Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-12-23
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HOMEOPATHY, and ALLOPATHIC
OPPOSITION THERETO.

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EDITOR News You will confer a
favor on others as we'll as myself BY
inserting this communication. l pre-
sumo that some recent Developments
concerning homeopathy have not es-
capped your attention. The matter was
very ably treated In an article In the
Erening Chronicle, signed "Pater Fa-
milias." Many persons, friends 10
homeopathy, and others, have been
greatly astonished to hear Of an alleged
ease OF poisoning (l by the homeopath-
ic globules. The thing Il altogether
too contemplate In itself for any lor-
NAL notice. But It Is highly Import
ant as Indicative Of the character OF the
opposition Of allopathic physicians to-
ward homeopathy. Has 1t not hereto
fore been proclaimed far and wide ny
our opponents that homeopathic reme-
dies were mere moonshine? Have we
not heard stories In illustration OF their
absolute impotency for good or esit
from u youth up? Tho AMOUNT Of
supposed witticism and rcasm
launched against the system on TINS
ground has been enormous. Medical
men have affirmed that they could eat
and drink the medicines as so much
sugar and water. But ridicnle has Ut
terly failed to arrest the progress OF
homeopathy. In 1925 there was just
one physician Of the system In Amer
lea, There are now more than SIX
thousand! In the face OF these con
slderations, does not the representation
OF the remedies as most virulent pois-
Gus look suspicious? Does Il not SAVIOR
OF a mere .'trick OF trade? ?'
Ridicule having failed to stop the
progress Of the system, arc people now
10 De inspired with terror. 1--WE have
| got the best thing against homeopa-
thy" said Que OF these medical gentle.
men the other day, ..that we have hsa
In n long time" Now, l presume IL
has not occurred to many people thSt
all this ado about doses, or medicines,
or medical theories, Is foreign to the
issue at stake. The question which
the people have to declde-which they
are deciding-is "do families who ha-
| bitually and exclusively trust to home
| opa,hy, fare as well as others." The
| homeopathic response to all allopathio
cayil, respecting theories and doses, has
been practically this-if 1t Is unalded
nature that cures IN homeopathy, what
is the use Of your allopa:hic expedi-
ents.
Sir John Forbes, one Of Queen Vic
toria's physiclans, thus forcibly put
this argument more than thirty years
ago:
onathy y y y do We not BY this
admission inevitably expose ourselves
defenselcss to the shock by the ire
mendous inference that the treatment
of many diseases on the ordinary plan
must, to say the least, be useless
"It il often said," wrote the late
Prof. Henderson Of the Univer'ity OF
Edinburp, THAT the benefits OF home
patby flow mainly from the omission
| of medicine altogether" =
"This opinion" he continues, chad
better be reconsidered II 1t lead to the
practical Inference, as think Is does,
that some so or 90 per cent OF the pa
tlen,s who employ medical practition.
ers would be better Oft without them"
These utterances by two OF the hrst
medical men of Europe were based on
statistics then before tho medical
world.
lt has never been disputed that the
| r~ecoyeries were as frequent under
homeopathy as under allopathy. This
ia surely negative evidence that they
are as frequent. and now beg to give
you some positive evidence that they
are more frequent: A life insurance
agent has been taking q look at the
mortuary records Of Boston, New
York aud Philadelphia. His report
being too voluminous for the limits OF
this article, ! merely place 1t before
you. 1t will be seen by It's perusal
chat "where homeopathy loses ton pa
tients. allopathy loses seventeen
lie concludes thus: ut seems almost
Incredible ; but there are the statistics
as recorded by the Board OF Health,
open to the Inspection Of any citizen:
and we have carefully scrut,nized
them three several times to prevent
the possibility OF errors and mistakes"
In conclusion. Mr.. Editor, would 1t
not look better for the pretence OF allo-
pathy to medical i~nfalltbtlity to con-
cede q fair field to their lsss numerous
rivals and trust to tho Survival OF the
tittest." have the honor to DC, ETC.,
Z. STEVENSON. II. d.
v~;r,;nIo Dec. %. 1872,