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ever after relied upon its remedies in the treatment of the
sick. No intelligent physician of any other school has ever carefully
read the Homoeopathic works, and has to any considerable extent
cautiously used the remedies in the treatment of severe cases of various
diseases, without being able to see the vast superiority of the
Homoeopathic over the Allopathic treatment of disease; and no one,
without prejudice, and willing to see the truth, will ever do so without
being convinced. Can a man, with eyes open, on a clear day, go out at
noon time and declare that the sun does not shine? He may make such a
declaration while shut up in a cellar or cavern, or if he never opens his
eyes. As one who has patiently and diligently studied and practiced

both systems, I say without the slightest hesitation that Homoeopathy,
as a system of practice, is as superior to Allopathy as the direct light of
the sun is to the reflected light of the moon; in fact, much of the
allopathic practice of to-day is but a reflection of the homoeopathic
light. What intelligent physician to-day bleeds, blisters, salivates, or
vomits his patients, as students were taught to do by preceptors,
professors, and books fifty years ago? And why is such treatment so
frequently, to say the least, discarded now by Allopathic physicians? Is
it not largely because the success which results from the Homoeopathic
treatment of diseases, has convinced Allopathic physicians and their
patients that such violent disease-creating measures and remedies are
unnecessary?
Homoeopathy is strictly a scientific system of medicine. It is based
upon a law of nature--"Similia similibus curantur," or the law that
remedies will cure symptoms and diseases similar to those which they
will cause when taken by healthy persons. It is wonderful with what
care, skill, and perseverance the new Materia Medica has been
developed, mostly by intelligent physicians, commencing with
Hahnemann, taking the different remedies in varying doses, and
carefully and patiently watching the symptoms that follow, and writing
them down day after day; and then, when similar symptoms occur in
case of disease, giving the remedies and carefully watching and writing
down the results. Allopathic physicians, as a rule, have not the slightest
conception of the vast amount of patient and persevering labor in this
direction which has been done by physicians as well educated as they
are, and most of whom have graduated in the same schools, who have
devoted their lives to this work. Are not these facts worthy of the
consideration of every physician in the world who desires the highest
good of his fellow men? It is well known to every intelligent physician
that there is some truth in the homoeopathic law of cure, and that it has
to some extent been recognized from the earliest periods of medical
history. A cathartic remedy, even in Allopathic doses, will sometimes
cure a diarrhoea, and an emetic will sometimes cure a nauseated
stomach; but such remedies when given in large doses do not always
cure, or they would generally be used by Allopathists; they sometimes
seriously and even dangerously aggravate the disease, so that the vital

forces do not react and thus effect a cure. Nitrate of silver and acetate
of zinc, which applied to well eyes will cause irritation and
inflammation, are often applied to inflamed eyes. The kine pox, which
is a similar disease, is well known to either prevent or materially
modify smallpox; and so I could go on enumerating cases where
Allopathic physicians treat their patients in accordance with the
Homoeopathic law of cure. The great discovery of Hahnemann was not
so much the Homoeopathic law of cure, for some knowledge of that
was possessed before his day, but the practical application of that law
to the cure of disease. He found by careful experiments that diseases
can be cured by remedies, which when given to the well will produce
similar symptoms or diseases, in doses so small as not to seriously
aggravate the existing disease or symptoms; and that all diseases may
be thus treated with a success hitherto unknown. This discovery was
accompanied by the most careful experiments by him and his followers
upon themselves, to ascertain with the greatest possible care the effects
of various remedies upon the healthy, so as to be able to make accurate
prescriptions for the sick. Here you have most careful scientific
investigation and experiments as to the action of remedies upon the
well and sick, made, not by pretenders or quacks, but by well educated
physicians, that should command the admiration and respect of every
intelligent man and educated physician.
As to the doses given to the sick, which have been such a
stumbling-block to our Allopathic brethren, their size is simply the
result of the