Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-21
Homeopathy.
THE LAW OF SIMILES-ADDRESS
BY THE PRESIDENT.
Twelfth Session of the Southern HON
gopathic Medical Association Met
in st. Louis Wednesday.

The twelfth annual session of tn,
Southern Homeopathy Medical AS
ISOLATION met in st. Louis Wednesday
Nov. IS. 1t was largely attended ant
a most interesting session was held
DR.. VIM. @. Richardson, President o
the association, delivered the annua
address, which was most instructive
and the following is an extract from
it as published III the St. Louis Repaid
Tic:
"The most unfortunate thing for us
is that homeoPashy, eve at this tate
day, is only vaguely and imperfectly
understood by the public aud by prac-
titioners of ether schools. The hom-
eopathy of to-day is not the homeo-
pathy of the amateur pioneer enthusi-
asst with his domestic book, little pills
and utter disregard of all information
aside from symptomatology. How
ever useful, in a missionary way, all
this may have been in its time, it is
not representative of the present
standard. Neither is homeopathy an
exclusive belief or practice in infini-
tesimal medication to the exclusion of
the collateral branches of medical and
and surgical knowledge. The homeo-
pathy of the fathers and founders was
good, but it would be a sad common
tary, indeed, and at variance with all
progress, if the homeopathy of the
present day was not in advance of the
ideas of its early adherents. Much
criticism has been INDUCED in by our
opponents rs to the theories of the
revered Hahnemann relative to path
ology and its lack, to him, OF import
ance, compared with symptomatology,
but il is q fact proven by daily devel-
opments in the ranks of the opposi-
ton that his views on this subject, as
well as on others, were far in advance
of his contemporaries of the old school.
AS old and as well understood as is the
law of gravitation, it's forces are still
being exploited in new directions, and
it is folly for US to claim that all the
powers or possibilities of the law of
'Simila' have been attained. With this
idea even in view, we should continue
along the well-marked and certain
lines of the unerring system of thera-
peutics first pointed out to us by
Hahnemann.
"The corner stone, foundation and
whole superstructure of homeopathy
may be summed up to be belief in the
certain truthfulness of the law 'Similia
sinilibas enrantsr1AesEndtAish aa-
eficent and unerring law, curative
science has developed a method of
| successful and humane therapeutics
that has won the admiration, approval
and support of the educated and in
telligent classes of every section and
community in which it is known.
"Our colleges teach, as efficiently as
any others, anatomy, physiology,
chemistry, sanitation, pathology, di-
agnosis and everything else included in
the necessary curriculum of a thorough
medical education. Among our prac-
titioners are found some of the most
eminent and successful surgeons,
gynaecologists and obstetricians. Not
only has u school forced a discon-
tinuance of the unpalatable, nauseous
doses of recent days, but our practi-
TONERS were first to suggest and in
sist upon a careful, intelligent system
of modern dietetics and hygiene. Most,
If not all, the fashionable microscopic,
therapeutic and archaeological fads OF
alleged new discoveries of the day
were first exploited by homeopathic.
and certainly quite all of them that
are useful have long since been incor-
porated into our everyday armamen-
tarium. The lymphs, serums, anti
toxines, ~elixirs, ETC., were discussed,
proven and given their proper places
by homeopathic long before they
were taken up by the ~allopaths. Then
administration, too, is accomplished
much more pleasantly than by the
painful, if not repulsive and even
dangerous, injections habitually re-
sorted to by the old school practition-
ers. The peculiar, roundabout way oil
developing the potency of what they
call curative and immunizing power
of these remedies, through the blood
of the lower animals, is cruel, repell-
ant and dangerous, inasmuch as il
possibly permits the carrying, with
the serum, of other visuses than the
specific remedy.
sour colleges were the first to raise
the standard of a medical education
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