, 1882-03-01

given. There are Ito homeopathic JOuIIdlS
published in that country, quarterly,
monthly and semi-monthly, with an annual
total of 8,7S4 pages, and an aggregate OF
%, $50 copies. In addition there are
national medical societies, medical schools
for special subjects, a publication society
and a very prosperous life insurance com
pany, called the New York Homeopathic
Mutual. This, of course, does not include
England, France, Germany and other
civilized countries where the Homeopathic
school is also fully recognized
And vet for all this, the progress has
been slow, when compared with the enor-
nous facilities that exist to-day for the
spread of universal knowledge. For,
though H~ahnemann's theories are almost
everywhere accepted, it is not so with
regard to other systems that promise to
be still more successful, and, though medl-
cal Electricity, cranial Diagnosis, Hydro
patty and Hygiene are all receiving theic
share of attention from liberal minded
physicians as adjunctS to their own
methods of practise, Vital Magnetism and
Diagnosis by Su-per-sensuous perception,
/ use this term, invented by the late
eminent lawyer and psychologist Sergeant
e. Cox, as more acceptable to my Scientl-
tic readers, who might be shocked at the
name of Clairyoyance) are only just now
getting their just need Of praise for the
remarkable cures that are daily being
made by their means.
Based on the same law as Homeopathy,
Vital Magnetism was long ago accorded
its correct place in Therapeutics by
Hahnemann who, unlike his AllopathiC
detractors acknowledged its claims and
Justly approaching its immense value
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Of it in his great work The Organon' as
follows =
~ in1 it necessary to say a few words
on the subject Of Animal Magnetism, the
nature of which so differs from that OF
all other remedies. This curative power,
of whose efficacy none but maljRea can
entertain a doubt, which through the
powerful will Of a well intentioned indiyl-
dual, influences the body by the touch,
acts homeopathically by exciting symptoms
analogous to those OF the malady-and
this object is attained by a single transit,
the determination being moderately fixed,
and gliding the hands slowly over the body
from the crown Of the head to the S0leS of
the feet. In this form it is applicable to
internal hemOrrhages in their last stage,
when they threaten death. 1t acts like
wise by imparting a uniform degree of
vital power to the organism when there
is an excess of it at one point AMI a def
cheney at another such for example, as
where there is a determination Of blood to
the head, or when a patient, i'll a state OF
debility, is subject to inSOmnolency, ankle
ty, etc. In this caSe,I a single transit,
similar to the preceding one, but stronger,
is to be practised. Finally, it acts by
Immediately communicating a degree Of
vital power to a weak part or to the
entire organiSm-an effect that cannot be
produced by any other means witt such
certainty, and without interfering with the
other medical treatment. This third lndl-
cation is performed by assuming a very
firm and decided manner, and applying
the hands or tips of the fingers to the
weak part, which an internal chronic
affection has made the seat Of its princl-
pal local symptons-such, for example, as
old ulcers, amaurosis, paralysis of a limb,
&c. To this class belong certain cures
that have, III all ages, been performed by
magnetizers who nave led pure lives and
were endowed will great natural strength.
But the most brilliant result of the com
municatiOn Of human vigor to the entire
organism is where, by the r%esOlute and
fixed determination Of a man i'll the full
vigOr of life, it recalls to life persons who
have remained in a state of apparent death
during a long interval of time,-a species
of resurrection of which history records
many examples To those who may doubt
the power of a force so im~perceptible, ex-
cent by its effects, as this, [ would say
n C again, in the words of this same dis
tinguiShed physician and benefactOr to
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