The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-06-19

Iutu ~ lANAtN u HluptNlA''H
which they are WITHOUT means Of
scientifically testing. With tiIem
the main question will be one Of re.
suits
Let u man come forward with a
Theory, say that there are diamonds
to be found ia the interior Of Punch
bowl. Your readers will not ask that
man to scientifically demonstrate
how diamonds came to he there, nor
will they pay much attention If he
proceeds to do so. They will ask o
see The diamonds! And having seen
them, and being convinced that those
diamonds actually did come out of
PunchboWl ia the ordinary way OF
mining and not as the result of any
trlckery, they will at once proceed
to personally investigate the matter.
Now, sir, | have but little scienti-
iic knowledge in the realm of thera-
peutics aud still less in that Of al
chemy, and, so far as | can tell, the
explanation of the principles of
Electro Homeopathy as quoted in
the article III the Diocesan Magazine
may he sound sense and science or
the veriest twaddle. What | want to
know is, have these new theorists
any diamonds to show, and if so to
let me see them, before | consign
them and their theory to the limbo
of quacks and quackery.
Now, it so happens that l have
been hearing good deal lately
about this new science. Like you,
sir, | smiled when ! first heard of
this latest panacea. | smiled again
when | saw the phials of sugar pei
let's. Like 50 many charges OF small
shot, believed that these would he
about as effectual in the battle with
disease as duck shot would be in
modern warfare.
But | have smiled again since, and
it is no longer lofty smile of dis
dain. For | have seen these little
I globuIes cure a severe case of grip
in my own household in less than
! twenty-fOur hours. | have seen
/ them reduce a feverish child's tenn
perature in decidedly short space
of time. | have seen old and obsti-
nate cases of asthma amongst the
natives considerably relieved. | have
seen most seasick journalist, whose
trip to the Leper Settlement the
other day was one long drawn out
period of misery and woe, on the re-
turn voyage, through the action of
the little sugar pills sleep sweetly
and peacefully. | have seen the
native kane disappear as if by magic
from the faces of boys. l have seen
a girl now at the Leper Settlement
so much improved after six weeks of
the globules that her eyebrows which
had entirely disappeared had begun
to grow, and had grown very per-
ceptibly. Other cases more surpris-
ing | have heard of here, but |
speak now of what has occurred I'M
der my own at first sceptical observ-
alton.
But these are small results to put
forward, you will say. They may
be, but | mention them because a
small cure achieved before one S own
eyes goes farther towards conviction
than hundreds of wonderful cures in
prospectus.
You say, however, that the bare
theory of Electro-HomGopathy has
not yet received the sanction of the
scientific world. Perhaps not, yet
proofs are not wanting that it has at
least attracted the attention of the
world of science.
From the Review of Reviews a
copy of which lies on the table in the
reading room of the Library & Read
.ng Room Association, | learn that
there has been established in st.
Savour's Hospital, London, an eX-
detrimental ward for the purpose of
testing scientifically the alleged
Cancer Cure of Count Mattel, which
is simply Eleclro-Homnopathy. The
committee appointed to watch the
cases include Sir Morell Mackenzie, |
the great specialist on diseases of
the throat, and the editor of the Re-
view of Reviews. That the best is
TO be crucial one your readers may
see from the rules printed in the
Review of Reviews for May last.
u hnt y,,I
is the report of FIR. Muller of St.
Joseph's Leper Asylum, Mangalore,
5. Canara, India, noticed in the
same number of the Review. There
the Mattel remedies were first used
in June, 1890.
The hospital contains now thirty
three lepers, certified as such by |
competent medical authority. What |
results have been attained by the
Electro-Homgopathy treatment?
NO deaths though at least
four of the present patients were adj
mitted in al apparently dying condi
ton.
2-Particulars of the treatment of |
seventeen patients are given, and it
is stated that wounds have healed, |
sensbiIity has returned, swelings
nave disappeared, and that many
cases seem progressing towards com
plete recovery.
We are told also That an animated |
controversy has appeared in the
Madras Mail. A Surgeon Major who |
VISITED the Hospital maintains that
the alleged cures cannot be regarded |
A. absolute A Staff Colonel on the /
contrary argues thai the evidence of
cure was unmislakabIe even TO an
inpXpert. MANNED feet and hands (