New-York tribune., 1878-04-13
UNION OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS.

LETTER FROM PROMINENT ALLoPAIHIc PHYsr
CANA STRONG UNDERoURRENT TOWARD COM
PRoMIsE-HoMGoPATmsTs ABANDONING TEEN
EXCLUSIVE PRINCIPLE.
To the Editor or The Tribune.
SIR: There is not the slightest doubt tha,
there is q very strong undercurrent toward compro
mise among all the medical schools. In this movement
the regular school required to make little con
cession OF principle for in reality embraces all that
good all the other rival factions Il has always admitted
that every remedy useful In disorders aud thai
every physician not only has perfect right, but Ia IN
duty bound to all those medicines which have suh
cient reliable experience in their favor II has hes
tated TO remedial agents derived from domestic
practice, and from any and every sect aud system Of
medicine always provided that they were proven to Be
better than those timehonored medicines which always
have been and always will be useful TO be superseded
by any discoveries In addition TO this, the members
the regular school have within the last twenty years.
discovered really useful medicines than all tho
other rival sects combined. Neither the hom90paths
nor the eclectIcs produce such galaxy OF med
cnes The principles OF treatment in the regular school
are also the broadest and most comprehensive; they
embrace every remedy in which there is the slightest
cow rable difference between its action aud that OF the
disease to be cured This difference may seen slight
that the smIlarities appear predominant but there Is
alwaysa vital and essential difference to be found and
it is assumed selfevident that 1t Is the difference OF
action Wnlcn eHcctS tne recovery nOV tne elhlafes
which latter only too often merely aggrayate II also
uses remedies in which similarity OF action Is dis
cOverabe but only difference OF operation and as Two
different actions cannot go at the tme IN tho
same place. il is believed that these remedies generally
cure more safely and pleasantly than those In which the
smilarities more prominent Finally 10 uses reme-
diesin which the greatest degree OF difference OF action
is manifest; namely, those which are exactly antagon
stc cOunteractive, like chemical or other andOcs.
1t will be soen from the above that although tho
regular school denies every rational beng must, the
truth of the sOcaed Law" SiBtittd simni6ns curdafw
IL accepts OF the practice which seems based upon
il. IL Is still convinced that this only apparent
aud partial law never was, or can become,
universal 1t is only the mere fag end and frag-
OF much greater and more sweeping generalza-
tion, VIZ that OF dfcrental action.
As long the homeopathic cg TO an erroneous and
ridiculous dogma, and also pinned mis- faith upon inn-
tesimal doses, there could be compromise from a
system which Is founded upon ample and pure expert
ence correct and broad reasoning and true science But
now, when the majority Of the hommOpaths admit In
words and still more IN thor practice that their s0caled
law is, at most, only very partial one ana that they
resort not only TO the doses but to many of tho
medicines OF regular school, there may remain much
20 be overlooked and forgiven but this should be done,
and the right hand OF fellowship should be extended TO
tho more aud honest OF this once OyecOn-
ndent and enthusiastic sect. The regular scnoOl Is tO1
old wise and powerful not 70 be capable OF great gene
rOslty hOO&
Neic- York. April 6. 1873.