upoh d sChooi vi mCuiOei
| practitioners every way as respectable and
more successful than they, naturally leads to
| the Conclusion that if not a requirement of the
| Association it is nevertheless expected by tie
members that the wheel that grinds out
| "Quack, 'Imposters" and great variety of
other meaningless expressions ESQ far as any
| application to Homeopathy is concerned)
shall be turned.
In the yearly denunciations INDUCED in by
appointed orators, feeble attempts, if any, are
made to controvert the law of cure, which I'M
derlies the structure of Homeopathy, but
they content themselves with calling the sys-
tenn species of hnmbuggery, and its prac-
titioners "Quacks." The name seems to exert
some particular charm over their senses.
Will DIR. Seavey or the next appointed
orator tell us in what sense we are "Quacks,
and why we are more SO than he is? Are we
not as well educated as the majority Of his
own school? Are we not as regularly grad
uated? Are not our Colleges chartered and
organized in the same orderly manner in
which Allopathic schools are? Are not pa
TENTS treated as successfully at our Dispen
saries and Hospitals as under any other sys
TENS of practice?
More than twenty years ago a greater
prophet than Dr. Seavey lifted up his voice
in Boston, to the effect that before two decades
should have passed, there would not be fount
HOmOeOpath in all the land. To-day Their,
are more physicians of that school in the cit,
of Boston than there were in the whole Unitet
States at the time DR. Holmes gave ntteranc
to that folly.
) If it is four O clock with the system. it is fou
, in the morning, for never was there tim
when it was more vigorous when there wa
greater demand for physicians. Our col
leges have this year graduated one hundred
and eighty students, and it is estimated tina
during the ensuing year there will be man!
} accessious to our ranks of persons who hav
graduated at other schools. In 1874 tn
New World contained about one hundred
homeopathic physicians, in 1871 we com
. mence the year with nine Colleges; twenty Oh
Journals; twenty State Societies: fifty-tw'
Local Societies; eight Hospitals; twenty-eigh
Dispensaries; five thousand Physicians. Doe
this look like the record of an organization
whose "sun will soon set?"
Portland, June IA, 1871.