The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-22
HOMEOPATHY.
II Is UnwittingIy Demonstrated in the
House of Its Enemies

House of Its Enemies.
At the last meeting of the international
medical congress (allopathic), in London,
that most eminent chcmist-pcrhaps in the
world--Pasteur, of France, described his ex-
periments to an audience in st. James hall'
of doctos from all parts Of the world a
fine glass rod is dipped in the blood oil a
fowl which is dying of chicken cholera
The drop of blood is then placed
in vessel containing prepared
fluid which has been boiled, and
rendered perfectly clear. In short time
this Couture vase, ," as Pasteur calls 1t, be
gins to swarm with tiny organisms. TAX
ing one Of these tiny forms again ON glass
rod, aud dropping II into a second vessel of
clear fluid the same fermont and genera
ton goes on, and this experiment may be
repeated from vase to vase until the hun
dredth colony is reached, always with the
same effect "The curious part of the ex.
pertinent is that il you take a healthy fowl
and put under its skin drop from any one
of these vases even the furthcst from the
first it will die of chicken cholera, precisely
as 1t will if you put under the skin
drop of blood from an in
lectcd fowl. Professor Pastcur found
that by leaving an interval of time between
the passing Of these tiny germs from one
vase to another the small organism changed
its quality. Instead of being passed direct
ly as had been done as soon as they
showed themselves, week, a fortnight,
month was allowed to 90 by before the
germ from one swarming vase was dropped
into another. At one prolonged interval OF
time tho disease communicated grew
weaker when put into the fowl. If it killed
eight out of ten from one vase, it would
kill but five out of ten from the next,
and so on in reduced proportion until
finally Il vase was reached that did
not Kill any. The fowls would show
symptoms Of. illness, but would recover"
"NOw for the strange but most instructive
part of the story. A drop of infected blood
from the chickens that had died from tho
cholera had no longer any fatal effect on
these vacCinatcd fowls Now we see that
while the germs in their crude state killed
the fowls that were yacCinatcd, yet after
Professor Pasteur hau reached a certain
point of attenuation or inhnitessmals,
mild or similar disease - cholera was set
up, which prepared the system to resist the
action Of the crude or original germs OF
cholera. This is homeopathy, pure and
simple. The most bitter opponent of
homeopathy cannot deny that the drop of
blood taken from the infected fowl was not
divided into innnitcssimnls, and yet We
have 1t demonstrated beyond the shud-
ow of doubt by one of their
best cNpcrmentcrs and closest observers
that when one drop of the liquid
containing far beyond the dccillonth
part of n drop of the original infected blood
was injected into fowl it produces II dis
ease or symptom similar to the original
from which ii was taken. llahncman never
claimed any more for his system of medi-
cine than this. Neither can the most ultra
HahnemauianS or high dilutionists ask any
thing more. With all these facts before
them, cannot see how the intelligent OPP.
ponents of homeopathy can any longerdony
that there is virtue in patronized medicines.
With the demonstrated fact before them,
and the light of science rs bright as the
MONDAY sun shining in their pathway, is
IL not strange or inComprchonSible that in
telligcnt professors of medicine, rs many
of the alopathists are, will not
stop in their bigotry and prejudice,
for few hours only, until
they can examine the merits ofhomcopathy
before they can any longer try it unhcard
and untricd? The writer continues; "Sir
James Pagct, one Of the most distinguished
British physicians, in thanking NJ, Pnsteur
on behalf of the medical congress said
that while DIR. lcnncr was mobhed and
had to fight vehement opposition for seek
INK w itINlll lullluI DNlllENi IuitNsbI
Pasteur's investigations for the benefit Of
property, tlocks and herds mot with no OPP
position" Homcopaths throughout the
world will also thank NJ. pastcur for
demonstrating in the house of their enc
mics the principles upon which the homco-
pathic law of cure similia similibus curan-
tur was founded by llahncman
That is to say, he experimental on
animals and fowls, and came to similar
conclusion to which Hahneman arrived
after experimenting upon himself llahnc-
man tested the various poisons on himself
until he found those that produced symp-
toms similar to cholera. His next step was
to find the nttenuations or potcncics Of the
same remedies that would cure cholera
without producing aggravations OF the
symptoms. lIc thus established the law
Of similars and of attenuations. Like
Jenner, he was branded rs u quack and
humbug by his quondam medical brethren,
and was forced TO leave his native country |
II is a sad commentary on human nature |
that every investigation for the alienation |
ofhuman suffering must first be rejected |
and its inventor prosecuted before il can be- |
adopted by the medical profession and in |
troduced TO the public for their good
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