Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-04-05

" Dogmatism" and Misrepresentation.
MesHs. Editors In your issue Of the Goth
ult, | see your correspondent on the " Doctors
and the Administration" is quite as much in the
fog about Homeopathy as ever, and has not yet
learned that ridicule is no argument. lie &c
cuses us of quibbling on Hahnemann's 0rganon,
saying that ignore the study of pathology at one
time and then approve Of it at another. II APP
pears to me that your correspondent is little
dull here We did not undcrrate post mortem
examinations nor do we think Hahnemann intend
ed to. He simply affirmed that physicians often
mistOok that for the action Of disease which was
done by drugs. Now We propose to introduce
testimony from the best authorities in the Allo-
pathic school tending to prove this same point,
Dr. Rush says speaking Of the practice Of his
own school, " We have assisted in multiplying
diseases " Sir Ashley Cooper, lately at the
head Of the profession in England, says, " The
science Of medicine is founded on conjecture, and
improved in murder" Dr. Pereira, whose work
is yet text book in allopathic colleges, says
" We can hardly refuse our assent TO the observa-
tious Of the late Sir Gilbert Blame, that in many
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ployed and sometimes, when the practitioner
iancies he has made great cure, we may fairly
assume the patient to have had happy escaps. ="
Dr. Good calls the system " a barbarous jargon"
and adds that their medicines have already
des,rovcd ,nore lives than war. pestilence and
famine eombined.u DIR. Fare saws. "nipe-
tentbs of diseases are medicinal diseases" The
tes,;,n,ny of Forbes uufeland Maunsel. Cham
man and others corroborates this. Now if one
half of this - ,rpe e. ont or thine own mouth
will condemn thee -, we should think the gen.
ler,or ,yi,h ali his o,,,,,a, stpnidity would ds.
siro IN ,ote nm with Itabre,n,nn's advice 4" Re
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yoreea medicine from the priestlv oftee and cav.
it more scientific form. Much Of tn. palliative
influence Of drugs was learned Anatomy snr.
gerry. Physiology. and Pathology were cultivated
with rood degree of success. But no formul,
in tberonentcs was nresented till the time oe Ga.
len He established the ariou % Cortror,, ,,,,>,
c,afrar, 10 IL il founded unon the ob.erveJ fact.
that oa,hart,cs nnlliate conaipa,;or---a,tr,noenf
medicine, palia.e diarrbnas. etc. This /, what
Is now known as the Allonatbic tne,bo1 of ,r.at-
inc disease. which il but n prolonentiop of the
Galenian epoeh II is true theories and sr,ecpl.-
| ton, have marked the whole of this long and
destotic rei,,n bnt tbev ware hyno,ho,;o.i a,d
! the pbvsieian always falls hack unon tho ,boor,
of palliation The treatmsnt of diss.,ss M, oo,.
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.liA'A"o'e cures oouurreu III tue opposite manner
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