The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-01-25
For the Advertiser.
The Practice OF Medicine.
ny =. ii. INGRAHAsl, N. D.

The systems upon which the healing
art is chiefly practiced are four, Allo-
pathy, Eclccticism, Wster Cure and
Homeopathy; alike in general theory
and in rudimentary branches, anato-
my, surgery, &C., and differing only n 4
the application Of drugs. Each has
its range of successful action, that is
to say, class Of diseases in which it
seems to triumph. A physician
therefore who would adapt himself to
the Ellis that 6esh is heir to" cannot
wisely neglect to acquaint himself
with the principles Of any one Of these
systems.
The AllopdMic or Regular school
is the parent Of all the rest. The orr
ginal, time honored, mother church in
which are deposited the ancient ora
Giles and the teaching Of forty centu-
ries. The Homoeopathists who are
seeking to reyolutionizc the nsateria
naedicG must confess that three.fourths
Of their medical science is derived
verbatim from the regular school,
Whatever posterity may decide res
pecting the merits or dement's Of Allo-
pathy, it is to day the established
method, and recognized by the mass
of the people rs orthodox. Though
destined to be entirely remoddled by
the influence Of Homeopathy, it will
change slowly for divers reasons:
II 10 oSfahl.shcd
Z. 1t is generally understood.
B. 1t requires application and per-
severance to learn the Homeopathic
n.ateria medica, and few Of our medi-
cal men relish The task. They who
tell US that Homeopathy can be learn
ed in three hours" never made the
attempt.
4. The successful action Of Home.
opathic medicine is SO bland and like
nature, patient is apt to doubt the
cause of his recovery and suppose it
only an accidental disappearance Of
pain.
5. The most Of patients are best
satisfied with hurried alienation
without troubling themselves about
the possible consequences. A man
suffering from rheumatic pain arising
from torpid liver may use calomel with
such happy results that for months
afterwards he believes himself cured,
aud afterwards fails to sec the connec
ton between the calomel and the re-
turn Of redoubled rheumatism. Allo-
pathy appears in its most favorable
light when the system is fresh and as
yet unimpaired by medicine.
The Botanic, styled Eclectic, makes
use Of fewer remedies and these en-
tirely of vegetable origin. He cl,ims
that mineral medicines are rs unfit for
the animal organism as mineral food.
| Eclectic means ''embracing the good
Of all systems. In medical science il
means nothing. What doctor is not
sseclectic" himself being the Judge?
The great stronghold of this system is
the treatment of fevers.
/ The Hygeinic, or Watercmre system
permits no drug application whatever,
but relies upon water, air, sunlight,
&c.; and would in majority of cases
be sufficient and superior to every
other But for lack OF necessary APP
pliances it is hard to practice it effec-
lively to the exclusion Of other treat
ment. Though electricity, as
curative agent, is little understood, it
underlics the whole field of Pathology
and Therapeutics, and will before long
be used intelligently and meet the
favor it merits. Its usefulness is
shown most strikingly in the relief Of
neuralgia pain and local inflammation.
Uomeopothy was first taught by
Hahncmann, about eighty years ago.
The distinctive feature Of this system
is mot the small dose, as often sup
pooed, size of dose having nothing to
do with it, butt that the remedies
used in given case are claimed to
have direct affinity for the organ
diseased, so that the same drug given
persisten,ly to healthy person will
produce disease very similar. Thus
all the symptoms Of Asiatic cholera
may be developed by Veratrum Al
bum, and Of Scsrletina by Beil.donna.
Tubercles in the lung are produced
by Drosera, and SO Oh. Accordingly,
these remedies are frequently used in
treating the diseases named. The
advocates of Homeopathy assert that
the most palpable cures wrought by
other schools are really brought about
by the the homeopathic law Of .'like
cures ike" that sulphur, quinine,
calomel, &C., produce and fearfully
confirm the respective diseases for
which they are called specifics.
Many Allopathic physicians mention
Homeopathy in terms OF contempt
and derision. 1t is too late to employ
that kind Of argument. Eighty years
is long enough to test and expose a
humbug. if such it is.
But Homeopathy has features
which distinguish it in the PLANES;
manner from popular humbugs:
l. Its advance from the first has
been steady. II has spread over
Europe and America When once
established in a community it never
dies out.
2. Among its advocates We find
many of the clearest and deepest
minds the world has ever seen.
8. Allopathic physicians often per-
mancntly adopt the homeopathic
practice -Homoeopathists adopt Al
lopathy never.
4. Homeopathy, when fairly in
troduced into a community, educated
and progressive, gains strong footing.
5. In places where ignorance and
superstition run high, Homeopathy
runs low.
6. Its superiority is sharply dem
onstrased by the impression it has
made on life insurance. Shrcwd cal
culators in England and America, after
figuring upon the reports Of mortality,
insure the lives Of homoepothists nj a
lower rate of interest than Of others.
Homeopathy is applied with success
to horses and cattle; but its fitness as
compared other modes is best seen in
more imprcssiblc patients.
The method of graduating its
strength by dilution, adapts it to del
icate women and children; while the
subdivision Of its minute atoms by
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