HOMCEoi'ATHY

EXPLAINED

JOHN

HENRY

CLARKE,

M.D.

LONDON

HOMCEOPATHIC
WARWrCK

PUBLISHING
LANE,
PATERNOSTER

COMPANY
ROW,
EC.

1905

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THE

MEMBERS

OF

THE

BRITISH

HOMCEOPATHIC

ASSOCIATION

THIS

BOOK

IS

DEDICATED

IN

ALL

HOPEFULNESS

BY

THE

AUTHOR

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PREFACE

One

hundred
born

and

fifty

years

ago

there

was

to

porcelain-painter
a son

of

Meissen,
destined

in

Upper
revolutionise

Saxony,
the

who

was

to

world

of medical

medicine,

to

inaugurate
If
ever

new

era

in

thought.
and

the

story

of

Samuel

Hahnemann

his

discoveries

should

fail

to

attract, and

the

fault

must

lie

with

the

teller

not

with

the

story
the

itself.

For

whether

it

be

regarded
or

from

human,

the

historic,
of

the

scientific,
is

the

economic

point

view,
of
of

there

nothing

in

the

world's the

history
record

more

enthralling patient,
in sistent, perhis

interest

than

the

heroic

labours

of

Hahnemann

endeavour

to

bring

to

the

light

of

day

the

ix

PREFACE

Law

which

he

knew

must

underlie
of

the

ingly seem-

chaotic
At

phenomena
of
the nineteenth

drug-action.
century,
of when

the

dawn in

Autocracy
was

the

politicalworld
its

Europe
then
on

tottering to
prime,
was

fall, Hahnemann,
his in take Fact. Hahnemann of first attacks

in his the

making
Authority
would Natural
;
new

power

of who

medicine,
their The stand battle has

and
on

leading all
the

to

ground
far
way

of
won

is led

yet
the
now

from
into who

but

world
to

thought, thing
that

and that

all
no

wish

know
to

the

iSy are
which

longer obliged
Authority's

accept

only

bears

imprimatur.

At

this any of
a

stage
need

of
to

progress
treat

there

is
as

no

longer

homoeopathy
is

question
kind may
:

belief.
matter

It

nothing
"

of

the

it is

of science No
or one

thing
any in

which
to

be

known.

has

right
pathy homoeoor

claim
"

either he

belief
must

disbelief
know
must

either it ; fail
to

it,
either

be

ignorant

about
or

he

stand underit.
To

it,

understand

PREFACE

xi

understand
matter
as

homoeopathy
some

is

not

such
to

an

easy

think

it than

ought
is the The

be

but

it

is not
.

more

difficult

ing understandof this

of
work
to

other

sciences. the
to

object

is to
all

make wish
not
a

understanding possible
understand.
"

who

To and

those
are,

who

wish

to

understand
numerous

they
"

unhappily, nothing
I ask of
to

very say.

body
to

have is all

The
;
a

wish

know with

my

readers

if, inspired
careful
lie with

this
my

wish, they fail after book,

the blame
must

reading
me.

of

When action it The that would

one

comes

to

think

of than

it, that
one

drugto

should
seem

have
to

more

side

be

matter at

of
the

course.

scientific
an

mind
cause

revolts
can

notion identical
a

active in
act

produce
That
to

results should under would is And

opposite

conditions.

drug

when differently of
same

given
from when

person it

conditions do in the what

disease person
sense

what
in

health,
expect.
to

only

common

would
next

common

sense

would

demand

xii

PREFACE

know

just exactly
The
answer

what
to

that

difFerence is

may

be.

that
"

query

mann's Hahnethe

life and Law of Cure. mind that seemed

sentence

work

the
seem

discovery of
to

It would
a

the
to to

fessional unpro-

trite of
a

observation doctor is and

states

make,
It first

the

business
so

cure.

to

Hahnemann,
his

the

of that

Organon

plainly
of
as

enough
the

the

"

high
heal

and the
we

only
sick
"

business
to

physician

is to And

cure^

it is termed."
teachers
at

yet
of
"

have

respected

this

time may

day
treat

telling their
"

students

that
cannot

they
cure

patients
"

they

them. "decadence could proper fault

"

They
of

speak

learnedly
as

about

the Earth

drugs,"

if Mother minerals

not

produce plants
potency
in
to

and latter lies

of
The

the

these them
use

days.
with

according
in their into all

Nature

not

own

of

the

forces

Nature

puts
of

their this

hands childish

Homoeopathy
nonsense.

disposes

There learned

is

an

Art

of

cure,

but

it

must

be Cures

and

practised

with

brains.

PREFACE

xiii

rarely
man

take

place by
up his mind

accident,
to
master

and

unless the
art

makes

of
that
cure

curing,
line.

he

will

not

achieve
"

much You
cannot

in

The
"

Faculty
you
cure,
"

says,

patients
pretend
to

can

only
are a

treat

them

if

you

you

quack."
if you

pathy Homoeowill take

says, the trouble

excuse

You
to

may the

cure

learn

art.

Curing
as a

is the

only
and

for your
do
not

existence you
work
are

physician,

if The

you

cure,

failure."
to

object
the
case

of

this

is

put

the

facts of
those
not

before of the

the

public, and
who

before
have

members closed their

profession

intelligenceat

the

bidding

of

the

goddess Authority.

For been edition

:

long

time
me

past
to

my

publishers have
them
"

urging
of All my

give

revised pathy Homoeoof

little work

entitled
Hitherto*
me

about has

it."

pressure

other with able

work

prevented
Now

from that and

me

complying
I have
to

their
to

request.
some

been the
to

give

thought
seemed
to

time

subject, it

has

desirable

xiv

PREFACE

recast

the
more

work,

enlarge

its

scope,

and

adapt
it

it has
work

to

recent

requirements.
that in
a new

Thus

come

about

although
this

the the

former
work
a
new

is embodied is rather I

volume,
book

itself

than

edition, and
this

have have

therefore

regarded
a new

it in

light and

given

it

title.

Now

that since
no

more

than

ten

years

have

elapsed
there how author is it

its harm
to

predecessor
in be

appeared,
story
all. of The club

telling the
written of and
a

came

at

was

member

debating

composed
and he
when

of
his

literary
turn

professional men,
to

came

read its
some

paper
A

chose

Homoeopathy
of
in the medical medical
men

for

subject.
of
were

number
lecturers

"

them
bers mem-

schools all of

"

of

club,
the paper
as

them of the PuUar

being
the

paths allo-

with* When the

exception
was

author. had the

sion occa-

read,
Dr.

author and The

with
late

him,
Drs.
was

visitors.
and

Cooper
a

Dudgeon.
one

very

pleasant

lively but

PREFACE

XV

amicable

discussion

followed,
The

in

which

the

lay
were

members in
a

freelyjoined.
somewhat
two

latter, who
as

judicial position

between

the

medical

ously factions, had, curiall

enough,
personal

nearly
to

of

them,
which

some

experience
on

relate

told

heavily
At

the end

side of the

of

homoeopathy.
debate
on

the

there either

were

no

conversions
was

announced
to

side

"

as

quite

be
to

expected.
put
the

But paper
use

having

taken

the

trouble
some

together,
be made

thought
of

permanent

might

it, and
form.

so

published

it, with

additions, in

book

Within

the have has

ten

intervening
The
to
a

years

many

things
League
and

happened.

Homceopaihic
much
"

given
more

place

larger
British

much

powerful body
Association. of Dr. its To

the the

Homoeopathic
and energy

insight
this
cause

George

Burford
and
owes

Association

owes

origin ;

the

of
a

homoeopathy
new

in Great is

Britain taken
in

it that advance-

interest

being

the

J
I

xvi

PREFACE

ment

of
has

Hahnemann's sprung know up,

reform,
on

and

new

desire

the

part

of is.

the

public, to
It
meet

what
that this

homoeopathy
book may

is

hoped

help
and has

to

this

appetite for knowledge,

the
in interest the which
movement.

may been As

stimulate awakened the

a

forward

English
former

Homoeopathic
founded

Association the London pathic Homoeoto

of

generation

Homoeopathic

Hospital, the
has
to

British

Association
the

determined

provide
lishing estab-

complement
a

the

Hospital by
for felt the

College

in

London
It is

teaching
this, and
to

of

homoeopathy.
short the and of
cause

that

nothing
justice to
country

this, will
of

suffice

do this

homoeopathy

in

Empire.

Although
ceased
monument
to

the

Homoeopathic
has

League
a

has

exist, it
of of its

left

permanent
the three
to

labours

in

volumes which

Homoeopathic League
reference The is made

Tracts^
in

frequent
pages.

the

following

great

majority

of

PREFACE

xvii

these and which and Dr. and

warmest

Tracts all
were

were

written

by

Dr

.gudgeon, quotations
Organon
taken from
works
;

edited
make

by

him.

The

from Medica

Hahnemann's Pura
are

Materia

Dudgeon's
for

translations and

of
much
are

these

this,

for

so

besides,
due
to

my

acknowledgments
likeness
on

him.

The appears taken

1

of

Hahnemann this

which work
is

the

title-page of

from
Of

Junge's
this, in
which
later

portrait, painted
1828,
St5lzel made

in
an

8 19.

engraving,
one

forms editions

the of
a

frontispieceto
the

of

the

Organon,
has been

From
cut

Stolzel's

engraving
this work.

block

expressly for

JOHN

HENRY

CLARKE.

8, Bolton

Street,
10,

W.

Jpril

1905.

lA

CONTENTS

PAGE

Preface
. . .

ix
"

CHAPTER

I.

How

BECAME

HoMCEOPATH
.

II.

Homoeopathy,
PATHY
:

Allopathy Three Ways

and

EnantioUtilising

of

Drug

Action
. .

.5

III.

The

Principle Revealed

of

Cure Hahnemann

by

Medicines

by

IV.

The

Word

"

Homceopathy." HoMCEOPATHIC Drugs. Examples

tages AdvanMeTHOD

OF

THE

OF

Studying

1
.

V,

Sketch Search

of

Hahnemann's Principle

Career

The

for

in

Medicine.

20

VI.

Hahnemann's His

Criticism Time.
Some

of

the

Practice Old-School

OF

Appreciations

of

Hahnemann
.

38

Vn.

Homceopathy
Theory

and

Pathology

or

the

of

Disease
. .

.48

xix

XX

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

PAGE

VIII.

Hahnemann's Miasms

Doctrine
. .

of

the

Chronic

-5^

IX. X.

The The

Infinitesimal Power
BY

Dose
. .

d'j
nised Recog-

of

Infinitesimals

Non-Homceopathic
. .

rities Autho. *

11

XI.

Examples

of

Homceopathic
own

Cures Practice

from

Hahnemann's XII. More Illustrations. Count XIII. XIV. What The Radetsky

90

Meissonier's

Dog.
.100
.

are

Homceopathic Meanings
. .

Medicines?
.

107

Different "Dose"

of

the

Word
.112
.

XV. XVI.

The

Homceopathic The
.

Materia

Medica
.

116

Sensitives. Hauser

Case
.

of

Caspar
.122
.

XVII. XVIII. XIX.

XX.

What Serum How

to

"

are

Likes

"

?
.
.

.131 142

Therapeutics Practise

and

Nosodes
.

Homoeopathy
.

148
^

Some
Is Some The

Comparative

Statistics
. "

54

XXI. XXII. XXIII.

Homoeopathy

Spreading?
.

.161 .168
.

Objections
Hopefulness Homgeopathy.

Answered

and

Harmlessness
cine Medi-

of

Conservative

.181
. . . .

XXIV.
Index

Conclusion:

Homoeopathy

in

Aphorisms

186

"

^93

HOW

BECAME

in

that

city.
"

This

he

promised
the letters

to
to

do,
this

and

eventually did
They
which with
were

I have

day.

liever

presented,

for

reasons

will whom

be I
;

appreciated.
was

The

relatives
to

staying happened
they
go
to

be I

homoeopaths might
do
worse

and than Hardman

suggested
the

that

Homoeopathic
and
see

Dispensary
was

in done

Street As the

what
came

being by

there.

letters time I

not, Like
"

way

of
I here
;

utilisingmy
not

went.

Caesar,
"

only
the

*'went,"
"

but I did
me.

saw

but

parallelended conquered

not

conquer I may

homoeopathy
that
80
at

say
over

this
cent,

period, having (if

marks go

absorbed for

per the

anything)
had

of
to

drug-lore
and

Sir

Robert
had in

Christison sufficient

impart,
for

having
value

opportunity
had
come

testing its
near

practice, I

pretty
Holmes his

the

clusion con-

Oliver and
"

Wendell

arrived

at

put
"If

so

neatly in drugs
so were

well-known
cast

saying
the
man

all be the

into for

sea,

it
so

would much

much
worse

the for

better the

and

fish."

believed

HOMCEOPATH

then

(and

the

belief that
to

has the

become chief
out

rather of the

fashionable
a

since)
man was

function what and

was

medical

find
if he

matter

with with
any.

people
common

"

could;
if he
to

supply
to

them possess
to
cure

sense

"

happened
treat

His
was

duty
out

was

people
and if

them be
no

of

the

question ;
honesty

it he

would made After

the

better
to

for it.

his

pretence
a

few

weeks'

observation

at

the
case

Liverpool Homoeopathic
was

Dispensary, private.
own,
was

presented
of five, a

to

me

in

small

boy
to
me

relative mother.

of my
Two
on

brought
before,
he

by
been

his

years the

had
a

badly
when

scratched
the
on

forehead
a

by
of

cat, and

scratches the up site

to

healed,
of that the
no

crop And in

warts

appeared

them. time

there

they remained
treatment

spite

of
As
so

diligent
an

by
could do

family
more

doctor.

allopath
turned
to
me.

than
see

he,

homoeopathy
I the consulted

to

if that

could and

help
found

the

authorities,
which
warts

that with

principal drug
crops of

is is

credited

producing

MY

FIRST

CASE

Thuja
way

occidentalis. of

ordered than if there

to

this,

more

by
much in few three

experiment
but I

expecting
was

result

said,
it

truth In in

homoeopathy, days
weeks

ought
was

cure.

improvement
the
warts
were

manifest all and it have

one

gone. still will done will with

Rightly
attribute,
no

or

wrongly
result said
to

I attributed,

the be

Thujay
"

though
"

doubt the

that

charms well

same

thing.
system
and of

Very
charms

if

any I
can

give

me

that

use

precision
and it

produce
I shall

with be

it such

definite
to

effects,
it. As

better,
was,

very

glad
if

try

I concluded
me

that like

homceopathy homoeopathy
with

could

give
the

results for it kind

that,
And

was

system
be this

me.

all has

due been

modesty

spoken,
of that
work

homoeopathy
for
some me ever

doing
for Now
to
a

since
"

period,
I will

is, of

thirty
matters

years.

leave

personal

and

go

on

my

subject proper.

CHAPTER

II

HOMCEOPATHY,

ALLOPATHY

AND

ENANTIO-

PATHY

THREE

WAYS

OF

UTILISING

DRUG

ACTION

Why

the

allopathic
be
so

section

of

the

fession pro-

should

wrathful

with

mann Hahne-

is

not

little

surprising.

For

not

only
he covered dis-

did

Hahnemann

discover

homoeopathy, Allopathy homoeopathy

of

allopathy
before his

as

well.

existed

time,
it

just
was

as

did

in

way,

but

unconscious

its

own

existence.

The

profession
all its life
"

had

been

tising prac-

allopathy
had been

as

M.

Jourdain
it.

talking
Hahnemann

prose

without
"

knowing
it its
name

It

was

who of

gave

and

if

he

is

the

father

homoeopathy allopathy
as

he

is

at

least

the

godfather

of

well,

and

THREE

WAYS

OF

on

that

account

deserves

to

have sections. there

"

his bust

in

the

medical Hahnemann

schools

of both
out

pointed
of

were

three pathic, homoeo-

principalways
the
or

using drugs

the

allopathic, and
The in

the

antipathic
is the

enantiopathic.
method,
to
a

homceopathic
which
a

like-to-like is

medicine it when is

given
of

sick

person
a

because
state

capable given
The is
"

producing
a

similar
"

to

healthy

one

similia

similibus. method

allopathic (or
that in^ any which

heteropathic)
the

drug

given, being
to

without

pathological relation
in the

what the The

is

naturally
most

diseased

body,

attacks

part

exempt
the the is of
or

from

the

disease."

enantiopathic is
and This
a

opposite
treatment

of

the

pathic, homoeo-

is

by

contraries.
When

treatment

palliativemerely.
is
an

large dose

opium
when
or a

given

to

overcome

sleeplessness ;
to arrest

astringent is given purgative

are

diarrhoea,

is

given

to

remove

constipation
"

these But for

examples

of

antipathic
such
as

treatment.

many

diseases,
have
no

inflammations,

example,

UTILISING

DRUG

ACTION

"

opposites
treated if

"

except

health,
method,
one

and

these and

cannot

be

by
at

this

must

be
two

treated,
ways.

all, in

of

the

other

When cold
on

an

emetic

is
an

given
action
kind

to

relieve

the in

chest,

is

produced
the
dition con-

different

place
and

and

from

treated,
when
a

this is

allopathic. Again,
for headache

patient
an

treats

himself

by taking
and

aperient, he practisesallopathy;
a

again, when
a

medical
to

man

puts

blister

behind

patient'sear
eye,
the
,

cure

inflammation is in like

of

his

treatment

allopathic.
a case

When,
headache
or

on

the
we

other
a

hand,

of

give

drug

Belladonna of of which

Glonoin
a

both (nitro-glycerine),

produce

variety
taken

of

headaches
the

great
we

intensity when
are

by

healthy, then

practisinghomoeopathy.

It is

true

that

the the

majority
idea in of

of

the

medical
any

profession scorn
rule
reason,
to

there

being
for

guide
I

them
on

practice,and
the lucus
a non

this

suppose,

lucendo

MEDICAL

ANARCHISTS

principle,
but
*'

insist

on

being
If

called

nothing
not
scorn

else

regular."
as

they

did

logic
call

as

well

rule,
medical

these

practitioners
anarchists.

would

themselves

lo

HAHNEMANN

REVEALS

it
ever

might
since

have the in force

been

said

truly enough
of
a

but of

consciousness medicine upon

was

want

principle crushing

impressed
mind
to

with

the him

of the order

mann, Hahne-

and labours

impelled
which he of

gigantic
out

by
the

brought

of lies

chaos,

reproach
that

unprincipledness
of
to

only
which he has How

with
has

section

the

profession
the

steadilyrefused
to

accept

gift

offered

the

world.
to

long
none

it will
can

take

bring
or

about

the

change
school its eyes

tell ; but Clark that

sooner

later the
to

of Sir Andrew
to

will

have is

open the in in the

the

fact

medicine

not

unprincipled, anarchic proclaiming

his
"

thing they delight Again

and

it to

be.

again

earlier

writings, Hahnemann
of
any

bewailed

absence

principlefor discovering the

of
some

curative ordered
must
set

powers universe

medicines." law
not
"

That

in
"

an

some

principle
How in
on

exist, he
about of the the
a

could

doubt. ended

he covery dishe

search law

which

his

of

similars,
and

which

has

built

real

Science

Art

of

Cure,

THE

PRINCIPLE

OF

CURE

ii

will

be

duly

set

forth

later But I

in

my

sketch

of
to

Hahnemann's che remarks

career.

will Clark

append
another

of

Sir of

Andrew his
own

utterance

by

one

school, recorded
on

in Dr.

Granier's Clark's

Conferences

Homoeopathy.

Sir Andrew
a

predecessor, whilst
the has anarchic the
on

giving
state

graphic description of
medicine,

of
to

traditional admit that

candour ah

homoeopathy

stands

entirely

different

footing.

In

the

course

of

debate

on

"

Revulsion,"
of Medicine
Marchal

which

took

place in
the

the year
a

Academy
1853,
Dr.

of Paris
Calvi

about

of

contributed
care

paper "he did

in

which,
not

whilst

taking
himself

to

say

constitute he his thus

own

defender
the
want

of
of

homoeopathy," principle in
of

described

school,
doctrine
"

and

the the

possession

principle

or

by

homoeopathic.
says

In
nor

medicine,"
has

Marchal,
been
or

"

there

is

not,
either
tower

there

for law.
we
are

some

time,
build
a

principle^faith^
of

We
not

Babel,

or

rather

so

far

12

HAHNEMANN

REVEALS

advanced,
vast

for

we

build
a

nothing
of

we

are

in

plain

where and

multitude
;
some

people
carry

pass

backwards others
no one

forwards
others of edifice the
are

bricks,
;

pebbles,
dreams of the

grains
cement:

of

sand the

but

tions founda-

not

yet

laid,
it is

and
not

as

to

the

general plan
In with

of

the

work, words,

even

sketched.
swarms

other

medical
the with called

literature
most

facts, of

which

part

are

periodically produced
monotony
clinical and
;

most

tiresome and consider of

these
a

are

observations labourers

facts^

number

of

reconsider
or

particular
"

questions
that is such reader
has

pathology
original
and wade

therapeutics
The
enormous
mass

called labour
can

labour.
is

of
no

facts

through
doctrine.
THAT

them
"

but
most

no

one

any

general

The
EXISTS IS

GENERAL

DOCTRINE

THE

DOCTRINE

OF

HoMCEOPATHY.
LAMENTABLE,
BUT SUCH IS THE A

ThJS
DISGRACE

IS

STRANGE

AND

TO

MEDICINE,

FACT."

The

disgrace

to

old-school

medicine

in

THE

PRINCIPLE

OF

CURE

13 it is

1853

is

very

much

greater

when of any exists

"

un-

blushingly proclaimed
in

by

one

its

leaders
in

1893, and
of the

this

time

without that

reserve

favour

only system
has the the

the

only
its

system

which
"

principle of
of

Cure

for

foundation

System

Homoeopathy.

Allopathy
this much has
no

or

orthodox
to
"

medicine for it.

ever, has, how-

be

said
no

Though
it has
one

it

rule,

no

doxy,"

system,
to

fairly definite
has many

aim,
with

namely,
a

palliate.
of
success

It

developed
measures

great

deal

for of
of in

relieving pain
That

and this

for is

getting
often
a

rid
matter
as

symptoms.
very

great importance and

of it is in

advantage,
not

the But
A

use

anaesthetics,will
not

be

denied. also.

without

its press
in

dangers
has the
"

writer this
:

the

daily

recently put

point
"

very

forcibly

following
Where

passage modern

pharmacy

works

its and
thinking un-

wonders herein

is in is its

the

treatment

of symptoms,
an

danger

for Who

impatient
can

and much

public.

tell how

of

14

DANGER

SIGNALS

the

nervous

and
not

physical
due
to

breakdown abundant for

"

of
means

modern which

life may
the

be

the

chemist

has

provided
?

extinguishing the

danger signals of nature

The much
cause

'

answer

to

this
most

question is, that

very this

mischief
;

is

certainly due
is
a

to

but
to

homoeopathy
make
use

science

which without

is

able

of take

symptoms
them for the of

obscuring
and Whereas
remove

them

to

its

guide

them

by
seeks

curing
first

patient.
to
tinguish ex-

allopathy
the

all

signals of danger, homoeopathy

the

by

means

of the

signals is

able

to

reach

and

annihilate

danger itself.

Homoeopathy,
cure,

by revealing the principle ot

V

sheds

new

light
The

on

all other

methods
can

of

using drugs.
of
to not

homoeopath
uses

avail
seem

himself
to

any his

of their

which

may

him

patient'sadvantage.
himself is with the

Only,
idea
to

he
that

does

delude

palliating symptoms
patients.
^

equivalent

curing

Daily GrafhiCy November

i,

190^.

CHAPTER

IV

THE

**

WORD

HOMCEOPATHY."

ADVANTAGES

OF

THE

HOMCEOPATHIC

METHOD

OF

STUDYING

DRUGS.

EXAMPLES

It the

may word

be

well

here

to

make
"

it

plain
no

that

**

Homoeopathy
y Greek small

in

way

includes

**

infinitesimal! is of

"

in

its

fication. signimeans

It

origin,
Those for all

and who

literally
to

"like

suflFering." authority
know twice in xiv. in both

like

have

Scripture
to

things

may

be

interested

that,
the

in

its

adjective

form,
and is

it

occurs

New

Testament,
'*of like

translated

instances

passions"
Curiously
among the

(Acts

15;

James
the of

v.

17).

enough,

St.

Luke,
is
one

physician
the far
two

Evangelists,
used
the

writers

who

word.

So

as

15

THE

WORD

"HOMOEOPATHY"

I
'*

am

aware,

there

is

no

Scripture

for

allopathy/'
How the
to to

notion the word

;

of
"

little infinitely

became
"

attached difficult Hahnemann's

Homoeopathy
the

is not of
ot
on
"

trace

and

importance
the power later

discovery
will
be chose in
a

of

infinitesimals but Hahnemann

dealt
'*

with

;
as

Homoeopathy
the
curantur

embodying
like
are
"

single

word

"like
"

to

idea. cured in

Similia

similibus
"

likes
same

by
Latin.

likes

expresses this the

the

thing

This, and

only,
word.
to

is the The have

of etymological signification
idea

Hahnemann in

did

not

pretend
very writers that

originated ;
collected
a mass

fact,

he

laboriously
in others all ages

from

previous
to

of evidence
had

show
a

before the

himself

recognised
of

relation
on

between
the sick.
not

diseasing
and their

action curative did

drugs
on

healthy
What

action that

the

Hahnemann

others

had

done

before,

was

to

study drugs systematicallyby

the way

testing them
The
other

on

healthy.
of

studying drugs is the

EXAMPLES

causing
showed
some

spasms that

in each

the

healthy

and

he

also has be
a

spasm-producing
its in
own

drug
will of

of peculiarity
to

which
case

guide
There

its selection
no

any

disease. in the
;

are

such treat, be

things as

"diseases" persons and

abstract
each
on case

to

only diseased
individualised
not

and

must

treated
to

its

own

merits, and
the disease the
a
"

according
drug
it. let
us

the has
i

name

of named take

by
anti
"

some

that

been
To
two

to

concrete

example,
and Rhus
taken

look

at

drugs

"

Bryonia

toxicodendron.

Each

of these

drugs, when
rheumatic muscles. and
"

by

the

healthy, joints,

produces

intense and

pains in
But

the

I
1

ligaments,
noticed in

Hahnemann

himself

fellow-experimenters
that whereas the rheu-

j
i

this marked matic

to

difference

pains of Bryonia
as

caused

the

experimenter
every of
move-

keep
'

still

as

possiblesince
them,
the made

ment
on

increased other

pains
him

Rhus^

the

hand,

extremely
relief.
to

restless, motion
This gave

giving

temporary
the

Hahnemann in

key

their

employment

disease,
"

Bryonia

relieving

PROVINGS

19

cases

in

which Rhus have them

the
those been both such and

pains
in

are

made motion service

worse

by

motion,
It would

which of
no

relieves.
to

have
so

dubbed

"

anti-rheumatics,"
useless contented effects.
a new

he

dispensed

with

and

misleading
with

designations, recording
A
new

himself

their science it may

positive

necessitates
be

logy, terminohere
When

and
one

well technical
on

to

explain
terms.

of

Hahnemann's

Hahnemann with
a

experimented
he

healthy
the

persons He

drug,

called it proving
the In German mathematics
our sum

drug.

used, of
"

course,

word
we

"Priifung"
"
"

testing.
results So

prove the
reverse

our

by

doing

way. of

Hahnemann
to
cure

^'

proved

"

the

powers the the pose pura

drugs

the caused who

took

sick
when

by

observing
given
for he of
to

symptoms

they
One

healthy.
of
"

drug

the

observing
The he

its

effects effects
a

called such
an

prover."

recorded called
"

experiment

proving."

CHAPTER

SKETCH

OF

Hahnemann's

career

the

SEARCH

FOR

PRINCIPLE

IN

MEDICINE

But Hahnemann

now

it

is

time

to

tell

something
how he
came

about

himself,
this of

and

to

discover

systematic

method

of

studying ple princiClark

the

powers in

drugs
"

to

discover

the

medicine

which

Sir

Andrew

said

does

not

even

now

exist. Christian

Samuel

Frederick

Hahnemann

was

born

at

Meissen,
the

in

Saxony,
^^

on

the

loth

of

April
he

in

year

1755.
his medical

^^^

^g^

^^

20

commenced and

studies

at

Leipzig,
into German time

earned

his

living
scientific

by
works

translating
at

foreign
that
he

the

same

pursued

his

studies.

After

two

years

at

Leipzig
20

he

removed

to

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

21

Vienna,
great

to

gain practical knowledge

He in
an

in

the

hospitals there.
at

took

his

M.D.

degree

Erlangen
was

1779. excellent with and

Hahnemann

linguist,

being perfectlyfamiliar
French,
Whilst

English, Italian,
Arabic.

Greek,
yet
into
a

Latin,
student

he among

translated other

from

English Nugent's

German,
on

works,

Essay

Hydrophobia^
and From Ball's 1779

Stedman's Modern onwards and his

Physiological Essays^
Practice he in

of Physic.
to

contributed

periodical literature,
of
On

1784,

at

the

age

29,

he
the

published
Treatment

first Chronic
'

original work.
Ulcers.

of

In the from
same

this

work sentiment

he

expressed
as

pretty
have the

much

that
as

I
to

quoted
want

Sir

Andrew
in

Clark

of "the

principle
absence
curative

medicine.
any

He

lamented

of

principle for of
medicines'' had
was

discovering the
He could
not

powers
that he

deny
but what

drugs
wanted

curative
some

powers,

principle to defining
what

guide
those

him

in

discovering
were,

and

powers

and

22

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

the
was

indications
a

for of

their

use.

Hahnemann and

master

practical chemistry, subjects.

His

wrote

much Arsenical
as an

on

chemical

book
was

on

Poisonings published in 1786,

quoted
work
on

authority by
In
test

Christison Hahnemann arsenic of and

in

his covered dis-

Poisons. the best wine

1787
for
means

other

poisons

in

J3y

acidulated

sulphuretted hydrogen
out

water, of the
in

having pointed
'*

the

unreliable which
In

nature

Wiirtemberg
up his
to

Test,"
date. of this and German
a new

had he

been

use

that

1788

announced

discovery
known
to

preparation of Mercury,
as
'*

day

Hahnemann's under

soluble that His and

to
name

Mercury,"
in

still

retained

the
quaintance ac-

Pharmacopoeia.
with

intimate their write modes his

drugs
him

of

preparation
theker

enabled
or
s

Apo-

lexicon

Pharmaceutical in
was

Dictionary,
volumes many
years

which 1793 standard

to

appeared
1799, work

several

from
the

and
on

for

that
means

subject. exclusivelyas
the that

It is not

by
of

any

discoverer

the

homoeopathic system

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

23

Hahnemann

is

distinguished.
other it
was

He

was

pioneer
For
to

in

many

medical he who

reforms.
was

example,
the
I

the

first

adopt

non-restraint
will

system
from
Dr.

of

treating Dudgeon

lunatics.
an

quote
historic

account

of

an

instance

of

this

"

"

In

1792
care

Hahnemann of the celebrated who

undertook Hanoverian had in

in

the

medical
statesman

Klockenbring, already
manner

gone
the
an

mad,
usual

and

had

been

treated the

barbarous of the the

of

period
with
no

asylum

ordinary stamp,

benefit, but
treated
this

contrary.
lunatic
use

Hahnemann
on a

dangerous
without the which

non-restraint
or

plan,

of chains in

ment, corporal punishuse

were

universal
was

at

that

period.
and

His

treatment

perfectlysuccessful,
restored
to

Klockenbring
and says friends in
never
an

was

his

family

perfectly cured.
account

mann Hahneof
to

he

gives
person

this be

case

"

allow

an

insane
or

punished
kind of

either

by

blows

by

any

other there

corporal chastisement,

because

24

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

is

no

punishment
and because
are

where

there

is

no

bility, responsideserve
worse

these

sufFerers rendered
never

only pity, and

such

always
and

by
"

rough

treatment,

improved.'

After showed his his him But After up eyes, former in

we

his his the

cure,

says

Ameke,
"

Klockenbring
with and
to tears

deliverer,
marks

often the

in

of had

blows

stripes
keep

keepers

employed

order." will
now

go

back
seems

again
to

little.

1788

Hahnemann
in

have
a

given
to

practice
the

disgust.
Nestor

In

letter

Hufeland,

of
"

medicine

of

his
"

day (to
Hahnemann says his his

whose

journal
was a

Hufeland' s Journal

constant
was

contributor),he
by

withdrawal
at

chiefly occasioned
of
any in

disgust

the
to

uncertainties
the
want

medical

practice, owing for

the

of

principle
disease. with

administration this time he

of drugs

During
chemical works
on

occupied
and the

himself

researches

translation
and

of

chemistry, agriculture,
the

cine, mediItalian.

from

English, French,

and

26

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

and

it

also

caused,

in

sensitive, healthy
an

person, attack
An
to

symptoms
of
ague.

indistinguishablefrom

observation

of this kind
in the
a

was

not

likely
like 1791, and

remain

unfruitful
In

fertile

brain year,

Hahnemann's. he in translated
a

following
Materia

Monro's

Medica^
his

note

He

again

refers

to

experiments 1796,
in

with

Cinchona.
then
41

Five years of

years age,

later, in
he

being

published
on a

Hufeland's

Journal

his

essay the

New Powers

Principlefor Discovering of Drugs.

ways studied
"

Curative the

In which

this

he

discusses had then

rule
^'

several
been the likes
"

in

drugs
and the

formerly
describes likes

and
"

used,

similar

method,

by

(similia similibus) being

this
"

first formulated

in

essay

thus

"

Every
in

powerful
human
more

medicinal

substance

duces proof

the the

body

peculiar kind
the medicine

disease
"

powerful
and

the

more

peculiar, marked,
We
cures

violent

the

disease. sometimes

should
a

imitate chronic

Nature,

which
super-

disease

by

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

27

adding another,
wish
to
cure

and

employ
medicine

in the which

disease
is

we

that

able

to

produce
and the

another former

very

similar be

artificial disease,

will

cured,

similia
"

similibus.^^
In
on

this

essay and say

he said that

referred
after
not

to

his

early

note

CuUen,
could

mature

experience
but it

he

only probably,
ague because He

quite certainly^ bark

had the power of his way of
to

cured

produce fever.

quotes
to

examples
support

well-known

drug

actions in

proposition, and
the characteristic

sketched

masterly
a

features

of

number In
1

drugs.
Hahnemann

805

"

being

now

50

years

old

"

appeared

two

works
in

of great
the

importance:
which

first,his
takes
a

jEsculapius
survey
on

Balance^

general

of traditional
it

medicine
'*

and in

pronounces the balances which

the

verdict

weighed
"
"

and since

found
received
in
two

wanting
very vols,

verdict

has

ample

endorsement. his

Second,
de
sano

in Latin,

Fragmenta
in

viribus

medicamentorum
observatis

fositivis sive

corpore

(Frag-

28

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

ments

on

the

Positive their This

the
on a

Powers efFects

of observed

Drugs,
in

"

that

is

to

say,

the first the pure

healthy
efFort
Materia

body).
towards Medica
on

contained reconstruction rational human basis

the

of
of

experiment
In
ence^

the

healthy
his

body.
of Experifirst

1806 in which

appeared

Medicine the

is contained the

complete
now

exposition

of

homoeopathic
out

method after

thoroughly thought
years of

by
work

him

sixteen

unremitting
and research.

"

observation,
was

experiment,
in

This that of is

published
say, time. in the The

Huf

eland's

Journal

"

to

leading professional journal

same

his

year

Hahnemann
"

published
Haller's

the

last work

he

translated

Materia

Medica^
forerunners

Haller
in

being

one

of Hahnemann's the but

his

recommending healthy body; carrying

testing
Haller

of
did

drugs

on

the

nothing
into

towards effect.
In
*'

recommendation

1807

Hahnemann
"

first in the title

used

the
a

word
"

Homoeopathic
article also

of
to

work

an

contributed

Hufeland's

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

29

Journal

*'
"

on

Indications
of

of

the
in

pathic Homoeo-

Employment
Practice." The year
1810

Medicines

Ordinary

may

be

said

to

be that

the year

birth-year of Homoeopathy,
appeared
which is

for
of the

in

the
an

first edition

the

Organon^ of
of the

expansion
and
a

of

Medicine

Experience^

complete
The
marks

statement

Homoeopathic
Hahnemann's

method.

publication of
an

Organon

epoch
a

in the
plete, com-

historyof therapeutics.
practical, and
of the
statement art

It constitutes

philosophical statement
It sets
out

of

cure.

with clearly of the

cure.

the

that
to
"

the
treat

business
"

physican
*'

is

"

not

but

"

to

The the

physician'shigh
sick
"

and

only mission
"
"

is

to

heal

to

cure,

as

it is termed the

this Four the

is the other

first

aphorism
of the

of

Organon.
followed in

editions fifth

work

first ; the The year

edition

appearing
first

1833.
of first third the

following the
"

appearance
saw

Organon
of the

811,

that Medica

is,
"

the
the

part

Materia

Pura^
in

edition

of

which

appeared

1830.

30

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

During
and

these
as

years may
no

of

independent easily
be

thought

action,

imagined,
time of it he

Hahnemann with
was

had medical
or

very

easy whose

his

brethren,
with bade

ideas

upsetting,
trade latter and he
were

the fair
to

apothecaries,
undermine.
to

whose The number

paid

according
the

the the

quantities of

drugs
and
one

in

prescriptions they
insisted
a on

dispensed,

mann Hahne-

giving only
too

drug

at

time,

and he

not

much from
he
men

of

that.
one

sequently Con-

was

driven
1

place
all

to

another, until, in
of and there of the Certain he had the fee and
the

8 12,

gave in the
to

up

hope

influencingthe
determined devote medical

older
to

profession,
and

proceed
to

Leipzig
the

himself

teaching
of be the

pupils

department
had
to

University.
before
:

conditions obtain write

a

fulfilled
to

could
to

permission
thesis,
the and

do

this

he

defend and

it before pay he
wrote
a

Faculty
of

of

University,
In

fifty thalers.
his thesis and
so

compliance,
The

read

entitled amazed

Helleborism auditors

of
with

Ancients^

his

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

3I
immense

his

mastery
and

of

his

subject
his

and

the

learning
that and the

research

essay him

displayed,

Faculty congratulated
him
one

publicly
with. forththe

granted Any

his who

license wishes

to

teach
to

read

treatise

(which

is

exceedingly interestingstill)
in Dr.

will find it translated of Hahnemann's he

two

Dudgeon's

tion collecAt

Lesser

Writings.
a

Leipzig

continued
courses

lecturingtwice
of lectures he of
a

week,
until about

giving
1

year

82

1.

During

this

time band

gathered

him

an

enthusiastic him
are

who disciples, and whose

helped
names

in
now

proving medicines,
immortalised Medica themselves in the

pathic Homoeo-

Materia

by
with
was

the

experiments drugs.

they
In

made
1

on

different commenced action medicines

8 19

persecution

by against
(which
The

the him

apothecaries, who
for
were

took
own

preparing

his

they

incompetent
was

to

prepare).

persecution
was

at

last

successful, and

mann Hahne1821 Duke

to

driven

from
with
a

Leipzig
former of

in

find

an

asylum

patient,
who

Frederick

Ferdinand

Anhalt,

made

32

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

him

his

private physician,
in

with his

liberty

to

engage
of

general practice at

capitaltown

Coethen.

By

this

time

Hahnemann's

fame and wide.

to

as

practitioner had
result
town
was

spread
invalids in
were

far

The little The

that Coethen of

flocked

the aid.

of

search

of

his with

majority
of

these

aflFected thus it
came

ailments about that

long standing, and

had the

Hahnemann

abundant and

opportunity
course

of

observing

symptoms
in

of

chronic

diseases, and

amplifying
means

and

perfecting the
them. little in
In

homoeopathic
Coethen way of there
acute

of

curing

was

comparatively
to

the this this

on

illness of
work.

distract
It
was

him

from

special period
Chronic

line that

during
work

Hahnemann's
was

first written
In

T)iseases
was

and
1828

the the after

first first his

was

edition three arrival

published.
appeared,
The and the

volumes

nine

years

in Coethen. in

fourth
fifth

volume
not

published
the Coethen

1830,

till after had

period,
to

when

Hahnemann

removed

Paris.

34

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

doctrine,

when,

behold
me,

the

Giver that for

of

all
to

good
solve

permitted
the sublime

about

time,
the

problem

benefit fatigable indeand

of mankind,

after

unceasing meditation,
careful

research,
the In with the here
most

observations,

accurate

experiments."
I

later

chapter

deal

somewhat of the
to nature

fully
of
out

Hahnemann's chronic that

in

doctrine
;

diseases Coethen

but he

I wish found

point

ample

tunities oppor-

for for the

practically testinghis observations,

of
new

proving

remedies,

and

for

perfecting the
On March
to

homoeopathic
31,

armamentarium. had he
the

1830,
his

Hahnemann first of

misfortune
then
year.
near

lose

wife,
his

being

the She had

completion
been the

seventy-fifth
companion
him eleven

stay and
borne

of

his stormy
two

life,and
sons

had nine after the

children,

and years among

daughters.
this
event

Nearly
came

five

there

to

Coethen

number

of those

who the

sought
brilliant As

the aid of the modern and talented Melanie

^sculapius,

d'Hervilly
the

Gohier,

all the world

knows,

acquaint^

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

35

ance

ended he

in the then

second

marriage
in his

of Hahnemann,

being

eightieth year,
But
it
was

and

his

bride but
an

being thirty-five.
ill-assorted

anything
The that

match, for

all that.

second her of his him

Madame

Hahnemann

perceived
a

husband usefulness home

to

might
if he Paris.

fill

much

larger
and she duced in-

sphere
made

left Coethen
Thither her she

in

travel, and

through

influence
obtained in the
an

with

the

Government
a

of the time license

A
to

for

Hahnemann

practise
of

French

capital.

student

science,
as

artist, and
under
her

something
husband's
no

of

an

anatomist she

well,

tuition,
skill
in

rapidly
of

developed
medicine

little

the

practice
She became

and

homoeopathy.
it
to
was

his assistant, as practically for

see

impossible
came

Hahnemann him. Madame and him

to

attend

all who acted

more

to

Hahnemann
not

as

his have For

a

protector,
access

would than he

allow

to

to

could

attend led

to.

eight
life of

years

the

Hahnemanns

in

Paris

great activityand
of
a

unclouded

happiness,
Hahnemann's

the

centre

brilliant

circle.

36

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

presence

in Paris and of

gave of

great

impetus

to

the the
to

study

practice
his work On his of

homoeopathy,
in that

and

influence
this

city remains
2,

day.

Sunday,
last. He

July
was

1843,
in

he the

breathed

buried

cemetery

Montmartre.

The of

year

900

was

marked
in

by

two

events

great

importance
After
executors

connection

with

Hahnemann. with the

prolonged
of
was

negotiations
late Madame
to
move re-

the

Hahnemann,

permission

obtained
from
a

Hahnemann's

body
to

its

obscure

position
in the

in

Montmartre of Pere

site

purchased
There
a

cemetery

Lachaise.

monument

of Scotch

granite from
from
all

Peterhead,
parts of
in in the

raised

by
and

his

admirers

world,
was

surmounted
on

by
21,

his bust 1900, the

bronze,
the sence pre-

unveiled of the

July

members

of

International
in

Homoeopathic
Paris.
The

Congress

then

session

in

other

event

was

the

unveiling
in

of

the

Hahnemann

monument

Washington,

HAHNEMANN'S

CAREER

37

erected

at

cost

of

^70,000
United

by
States

Hahnemann's

followers

in

the

of

America.

This

monument, of

which

is

of
one

the

finest

pieces

sculptural position Washington, by

on

art

in

the

States,
famous

has

commanding
Circle
at

in

the

Scott

and

was

unveiled

June

21,

1900, Whilst

President

McKinley. subject
that
of Hahnemann's

the

statues, refused

may

mention

Leipzig,
home in his

which

to

Hahnemann

time, life-

accepted
death

his

statue

few
years

after

his

(1851),
in

when

his

friends

desired

to

erect

one

his

memory.

CHAPTER

VI

Hahnemann's

criticism

of

the

practice

OF

his

time,

some

old-school

preciations ap-

OF

HAHNEMANN

So

much

for

Hahnemann

himself,
and of

and

how

he

came

to

discover

develop studying

the

Homoeopathic
action and

method

drug
sick. It of

prescribing
to

drugs
an

for

the

may medical

serve

give
as

idea

of

the

state

practice
at

Hahnemann the if

found

it,

and

the

same

time of

to

illustrate

courage

and

independence
pieces
part
one

the

man,

refer
in

to

two

of of

public
his
career.

criticism

written

the

early
The

thing

Hahnemann

was

blamed

for

by

his else

contemporaries
was

more

than

thing any-

his

neglect
38

of

blood-letting.

HAHNEMANN'S

CRITICISM

39

"

Seignare,
rule in

purgare, Hahnemann's
"

clysterium

donare
''

"

was

the
"

time, and
were

fool,"

criminal,"
to

murderer,"

the his

epithets departure

applied
from

Hahnemann

for
custom.

the

prevailing
of
no

"Without has been

shedding
''

blood,"

as
"

it

put,
in

there

was

salvation

for
did

patients
not

those

days.

However,
from

that

prevent

Hahnemann The

speaking
Leopold

his mind.
II.

Emperor

died of

after

repeated blood-letting on
1792.

the
the

1st

March,
mann Hahneserved obthe
;

Commenting
said
"

on

case,

His fever
on

physician, Lagusius,
and

high
abdomen combated
as

swelling
28th

of

early
the

February by

he and

malady
no

venesection,
three

this

produced
were

amelioration,

more

venesections Science
was

performed
why
the
a

without

relief.

must

ask

second

venesection

ordered

when How heavens been

ones no

first had he
a

produced
order
a

no

amelioration.

could
! how

third when the the

and,
there

good
had

fourth,
after he

amelioration How could

preceding

tap

40

HAHNEMANN

CRITICISES

vital

fluid

four

times

in

twenty-four hours,
a

always
who and

without been

relief,from
worn

debilitated of

man

had

out

by anxiety
?

mind is

long-continued
"

diarrhoea

Science

aghast !

Another
not

custom

of

the

time died atilt

(which

has

by

any

means

yet
ran

out) against
was

which

Hahnemann of
a

the the

scribing pre4

variety of drugs
was

in

same

mixture. There
was

It
a

done
"

quite artistically.
a
"

'*

base
''

{basis\
"

receiver

"

{excipiens)ya
''

corrective
"

{corrigens)^ a
"

helper
more

"

a {adjuvans)^

director

(^dirigens)^

and the
was

besides, in every
it
was,

prescription,and
the

larger

the

more

prescriber
at

thought
not

of
"

by

the

apothecary,
had
to

any

rate, if the
In

by

the

patientwho

swallow

dose.

1797,

the
on

year
a

following that Principle"

contributed

in
was

which

his

"Essay

New

lished, pubanother

Hahnemann notable
'*

paper the

to

Hufeland's Journal^ entitled,

to

Are

Obstacles
in

Certainty
Medicine

and

Simplicity

Practical

Insur-

42

HUFELAND

PRAISES

from

Tract

VII.

of the

Homoeopathic

League

Series.
"

Hufeland,"
Hahnemann his

writes

Dr.

Dudgeon,

"

who

knew

presses intimately,repeatedly ex-

high
1

opinion
be
on

of

his

talents. that

Already
Hahnemann's

in

800

(itwill
essay

remembered
the

first

homoeopathic
writes
:

principle appeared
*

in

1796),

Hufeland

This

principle enunciated
doubtless of
serve

by Hahnemann, guide
us

may

to

to

the

discovery

useful
in 1826
more

remedies.' he says
*

Writing
:

of

homoeopathy
becomes is and the who essay, is of him of
no

The if the

subject nator origi;

all the
a man

important
commands able
to

who be

our

respect
this
one

one

will

deny
and

that

is

case

with

Hahnemann,

least of all author of

is in the whose

position

of

the with

this

acquaintance
and

Hahnemann with both him

long standing,
for
more

who,

connected

than and of

thirty years
of
our

by

ties

friendship
as one

letters,
most

valued

always

distinguished,
Four
was

and intelligent, years later he

original physicians.'
writes
*

Added

to

this

HAHNEMANN

43

the which and

to

respect
was

had

long

felt his

for

the

author,

inspired by
important
I had

earlier he had

writings,
rendered
the tunity opporof

the

services

medicine. of

subsequently
many instances

observing
the
use

good
cines, medi-

results

from which

of

homoeopathic
my
me

necessarilydrew
and convinced

attention that it
on

to

this

subject,
not to

ought
one

be

contemptuously
careful my Hahnemann and

pushed

side, .but
is

deserves
to to

investigation.
readers for that the

It

necessary has of

remind thank wine-test

medicine

discovery
mercury,
most

the

of the

soluble still the

as

which

is,

in

my

opinion,
of He of

efficacious
as

preparation
much in else.
many

mercury, has his

well

for

so

given
earlier
acumen
"

sufficient

proof
of
rare a

writings
and of
a

grand
power

philosophical
of observation.'

*'Sir

John

Forbes,

in
says

his of

celebrated Hahnemann

critiqueof homoeopathy,
(1846)
or :
*

No

careful

observer

of

his actions

"

candid

reader

of

his

writings

can

hesitate

44

SIR

JOHN
to

FORBES

for

moment

admit
one

that

he

was

very

extraordinary
descend
to

man,

whose
as

name

will
ex-

posterity
founder
as

the
an

exclusive

cogitator and
of

of

originalsystem
as

medicine,

ingenious
destined,
not

many
to

that be of the

preceded
the
more

it,

and if

probably,
cause

remote,

the

immediate,

important
the

fundamental
art

changes
than since
was

in

practiceof
from
Galen
a man

healing

have

resulted of

any

promulgated
Hahnemann and
a

the^ days

himself. of

undoubtedly
a man

genius

scholar,
undaunted his

of

indefatigableindustry,
In the

of

energy.
name

history
in the

of
same

medicine list with

will of the

appear

those

greatest

systematistsand
in the

theorists, surpassed

by
his

few

originalityand
to most

ingenuity having
doctrines

of

views, superior
and

in his

stantiated subinto
most

carried

out

actual medical the but

and
men

most

extensive it
was

practice. By
for

taken

granted
in

that

system
was

is the

not

only
of

visionary
a mere

itself,
fanciful of any

result

hypothesis, disconnected

with

facts

PRAISES

HAHNEMANN

45

kind,

and

supported
or

by

no

processes
;

ot

ratiocination author looked

or

logical inference apostles and

as

while
were

its

and upon

his

successors

either And truth.

visionaries

or

quacks,
farther the and of

both. the

yet

nothing
Whoever
as

can

be

from

examines

homoeopathic
expounded
Hahnemann
must

doctrines in and
not

enounced

the of

original writings
many

of the it

his

followers,
is
to
an

admit,

only
but

that

system

ingenious
based and into
on

one,
a

that

professes
array these
are

be

most

formidable
and code and that of much

of

facts
woven

experiments,
a

complete

doctrine

with ness. fair-

singular dexterity
Many
honest, and
"
'

apparent
are

among learned

his followers
men.'
to
"

sincere,

It

is
*

interesting
that these

remember,'

says and

Dudgeon,
candid and its

merely

polite

statements

respecting homoeopathy
fatal had
more

practitioners proved

to

the
ducted con-

quarterly periodical which

with eminent

Forbes

ability for
subscribers

than have

twelve

years.

His

would

46

LISTON

PRAISES

nothing

to

do

with with

which periodical semblance that its of

treated

homoeopathy
and which be

fair

play,

admitted

practitioners
learned the another
men

might
and
so

sincere, honest, and

for
lack of

support
for

Medical year, and

Review^
was

after

lingering
to
"

compelled

terminate

its

useful

honourable

career.'

"

Professor
a

Liston,

the in

eminent the the had

*

surgeon,

in

lecture

reported

Lancet^
cure

after
cases

detailingthe
of

of particulars he

of

erysipelas which

treated
:

with
we

homoeopathic remedies,
cannot

says

Of

course

pretend
this
to

to

say

positively in
but it
so

what
seems

way almost
as we

effect
act

is

produced,
;

by magic
our

however,
the
to

long

benefit pursue,
we

patients by
have
no

treatment

we

right
this You is

condemn is that

the

principlesupon
and

which

treatment

recommended
this

pursued.

know

medicine,

belladonna,
in

recommended it
or

by

homoeopathists
on

erysipelas, because
a

produces

the

skin

fiery eruption

HOMCEOPATHY

47

efflorescence,
fever.
doctrines I
to

accompanied
believe certain in

by
the extent,
on

inflammatory

homoeopathic
but the
I
cannot

as

yet,
the far

from

inexperience
its advocates the

subject,
wish doses in of
in

go
so

length
as

would
minute The

regards
their

very

some

of above

medicines.

medicines in much

the

cases

were

certainly given
have beneficial hitherto

smaller

doses

than The

ever

been

prescribed.
witnessed,
seen are

effects,
I

as

you
ever, how-

unquestionable. good
to

have,

similar

eff^ects the of

of

belladonna,

prepared

according
in the
a

homoeopathic
very
severe

pharmacopoeia,
erysipelas
care

case

of

head Dr. and

and

face,
The

under tory inflamma-

the

of

my

friend

Quin.
local

symptoms
with the
not

signs
Without
sect,

disappeared adopting
you

very

great
of

rapidity.
this its medical doctrines

theory
to

ought
close

reject
and

without
"

examination

inquiry.'

CHAPTER

VII

HOMCEOPATHY

AND

PATHOLOGY

OR

THE

THEORY

OF

DISEASE

Homoeopathy

is

science

and

an

art

of

comparisons.
All
we

really
total

know

of

any

disease

is

the

sum

of

the

manifestations
"

symptoms
in

and

tissue

changes
Symptoms

it

has

duced prothe

patients.
of
disease.

are

language
"anaemia,"
"

Nobody

has

ever

seen

''measles,"

"scarlatina,"
abroad

or

headache,"

stalking
are

as

separate
in

entity.
which

Symptoms
the

the

language
which

disturbing
speak
way, of all
to

forces,

we

know

as

diseases,
same

us.

In

the

we

really
over

know

of

the

powers

any

drug

the

human

50

HAHNEMANN'S

science

of

disease),discards
as

all for

merely pathological
selection. for
to

theories Hahnemann has

useless been

drug

severely
It
not

criticised much the

he

discarding pathology.
his credit of
that

is

very

he

did
;

accept
neither which

logy pathonor

his

day

but

his

followers
to

neglect anything

can

help
As

throw
matter

light on
of

the

nature

of
of

disease.

fact, several

Hahnemann's
were

most

distinguished followers
pathology,
of

professors
of

of

including

Arnold

Zurich,

Rapp

Tubingen,
of
A

d' Amador and

of

Montpelier,
of
of the

Zlatarovich

Vienna,
true

Henderson

Edinburgh.
essential

appreciation
of
a case

pathology
in

is the

often

of

vital
But

importance
it very which little

selecting

remedy.
that of
a

frequently happens
decide the choice the

the

symptoms
are

drug

of the

significancefrom
of the

standpoint
as

of

pathology
of
and the

schools,

in

the of

instance Rhus

differential above

indications

Bryonia

mentioned.

It is

common

saying

among

teachers

of

PATHOLOGY

51

medicine,
treat
case

'*

First This of
a

diagnose
may

your very and

case,

and when

then

it."
is
one

be all

well

the

recognised
of

well-defined is of

malady,
understood.
not

the

pathology
But
a

which

clearly
are

vast

number

cases

such.
A

short of the
rooms

time comic in other

ago

picture appeared

in joining ad-

one

papers, section
two
"

showing
in
one a

two

patient,
had

and been

in

the

doctors and The

.

who had

just
to

examining
over

him
case.

retired

consult
to

his

patient, wishing
of his with the state, his had
ear

get
his

an

unbiassed

view
was

left
at

bed,

and of

shown door
:
"

the

keyhole

the he

in

party

wall

and

this is what
1st

heard

Doctor,

"

"Have him
"
"

you }
"

any

idea

what

is

the

matter

with

2nd
1st

Doctor.

Not Not

the least the

have

you
never

"

Doctor.
"

"
"

faintest ; but
up
at

mind

it will

all be

cleared

the

mortem.^' post-

hope
out

I of

shall school

not

be
when

accused
I say

of that

telling
there

tales

52

HAHNEMANN'S

is

many

case

that

is

not

cleared is
to

up, done

even

at

the such It

post-mortem.
as

What
to

be

in

cases

these that

avoid

the

catastrophe ?
is

is

here

homoeopathy
in

of the

such value natural

enormous

advantage

knowing
are

of

symptoms.
of

Symptoms
disease,
and

the any

language
sum-total

in

case

the

of altered

sensations
on

and the

appearances
t

gives
can

solid

ground

which
the

homoeopath
he
can

work. the

Reading
remedy,
and

symptoms
a case

find cured
name.

many

has

been

without The

having

received

satisfactory give
state
an

signs
of

and the
we

symptoms
actual match

accurate

picture
life ; and like and

of

the

organic
with
a

if

that from
a

picture drug-

symptom-picture

proving,
the

give
will If

the be
we

corresponding drug,
removed had
to

symptoms
cured. had

and wait
true

the until
nature

patient

pathology
of

settled before

what
we

is the cured

all diseases with

once

our

patients
from
missed

afflicted

them,

we

might

all retire much

practice at
in
the

without
The

being
once

world.

Lancet

remarked,

PATHOLOGY

53 of
is

*'

Our

knowledge
diseases
true
is

of

the

true

pathology
'

most

still indefinite." still

;
we we

This

quite
cases

but
same

go

on

treating our
Hahnemann

all the
our

and
are

taking
on

for

guide,

solid
to

ground.
change
ledge knowthe

Pathological
with every
;
same

theories fresh

are

bound
to
our

addition

but

disease
the

manifestations
of

remain

from

days

Hippocrates

till the

present.

It

is

matter

of

no

little

importance
formed
With
a

to

grasp essential disease

structure

the

idea
nature

Hahnemann of disease.

of

the

him,
of of the visible inthe and

was

not

primarily
but
an

change
alteration animates of this in
;

or

function,
vital

the whole

invisible

force
The

which
nature

organism.
change
is and
to

outwardly

pictured

bodily changes

sufferingsproduced
his

thus, according
to

view,
all the
a

it

is

necessary
curring, oc-

observe
in

accurately
order
to

symptoms
true

get
30,

picture
162^.

of

'

Lancet^ Dec.

1893,

p.

54

HAHNEMANN'S

the
are

vital the

disturbance

in any of the
are

case.

Symptoms
vital
to

language

disturbed
the

force,
ment. treat-

and

hence

symptoms

guide

critics Superficial of be

often

accuse

homoeopathy Nothing
could

treating only symptoms.

further from the
to

truth.

Homoeopathy
as

attaches
the

importance
state

symptoms
but

revealing
no more

real

of the
as mere

patient ;
symptoms,

it than

regards
of

them

readers them
as

Shakespeare's
of
a mere

works

look

upon
In

composed
they
have

words. in

both and
are

cases

meaning
so

them,
as

of
is

significanceonly
revealed. In upon of Hahnemann's
as

far

that

meaning

day

diseases
to

were

looked

something

material

be

got

rid

by bleeding, purging, vomiting, salivation,

or

sweating, issues,
as

in

some

such upon
as

way,

just

they

are

now

looked
to

consisting
mann Hahne-

of principally

microbes that the

be

killed.
are

perceived
the kind
;

they
critical

nothing

of

that

discharges which
are

frequently occur

in

disease

not

the

PATHOLOGY

55

cause

of

the

disease,

nor

the of anger the her

disease the

itself,
of

but the
woman

simply

manifestations
A

working
in
a

vital force. will that

so

fit of

nursing
of her

change
nurses

quality
child

milk,

if she

just
But of is which

after
the the the she

it,

the

child milk mental milk

will is

be
not

poisoned.
the
cause

poisonous
woman's

disturbance,
the disorder

nor

changed
is has

from

suffering.The
so

invisible,intangibleemotion
her

disturbed
that

invisible,intangible vital
in her tissues and

force

physical changes
have
are

secretions
secretions
So

resulted.

The

changes
inward

in her

symptoms
of
most

of the

change.

the

causes

diseases of
an
"

(excluding

mechanical

are injuries)
"
"

tangible invisible, inor

"

nature

dynamic
called

like," spirit-

as

Hahnemann outward of the

it. which in reveal the the vital the

The
nature

symptoms,
inward declare

change
themselves has
case

force,
"

only
"

after
some

dynamic

disturbance
In any

been of

time
we

in
can

operation.
estimate the

disease of

nature

and

gravity

the

56
vital of
so

HAHNEMANN'S

disturbance

only by
and

careful
in the the what
to
**

survey

the

symptoms

signs

patient; totality
we

that, for
the deal

practical purposes,
"

of
to

symptoms

constitutes
the
to

have

with,

and
is

only
restore

way

get rid of
vital

the
to

symptoms
its normal

the

force

condition.

Now,
are

as

Hahnemann of

pointed

out,

drugs
;

capable
as

producing
experience

artificial

disease

and,

his

and
not
to

experiments
so

showed,
their their vital
to

they

do

it

by virtue,
so

much
as

of

brute
"

poisonous force,
"

speak,
act
on

of
the

dynamic

powers.

They
disturbances

force, producing
which

peculiar
presence.

themselves
cannot

reveal
and

their

It and

be

simply

solely by absorption
the
case

distribution act, manifest

through
for
in

circulation their

that action in the does

remedies would
same

that

itself with of
time. This

all
we

drugs
know

period
occur.

not

Pure

prussic acid
it

acts

with time the

ning-like lightto

rapidity,before
absorbed and distributed

has

be

through

blood-

CHAPTER

VIII

Hahnemann's

doctrine

of

the

chronic

MIASMS

By

"

chronic

disease

"

Hahnemann

did

not

mean

exactly
understood

the

same

thing
the

as

is

now

generally
that lasts

by
time

phrase
"

disease

long

and

is

incurable.

To

make

his

meaning
Hahnemann's

clear,

cannot

do definition

better

than

quote
and of his

own

of

acute

chronic

diseases,
:

from

paragraph

72
"

Organon
diseases
to

"

The

which

man

is of

liable
the

are

either

rapid

morbid

processes vital their in

normally ab-

deranged
a

force,
course

which

have

tendency

to

finish but

more

or

less

quickly,
these
are

always
acute

moderate

time

termed

diseases

"

or,

they

58

CHRONIC

MIASMS

59

are

diseases often

of

such

character

that, with

small,

imperceptible
derange
the

beginnings,

dynamically
each it
to

living organism,
and condition life it is
to
cause

in

its

own

peculiar manner,
from the the

deviate
a

healthy

in

such called

way vital the

that

automatic office opposes

energy,
to

force,

whose

serve preat

health, only
and

them,

the

commencement

during
useless

their

progress,

imperfect, unsuitable,
is
must

resistance, but
but

unable

of

itself

to

extinguish them,
to

helplesslysuffer (them
to

spread and)
ranged, deis

itself

be

more

and
at

more

abnormally
the

until

length
are

organism

destroyed They
miasm."
are

these

termed

chronic

diseases.
a

caused

by

infection

from

chronic

By

"

miasm

"

Hahnemann when
a

means

an

fectious in-

principle, which,
the

taken

into

organism,
to

may

set

up

specificdisease.
there
were

According only
miasms

Hahnemann,
of
acute

not

diseases, like
for

the

fectious in-

principleof scarlatina,
but also of chronic diseases.

example,
the

Among

6o

HAHNEMANN'S
he psora. is second

DOCTRINE

latter and which The

recognised
The

three
"

syphilis,sycosis
the all lues schools but
venerea^

first

is

recognised by
is allied the
to

alike.

this,
of

is distinguished

by
warty
of been

production
The about third

characteristic
a

growths.

is

discovery
there has

Hahnemann's,
the

which

greatest

misconception.
account
"

Before

giving
meant

an

of
I

what will miasm

mann Hahne-

by

psora,"
a

give
"

familiar
disease
or
"

instance
set

of

chronic vaccination.

the

up

by
as

Vaccinia Matthews
to

Cow-pox," pointed
many

the is

late

Dr.

Duncan

out,

extremely analogous
characters, and
of
not

syphilisin
least after
in

of its

the

the

appearance illness well

secondary
over.

disorders
course

the

primary
disease been
is

is

The The
an

of

the

known.

virus abrasion

having
of
occurs

introduced about
a

through
week there then scab series

the

skin, in
at

inflammation appears
a

the

spot.
a

Then

first and off. is

vesicle,
a

then
scar

pustule,
the this

scab,

finally During

when that

drops
of
events

the

time

OF

THE

CHRONIC

MIASMS

61

occurring,
themselves,
and has
more

constitutional

symptoms
the When may form the be may the
case.

manifest
of fever

chiefly

in

undefined
taken
occur.

malaise.

healing nothing
have
acted re-

place,
The

there

organism

perfectly and
But this is
not

discharged
often
the

miasm. The tion infec-

diminished
shows character. been
as

to susceptibility
a

small-pox

change
This
"

of

deep

constitutional

constitutional vaccinosis is the skin various may

"

change

has

named
I
can

by Burnett,
parent
of

and,
much

attest, illness. for

years,

chronic

Often
or

eruptions occur,
other
as

lasting

kinds
as

of
life

it ill-health, lasting,

be,

long
life.

lasts,and
such
a

not

seldom of

shortening

When
not

series

disorders

occurs,

it is

(according to
he of
one

Hahnemann's this but

doctrine, though
succession of

did
new

not

use

illustration) a
different

diseases,
the
same

evolutions the "miasm"

and vaccinia

disease,
the

of

producing

chronic

malady,

vaccinosis.
In

the

early

years

of

his

homoeopathic

62

HAHNEMANN'S

DOCTRINE

practice Hahnemann
cases

noticed he
In

that

in

certain

the

remedies

gave these of

only produced
cases

temporary
that the
was

benefit.

he

found

homoeopathicity
not
case

the

remedies
was some

given
factor It
hot

complete.
which
to

There
not

in the

had

been

matched. he had from

became

apparent
to

him, then, that

of the

only

take

account

malady

which

the of

patients previous
And

were

then

but suffering, different remedies

to

also

and he

apparently
found that

maladies. which whole

corresponded,
course

in

their

action,
life

the of
a

of needed he

the

pathological
for
a

patient were
his

cure

; and

through deeply

provings
remedies
cases

discovered
were.

what

these

acting Many
which

he

met

with

in the

practice

in

the
a

ill-health

dated

from

suppression
before.
is To

of
That
a

skin

disease, probably disease, said

the

years

skin of

Hahnemann,
disorder. is often

really
take
a

part

present
asthma
"

common

example,
after the
''

found
means

to

appear
a

cure

by

external
not

of

skin

disorder.

The

patient is

suffering

OF

THE

CHRONIC

MIASMS

63
to

from

two

diseases

there
one

is, according
chronic
miasm

Hahnemann's
at

pathology, producing
the

work

two

effects.
chronic chronic diseases miasm that skin of
he

The

large majority
traced
*'

of

Hahnemann
termed

to

the he

psora,"

and

maintained
on

the this

characteristic miasm of which

was

manifestation
an

the

eruption of
vesicle Hahnemann of been
was

itching vesicles,
a

the

itch that

type.
ascribed

It
to

has the

been itch

stated the

production
he has

nine-tenths accused
was

of chronic

diseases,and
in
not

of

ignorance
by
knew
it
an

knowing
But

that

itch

caused

insect.
the

Hahnemann

not

only

of
one

itch-insect, he
his works. the

actually figured
he maintained the

in

of

But presence of

that, in
was

spite of
not

of
the

insect, this
"

the

whole bacillus

disease
the

just
of
no

as

the

tubercle

is not If

whole

nary pulmodoctors inhale

consumption.
would
the
"

it were, since

escape bacillus

consumption, constantly
Hahnemann from

they

their

patients.
"

The

itch,"
an

maintained,
disease."
''

is is

chiefly

internal

Psora

64
an

HAHNEMANN'S

DOCTRINE

internal may the the the

disease
"

sort

of

internal
an

itch

"

and upon of of

exist skin."

with
*'

or

without forms

eruption
the basis

Psora

itch." chief

To

the

reckless

suppression
of psora

external ascribed

symptoms
the

Hahnemann chronic To doctrine

same as

prevalence

of

disorders.

put
of

it

in

other

words,
is

the

psora the

Hahnemann doctrine ascribe

to

practically
certain

the who

of
a

French of

authorities chronic

great
call
a

variety
''

diseases

what
to

they
a

herpetic
state

diathesis," that
the skin
The

is

say,
to

morbid

of
the

organism
by
an

liable

manifest

itself

on

itching vesicular
truth
seen

eruption.
of
Hahnemann's
a

essential

doctrine the
skin

may

be

by taking
and

glance
The

at

history of
eruptions
of bones and

individuals

families.
the the late

of childhood, and

ment developof

teeth,

anaemia

puberty,
carries

the the

consumption patient,
are

which
not
so

finally
many

off

different
of
one

diseases, but
and the
same

different

manifestations
we

disease, whether

call

66

HAHNEMANN'S

DOCTRINE

Diseases

gives
at

the

symptoms
This

of

these

dies reme-

length.
is
"

work,
Chronic

of

which

the

full

title

The

Diseases

their

Specific

Nature

and

Homoeopathic
work of

ment," Treat-

is

the

crowning

mann's Hahne-

career.

It

will

be

seen

from

the

above

sketch

that

Hahnemann's

theory
and

of

disease

is

profoundly
It is
as

philosophical
far
as

intensely
removed

practical.
from
the

possible

tentative

and

fragmentary
own

theories

of

disease

current

in

his

and

in

our

day.
in hand

Hahnemann's

pathology
and
is thus

goes checked

hand

with

treatment,

at

every

step

by

the

test

of

practice.

CHAPTER

IX

THE

INFINITESIMAL

DOSE

In
i.

an

early

chapter
dose has

mentioned

that

the

infinitesimal

become

in

the

popular
of

mind

the

most

characteristic

feature

homoeopathy,
"

though
in
no

the includes

word

''

thy Homoeopa"

itself

"

way Its

infinitesimal

in

its

meaning.
Hahnemann

use

arose

in

this

way.

When

began
his method

to

employ

drugs
he

with
found

the that

precision
the and before

required,
acted much

ordinary
caused the

doses

too

powerfully,
symptoms
then

great
cure

aggravation
took

of He

place.
doses until eflFect instances

by
he

degrees
could

reduced the In

his curative

he

found

get

out with-

aggravating.
found
that the

some

he

attenuating
67

process

actually

68

THE

INFINITESIMAL

DOSE

developed
of
was

and

increased The

the

curative he

powers

the
to to

medicine. dilute 99 of

method
in the

adopted
of

tinctures

proportion
to

rectified

spirit, and
with sugar For
was

grind
milk in

insoluble
the
same

substances

of
the

proportions.
the process

higher
the

attenuations
same

repeated,
at

proportions being

observed

each

step.
The method

importance
of

of

the

invention
is very
to

of

this

preparing drugs
in my

great,
that of

scarcely second,
the It is

opinion,
law but of

discovery of

the

similars the

itself.

highly probable
infinitesimal been

that

for

question
would
at

of
have

the

dose, homoeopathy
the

recognised by
ago.
But

profession

large long
it may be

homoeopathy
those

(though
never use

practised by
but material
a

who
never

anything
dissociated of
been the

doses)

can

be

from

knowledge
never

of

the could the

power have

infinitesimal, and
to

developed
and power
the

anything
which

like

tion perfecleft it, Hence

in
use

Hahnemann

apart from

of Infinitesimals.

THE

INFINITESIMAL

DOSE

69
ideas

the

popular

association and

of

the

two

of

homoeopathy
true,

infinitesimals it may

is be

mentally funda-

though

etymo-

logicallyfaulty.
It will be
seen

that

in

Hahnemann's the
100,
a

tesimal cen-

scale, each
the

step of

process and

divides
each

originalquantity by
number

hence

higher
of

represents
But
no

higher degree
is
so

attenuation.

the
matter

attenuation
to

graduated figure it
substances

that,

what the it
to

high original
be far its

is carried,
must

something of

remain, though
of

may

beyond
presence.

the

power

chemistry

detect

Homoeopaths
scale

have

also This
ten.

used makes This is

decimal
each noted
2x
move re-

of
a

attenuation.

divisor

of
ix

by

the

letter
3x

"x,"

being

^^th,
so

being
duated Gra-

y^^th,

being y^^^^^th,and
is result the is

on.

attenuation

essence

of. the
of

method,
power. The

and

the

development

researches

of

Faraday,
and, later,

Tyndall,
of the

Helmholtz,

Crookes,

70

THE

INFINITESIMAL

DOSE

Curies

and of

other

of investigators
made

the

mena phenoto

have radio-activity, of
and
not

it easier

conceive powers,

infinitesimal the

quantitiesand
of
such

their

infinitesimals prove and

we

homoeopathy stumblingas

should blocks
done

therefore its

to

friends
When the

foes

they

have

heretofore.
that
at

find
our

Helmholtz

saying
system
matter

period
of
a

when

planetary
nebulous
outermost

consisted

sphere path
*'

of
the

reaching
would

to

the

of

planet,it
cubic
miles
"

require
such when
so

several
to

millions
a

of

of
and

matter

weigh
tells

single
that the the its

grain
^^

; atom

Faraday
to

us

each

extends^
the

say^

throughout

whole

of

solar

system^' it
of
to

is

plain

that and

everyday

conceptions
have
more

matter

will possibilities There is

be

revolutionised

nothing
of

worthy

of

tion investigathan the

by
facts

masters

physical
the The

science of

connected

with

action human than

pathic homoeo-

infinitesimals. much known

more

body

is

sensitive natural

reagent

anything
in powers
ceiving con-

to

philosophy,
the

and

and

demonstrating

of

THE

INFINITESIMAL

DOSE

71

infinitesimal much ahead

quantities
of the his time

Hahnemann
as

was

as

he of

was

in law

monstrati de-

existence

the

of

similars. The taken

quotations
from
a

have

just

made The

are

pamphlet
y

entitled Buist
to

Science

of Homoeopathy
which facts the

by

Mr.

Picken,
the
known

in

author the

seeks

apply
in the

of
to

phenomena
the fact

world

of

physics
cures.

explain
this

of

homoeopathic
the
late

To

pamphlet

(which
as
"

Prof.
extreme

Tyndall

characterised
I

marked
a

by
short and

ingenuity ")

contributed the

introduction, summarising
it may be

argument,
a

interesting to
It will
a serve

quote
at
once

passage
to

therefrom. the the 'Mike" line

show

in which

scientific

explanation of
"

apparent
may of
a

paradox
be

of
and

like of of

"

curing
other

found,

the the

paradox
remedy
curative Here
"

smaller

quantity
more

right

being
than is my forces
a

actually larger
of

powerfully
would be.
:
"

one

summary of the

the

argument

The

human

organism

are

72

THE

INFINITESIMAL

DOSE

identical the
same

with

the

forces Health

of

nature,

and disease

obey
are

laws.
or

and
nature,

dynamic
in of and

spiritualin
and
atomic
to

and

originate
The laws health is

molecular motion

motions.

apply

the the

phenomena
action of

of

disease, and
with the

remedies

identical

phenomena
natural

of

'

interference'
As

recognised
waves

in the
water

sciences. from

equal

of

proceeding
each other

different

directions and either

intersect increase
or

(' interfere

'),
to
to

(as summit (as

summit

corresponds
corresponds
the molecules power the

summit), furrow),
water,
so

annul

the
a

motion medicine in

of

of
is cular mole-

(whose
When

dynamic)

acts

disease.

disturbance
to

of the

organism corresponds
of the the medicine is
as

the

molecular the

motion of

*;

given,
either the

intensity
or

disturbance

aggravated
action is The in in

annulled, according
same or

the action

the

opposite
agent
in

direction. is like

of

the but

curative

appearance,

contrary

direction."
This is the main thesis of Mr. Picken's

74

THE

INFINITESIMAL

DOSE

two

spheres
the it
centres

of

power
even

mutually penetrated, coinciding ;

"

and

or,

as

he is
a

puts

in

another
matter

place,

''

Gravitation
on a

property

of

dependent
force
matter

certain

force, and
matter.

it is this In this

which
is
atom

constitutes
not

view,

merely
extends,
the
centre

mutually penetrable ;
so

but the

each whole

to

say,

throughout

of
own

solar of

system,
force."
asks

yet

always retaining its

do
"

"What

you

know

of

the
?

atom,"
You
a^

Faraday,
a

apart

from

its force may be which

a^
or

imagine
and called

nucleus it my the
'*

which

called may

surround
m;
to

by
mind

forces
the

be

nucleus,
in the

vanishes,
powers of

and
m :

substance
which for
to

consists the

"

provides
the reach

highest
that it the

scientific may be

authority

suggestion
the limit

impossible
to

of

attenuation may be

which

homoeopathic

medicines

carried.

This

conception
provides

of
a

the

action

of

tesimals infini-

serviceable be

working
as

basis

but

it need

not

regarded

either

THE

INFINITESIMAL

DOSE

75

essential
an

or

final.

It

is the

an

attempt

to

vide profacts

explanation of
no

facts, but
on

the

are

in

way

dependent

its correctness.

Many

old-school remedies
on

authorities into

have

adopted

homoeopathic
but been the

their

text-books,
not

effect

general practice has

the
reason

great,
have

principally for
not

that

they

had

the

courage

to

adopt
their
or

homoeopathic dosage.
own

They
as

reduced
as

doses

very of but Pasteur

on

far
"

far

one-tenth

one-hundredth
remedies
"

grain, or
have

drop
not

of
gone

some

they
and

far been

enough. working
their
had work

Koch,

who

have have If

homoeopathic lines,
for
the
same reason.

spoiled
Pasteur

simply
of

taken

the

homoeopathic
which
was

tion preparabeen in

hydrophobic virus,
1833,
resort

has

use

since any
no

and
to

which

prepared
would he have

without

cruelty, he
true

gained
have from

kudos,

it is

but saved killed

might
himself

advanced the persons

science,
of

and

reproach
with

having

numbers

of

laboratory hydrophobia.

76

THE

INFINITESIMAL

DOSE

Koch,
of the

again,

if

he

had
I

taken and

the

tuberculin
the

homoeopaths, dosage,
trouble and have

adopted
have

homoeopathic
himself
the

might
of

spared
on

experimenting
saved of Virchow

guinea-pigs,
trouble examinations who his died of

the

making
on

number

post-mortem
human

the their
treatment.

bodies
time

of
in Koch

beings
of
his grammes milli-

before

consequence

tuberculin
as

reduced
to

dosage

far but
"

as

he

dared
"

down

these and

doses
to

proved
scare

powerful
titioners prac-

enough

to

kill,
from
ever

most

using
use

the it

drug
with

again. perfect by
the took it
at

Homoeopaths,

however,
own

safety
effects it in

in it the

their has

dosage,
on

guided
who with

produced
that
were

persons made of

trials

first, and

by

the

symptoms

homoeopathic

provings.

'

See

Dr.

Burnett*s

New

Cure

of Consumption,

CHAPTER

THE

POWER

OF

INFINITESIMALS

RECOGNISED

BY

NON-HOMCEOPATHIC

AUTHORITIES

Hahnemann
assertion that

has

been

derided like

for

his and the

metallic after

bodies

flint

copper

become,
centesimal their

being
so

triturated far

to

fourth

degree,
dynamic

soluble

as

to

yield

up

powers that
to

to

watery
in of

solution,
4

and That solutions

beyond
such is

solution
the and effects

alcohol. these

the

fact,

on

healthy
have

diseased

human

beings,
prqve

who

taken

them,
we

abundantly plenty
to

and the

now

have

of

evidence Hahnemann's

from

opposite

camp The

confirm

observations. of

late

Professor
International

Stokvis,
Medical

Amsterdam,

at

the

Congress,

held

at

77

78
Rome
in'

THE

POWER

OF

April, 1894,
truth of in
an

ledged practicallyacknow-

the

it.

Professor

Stokvis's in and the

address
the from

appeared
of

English
26th

translation year,

Lancet this

April
make
own

of

that

I will my

three
:
"

quotations,

italics

being

"

How

are

we

to

understand

the

fact

that

the

ingestion of
substances without such death

infinitesimal quantities of
which

certain

pass
in it the

through
least

the

organism
can

causing
disordered
?

change
as

provoke
occasion

chemical
are we

actions
to

to

How

stand underof the

the

fact
seem

that
to
one

different be able the

to

parts

organism
these
must to

distinguish
other ? We

substances admit

from

special elective
of
the the

functions How
are

proper
we

the

life

cells.
that

to
a

understand

facts

nothing
their

but

change
duration method
certain
sants

in

the

quantity of
their

dosage,
and
make

the the

of of

administration,

their

to application suffices

of

toxic ?

substances
are we

stimulants
to

or

paralythe

How

understand

fact

INFINITESIMALS

RECOGNISED

79

that and

insoluble

substances

like

arsenic, copper, axiom,

do

lead

can

defy
agunt
in

that
nisi
a

well-known soluta of

Corpora
not act

non

(substances

except

state

solution), and
action ? of We
some

manifest
must

therapeutic and
the power presence

toxic
and

admit

agency the

unknown

within
we

living

cell. the

How,

again,

are

to

understand

therapeutic power
iodine been and diluted bromine
to

exhibited
which

by
have

solutions

of

apparently
all chemical

the
we

deprivation of
attribute
to

action, unless
the power of

the iodine

living
and
?
''

cell the

liberating the
such dilute

bromine

from

solutions

"

By warming
obtain smallest pure

pure oxygen,

chlorate but the

of

potassium
presence

we

of

the

quantity
to

of chloride

of

potassium
into

is sufficient
ozone.

change

part
to

of

the

oxygen

In
ozone,

giving
the

rise

this

development
remains is
more

of

choride

of

potassium
what

itself

completely unaltered; but,

yet,
this chloride of

remarkable

of

potassium
"

itself has, like

peroxide

manganese

which

8o

THE

POWER

OF

acts

In

an

identical

manner

the
"

property

of

ozone." destroying

'*

As

for

the

manifestation

of

therapeutic
to

and

toxic

action of made which

so

by

bodies

considered in
a a

be

insoluble,
work,
also The has

Nageli, profound

posthumous
are

study, they

capable

of

the

simplest interpretation.
these

of insolubility but

bodies If
into find has
we

is

not

lute, abso-

only
metallic

relative. copper
we

throw,
and
a

for
wait

example,
for
some

water

days,
of
to

shall copper

that

certain
"

proportion
one

the

dissolved

i.e.,

pari
^'

seventy-seven

million

parts

of

water.

If power the

Professor
of human copper

Stokvis
to

can

account

for

the in in
to

produce
its water,
to

symptoms
soluble is he

body
parts

by
of
answer

being
where this If
"

77,000,000

stop
is
no

The

only

is, that
every

there
atom

stopping anywhere. throughout

is
no

extends there limits

the

whole
our

solar

system,"
the

possibilityof
capacity
for

finding

of its

being attenuated.

82

THE

POWER

OF

mained that the

a

healthy.
copper

This

proved
imparted
to

conclusively
water

force was

from ing, washlittle acid its

walls

of the

glass vessel.
and
even

Rinsing, boiling
had

brushing,
effect had upon been the used

glass ;
did

not

until

mineral lose

the

glass

vessel he

oligodynamic
that
new,

properties. Again,
water

found
into
a

this clean

oligodynamic glassvessel
to

poured
its

transferred of
to

poisonous
this,

properties
in

the

walls able

the

glass, and

turn,

was

again
He

medicate
*

neutral with lose

distilled

water.

says

Glasses

"

oligodynamic
their power with in

after-effects

{nachwirkung)^

very

slowly

after

being repeatedly
which is allowed somewhat in
neutral

refilled
to
more

neutral them if for

water,
a

stand

while, and
are

rapidly
"

they
refers force the

boiled the

water.' of the

This copper
But

to

direct

action

on

small

vegetable
is has

organisms.
more infinitely

human
;

organism experience
been

sensitive when

and has

shown

that the

dilution of direct

carried power, undi-

beyond
a

point

poisoning
remains in

health-restoring dynamis

INFINITESIMALS

RECOGNISED

^i
law

minished enables In
us

force,
with

which

the

homoeopathic
direct. refer
to

certainty to
I

this

connection with the

may

Darwin's

researches
or

fly-catching plant,Drosera,
found ammonia and made but that solutions the latter

Sun-dew.
certain of

Darwin salts the of

of

stimulated caused this still of the

glands
to
more

tentacles He

turn

inwards. and
more

solution the the

dilute,
the

plant
salt.

was

able
was

to

detect almost Donders

presence

Darwin

frightened by
he

his

results.

Writing
"The

to

says of

"

-4,000,000th

grain

absorbed which I of
am

by

gland clearly makes

the

the

tentacle
;

bears

gland

become that
i

inflected

and

fully grain
about

convinced of the

-20,000,000th

salt {i.e.y crystallised containing of its

one-third

weight
same.

of
Now

water

of
I
am

does crystallisation)

the
the

quite unhappy publish such

'

at

thought
"

of

having

to

statement.'

See

Dr.
as

C. No.

H. 3
1

Black
of

ley'sPower
the Tracts
of

of the Infinitesimal^
the

published League

Homoeopathic

Series.

84
Poor

THE

POWER

OF

Darwin have been

Where if Hahnemann

would

pathy homoeohad been but

so

diffident

about

publishing proved
And
once

unpalatable
be
a

facts ?
was

Darwin,
under Dr. of much

it should the the House

care

remembered,

of

homoeopath,
the

the

late

Gully,
the

father of

of

present
and

Speaker
derived

Commons,
his
treatment.

benefit

from

The the of been

world

is

moving

rapidly, and
on

since power have the activity. radioup

above-named the infinitesimal

observations
were

the

made,

they

eclipsed

and

illuminated
in

by
to

astounding

discoveries These
were

relation
well

summed
as

by
of

Dr.

Burford British Dr.

work

in

his

address

President

the
1904.

Homoeopathic'
Burford's
on

Congress
is

of

authority
Radium has
are

the

well-known

by
shown

fessor Prothat

Rutherford,
**

who bodies

these

radio-active in in their the

own

continually
a

forming
which

interstices of radium

product,
is many

case

INFINITESIMALS

RECOGNISED

85
radium
the for
extent
same

thousand

times

more

active

than

itself; which,
in radio-activity

moreover,

induces

all bodies

exposed
to

some

time

to

it, and
of its

which,

the

of
a

Yo~ooo^h
new

original potency,
property
processes and of
are

remains the

and

permanent
These

ing acquirand of the is

a a

body. beyond
most

above

the

cognisance
chemical
:

scope Here which

refined

methods.
out

demonstration invisible

tube

of

fectly perand been acid

;

emanation
no

from

radium,
has
an

possessing absolutely emptied,

this residue radium
to

weight,
out

is

next

washed

with
a

is

evaporated,
more

leaving
in
some

radio-active

potent

respects
years in
to
rooms

than

itself,requiring
value. has

200

to

decay
where

half

Moreover,
been

radium

exposed

the

air,

an

invisible

radio-activity, perfectlyindetectable
balance
or

by

the
on

the of

spectroscope,
the

is

duced pro-

the

walls the

apartment,
has been

ing persistremoved

even

though
time." says

radium

for
"

some

Now,"

Dr.

Burford,

'

facts

parallel

86

THE

POWER

OF

to

these,

but

where
states

the of

human

body,
acted

in

certain similar the

defined

disease,
the
were

with in

to susceptibility

electroscope
observed and have

former

instance,
a

by
been

Hahnemann confirmed since. obvious of That

to

century

ago,

by
matter

innumerable
too test

observations
attenuated the
to

be
or

the

of
or

balance,

chemical

reaction,
yet
be

of

spectroscopic by
a

analysis should
sensitive

detected of

suitably
plasmic protoof
new

instrument,
condition
;

that
that

diseased

initiation in
a

conditions
state

may

be

effected

responsive

by inconsiderable
no

material relation

agencies,and
in
;

bearing absolutely quantity

to

point

of

the

effects

produced

that
a

mission trans-

of of indifferent the ultimate thus

specific qualitiesthrough
media may be

series

eflFected, leaving
to

product
used their for
new

still potent transmission character

;

act

that manently pera

media

retain and

that

specificand
interaction

definite of have

parallelismcontrols
and

the these

remedy
been

organism
to

"

I say, factSj,

known

homoeopaths

INFINITESIMALS

RECOGNISED

87
verified
to

since any the

Hahnemann,
competent
trouble."

and observer

may who

be
cares

by
take

Dr. the that

or

Burford

does of

well

to

point

out

that it is

phenomena
"indifferent
of

radium media"
once

illustrate like

how

water, been
a

spirit,
infected,
can

sugar it were,

milk,
with

having
power
to

as

the

of the

remedy
patient
its
come

transmit takes
power
contact

that it.
to

drug-power
Radium
can

who
own

transmit which
can

indifferent with its

own

media

in endow

emanation,

these

with

its

properties
power

without
or

itself

appreciably losing either

Thus demonstrated have the the from

substance.

observations truth of

of

physicists

Hahnemann's

teaching
attenuations

another have been

side. described Professor that

once

Homoeopathic
as

"bottle-

washings."

Well,
us

Rutherford
a

practically tells
held radium
no or

bottle

has

its
amount

intangible, unweighable
of

emanation,
get
it
out.
a

bottle-washing
may and be the filled power

can

The million

bottle times

and of

emptied

88

THE

POWER

OF

radium who which

will 'be have have

seen

still present. the power

Homoeopaths
of in the

remedies,
same

been in in

attenuated their

way,

manifested

patients, find
But it is well the
not

nothing
that it

startling
should On that has that. the be

this.

put

clearly

before
I do
at

public.
anticipate
The
ray

mind professional have any

it will
not

effect

all.
can

yet been

invented

which

pierce

Hahnemann's

conception
force
the

of

the

namic," "dythe
seat

vital spirit-like, material

animating
primary

organism

as

being
appear makes

of all disorders

which

outwardly
it the
"

in the

symptoms
followers
medicines

of
to

disease,

easy

for

his of

apprehend
the
''

potency
form.

in

dynamised

Before may Pierre

comes

quitting

this

part

of

my
out

subject it
that of M.

be

interesting to joint

point
discoverer

Curie, the
of
a

radium,
His retired

good
whom

homoeopathic
he
now

stock.
a

father, with

lives, is
His

homoeopathic practitioner.

grandfather

CHAPTER

XI

examples

of

homoeopathic

cures

from

Hahnemann's

own

practice

Exceedingly

few
been

of

Hahnemann's
He

own

cases

have

published.
many,
routine lest

refrained

from
should

publishing
fall into

his

disciples
and

ways

give
with

certain certain

medicines

to

patients
he

affected

diseases,
medicines

because

had

given
the
same

the

same

to

patients
the

with medicines

diseases,

and

not

because

responded cor-

to

the

cases

to

be

treated.

In

the

second

volume

of

the

Materia

Medica

Pura^
request
on

however,
of
some

Hahnemann

gives, halting
which
I

at

"

the

friends

half-way
will
now

the

road,"
.

two

cases

quote
went to

just

to

show

the

way
90

in

which

he

EXAMPLES

OF

CURES

91

work,
is not,

and
as

also
some

to

show would

that make

homoeopathy
out,
box of
a mere

affair

of

little book

and

pilules.

Every
made the
two

genuine homoeopathic
on

prescription is
followed
;

the
cases

same

plan
about

as

that

in

am

to

quote
is

only, the

working
mentally,
these The number Hahnemann's
I.
'^

out

of the
more

problem

generally done
a

and

rapidly than
lead in
one

reading

of

cases

might figures
of the

to

suppose.

brackets

refer
referred Pura.

to to

the in

symptom
Medica

Materia
a
,

Sch

washerwoman,

somewhere
more

about three she

"

forty
weeks

years

old,
to

had
earn

been
her

than when

unable
me on

bread,

consulted
I.

the

ist

Sept., 1815.
at especially
a

On

any
worst

movement,
on

every

step, and
has
comes,
a

making
pit
every of

false

step, she
that left

shock
as

in she

the

the time

stomach,
from the

avers,

side.
''

2.

When has
no

she

lies

she

feels

quite

well in the

then side

she
nor

pain anywhere, pit

of the

neither

in the

stomach.

92

EXAMPLES

OF

CURES

FROM

"

3.

She She
a

cannot

sleep after
her

a.m.

"4.
has
"

relishes little she

water

food,

but

when

she

eaten

feels sick. collects in her mouth and

5.
runs
"

Then of She

out

it, like water-brash.

has

6.

frequent

empty

eructations

after every

meal.

"7.
anger. covered
were

Her

temper
the

is

passionate,disposed

to

When with

pain

is

severe

she catamenia

is

perspiration.
a

The

quite regular
''

fortnightsince.
her health
is
i.
cause

In

other
as

respects

good.
Belladonna^

*'Now,
ChinUy and
in the

regards symptom
toxicodendron stomach
on

Rhus the

shootings
a

pit of
none

making
movementy

false
as

step, but
the
case

of them

only on

is

here.
causes

Pulsatilla

(see symptom
in

386)
of the
as a

certainly
stomach
rare

shootings
a

the

pit

on

making

false step, but and has

as occur

only

alternating action,

neither here
same

the
at

same

digestivederangements
with 5 and

compared
of the
*'

6,

nor

the

state

disposition.
alone has among its chief alter-

Bryonia

HAHNEMANN'S

PRACTICE

93

nating
symptoms

actions,

as

the

whole

list

of
ment^ move-

its

demonstrates,

pains from

and stitches the

on

especially shooting pains, as

the
on

also

beneath

sternum

(in
arm

the

pit

of

stomach)
making
a

raising the
step
it
causes

(448),

and in

false

shooting

other
"

parts (520, 600).

The

negative symptom

met

with

here

answers

especially to
(with
and action the Rhus
"

ryonia

(638);

few
of

medicines Nux
vomica

exception, perhaps,
toxicodendron of other in

their ever, how-

alternating
is

neither for relief the

to

which,

suitable

symptoms)
rest

show and
an

complete

pains during
does, however,
and many

when

lying ; Bryonia
(638

in

especial manner

other

Bryonia symptoms).
''

Symptom
and
4

3 also
is

is in

met

with

in

several

medicines,
''

Bryonia (694).
far
as

Symptom
after medicines

as certainly,

regards
several
MerCancom-

sickness other

eating,

met

with

in

(Ignatia^ Nux
Belladonna^
so

vomica^

curiuSy Ferrumy

Pulsatilla^
and

tharis)y but

neither

constantly

94

EXAMPLES

OF

CURES

FROM

monly,
(279)"As

nor

with

relish

for food,

as

in

Bryonia

regards symptom
a

5, several
of
water

medicines like
water-

certainly cause
brash,

flow
as

just

as

well do

Bryonia produce
ones.

(282);

the

others, however,
similar is
to

not

symptoms

the
to

remaining
be

Hence them in

onia Brythis

preferred

to

particular.
''

Empty

eructation

(of
is
so

wind in

only)
few

after cines, medimonly, com-

eating (symptom
and and in
to
none

6)

found

constantly, so degree,
as

such

in

Bryonia

(253. 259).
"To

7.

One

of

the
sec.

chief

symptoms
is the

in
'state

diseases of
causes

(see Organon^

213)
as

the

and disposition,' this symptom also

is for
case

Bryonia
an

(772)

in

exactly similar
reasons

manner,

Bryonia
this

all these all other

to

be
as

preferred in
the
"

to

medicines

homoeopathic remedy.
Now,
force been
as

this the

woman

was

very
must

robust,

and

the have

of

disease considerable

consequently
to

very

prevent

her.

HAHNEMANN'S

PRACTICE

95

on

account

of powers,
one

pain, doing
as

any

work
not

and

as

her
I

vital

stated, were
the of

impaired,

gave

her
a

of

strongest
the taken

homoeopathic juice
of

doses,

full
root,
come

drop
to

undiluted

Bryonia
bade hours. that
her

be
to

immediately,
in

and

me

again
E., who
the
;

forty-eight
was

I told within be

my
that

friend
time cured

present,
would but his he the

woman

assuredly

quite
to

but

he, being

half-converted
doubts
came

homoeopathy, expressed
Five

about

it.
to

days afterwards
the

again
did
came

learn
return

result, but

woman

not

then,
I

and,

in

fact,

never

back

again.
my

could

only allay

the her

impatience of
name

friend

by telling him

and about him

a

that mile seek she

:
'

of

the and her

villagewhere
a

she and

lived,

half and he
use

off,

advising
for her

to

out

ascertain

himself
answer

how
was

was.

This
was

did,
of

and
my

What very

the

going

back

^.

The

next

day
my

was

quite
;

well, and
the

could

again
was

go

to

washing
as

and
am

day
I

following
am

quite well,
to

still.

extremely obliged

the

doctor.

96
but
our

EXAMPLES

OF

CURES

FROM

the work

like
;

of and

us

have

no

time weeks

to

leave

ofF

for

three
me

previously
"

my

illness II.
"W

prevented
a
,

earning anything.'
man

'*

weakly, pale
at

of

42

years,

who

was

kept constantly
me on

his desk

by
;

business,
had
"

consulted

Dec.

27,

1815

he

been
I.

already five days

The first

ill. without

evening,
sick and

manifest
with much

cause,

he

became

giddy,

eructation.
**

2.

The

following night (about

a.m.)

sour

vomiting.
*^

3.

The

subsequent nights violent

tion. eructa-

'*4. To-day
odour
"

also

severe

eructation

of

fetid

and He

sourish felt
as

taste.

if

the

food

lay

crude

and

undigested
"6.

in his stomach. head felt

His

wide,

hollow

and

dark,

and
*'

as

if sensitive Sensitive His

to

internally.
the

7. 8.

smallest is

noise.

''

disposition

mild,

soft,

and

patient.
"

Here

may

observe

"

98
and 322,
"

EXAMPLES

OF

CURES

FROM

striking 327)-

manner

as

by

Tulsatilla

(321,
")

To

6.
cannot

Besides

Ignatia,(2)y which,
our

ever, how-

produce
state

other

symptoms,

the

same

is 42,

caused
94,

by
98).

Pulsatilla

(39

compared
"To
state

with 7.

Pulsatilla and it also organs

produces
causes

the

same

(997),
of

ness over-sensitivethe
senses

other the of

of

for

example, of
intolerance

sight (107).
is also and
met

And with

although
in

noise

Nux these other

vomica^
medicines

Ignatta^
are

nAconite^
to

yet
the

not

homoeopathic
still less do

symptoms, symptom

and

they
of the
to

possess

8, the
as

mild stated

character in the

tion, dispositilla^ Pulsa-

which,
is
"

preface
of this
not

indicative particularly

plant.
be cured and
was

The

patient,therefore, could
more

by

anything

easily, certainly, by
Pulsatilla^ which
It
;
was

permanently

than
to

homoeopathic given
of
very
to

the

case.

accordingly
on

him

immediately
and

but,
state,
a

account

his

weakly
minute

exhausted
/."?., half

only
of

in

dose,

drop

the

HAHNEMANN'S

PRACTICE

99

quadrillionth
Pulsatilla.

[12th
This

dil.]
done

of
a

strong
the

drop

of

was

in

evening.
from all ments, ail-

"

The

next

day digestion

he

free
was

his

was

restored

and

week

thereafter,
free from

as

he

informed
me,

he

remained

complaint

and

well."

CHAPTER

XII

MORE

ILLUSTRATIONS.

MEISSONIEr's

DOG.

COUNT

RADETSKY

WILL

now

quote
of of
letter
an

the animal.

case

of

the is

pathic homoeofrom

cure

It

taken cated communi-

The

Times
in

Jan.
to

6,
the

1888,
editor

being
in

the

course

of

the

Odium

Medicum in book and

correspondence,
form under the

wards aftertitle

published
of
Odium Medicum

Homoeopathy.

Meissonier's

Testimony homceopathy.

in

favour

of

To

the

Editor

of

The

Times.

"

Sir,
"

In

the

present

controversy
in your

on

this of

subject,
fairness,

you

may, the

perhaps,
enclosed

spirit
worth

think

document

?99

MEISSONIER'S

DOG

loi

publishing.
some
"

It has

been

in

my

possessionfor

time.
I
was

studying painting
whose
to

few

years
"

ago

with had Dumas

Meissonier,
been
"

valuable

dog

which friend its hind

given
^was

him

by

his

great

struck also

with

in paralysis twisted.

quarters
"

it had

its neck

I had
use,

long
and of

studied
my

Homoeopathy

for my
the
to

own

little

globules were
fun

subject
Meissonier did
**

much and his in

good-humoured
friends
them
at
was

and all.

family, who

not

believe

The

dog
a

in

question
*vet.'

condemned
who

to

death
to

by

great

in

Paris,

attended
as

Meissonier's
seen

very the I the

was

valuable

horses,

will
The his
"

be
same

in

enclosed

testimony.
with in
"

evening
and
of and
cure

dining dog
was

him the

and
room

family, subject
sudden
me

much

lamentation
manner,
'

when,
he

in

his

animated it with the my

challenged

to
*'

Homoeopathy.'
gave the

accepted
in
a

challenge and
a

dog

at

once

their

presence

singledose

of Rhus

tox.y of

rather

high

dilution.

I02

THE

CURE

OF

"

The alone when

next

morning
his

was

at

work

with fast, break-

him

in his

garden
and

studio

before

clever
into the

energetic daughter
as

came

rushing
on

studio
out

if
*

the the

house

were

fire, crying

that

dog

walked.'
"

We his

ran

out

of
in

the

studio

"

Meissonier his

with

brush
his

his in

mouth

and

large

paletteon
about

thumb,

his earnest

eagerness his

everything
and
"

that
was

freshly caught
the
animal

attention
about
"

there

running
ever.

on

its four still had

legs as strongly as
its neck

It I

twisted, however,
to

and

was

much my
was

puzzled patient. rough

of
the every and
"

know

how

to

proceed
that
came

with

then

perceived
Here

its coat in
one

and

staring.

great

principles
must

of
be

Homoeopathy
taken
at
once

"

that

symptom
the
I

into

account

proper it
two

remedy
doses

suggested
3*
;

itself. the

gave

of and

Arsenicum

dog
and

quite recovered,
well
to

is, I believe, alive

'*

this

day.

Yours
"A

faithfully,
Pupil
of

Meissonier."

MEISSONIER'S

DOG

103

'*

Messieurs

Meissonier
met
en

pere

et

fils appred'une les

cette

nant

qu'on

doute

le
a

guerison
mort

petite

chienne de
a

condamnee

par que

veterinaires

Paris,

affirment

petite
attaque
leur par
race

bete de

ete

radicalement

guerie
violente

d'une
par

paralysieextremement
,

ami

qui

Fa

traitee de fait

rhomoeopathie.
tres-pure
de
va

Cette

petite chienne
bien
et

parfaitement
tous."
"

Tadmiration

E. Ch.

Meissonier/'
Meissonier,

"

^/j."

Cure

of

Count

Radetsky.

will

next

quote

from

Tract the

of

the

Homoeopathic
cure

League
famous

Series

historic Count

of

the
:
"

Field-Marshal

Radetsky

^'

It

is

not

only
shows of

in

acute

diseases

that
every

homoeopathy
other method
most

its

superiority to
Chronic intractable

treatment.

diseases

of

the

obstinate

and

nature.

I04

THE

CURE

OF

which old cured Diseases

have

resisted
are

all

the

appliances of
and
new

the

school,

often
remedies have

rapidly
of
been fatal the

radically
school. curable inevery

by

the which

pronounced
have,
as

and

necessarily

homoeopathic
own

practitioner knows
been but

from

his

experience, by
the mild Not

frequently
potent
has

perfectly
of

cured

remedies

homoeopathy.
lessened the

only
of

homoeopathy
but
not

mortality

serious has also

necessarily fatal diseases, it

the boundaries of this of remedial
tract

extended
The
to

medication.
not

limits many is of

will

allow but be
the

us

give

proofs

of

this

statement, may

one

which
tioned. men-

historical
In

celebrity

here

January,

1841,
Count in the

celebrated
was

Austrian

Field-Marshal
a

Radetsky
the orbit of

suffering from right eye,

and which

tumour

the

pushed
The
tumour

eyeball
had

outwards ing growThe

was

forwards. since the with

been

previous
whom
sent

October. Field-Marshal

Emperor,
a

the his

great

favourite,

Dr. stafF-physician in the

Jaeger, Professor

of

Ophthalmology

io6

COUNT

RADETSKY

formidable

disease

in declined.

this

septuagenarian
By
the

patient
March

steadily
the

19th
cured,

of

disease

was

perfectly
in the

and

no

difference

was

observable
lived

two

eyes. years

Count

Radetsky
this,
and win
was

good

many active in of

after
and in

sufficiently
the decisive

mind

body
1849."

to

battle

Novara

CHAPTER

XIII

WHAT

ARE

HOMCEOPATHIC

MEDICINES

Having
and

sketched

the of

origin
its

of

homoeopathy
features,
to

described

many that it

salient
be well

it

seems

to

me

might

devote

few

chapters
details.

more

particularly
For,
as

to

certain

tical practhere

before

remarked,
to

is

no

excuse

for

any

one

either the

believe

or

disbelieve

in the likes reach

homoeopathy
of
take

proof

lies

within if

any the

person trouble

of

intelligence,
to

he

to

put

the

principle
But

to

the

test.

before

one

can

make

the

trial,
the

it

is

necessary which This

are

to

know be

something
made the this
use

of

agents
tested. have

to

of

and

brings
at

us

to

query

which
What

put

the

head

of

chapter

"
"

are

107

io8

WHAT

ARE

Homoeopathic
readers will

Medicines
^^

"

Possibly
^

my

say,

Aconite^ Bryonia

donna^ Bella-

Chamomilla^
Nux

Hepar sulphuris^MercuriuSy Sulphur

And
"

Vomica^

and

these my

are

pathic homoeowill pathic Homoeobe

medicines."

readers
"

right

so

far
"

and

only
may

so

far.

remedies" purposes
"

be defined used
one

for

ordinary
paths homoeoremedies But

as

"

Medicines every

by
the

and

of

named
a

above of

comes

under remedies

this definition.
are

number

these

also
same

used

by

allopaths ; and, therefore,by

of

the

process
to

reasoning
as

it would

be

correct

describe

these

allopathic remedies
a

also.
is neither

Strictly speaking, allopathicnor

in
or

medicine
in

homoeopathic
the
same

itselfbut
^

only
one

its the
a case

use

"

remedy
as

is either is

other of
to
as

according
disease.
For

it

prescribed
it is

in
as

example,
is
an

just

true

say

that
to

Opium
say
One

allopathic
a

medicine

it is

that of

it is the

pathic homoeo-

medicine. effects
to

well-known

of

Opium
the

(when

taken,

for

instance,

deaden

of neuralgia) is that, suflFerings

HOMCEOPATHIC

MEDICINES?

109

among

other

effects, it
it is is
a

causes

constipation ;
to
cure a,

when,
of On

therefore,

given

patient remedy.
to
a

constipation it
the other

homoeopathic
when it is

hand,

given
to

patient sufferingfrom
diarrhoea, it
to

diarrhoea,

check
or,

the

is

an

allopathic remedy,
an

rather,

be

perfectly accurate,
is
a sense

antipathicremedy.
some

There
are

in

which

remedies

peculiar
to

to

homoeopathy, through
been

having
the used

been

introduced

medicine

pathic homoeoalmost

provings, and

having

exclusively by homoeopaths.
Silica^ and
of these. of

Pulsatilla^ Sepia^
as

Thuja
But

may

be

named claims

examples
the whole

homoeopathy
action
as

realm

drug

its

rightful property,
use.

awaiting
is
a

its service

for
that

homoeopathic
the

It
ot

only drug
able

necessary shall
to

positive effects
for

be

known,
their
own

homoeopaths
of

to

be The
a

make

peculiar use
of

it. is

constipation-causing action
positive effect,
use

Opium
may

which

homoeopath
of

make

of

for

curing

cases

constipation.

This
it has

is the been

homoeopathic
called.

or

as negative effect^

no

WHAT

ARE

But

we

have
our

not

even

yet
are

exhausted

the

reply

to

query We

What
"

homoeopathic
at
are

medicines
*^
"

have

arrived

this

answer

Homoeopathic
can

medicines

medicines But Are

which then there And

be

used

homoeopathically."
consideration
"

comes

this

further

not

special homoeopathic question

or

chemists?

if the

whether is

medicine of use,

is

homoeopathic
cannot

not

only

one

why

any

chemist ?
to

supply

the

same

remedies

for both
The that

schools
answer

this
to

very be

proper

query

is,

remedies used in

need

differentlyprepared
ways. the

when
to
our

different of
a

Going

back who

example
to
cure

Opium^
case

homoeopath

wished
not

of

constipation
way, who
or

would
same

give
as

it in
an

the

same

in the gave it
out

form,

allopathwould,
Hahnemann
more infinitely

to

lieve re-

pain. patientswere
remedies
to

soon

found
sensitive

that the

to

which
cases

were

homoeopathically
they
was
were

related
dies. reme-

their

than he

to

other
to

Therefore
the

compelled
below the

reduce

quantities very

much

ordinary

HOMCEOPATHIC

MEDICINES?

iii

dosage drops,
where
as

current

in

his

day.
the

He

gave

single

or

half

drops, of
in the

original tinctures,
was

the

dosage

books he doses
he
was

set

down
even

teaspoonfuls. apparently
cases,

Then minute thus

found
were

that
too
to

these in his have many

great
invent

and

led

method described the Hence

of

attenuating remedies,
in another of
a new

which
to

chapter,

and

cover dis-

powers arises

infinitesimal

quantities.
for the
term

definition
"
"

"

Homoeopathic
are

medicines medicines

Homoeopathic
have been
use.

medicines

which

specially prepared
Their herein of

for
needs

homoeopathic special skill,

for
a

preparation
lies the

and class of

necessity
to

separate
the
wants

trained

chemists doctors.

supply

homoeopathic
The
must

full be
"

reply

to

our

query, medicines

therefore,
are

Homoeopathic

cines medion

which,

having
can

been used

tested

the

healthy body,
and which

be been

homoeopathically,
for

have
use.

specially prepared

homoeopathic

CHAPTER

XIV

THE

DIFFERENT

MEANINGS

OF

THE

WORD

''

"

DOSE

Having

arrived

at

conclusion

as

to

what

homoeopathic
that
we

medicines should

are,

it

is

now

tial essen-

clear

our

minds because

as

to

what

is

homoeopathic
of medicine

dose,
attach word.

the

two

schools

very

different

meanings
uses

to

the

When he

an

allopath
so

the

word

"

dose,"
or so

means

many

drops

by
"

measure

many the he

grains
direct,

by
tive, posiand

weight
or

enough

to

produce
effect

physiological
to

desires,
To dose of

not

enough
to

endanger
of

the

patient.
the action
*'

go
"

back

the

example
to

Opium^
the

recommended

stay
of

the

bowels

in

case

diarrhoea

is

from

one

to

IIZ

114

DIFFERENT

MEANINGS

tongue,
sugar
"

or

diluted milk.

in To

water,
an

or

mixed the

with
word
ings, mean-

of
"

allopath
none

dose

would
to
"

convey the dose

"

of

these the

whereas

homoeopath

mention them all

of
up

the

word mind. be do

naturally calls

in his It will

seen

that the

"

quantity
of
"

"

has
"

very in the

little

to

with

idea and

dose

homoeopathist's mind,
to

it has The

everything
path homoeo-

do

with who

it in the has it he had

allopath's.

prescribedfor
hour
never

him

Opium

30

might
life
to

take
"

every could

of the live

day and

all his

long
imbibe of

long enough
a

what the

would

represent
In of

single

grain

originalsubstance.
means
"

pathy homoeo-

"dose" rather And which involves. than this the

impact

drug-force"

quantity.

brings

us

to

another
use

question
the have the
case

homoeopathic
The doctor

of
as we

word posed, supof

who,
30

prescribed Opium might constipation,

"

for

have

been

further
or

asked,
did
you

Did

you
"

give
And

single dose,
that query

repeat }

until

had

been

OF

THE

WORD

*^DOSE"

115

answered

we

should

not

have

known

exactly
So that

how

the

remedy
"

had

been

given.

the

word

dose

"

in

homoeopathy
the form in which

implies
the

not

only

drug-impact,
is

drug-impact question
repeated
It is

communicated,
it is

but

the

further

whether

single

impact

or

one.

necessary

to

make

all

these

points
avoided.

clear

if

misunderstandings
the difficulties in

are

to

be

Half

the

scientific

world

arise

from

different

observers

attaching

rent diffe-

meanings

to

terms

in

common

use.

CHAPTER

XV

THE

HOMOEOPATHIC

MATERIA

MEDICA

Having
"

explained
and
"

*'

Homoeopathic
Doses
"

cines Medi-

Homoeopathic
to

it

will

be

well

now

say

something
Medica. of

about

the

Homoeopathic
it is
a

Materia
that the

Here,
old
terms

again,
cannot

pity

use

now

be

avoided.

"

Materia

medica

"

means

medical

materials,
''

that

is

to

say, is
a

drugs.
work which

work tells

on

Materia

Medica The

"

about

drugs.
"

allopathic drugs physical

is in line used

**

Materia

Medica

describes

the

in

the

ordinary
and
tests.

schools,
So

their far

properties
with the

it

Homoeopathic
comes

Materia The

Medica

but

now

the

difference.

allopathic
us

Materia

Medica

goes

on

to

tell
Ii6

of

drug

that

THE

MATERIA

MEDICA

117

it

is

"

narcotic, stimulant, sedative, antispasmodic,

anaesthetic
"

''

or

irritant,cathartic, be, and

the
to

diuretic,"
the
^^

or

whatever it is used

it

may and

tell

maladies be Now

in

quantities

to

administered. Hahnemann
"

pointed
"

out
"

that

these

terms,

stimulant,"

sedative,"
or

modic," antispas-

"c.,

were

more

less
no

questionreal mation. infor-

begging

terms,

and

conveyed

He,
his of Materia

therefore, proceeded Medica,

not

to

construct

of

adjectives,but
in
we

facts.

Therefore
Materia
a

it is that Medica

opening
are

Homoeopathic
with

fronted con-

list of

symptoms,
the

arranged
of
are

in

definite

order described.
*'

under

heading
symptoms

each the

remedy
effects
"

These

positive"effects,Hahnemann
Hahnemann who tested

called

them and
on

"

experienced by
other
own
"

himself
them

the their

provers,"

healthy

persons.
'"

Hahnemann Pure of in
"

called

his Materia since effects

it
was

Medica
made

Materia terated unadul-

Medica,

up

the

of the

remedy

question, free

from

the

taint of

question-begging adjectives.

ii8

THE

HOMCEOPATHIC

In
was

order

to

use

drug
he the

with

definite
to

effect, it
able
to

necessary,
out

as

showed,

be

find

just what

drug

had

done. consists of

The

Homoeopathic
the record of either

Materia these in

Medica effects
or

of

definite

drugs,

observed Since observers

provings

in

poisonings.
of
to

Hahnemann's have he been and

at

day
work it has the the

thousands

adding
been

the

provings
to

made,

necessary which has

arrange

and

rearrange First of

matter

accumulated.

Materia
was

Medica

compilers
Heinrich Field
Materia

after Gottlieb

Hahnemann

George Timothy
Pure

Jahr.

Next

came

Allen,

whose in

Encyclopaedia of
ten

Medica^
is
a

volumes,
endowment

completed
of the with his

in

1879,

permanent
school. in

homoeopathic
Allen,
work and
was

Contemporary
the

earlier later in
name

field, though
Constantine

appearing, was
I

Hering,
that of of

whose Hahnemann

place

second
in

only

to

himself

the

annals

Homoeopathy.
which he

Hering
has

has

left The

also

ten

volumes,

named

Guiding
three

Symptoms of the

Materia

Medica,

Only

MATERIA

MEDICA

119

of
were

these

appeared
and

in

his

lifetime

the

rest

ably

edited faithfully

by

his

literary

executors.

My

own

contribution
consists of the

to

this

work volumes

of

arrangement
my

three
Materia I

of

Dictionary of
in 1902,

Practical in which
new

Medica^

completed
to

have the

sought
material bald list

give a

somewhat my

settingto

gathered by
of

predecessors.
hitherto medicas

The in

symptoms
materia

presented
wanted,
of been seemed

pathic homoeoto
tended ex-

it seemed
a

me,

practical introduction
nature

more

than

had it number

heretofore desirable
remedies

attempted.
to

Moreover,
the entire into
one

bring

of

hitherto
so

used

uniform
be

arrangement,
at

that my

they
work

could
has the

got

any It has

time.

This
as

effected.

also,

think, made
a more

Homoeopathic entity,and
had many

Materia
a more

Medica

readable
than it

possible study
Hahnemann with

previously

been.

introduced

of his remedies

prefatory remarks
value, but
it
was no

of

the

greatest
his

tical practo

part of

plan

I20

THE

HOMCEOPATHIC

do
to

this

systematically.
in my

have

endeavoured the clinical since

present

introductions
have

experiences
Hahnemann's
The

which time.

accumulated

symptom-lists
the

which

constitute Materia

the

real

body of
are

Homoeopathic
for the sake

Medica,

arranged,
different it is

of reference, under the under

the Thus

anatomical

regions of
to

body.
any

possible
exact

find

out

remedy
in
so

the

symptoms
ears,
case

it has

produced
;

the that

head, eyes,
when any

stomach,
of
any
to
seem

limbs, "c.

disease of

arises, presenting

symptoms
the with medical the
man

in

these

regions,
his him
case

is able which

compare
to

remedies

most

closelyto correspond.
But Materia for the full
use

of

the kind

Homoeopathic
of The work is

Medica,

another the
or

required,namely,
is
an

Repertory.
concordance any So

tory Reperall

index

in which

remedies may who has

having
be
a

caused

particular symptom
the he find

found.
case

that

prescriber
knows
one no

for

which may

corresponding

remedy

by

1
CHAPTER XVI

SENSITIVES.

THE

CASE

OF

CASPAR

HAUSER

It

may

seem

to

some

that
in

the

mass

of

symptoms
Materia tions need check .tested

contained
Medica
must

the

Homoeopathic
to

be That But

due

the

imaginabe such this be made

of
not

the be

provers. denied.

some

may is

there
the

always
can

in
in

homoeopathy practice.
the

"

provings
have been

Attempts
of and his of

to

criticise other

provings

Hahnemann
these have

by

making
ended

provings,

always
and the

by
to, of

confirming
instead

observations, from,
use.

adding

detracting
for

body

symptoms
have

available endeavoured

Some

experimenters
more

to

apply sought

rigorous
the
test

test.

They
numbers
122

have the

to

apply

of

to

provings.

SENSITIVES

123

They

have

given
persons, which than
one

remedy
and have
not

to

number

of all

different

rejected

symptoms
in
more

have
or

been

manifested This existence

two account

provers. the

method of

leaves

out

of

sensitives. I have

mentioned
in action
to
an

above

that

in

illness

person

becomes
to

exaggerated degree
of the

sitive sen-

the

remedy
But

which
there

is
are

homoeopathic
some

his condition.
are

persons of of

who all his

naturally sensitive
Hahnemann
were

to
a

stimuli number this

kinds. provers their than

to

and

undoubtedly
are

of

class, and
value little the

symptoms
those any kind whose of

of

much

greater
react

organisms drug. example

is the of
case

but

Perhaps
extreme

most

remarkable
to

sensitiveness

medicines

of

the

mysterious
who
was

and

unfortunate

Caspar
lessly aim-

Hauser,

found
about of the

by

the

police
of

wandering
in has told the

streets

berg Nurem-

spring

1828.

Dr.

Dudgeon

his story

in the From

Homoeopathic Worlds
this
we

of October,

1897.

learn

that

124

THE

CASE

OF

he

was

placed
who

under

the him

care

of
to

Professor
and had

Daumer

taught
from
a

speak,
that he

gradually
hitherto had and his
more

elicited in
on

him

lived

dark,
black

underground
bread and

cellar,
water,

been had

fed
been

deprived

of all intercourse
At
a

with had
no

fellow-creatures.
than intelligence For
a

first

he he

baby

but
was

learned

rapidly.
affected
could

long

time

he

painfully
noises. He felt

by bright light and

loud

distinguishcolours
the blow slightest
on

in the
or

dark, and

acutely
would he
on

touch. attacks. but

Perfumes For

bring
not

convulsive
eat

long
bread
very

would which
to

anything
been reared.

black
He and
was was

he

had

subject

convulsive
In

attacks,
illness ardent he

became under the

seriouslyill.
care

his
an

of

Dr.

Preu,
Dr.

homoeopathist,
"

and

it is from eleventh

Preu's of

article the that Archiv

Dr.

published
fur
die

in the

volume
"

homceofatischeHeilkunst
account

Dudgeon's
was

is taken. in many ways.

count

Caspar
His the

Hauser
was

tive sensiso

vision berries

acute

that

he

could

on

bunch

CASPAR

HAtJSER

tl^
hundred in total He

bf

elderberries He and

at

distance

of

one

paces.

could he

distinguishcolours
saw

darkness,
was

best had

in

twilight.

clairvoyant, and
foretold of his

many

premonitions.
of the

He

attempted
1829.
months
to

assassination

17th

October,
a

(He

was

actually

assassinated The the fact

few

later.)
homoeopathists
Hauser
a

special interest
case

in the
to

historic that

of

Caspar

lies in

he which

exemplifies
occurs

sensitiveness persons
to

remedies

in

many

degree only
his. is to And show

somewhat
reason

less
I

exaggerated
refer
to

than
case

the that

here

the the

strength of dose,
not

in

pathic alloto

sense,

has

necessarilyanything
causation
or

do

with

either

the

the

cure

of

conditions.
An

attempt

is sometimes

made the

to

explain
that

homoeopathic
remedies small
"

action

on

hypothesis
in

have

opposite

effects

large and

doses," and
remedies

pathic that, consequently, homoeocure

in small

doses

what

they

cause

in

large

ones.

This

argument

is

very

specious on

the

face

126

THE

CASE

OF

of

it, but
it
to

cases

like For
more

that the
or

of

Caspar

Hauser
were

upset

entirely.
him in

remedies less
not

all

given
form,
but it
was

infinitesimal

and

yet they produced

or

only

curative and the

set

pathogenetic
not

disease for
was

symptoms,
even

necessary olfaction

him

to

take
to

remedy
up their

"

quite
30th

sufficient

action.

The

centesimal
one

potency
part

of Hahnemann of
the

represents
substance.
one or

decillional

original
us

Understanding
examples of youth.
I

this, let
action
Dr.

take remedies

two

the

of

on

this
:
"

quote

Dudgeon's

account

"Smelling
caused
a

at

the

30th

dilution of and
as

of

Sepia

great

number

the
some

symptoms
others.
catarrh. In the

recorded
The voice
was

by

Hahnemann

became slow
a

rough,
;

from

Speech
afternoon in the

gait unsteady.
attack like

febrile

that

recorded ing burnwards toarms

pathogenesisof Sepia.
on

Sudden,
declined
of

eruption

the Face

neck very When

that

evening.
and

red, veins

hands

distended.

walking

in

the

CASPAR

HAUSER

127

evening legs
to

felt
the
on

as

though
the
;

ants

crawled when sweat,

an

up he

his

pit of
the The with

stomach,

felt
in

pressure the and limbs. ended

chest

profuse
attack

pain

febrile
a

lasted

hour,
tration pros-

violent pressure

rigor.
in

Great

next

day,

the

forehead. in

In

bed, before
and
so

fallingasleep,tearing pains
parts of
he had in with the
to

joints
sweat

other

body.
his

Nightshirt. nightlike he

profuse
Second

change

day,
ear,

evening, ringing
headache
on

bell
as

in

right
a

then

felt
ot

if

drop

fell down

the

right side
ceased

the the

head,

whereupon

the

ringing

but

headache

increased."

All

the of

above
the

was

the

result

of

one

druga

impact

decillional ink
"

dilution the dried

of

paration pre-

of Indian the that in

contents

of

ink-bag
the

of

the

cuttle-fish. of
"

This
"

proves
*'

question

large

and is

small

"

homoeopathic drug-dosage
The
"

tive. entirelyrela-

dose

"

of

Sepia which

Caspar
the
or

Hauser powers

received

was

absolutely beyond
science
to
measure

of

chemical

128

THE

CASE

OF

estimate,
out

and

yet

it

was

enough
of
the

to

bring
effects
own

striking

features

Sepia
in

already pictured by provings.

Now let
us

Hahnemann

his

take

another Hauser

example.
was

In

August,
flesh.
Dr.

1829,
He

Caspar
to

gaining
fat,
and

objected
treated
out

becoming
for it.

Preu

him that

Hahnemann in the gave 30, there head he On had the

;

had

pointed

Calcarea

is useful
Dr.

obesity of youthful subjects. Caspar

and Hauser this
an

Preu

olfaction
result and the
:

of

Calcarea

with

Immediately
of

occurred

cough
smell of

compression
mouth after had
;

strong
a

from

and

feeling

debility
his clothes

stool.

second looser. and

out

day
He

already

become

became

excoriated
at meat

by walking
;

riding ; loathing
of hair of face.
we

great

falling

swelling of

veins

of

hands, and

heat

Here

have

remedy
for

which,
it

whilst
was

recting cor-

the

trouble in

which its
no own

given,

produces,
symptoms.

addition,
There
was

characteristic here of

question

I30

SENSITIVES

for

what

they
put
down

really

are,

the

patients

are

apt

to

be

as

romancers

by
in

their

medical

attendants

and

given
is

up

despair
their

whereas,

once

the

truth

perceived,
their
own

sensitiveness

can

be

utilised

for

good,
fertile

and

at

the

same

time

they
to

will

afford

ground
who
has

of

observation

the

medical

man

the

care

of

them.

CHAPTER

XVII

""

WHAT

ARE

'*

LIKES

The

Homoeopathic
likes." Therefore

Law it

says

that

"

Likes

cure

becomes the

necessary
likeness

to

make

it

clear and from

just

wherein lies.

between

case

remedy

The

cases

already
have

quoted given
readers

Hahnemann's of

practice
the has look

an

idea

points
to

of

resemblance

which it will

the

prescriber
useful
to

look

for,
matter

but

be detail. it

at

the

more

in

Not

long
press his life that

ago
an

was

announced of Edison's

in

the had

daily
lost

assistant

through
fact
made

cancer

set

up

by

X-ray
on

burns.
the the

This

some

impression
present
in
moment

public
treatment

mind,
for

since

at

the

cancer

most

vogue

in

the

131

132

WHAT

ARE

"LIKES"?

profession (ifthe
the
"

case

is

beyond the
these ?
"

reach

of

is by knife) surgeon's
not

same

X-rays.
several and wise

Is

this
"

homoeopathy
have
to
man cure

asked

inquirers ; they are

that
"

X-rays

caused it."

cancer,

also used

One

medical allopathic he could

repliedto
see

the query

not

any

resemblance he Very likely

never

between could that the

not

X-rays and
! But

cancer."

then
was

Hahnemann
to

said

the

likeness

be

sought remedy
from
it

between

characters physical of be the

of the disease

and which
must

the
a

appearance

patient may
remembered of The
"

And sufFering.

be

that it is Hahnemann's
"

definition
else's.

likes

which of

counts,

and

nobody

"likes"

homoeopathyare

resemblances

between effect of
cancer

and drug-effects

disease-^^r/j.The
persons is
to
cause

X-rays

on

some

therefore,says Hahnemann,
for
cases

under

favourable

and in suitable persons. conditions, prove

not
cure a cure

X-rays X-rays by

must

cancer.

That
cancer

will

all
cases

of
must

is

certain ; the
out

suitable

be the

found
causa-

future observation

of

both

WHAT

ARE

"LIKES"?

133

tive

and

curative

efFects

of

the

rays

selves. them-

The looks
are some

"

likeness,"

then, which
in

homoeopathy
efFects. such that There

for

is resemblance

drugs
of

which

produce
diseases mistaken
are

complete
cases

pictures

natural have been

of them.

poisoning
The of annals this

for

of
:

poisoning
the

full

of instances in

kind

medical

practitioners
of

attendance

have

given

certificates later
was

death

from
has

natural

disease, when
that
An

investigation
caused kind

proved

the

death

by

poisoning.
not

instance

of this when

occurred

long

ago

in America,
was

poisoning by
as

Cyanide of Mercury
from

certified and been

death
cases

diphtheria. Again poisoning

When and
can a

again

of for
a

Belladonna scarlatina.

have

mistaken

the

resemblance disease with

between
is
so

drug
as

disease

natural inferred

close

this, it

be the be

absolute the

certainty that
*'

drug
a

which of

manifests wide the is

a

likeness in the

"

will

remedy
of
cases

ness usefuldisease.

treatment

of

Accordingly

Mercurius

cyanatus

remedy

134

WHAT

ARE

"LIKES"?

with

homoeopaths
and

of

proven
not

usefulness

in

diphtheria;
the also If be
course

Belladonna

only

modifies it

and
as a

symptoms

of

scarlatina, but

acts

prophylactic against
in the

infection.

Belladonna

3rd

centesimal of
out
a

potency
hold house-

given
when

to

the

healthy

members

scarlatina will known

amount not

breaks

in

it,

the fact

epidemic generally
an enormous

spread.
among of
to

Were

this

school

proprietors,
and
one

trouble, anxiety,
them. This
is

loss

might point

be
in

saved the

small

immense
to

importance
the

of

knowledge
at

of

homoeopathy

community

large.

But

it

is

necessary certain facsimile

to

guard

against
a

the

idea
or

that

because

drugs produce
of certain
must

more

less

perfect

natural have its

diseases, that
natural in

every

disease and
cure.

counterpart
a

The

instances such
a

which

single drug
are rare

produces
and when that many

perfect picture
occur,

they

do

it

must

be will

understood

cases

of the

disease

require other

remedies

for

WHAT

ARE

**

LIKES"?

135

their dried

cure.

Homoeopathy
for
cut

has and

no

cut

and

remedies

dried
to

diseases. for the

the

Wherein,
likeness ?
It

then,
lies

are

we

look

in

the the the

character

of

symptoms
with every the
case

produced
character

by

drugSy corresponding
symptoms
present
in

of

of

disease.

Hahnemann

quickly
observed in He

discovered did that effect

not

that all

symptoms
possess any
out

provings
noticed

equal

value.
or

when
came

peculiar
in
a

out-of-the-way
this
the

proving,
when
a case

had
same

especial value
symptom
was

in

prescribing
met

with This

in

of

disease.
not

peculiarityneed
itself,it
which it may

be

in

the

actual

symptom
under be in

be

in

the

conditions
or

manifests

itself ; which in

it may found able

most
to

some

concomitant^
with it. It is

is

associated discern of
on

being

and
art

utilise of

these

points

that

the this

homoeopathy
success

lies, and
treatment

it

is

that

in

largely

depends.
To

give

one

or

two

illustrations.

136

WHAT

ARE

"LIKES"?

patient who complained

"

suffered that
were one

severely from
of her

headache
was

sensations round is
a

as

if woollen
the

wrapped
Now that the

the

head

inside

skulls
to

most

peculiar
be like

sensation, and
necessary it accredited
to

cure

case

it would somewhat In
I

find
to
some

symptom

remedy.

my

search,
this
:

by
"

the

aid
as

of

repertories,
if
a

found
were

Sensation the of
I

cold This

cloth
was

wrapped by

round the salt

brain." the

produced
named the
the
1

American it to it my

spring
patient
removed also
in

Sani-

cula.

gave and

000th entire

potency,
train
to

rapidly
which the

of

symptoms,
effects

corresponded
In this
case

other

of of

remedy.

the

sensation round in And

there brain

being something
was

wrapped
feature
"

the

the disease

peculiar
were

which

drug

and the

like."

although
was

sensation

of

the

wrapping
was

material

different, the
effect
a

likeness

close
In

enough
cases

to

cure.

other

the
to

point
match

of

correspondence
in the
tions condior

that

it is essential under which

lies

the

symptoms

appear,

138

WHAT

ARE

"LIKES"?

quickly
some

cured my

the

patient.

(It

may

interest
to

of

readers, and
condition the marshes
to

enable
to

them

tack

this if I
water

characteristic mention
"

their

memories,
cold
I

that the
case

plant flourishes in
are

that this

its

home.)

instance

show

the

usefulness

in

homoeopathy
All
to

of

noting
the

peculiar

conditions. must,
a

repertories to
be

Materia in
their

Medica indices

complete,

include under
or

list
are

of

Conditions
or

which
or

symptoms

better

worse,

appear of
to

disappear.
which
are

Another

class

conditions watch
It
worse

of

great

importance
of

in

prescribing are
known

Conditions
some

Time.
are

is well
at

that hours this the

complaints
the

certain often from

of

day

or

night,
as

and

very

condition

is of

much

importance
view
as

prescriber'spoint
itself.
A very
common

of

the

symptom
in
tion connec-

symptom
diseases
is
a
"

with
"
"

many

sinking,"
when

empty

sensation, occurring
would remedies among them
not

at

times be

the Now

patient
many and

ordinarily
have
is

hungry.
tion, sensa-

caused

this

Sulphur.

But

the

WHAT

ARE

"LIKES"?

139

time

when is

the from have

at

Sulphur
1 1 a.m.

sensation
to
noon.

is

most

marked medicines
so

Other
not
"

the this

same

but peculiarity
; when
''

markedly
is

hour

sinking
about
11

sensation

complained
will
the

of the

at most

o'clock,

Sulphur
to

be whole

likely

remedy
A

relieve

condition.

very been and

characteristic noticed in

time connection
4

of

aggravation
with

has

Lycoor

podium^
8

this is from this in any

p.m.

to

p.m. of

to

p.m.

When appears

particulartime complaint,
of

vation aggralikeness will

the

to

the
a

time-aggravation
very

Lycopodium
in
one

give
of if

strong

point, indeed,
the

favour
;

that

remedy
symptoms

being

right

and be

other

correspond

it

must

given.
Conditions

of

motion

or

rest,

of

heat
in

or

cold,

are

other

points

of

importance
and take
cases,

the

"likeness" the
account

between

remedies has his

to

which careful

homoeopath
in

into

making point
of

prescriptions.
lies in
panying accom-

Another

"likeness"
"

conditions,

or

concomitants,"

as

HO

WHAT

ARE

"LIKES"?

they
certain

are

called. morbid

Some

patientsmanifest
as a

symptoms
of

regular

accompaniment
time
an

other

complaints. For
every

and has neuralgia, instance,a patient the

pain comes
of remedies

on

it is and which

accompanied by
Now

attack

sickness

vomiting.
cause

of

all the

sickness,
will be

is one Ipecacuanha

of the first which

all know have other of its
is

thought of.
and
at
one

We of
us

wine, Ipecacuanha
effect The

most

its experienced

period or
all

of

our

lives.

nauseating property
in
causes a

dominates, Ipecacuanha
other effects. If
nausea

sense,

it

pain,the pain vomiting.

about up
as a

accompaniedby

or

If it
nausea

causes
or

the chill fever,

is

accompaniedby
comes

vomiting.
of effect

Thus

it

that

any

kind

illness which
nausea
"

sets

concomitant find in

or

vomiting may
"

Ipecacuanhaits
hence

ness like-

or

counterpart, and
similar way the

its remedy.

In in

sleep-causing power
whenever
plaints com-

Opium

dominates

its effects, and

excessive

drowsiness

accompanies other

it will very

probably be

found

that

WHAT

ARE

"LIKES"?

141

Opium
the
case.

will

prove

the

remedy

most

like

to

These

are

few

of

the

points
must

of

ness" "likelook for

which if This he is is

the
make

homoeopath
successful
"

to

prescriptions.
Hahnemann his the law that

the

"

likeness he

which

referred
"

to

when Likes." it find

formulated
To

Likes

cure

unprofessional
more

observer

might
pictures
a

seem

desirable

thing
thus

to

of

entire for each work

diseases,
;

and
in

find that

remedy
would has

but

practice
Hahnemann liberated scriber. in

not

so

well.

by

the medica
is

art

he and

revealed the

the

materia

pre-

Any
a case

remedy
of free entire
any
to

thus

available and

for
the

use

disease,
select his

prescriber throughout

is the

remedy

range.

CHAPTER

XVIII

SERUM

THERAPEUTICS

AND

NOSODES

It

can

hardly

have

escaped
that the

the

notice
duced intro-

of

intelligent

observers of
"

recently
by
'*

treatment

diseases

serums"

and of

**

vaccines

is

species

of This of

homoeopathy
was,

"

likes

curing by
Dr.

likes.

indeed,

admitted of the

Roux,

one

the
^

discoverers The

anti-diphtheritic
serum

serum.

process

by which^this
the

is

obtained

is

by diluting
it into the

original

poison
of the

by

introducing
The

blood-current

horse.

blood

drawn

'

"There like

is

truth like."

in Dr.

the

Hahnemann in
an

method interview
News

of with

curing
the
the

by

Roux,
of
the

Paris
serum

correspondent
treatment

Daily
"

regarding
October

of

disease.

Daily

News^

30,

1894.
142

SERUM

THERAPEUTICS

143

from

the
to

horse
a

after

such

treatment

sponds corre-

homoeopathic
The

attenuation of

of

the

originalvirus.
the
not
serum
"

method

administering
the

by injection under
much the in favour is

skin

"

is

method
;

among

paths homoeothe

but

treatment

certainlyon

like-to-like

principle.
as

Homoeopaths,
reference
to

I mentioned

above

in

my the

Tuberculin,

have

recognised
from
same

of making possibility of diseases have tamed and

was

remedies in the

the way

viruses
as

themselves,
for

they
of

therapeutic use
of
to

the

poisons

serpents
himself

stings
the
in

insects.

Hahnemann this

first

recognise
a

possi-.

bility. Only,
must

homoeopathy,
every other its

disease-remedy
remedy
efFects.
on

be

used

like afForded for

the
Take

indications Tuberculin will

not
cure

by

an

example.
case

Tuberculin tuberculosis
;

every the other

of

whilst,
cure

on

hand,
which
or

Tuberculin

will

many
to

affections

are

only remotely
are

allied

tuberculosis,
at

which and
in

not

tuberculous
"

all.

Tuberculin
are

all other

nosodes,"

as

they

called

homoeopathic

144

SERUM

THERAPEUTICS

terminology,
remedies

must

be effects be

studied
on

like

all other
To in

in their

the

healthy.
and

this end
the

they

must

proved,

proved

high potencies.
the

This method

is rendered

possible
the

by

homoeopathic
and

of

preparing
of

potencies,
sensitive
to

by

the in

existence this

persons

agencies
made the

form.

Hahnemann

the nosode

first of

proving

of

nosode, namely,
Psorinum. The marked is
one

Psora, named
elicited
are

symptoms
and of the
most

strongly
Psorinum the any materia
case

characteristic,
trusted

and in

agents

medica,
in which

answering
its

curatively in
features
are

leading

prominent.
It has been
"

contended
cure

that
"

this but

is

not

homoeopathy
"

by

"likes"

isopathy
met

cure

by

"identicals."

Hahnemann that the

not

this

objectionby showing
prepared
nosode but is

homoeopathically
with process
"

identical
like

the of call

originalvirus,
preparation

only

it, the
it.

having
he
"

altered
a

psorinum,"
because,

says,

homoeopathic antipsoric,
of

if the

preparation

psorinum

did

146
The in

SERUM

THERAPEUTICS

relation

of vaccinia how
over

to

small-pox
of

is

case

point
can

and

the

advocates this

tion vaccina-

get

glaring piece
to
see.

of

homoeopathy
An
an

it is difficult of another and

10

instance of

how

one

disease
came

may under here.

cure

efFect notice of in

disease be
11

my
A

own

may
or

mentioned had

girl
away

about the from her with in

scarlatina

whilst She

country
the
an

for attack

her of

holiday.

recovered it left

the disease, but

of with the the
was

affection
blood

kidneys
urine.

resulting
This when my rid
return

passing

condition she
care.

persisted
to

and and

present
under
to

returned It took

London

came

considerable
was

time

get
to

of the

trouble,
any
to

which

always
At
to

liable last and

from

slight
go

cause.

she she she

was

well
not

enough
been measles. and of
it
at

back many

school

had

there

days
she

before
had

caught

This the the

never

pretty
a

severely,

height
old

of

it

great
in.
The

aggravation
After that

haematuria

set

occurred the
case

again.

measles-poison

cured

homoeopathic-

AND

NOSODES

147

ally,
For

first

producing
can cause

severe

aggravation.
as

measles

haematuria

well

as

scarlatina.

This
was an

instance

of
a

homoeopathic
of another ease. dis-

cure

by

one

disease

of

part

The

resemblance

between

the

two

diseases

is

not

close

enough
other

for

the

one

to

cure

or

prevent
like

the

entirely.
remedies,

But

nosodes

are

other

homoeopathic

and

can

be

used

as

freely
to

it
:

is

not

necessary all

for

case

and

remedy
that

correspond
action

at

points
ensue.

in

order

therapeutic points
of

may

When

some

similarity
to

exist,
of

curative

action

will

follow

the

extent

the

correspondence.

CHAPTER

XIX

HOW

TO

PRACTISE

HOMCEOPATHY

There

is

no

need

for

any

one

to

depend
in the

on

Hahnemann,
of

or

any

one

else,
he does

practice
trust

homoeopathy.

If

not

Hahnemann's

provings,
him how
to

Hahnemann

has for

taught
himself.

make

provings
virtue

Hahnemann's

crowning
us

is

that

he

has

brought
Nature's

into

immediate

contact

with artificial

forces,
veils.

stripped
The Law who

from of

all

academic

Similars
make

is

ready
use

to

serve

any

one

wishes

to

of

it.

Hahnemann

could his of law

no

more

take

out

patent
the Law

on

than

Newton

could

on

Gravity.
to

This detail

is

not

the

place

in

which of

describe

in

complete

system
148

homoeopathic

HOW

TO

PRACTISE

149

practice. Larger by
the
I

works

must

be

consulted

medical

students domestic my
most
or

and works readers of later.

we

practitioners, and.

various
can

by
one

the

laity.
bit be

But of able

give
which

little will

practice
to

them

test

sooner

In
over

homoeopathy
and the
over

have,

as

have

shown diseases. remedies

again, no
time such
a

for specifics
are some

At

same

there

which
a

cover

large number they

we

of be

cases

of
as

given

disease

that

may
most

regarded
of
us

quasi-specifics.Now something
onion. of the

know

properties

of

the for

common

It is the
tears

recognised agent
and
an

ing procurin the

rest. to

artificial head
"

artificial cold and be of the

content

sneezing, nose-blowing,
any

Should

of
as a

my

readers

not

accept
let

this

genuine
from of

effect
a

the

onion,

them the take

two
a

procure tincture

homoeopathic
(^Allium cepa ^)
that
in
a

chemist and
water

onion of
a

teaspoonful
three will times

little will

or

day.
the
same

They

find

that
more

this

produce
and
a

effect,
other

only

marked,

great

many

I50

HOW

TO

PRACTISE

effects that the

besides.
cold

They

will

probably
cepa

also has

find this

produced
the doors

by

Allium

peculiarity,that
is better
room.

nose-blowing
and
worse

and in
a

cough
warm

out

of

Now
that any

the
one

suggestion
who
not

am

going
know is
a a

to

make

is

wishes

to

by experience
true

whether

or

homoeopathy
procure
a

law

of

Nature,
chemist medicated and
take I do

should

from of of take
see

homoeopathic
or

of repute with
next

bottle

discs,
Allium
a

pilules,
cepa
let
12,

tincture

the
a

time
every

they
hour that

cold what

them

dose

and

happens.
every

not

promise
cure a

it will number
"

cure

cold,
if the
room,

but

it will

large

and
a

characteristic better
in

condition^
open
cure

worse

in

the
to

air," is present,
the cold
in
a

it

can

hardly
short

fail

remarkably

space

of time.
are

Those

who

content

to

take

the

provthe and In

ings

as

they
of

stand

may
the

save

themselves medica

trouble
use

re-proving
on

materia

the

remedies

the

indications
castor

given.

homoeopathic

nurseries,

oil,

Gregory's

HOMCEOPATHY

151

powder,
unknown. other
are

and Nux

brimstone

and

treacle and
a

are

vomica^
in the under

Sulphur^

few

remedies,

tasteless
common

preparations,
wants.

equal

to

all

The

deadliest

poisons
become

homoeopathic
friends.

pulation mani-

household

Take,

for

example,
One of the

the

deadly

Aconite.

greatest
his
his

crimes

Hahnemann
to

was

supposed by
was

contemporaries

have

mitted com-

neglect of blood-letting.
found
meet

In

Aconite enabled

Hahnemann him
to

the

agent
for

which
which In duced pro-

the
most

conditions in

blood-letting proving
Aconite

was

request.
noticed it

Hahnemann

the restlessness

chill, anxiety, fear, and

which and characterise the

irritable first stage And pathic homoeomeans

of

fevers

inflammatory
that
a

states.

experience proved
form,
was

Aconite^
potent

in

most

of
at

remedying
outset.

these

dangerous
will used
not

conditions
cure

the

But

Aconite
to

all fevers, its

and

it

is

not
are

be

unless

leading

indications
I mention

present.
this

because

the

success

of

152

HOW

TO

PRACTISE

homoeopaths
Aconite

in

curing

states to

of
use

fever the

with
same

has in

led

allopaths

remedy

fevers

regardless of
it in the

its finer

cations. indi-

They
to
"

give

strpng
"
"

tincture
a

knock

down

temperatures
Aconite low

very
a

dangerous practice, because thing

to

is not

trifle with
most

in

these

preparations.
mothers
can

However,

homoeopathic
what is

sing
of

its

praises from
There

they
no

have

observed for be actual

its effects.
"

need
"

fever
in order

or

raised
to

temperature

to

present
For

obtain

its curative

action.

with simple sleeplessness, is

one

restless remedies
one

tossing, it
;

of
it

the has the

leading
often

and the

here best

again
friends For
as

proved

of

of

nursery.

further
have

practical details
must

other be

works,
;

already said,

consulted should
to

but
to

before make
one

leaving
remark

the
in

subject,I
reference
one

like

pathic homoeowishes
to

remedies.
test

Any
obtain

who them and

"

them

should

direct
not

from
from The

some

homoeopathic

chemist,
or

general

chemist

from

stores."

1
I

CHAPTER

XX

SOME

COMPARATIVE

STATISTICS

From of

Tract

V. I will

now

give a few figures

The treated Routh's
Dr.

comparativestatistics.
to
cases

first

set

lates re-

of

pneumonia
from
Dr.

in Vienna,

and

are

taken

pamphlet,
tries to

Fallacies

of Homoeopathy.
the lesson of the

Routh

discount

by saying figures
"

that in the
cases were

homoeopathichospital the
few
we

severe

and
an

far between."

Here,

however,
who their

have

independent witness,
cases

saw actually

the

and

testifies

to

gravity.
Wilde, the
eminent Dublin
same
'

"

Sir William

who oculist,

personallyinspectedthe
in his work
154 on

hospital, says

Austria

am

COMPARATIVE

STATISTICS

155

bound the
as

to

say

that

the

cases

saw

treated
were

in

Vienna
acute

Homoeopathic
and

Hospital
those that

fully
come

virulent observation

as

have
Here

under Dr.

my Routh's

elsewhere.'
of the
:
"

are

statistics

comparative

mortality in particulardiseases
Pneumonia,
or

Inflammationof
Died.

the

Lungs.
Mortality.

Cases.

Under
treatment

homoeopathic
".
.

783

45

57

per

cent.,

or

in

17

Under
treatment

allopathic
. .

1522

373

24*5

per

cent,

or

in

Pleurisy,

or

Inflammationof Serous
Cases. Died.

Membrane

of

the

Lungs,

Mortality.

Under
treatment

homoeopathic
. .

384

12

per

cent.,

or

in

32

Under
treatment

allopathic
10
. .

17

134

13

per

cent.,

or

in

Peritonitis^ or

Inflammationof
Cases.

Serous
Died.

Membrane

of

the Abdomen.

Mortality.

Under
treatment

homoeopathic
.

.187

per

cent.,

or

in

23

Under
treatment

allopathic
628
. .

84

13

per

cent.,

or

in

The
treatment

superiority
of
to

of

homoeopathy
is almost
too

in

the well

cholera

known
are some

need

repetition. Here,

however,

of the

figures.

j!

156
At the

COMPARATIVE

STATISTICS

Tischnowitz introducer

In

Moravia,

Dr.

Quin,
Great

of

homoeopathy
the efFect of

into

Britain, witnessed
in
an

homoeopathy
treated deaths.
is
as

epidemic

of cholera, and with of

himself
three treated

twenty-nine
The under total
:
"

cases

only
cases

number

Of William

the

Vienna says

epidemic
in his work

of
on

1836,

Sir

Wilde
:"

Austria

(p. 275)
''

Upon
of

comparing
cholera disease
the in in

the this the

report

of

the

ment treat-

hospital with
other

that in

of

the

same

hospitals
it

Vienna that
Dr.

during
while

same

period,
of the
cases

appeared by
of
in

two-thirds

treated

Fleischmann treated

recovered,
the

two-thirds methods

those other The

by

ordinary

the

hospitalsdied."
superiority of
was so

the
on

homoeopathic
this
occasion

ment treat-

evident

that

it

COMPARATIVE

STATISTICS

157

led

to

the

repeal by

the

Austrian

Government

of

the

ordinances in

prohibiting the
the Austrian

practiceof
which

homoeopathy
had
hitherto The

States

disgraced its
of
the

statute-books.

figures give
as

London
at

epidemic

of

1854

the

mortality
per

the

Homoeopathic
per

Hospital
cent,

i6'4

cent,

against 51*8
The

in the* the above

allopathic hospitals.
result and
cases

credit

of Mr.

is due
Dr.

to

Dr.

Hamilton,
who

Cameron,
all the

Mackechnie,
to

treated

brought
and the

the

pathic Homoeospector, Into

Hospital
Dr.

Government
wrote

Macloughlin,
of All the
I
saw

Mr.

Cameron,

one

medical
were

officers
true

of

the

hospital :
cholera and your
I
saw

''
"

cases

of

in

the

various
cases

stages
which
I have

of did
no

the well

disease,
under in

several

treatment, would

which have

hesitation
any
an

saying
He he

sunk

under

other,"

further
were

added

that, though

allopath,if
take
taken

unfortunate he would

enough
have himself for

to

cholera
to

himself,

the

Homoeopathic
I will make

Hospital
a

treatment.

final

quotation

from

Tract

158
before
refers
one

COMPARATIVE

STATISTICS

leaving
to

the

subject
results

of of

cholera.

It in

the

striking

Camphor

epidemic.
"In
1

83

1,

on

the

appearance

of
a

cholera

in

Germany,
in
true

Hahnemann he recommended for the

published

pamphlet,
as

which

camphor
first

the

remedy

stage

of

cholera.

The in

experience of homoeopathic practitioners

that

epidemic

and

in

every the

subsequent
power The

epidemic amply
of
most

confirmed this stage illustration

was

curative disease.

camphor

in

of

the of

brilliant wisdom Dr.

Hahnemann's

prescient
of
cholera alone he in

afforded
in

by

the

rience expeof

Rubini
in

the

epidemic
With

Naples

1854-5.
R.

camphor
dei Poveri

treated

in the
to
our

Albergo

(corresponding
225 and with
cases

workhouse without the In

a

infirmary) single death,

Regiment epidemic
in

of

cholera

166

soldiers
success.

of

3rd
the

Swiss last then

similar in

Naples,
years

1884,
was

Dr.

Rubini,
from

eighty-four
town

old,
on

absent
a

the in
to

in

attendance but the

sick
men

brother attached

the the

country,
homoeo-

medical

COMPARATIVE

STATISTICS

159

pathic dispensary there

camphor
This
treatment

treated these

83

cases

with
died.

alone,

and

of

only
of of

three

extraordinary
in the

success

the

camphor
is
a

early stage
to

cholera of

splendid testimony
and
to to

the

genius

mann Hahne-

the

sufficiencyof Homoeopathy
the
most

with grapple successfully

terrible

diseases."

In
are

the

Homoeopathic
the of

World

of

July, 1889,
of the

given

comparative
an

statistics which the first

treatment

epidemic
in The
at

visited three is
a

Melbourne,
months list of
two

Australia,
that
cases

of
the them and
taken

year.

following
three the

treated

hospitals,
number of

of

with allopathic,

deaths
are

percentage
from
the
:

in

each

case.

They
of

Melbourne

Herald

April 29th, 1889

"

i6o

COMPARATIVE

STATISTICS

It

will

be

observed

that

the

Homoeopathic
accommodation

Hospital,
than the

with

much

smaller

others,
the

was

able

to

treat

nearly
the

as

many

cases,

reason

being
much shorter

that

patients

were

got

well

in

time.

62

IS

HOMCEOPATHY

SPREADING?

of

Hahnemann

and

homoeopathy

at

the in face

present
this of

day.

Considering, then,
short

that the

comparatively
unheard-of

time,
and

in

persecutions
has abolished done

difficulties,
from

homoeopathy

bleeding
away with

has general practice,

sale wholeitself
to

mercurialisings, and
every

has

spread

quarter

of
room

the for there

civilised

globe, there
At

is the

certainlyno
present
moment

despondency.
are some

18,000

dulytising prac-

qualified medical according

How many
more

practitioners openly
to

Hahnemann's there
are

method. who of the

practise
medical
to

homoeopathy
scribes but free and

for secretly,
is

fear

pharisees, it
numbers
of
cannot

impossible
be

say the

their

small.
States

In

atmosphere
institutions

the have

United

pathic homoeo-

flourished
own

amazingly.

Homoeopaths
medical

have

their in

fully-equipped
with law
;

schools,

perfect equality
in

allopathicinstitutions
many and
most

the

eye

of

the

important
are

Government

hospitals

asylums

manned other

by homoeopathic

practitioners;and

homoeopathic

insti-

IS

HOMOEOPATHY

SPREADING?

163
the

tutions

are

partly
of the

subsidised

by

more

important
In of
too

States. Islands
"

the

British the
to

and

on
"

the

Continent
are

Europe,

Molierian admit
at

conditions

powerful
men

of
a

the

generality of
its bare of the

medical merits
:

looking
look have the
at

question oh
the

they

it in imbibed scribes

light

sentiments Have believed.?

they
any
we

in the and

schools.

of
are

pharisees
Not the the
a

sometimes

asked.
out

few,
and

we

reply, have

stepped
themselves

of

ranks,
lysing parahave been

emancipated
traditions

from

of their
of

order.

Others have

made driven

show back

but liberality,
into

again

evil ways

by

the

force

of the

uninstructed
An
some

professionalopinion they amusing

ago. instance
At

encountered.

of

this

occurred

years the

the

Annual

Meeting
held
at

of

British in the

Medical Mr.

Association

Ryde
of of

1881,

Barrow,
Dr.

the

President President

Meeting,
Medical

Bristowe,
and of Mr. the

the

Section,
President
in

Jonathan

Hutchinson,

Surgical

Section,

each,

his

opening

64

IS

HOMOEOPATHY

SPREADING?

address,
part of the
towards

advocated

the of

adoption,
a

on

the

Association,

of spirit

fairness

homoeopathy
more

and this
was

homoeopaths.

Nothing
yet
such the that

than the

suggested,
aroused
was

storm

suggestion
speakers
ventured
was

each and in

of
never

the

promptly
to

silenced,
the year, of
as

refer

to

subject
at

public again.

The the the

following
Council incident

the

Worcester

Meeting,
reported
on

the

Association
:
"

follows
"The

question
mooted

of

homoeopathy
in
at

fortunately un. .
.

the the

addresses

in

medicine
at

and

surgery has the

Annual much

Meeting
time and of

Ryde,
on

occupied
part
of

thought
Council.

the

Committee

"Immediately
addresses the views the idea

on

the
arose

delivery
in many

of

those that of the

minds

enunciated
had in
some

by
way

the

readers

addresses

been

put
of it

forward
Council
was

[through them] by
itself" until
terrible
"

the

Committee !
"

thought
of

"and

not

the

President

the

Council,

Dr.

IS

HOMCEOPATHY

SPREADING?

165

Bristowe,
and this in
was

and

Mr.

Hutchinson

had

severally
that

the
not

most

public
that the
to

manner

shown

so,

feelingwas
show the

allayed."
state

I quote

the

above
exists

slavish

of
men

feeling that
like the Dr.

in and

the

profession.
Hutchinson,

If

Bristowe

Mr.

at

head coerced rank

of

the

profession,are ignorance
this and

capable

of

being
of how and the

by
and

the

prejudice
way,

file in

ignominious
liberty of
of

is it

likely that
is
to

much be

thought
medical

action ?

expected likely;
do and
come

students

It is not

yet, in
forward

spite
to

of the
recruit

unlikeliness, many
the But ranks the

of
number

homoeopathic
who the
come

tioners. practiis not of the

sufficient

to

minister

to

wants

homoeopathic homoeopathy
many faith
are

public.
is

Among

the

public,
but of
as

spreading rapidly ;
have them
no

of the
to

converts
to

doctor
taken
to

their

minister
to

when
an

ill, they
advise

obliged
;
to

send

for
use

allopath
own

them
as

and whether

they

their take

judgment
medicines
or

they

his

not.

66

IS

HOMGEOPATHY

SPREADING?

The

allopathicmedical
out

journals

are

always
of

crying
quacks

against quack
their it. A

the

multiplication They

and but

remedies.
own

have
to

nothing
thank

stupid prejudice
and

for

stifF them

sionalism starchy profes-

prevents
to
cure

from
the

learning public
are

how
not

their
to

and patients, this

out.

slow that

find

What

wonder,
the skilful
nostrums

then,
and ? little
to

they largely patronise

advertisers of

daring

patent

Homoeopathic
troubled the would

practitioners are
defections
;
to

very

with

of and
learn

their If the the

art

patients
old of

manufacturer pill-

school

only

consent

curing
have

from
little

Hahnemann,
cause

its the

journals
success

would

to

lament

of unlicensed

medicine-men.
In
"

another the

way

homoeopathy
of

is

spreading
into and the their This

by

adoption
of

its remedies

practice

allopathic doctors,

incorporation in allopathictext-books.
latter
on

kind

of

"

conveying
by
the

"

has

been of

carried
several

wholesale works
"

authors

medical

almost

invariably without

IS

HOMCEOPATHY

SPREADING?

167

acknowledgment appropriations.
A have in

of

the

source

of

their

large
been

number collected

of

these

appropriations
Dyce
Brown British

by

Dr.

pamphlet

published
Association.

by
This

the

Homoeopathic
is entitled Medicine this little but method
''

pamphlet
of Present-

The

Permeation

day
But is of

by

Homoeopathy."
of the

spreading drugs
the may

homoeopathy
be is priated, approhended, apprethe

use

unless

principle
is made.

no

real

progress

This
is

British

Homoeopathic
of,
and the the has
set

Association

well
of

aware

itself
It
aims

the
at

task

redeeming
less of the than

situation. establishment

nothing

and

endowment in In
the

permanent
heart of the

College
British

of

Homoeopathy Empire.

'furtherance
on

of

this

object
and

it

confidently
material

relies

obtaining
every

the

moral

support

of

homoeopath.

CHAPTER

XXII

SOME

OBJECTIONS

ANSWERED

In dinner

the

course

of

conversation
of

at

public cropped

the and

subject

homoeopathy
a

up,

my

neighbour,
stated the from

layman

of

gence, intelli-

frankly
the owned with it

objections
the

he

had

to

system,
that

looked

at

outside.

He

he

had

no

personal
had
not

acquaintance
studied it
;

homoeopathy,
seemed
to

and him that

but

man

who free

did

not

pin
any than

himself

to

system
of

was

more

to

use

and

every who which

means

benefiting
he such

patient
that

one

did.

Further,
of

thought
an

medicines

were

innocent

nature

that domestic of

they

could

be

safely
have all.

prescribed
very
I

in

practice, doing
any

must

little

power

good
i68

at

will

take

lyo

SOME

OBJECTIONS

ANSWERED

showed

to

homoeopaths
it of has been

its power
used
ever

over

skin in

disease,
certain when

and

by
since.

them

cases

nettle-rash and

Again,
first in

acid salicylic in
cases

its

salts it

were

given
many

of who

rheumatism,
were

produced
with

patients
noises
was

over-dosed
ears,

it,

deafness,
The hint

in
at

the
once

and

vertigo.
homoeo-

taken soda

by

pathists,and
form from
set
a

of salicylate has cured which and

many

in its homoeopathic

patients suffering
this

disease

presents
is called

distressing
the
man

of

symptoms,
first described

after

who I may

it,
also

"

Meniere's

disease."

mention

the
as

drug
a

Thyroiditis
for
a

lately brought
disease called from has

forward

remedy

myxcedema.

This

pared drug (prethe in

the

thyroid gland of

sheep)
many

produced

alarming symptoms
in the hands of
cases

patients,and
has been used

homoeopaths presenting
are

in successfully

similar
use

symptoms.
"

Homoeopaths just as
free
as

free

to

anything,
have

allopaths; only
:

they

this

advantage
of

knowing
"

the

doublesidedness

drug

action

that

drug

SOME

OBJECTIONS
conditions like

ANSWERED

171

can

cure

those have

it
a

can

produce
more

in

the

healthy
"

they
of
an

much

intimate

knowledge
forward
has from his
to

any

drug
can

that

is

brought
The and
can

than

allopath
on

have.

latter learn
;

blunder
mistakes
can

in
as

the

dark,
as

his

much
teach

he
so

but
as

mistakes teach
a

never

him

much

they

homoeopath.
no

there But, really, the

is

comparison
and
reason, ;

between

system

of

homoeopathy
There in the is
one

the

no-system

of

allopathy.

light,and
is

orderly progress
but chaotic
no

there

nothing

fragments in
more

the

other.

pathy Homoeothan

trammels trammel

its adherents the

the

laws

of

Nature

mechanician.

2.

Homoeopathy

is any

too

harmless
use.

to

be

of

It is
use

quite true

that

homoeopathy
or

is of

no

for

poisoning
If die

vermin

for
it

killing

patients.

patientsmust
a

die,

prefers that
true

they
that

shall the

natural

death.

It is also

homoeopathic
may be used

preparations of deadly
with

poisons

perfect-safetyin

172

SOME

OBJECTIONS

ANSWERED

household
that because it I may
cannot

practice.
a

But

it does
cannot

not

follow

preparation
cure.

fore kill,there^^

here

mention has been

incidentallyanother
raised
**

objection that
is in the

"
"

If homoeopathy
must
cure

true,"

it is

said,
as

drug
in

same

dose

that

which it is leaves

it

has

caused But
account

the the

symptoms

for which
in this in
case

given."
out

objector
the human

of

difference

the

sensitiveness the

of

the

organism
health demands between and

under disease.

different
pathy Homoeoshall toms symprest

conditions

of

simply
a

that
the

there disease The

be

correspondence
and the

drug symptoms.

is

matter

of
a

experience,and

experience
the
to

shows

that

in

normal
a

healthy state
of
a

organism
disturb

requires
it than

larger dose
to
restore

drug
it when

it does

similarly
in the

disturbed
sensitiveness may eye be and

by

disease. of
an

The

difference
and
an

organ

in health Take with

a

disease
inflamed eye
can

seen

any

time.
that

compare
to

normal eye

in

its reaction

light.

normal

bear

SOME

OBJECTIONS
strong
cause

ANSWERED

173

very

light

which

to

an

inflamed

eye

would This
to

exquisite pain.
answer

fact

supplies the

to
on

the the

tion objecscore

homoeopathic medicines,
harmlessness. it would be well

of
way,

their that
were

Remarking,
for the world
I may diseased

by

the

if all that

drugs
the

equally harmless,
of the

add

sensitiveness
to

human indicated It
uated atten-

organism drug

the

homoeopathically

is intensified

beyond conception.
the dose
too
manner

is

impossible to get
in Hahnemann. when
not
to

small

if

the

graduated
And
even

directed

by

in certain is
a

individuals

diseased
certain

there

ness peculiarsensitive-

drugs infinitely transcending

of gave
cannot

the

sensitiveness which

Drosera Darwin be in of

to

phosphate
such the
a

of

ammonia,
Some house

fright.
of
are a

persons whilst
a

attic

few

grains

ipecacuanha
without
In I the

being powdered powerfully

World

in the

basement

being
pathic Homoeothe

aflfected of
case

thereby.

July, 1885,
from the

quoted

report

of

British

Medical year,

Journal

of

February

7,

of

the

same

174

SOME

OBJECTIONS
medical tells

ANSWERED

in which killed
a

man

how

he
a

nearly
linseed that

patient by simply applying

the
a

poultice, though
every she The time had such
an

patient protested
had been

poultice
intense

applied
asthma.

had

attack her

of

doctor
on

pooh-poohed
the

statement,
to

insisted her result

poultices being applied

was

leg (which
that
to

ulcerated), with
later
as

the
moned sum-

three
see

hours

he

was

"

her,

her he

sister continues

thought
"

she

was

dying."
her

And

found
and
I
ever

livid, and
as

struggling
an

for

breath,
as

certainlyin
saw." is

bad
an

attack

of asthma
observation
more

To
a

allopath an

of To

this kind
a

curiosity and
it is full of

nothing
useful

homoeopath

cance. signifi-

It

is

exceptional
as

to

find
not

patient

as

sensitive

this to
to

remedy
case.

homoeopathiin

cally related

the

But

disease, the
to

patient
remedy
symptoms,
which

becomes which that

excessivelysensitive
has is
to to

the

caused say,
to

corresponding
the

remedy
Ex-

is

homoeopathic

his condition.

SOME

OBJECTIONS
Hahnemann

ANSWERED

175

perience taught
much smaller
was

that the

very

amount
to
cure

of

corresponding
that

drug
to

needed the

th^n

required
has

produce
the

symptoms.
in the
;

Experience

confirmed of his

fact

of practice
it
now

thousands remains

followers

and

established
I will
we now

beyond
pass

the
on

of disproof. possibility
to
answer

other

tions objec-

sometimes

hear.

3.

Homoeopathy
contrary
;

has

no

'Tonics.

On

the

every is
a

properly
tonic
I have
a

chosen

homoeopathic remedy
treated.

to

the

case

Again
"

and
not

again
that

been you

asked gave better the

by patients,
me

Was

tonic
so

my
I

appetite
took

has

been it

much

since

it," when

was

merely

appropriate
"

homoeopathic

remedy.
understand
thing some-

By

tonic," people generally

which increases The the

appetite and

the

feelingof strength.
will do is in
a

appropriate remedy
the
are

both
state
as
'*

; but

this

implies that
There
an

patient
no

of

debility.
"

such
sense.

things

tonics

in

absolute

176

SOME

OBJECTIONS
is

ANSWERED

Quinine

only

''

tonic

"

when it

given
is
one

for of The

debility;
the
same

when

taken

in health

most

debilitating drugs
be said of

known.

may

Arsenic^
are

Iron^ Phos-

phoruSy and
to
are

Strychnine. They
kinds of of

only

"

tonic

"

special

like debility, There done

those is thus

they
an

-N

capable

creating.

inconceivable

amount

of harm in

by
It of

criminate indisis
a

indulgence
relic of the old

"tonics."
treatment

barbarous
names

names

of diseases
Hahnemann
"

by

of

drugs, against
A

which

protested.
of
a
"

patient
be
cases

is

feeling
than
ten

want

tone
''

;
"

what ? In

could nine

simpler
out

to

take

tonic

of

the
we

result

is slow

poisoning.
the different

In kinds

homoeopathy
of

differentiate

debility,

and in
remove a

prescribe
dose the
or

the

remedy
is

which

corresponds,
to

which

quite large enough

without in

debility

depositing
the
In

mineral

vegetable poison
breed future of

patient's
a

body
number
the

to

trouble.

large
one

of

cases

debility there
at

is

of it.

chronic the

miasms

the

bottom the

of

Relieve

system

of that

by

appropriate

178
summed

SOME

OBJECTIONS
in

ANSWERED

up

bleeding,purging,
A

and

ministeri ad-

lavements.
man,

young London
was

medical

fresh

from
me

one

of

the

schools,
a

recently told
of
a

that the

there

always

sigh

reHef

from
in

physician when
if then he he

examining
that what he
to

patient

the

wards

found
knew

had

constipation, for
"

prescribe
The is that
A

purgative.
that is lost
a

thing

sight

of

by allopaths
disease.

constipation is
does
not

constitutional

purgative

cure

it, but

only gives
the actual

temporary
condition.
without used

relief, and

aggravates
cures

Homoeopathy
any

constipation drugs
most

purging. allopaths
Nux
to

The check

by

the

diarrhoea
"

Opium^
and cured many in

Sulphur^
other their
cases

vomica^

Lead^
"

Alum^
have
most

so-called

astringents
form
the

homoeopathic
of

inveterate disturbance thus the

constipation without Homoeopathy

aperients ;
does
not

any has

whatever. very best possess of and

and
want

though
active
to
use

it does

not

purgatives, homoeopathists
drugs
in that way if in
any

are

free

case

they

think

it

SOME

OBJECTIONS
while

ANSWERED

17$
The the be

worth need

as

temporary
is
so

expedient.
however,
as

for

that of worth many

rare,

in
to

practice
scarcely

homoeopathists,
into
account.

taking

5. The

Homcsopathy
valid

cures

too

quickly.
pathy homoeonavy
was

most

argument

against
doctor in

was

given
a case.

me

by
The

the

who

related
to

ship

this doctor the Red and

on

appointed during
as one

was

stationed

in

Sea acted shore.

were

of

the

Egyptian
the

wars,

hospitalship to
this time
on

fighting force
cases

During
received
no

many and

of my for

dysentery
friend
it under

board,

as

found
pathy, alloabout his

satisfactory treatment
and
as

he he
to

knew determined

something
to

homoeopathy,
cases

treat

according
cases

Hahnemann's

method. like those this that time. that

on

The

all

presented symptoms
Mercurius

produced
he his gave

by

corrosivuSy and
with
a

in minute

doses well and in it

"

the very his

result short
case

patients got
One officer
"

is

allude particularly

to

was

brought

board

i8o

SOME

OBJECTIONS

ANSWERED

exceedingly
one's astonishment

ill

with

dysentery
he recovered

but

to

every the

under

treatment

by
he became

Mercurius

corrosivus

so

rapidly
ready
to

that

perfectly
in
a

well

and

return

to

duty
he

very

short

time.

The

day
battle

after

rejoined campaign
man

his

regiment,
was

the

next

of

the

fought,
on

and

he

was

the

first

to

be

killed

the

British

side

Under

allopathy
got
well in

he

could

not

sibly pos-

have

time.

CHAPTER

XXIII

THE

HOPEFULNESS

AND

HARMLESSNESS

OF

HOMCEOPATHY.

CONSERVATIVE

MEDICINE

From

what

has

already
of
the
new

been

said,
system
become

many
over

of

the old

advantages "no-system"
all. But there

the

will
is

have

apparent

to
^

one

pervading
of

advantage, homoeopathy

and
I
as

that

is, the
with
of

hopefulness allopathy.
"

compared
a

Homoeopathy allopathy
than
" "

is

system
to

cure,"

whereas

professes
"

do

nothing

more

treat

or

palliate.
persons it be afFords

Homoeopathy
to

actually
;"

restores

sick

health the

and

if

they

are

past
that

cure

most

perfect hopefulness
of
of the idea

palliation
of homoeo-

can

found.
is

The

pathy
formed

an

outcome

Hahnemann

of

the

nature

disease,

as

not

being

18

82

HOPEFULNESS

so

much

gross and

material
as

alteration
a

of of

the the

structures

functions

disorder
in this

vital

force.

Looking
are

at not

disease

light,
the solid old
perience ex-

homoeopathists
presence
structures, school. of
as

dismayed

in of the

tumours

and the

changes
of

are

members know

Homoeopathists
that
a

from

very

large proportion
upon

of
and

tumours

can

be

acted process

by medicines,
has the

that them
knows

the
can

vital be

which

produced allopath
morbid

reversed. way of

Whilst

no

better than

dealing with
them off

growths
whilst disease it

by
off
in
to

cutting
the the

(which,
the

cuts

growth,

leaves

behind
seek

organism),
rid the
a

pathists homoeo-

get
of

of

the

growth
state

by
of

curing
which
In

the the

patient growth
same

diseased

is but

manifestation.

the

way diseases the

homoeopathists approach
'which in such

many

other

allopathy
as

are

relegated to
various rhoidal

surgeon, of

fistulae haemor-

of

kinds, diseases
tumours.

bones,
is what

and

This

I venture In

to

call

*^

conservative

medicine,"

days

gone

OF

HOMCEOPATHY

183
serious affections of

by
the

the

remedy
was

for

many

limbs in

amputation.

Later have limbs

ments improveshown which that

were

surgical methods
to
save

it is

possible

many

formerlv

condemned.
surgery.

This
But

is what there is

is called
room

conservative
much which
to

for

improvement
are now

yet.

Many
would the

operations
be

performed
if

spared

the

patient
of known.
true

only

conservative
were

powers

homoeopathic

medicine

widely
It very methods is

the and

ways

of

homoeopathy
whilst

are

gentle
are

unobtrusive,
with expense. and

surgical
and

attended
"

much
To

pomp
cut

circumstance breast mutilated

an

and

off

for

tumour, for

leave the of work

patient
of

life,is only
cure

half

hour

to

the her of

patient
and
or

her

diseased

state, and
be the

leave work

sound

healthy, may
years.
is the

months the

Many
whole
as

patients,who
of their

fancy

tumour

disease, prefer the

it ; and shorter in the

shorter

plan,
of
cases

they
it is

think the

majority
for it

plan,

materially

84

GENTLENESS

OF

shortens

the

patient's life.
and
a

Homoeopathy,
the work.

rightly

understood surgeon

practised, saves
amount

operating

vast

of

Gentleness There
to
us

of Homoeopathy.
which has
come

is from until

motto

down

the

medical

world
came,

of

antiquity
was more

which,
honoured The may

homoeopathy
breach
''

in the
runs

than

in the
non

observance.
"

motto

Primum
"

nocere

; and

be

translated your If the

Whatever your had

you

do, don't
to

damage
him."

patient in
motto

attempt

help
spected, re-

this

always

been

patient-world would
the

never

have and
we

had

to

undergo

wholesale

bleedings
;
nor

mercurialisings of
now

the

past

should

encounter

patientsmade
damaged

deaf
in
some

by quinine
way the
or

or

or salicylates,

other The

by

the

fashionable of

drugs

of

day.
is

action

homoeopathic
There
act

remedies

essentially gentle.
of
the organs The
to

is

no

compelling
ways
at

in

certain

all

costs.

dynamised
from
all

homoeopathic remedy
poisonous drug

is

freed

crude,

CHAPTER

XXIV

CONCLUSION

HOMCEOPATHY

IN

APHORISMS

WILL

conclude

this

treatise

by

summing
in
a

up series

the

Elements

of

Homoeopathy

of

Aphorisms.

I.
"

The

Law.

I.

All

medicinal

substances

have

the

power in

of

causing

disease

when

given

to

persons

health.

II.

Each

medicinal
disease

substance

has

power

of

producing

peculiar
i86

to

itself.

HOMCEOPATHY

IN

APHORISMS

187

III.

Symptoms
disease,
and of

are

the

natural
are

language
the

of

symptoms

also

natural

language

drug-action.

IV.

drug's
the

power

can

be it has

learned

by studying
when

symptoms
persons in

produced

given

to

health.

V.

Hahnemann

was

the of

first to

systematically
in

study

the

powers

medicines when in
;

this way and and

taking giving

them them the

himself
to

health,

his

friends
which

observing

recording

effects

followed.

VI.

This medicines be and he

he

called
; those

'^

proving
allowed
he

"

(or testing)
themselves
"

who
on

to
"

experimented
the called records
*'

called

provers

of

the

symptoms

produced

provings."

88

HOMCEOPATHY

IN

VII.

Out Materia of each

of

these

provings
;
so

he

constructed the

his

Medica

arranging
present
a

symptoms
its

drug

as

to

picture of

disease-producingpower.

VIII.

Drug

diseases

resemble

natural

diseases.

IX.

The
a

Law
case

of

Similars natural

affirms

that,
that

in

given
has

of

disease,
most

drug
the

which

produced
of the

symptoms
case,

like the
a

symptoms

will
to

be
work

most

certain, when

administered,

cure.

X.

The of this

Rule practical Law is formulated similibus

which thus

is the
:
"

outcome

^'Similia
"

curentur."

Let

likes be treated

(or cured) by

likes."

APHORISMS

189

XI.

Homoeopathy administering
this Rule and

is the medicines the

art

of

selecting and
with it is

in

accordance which

Principle on

founded.
XII.

A
a

medicine

is said

to

be

homoeopathic
when it has

to

given

diseased
a

condition person

duced pro-

in
to

healthy

symptoms
that

similar

those

which

characterise

condition.

II.

"

The

Dose.

I.

The medicines

susceptibility to
varies

the

action

of

greatly in

different

persons.

II.

It also

varies

in the
to

same

person

at

different of

times health

according
or

the

particular state
may be
in.

disease

the

person

III.

In
more

disease

the

human the

body
action

is of

infinitely
a

susceptible to

drug

I90

HOMCEOPATHY

IN

which

is than

homoeopathic
it is
:

to

the of

morbid the
same

tion condi-

to

the

action

drug

in health sensitive
to
one

it is also, in the is not

more disease,infinitely

to

homoeopathic drug homoeopathic.

than

it is

that

IV.

drug

which when

may

have in

produced

morbid will

condition
remove
a

given

large dose,

condition, presenting similar

from another

toms sympwhen

(if arising given

in
a

cause)
small.

dose

exceedingly

v.

One

and
to
a

the

same

drug
variety

may of

be

pathic homoeoditions. con-

great

diseased

VI.

All

that of

is
a

needed
case

is

that find

the their

leading
part counter-

symptoms

should

in characteristic
the

symptoms

produced

by

drug.

APHORISMS

191

VII.

The

drug

may

have do disease way

produced
not

many

other
to

symptoms symptoms

which of this the in

no

correspond
those its

besides

which

do, but
any

impairs

in efficacy

particularcase.

VIII.

When,
evoke the
one

in

case

of
the

disease,
action of

we

wish

to

part
without
powers
to

of

drug

for

cure,

excitingthose
of the the the

other which able

diseaseare

producing

drug
we are

not

homoeopathic

case,

to

do

so

by diminishing

dose.

IX.

We

are

enabled

to

do

this

because

of

the

increased

in disease,and susceptibility of
as

because
as

this increase
a

only extends, susceptibility

the

rule,

so

far

drug

is

homoeopathic.

x.

We

can

in

this

way

use

the

most

deadly

poisons

as

remedies
but

without effects.

fear of

producing

anything

good

192

HOMCEOPATHY

IN

APHORISMS

XI.

For

this

discovery,
method

and of

for

the

invention
tion attenua-

of

an

effectual of

graduated
we

medicinal
to

substances,

are

also

indebted

Hahnemann.

XII.

There inert state,

or

are

some

substances when when taken

which,
in their

though
natural after both

nearly become,

so

finely powerful
and

divided

Hahnemann's for

method,
health

agents

deranging

restoring by

it when mann's Hahne-

deranged.

Graduated increases

attenuation

method

dynamic

power.

XIII.

In
a

many

cases

the

more

highly

attenuated is
is

medicine

is, the
"

more

powerful
"

its

medicinal
a more

action.

"

Dynamisation
term
to

fore therethan

correct

employ

**

attenuation."

194
Allopathy extinguishes
No

INDEX

nature's

danger-signals,
16
to

Scripture authority for,

of

Amelioration

symptoms,

guide

treatment,

91,

137-138 Anarchists, medical,

8, 9

Antipathic. Aperients
The do

See
not

Enantiopathic
cure

constipation, 177-178
use

homoeopathic
the
elements

of, 177-179
of

Aphorisms,

homoeopathy

in

series

of,

186-192
or ApothekerlexicoTiy

Pharmaceutical
22

Dictionary,

by

Hahnemann,
Arsenical

Poisonings test
22

for, discovered, by Hahnemann,

Barrow,

Mr.,

advocates

toleration

of

homoeopaths,

163-165
Belladonna^
Cures
or

Glonoin,

for

headache,

erysipelas,as

confirmed

by

Professor

Liston,

46-47
Scarlatina
can

be

prevented
Power

by,

34

Blackley,

Dr.
-note

C.

H.,

of

the

simal^ by, 83, Infinite

Blood-letting, Hahnemann
Boscovich
"

on,

38-4C,

151

on

atoms,

73

Bottle-

washings," 87
Dr.,
advocates toleration of

Bristowe,

homoeopaths,

163-165
British

Homoeopathic
Dr.

Association, the, 167

The
Permeation

Brown,

Dyce,

of

Present-day

Medicine

by Homaeopatky^
the action

by,

167
18

Bryonia

and

Rkus^

of, compared,

INDEX

195

Burford, Burnett,

Dr.,
Dr. 61

on

Radium^

84-87
the
term
"

J. C,

invents

vaccinosis,"

New

Cure

of Consumptiofiyby, 76,
powers of 145

note

Therapeutic developed
Cameron, Mr.,
the

nosodes,

the,

greatly

by,

treatment

of for

cholera

cases

by, 157
of

Camphor,

remedy

the

first stage

cholera,

as

foreseen Cancer
set

by Hahnemann,
131

158-159

up

by X-ray burns, by X-rays,

1

Treated Cases
must

31-132
1

be
not

individualised,
be treated
18

8
to

Must

according

the

name

ot

the

disease,
Must be

treated

according 55-56
statistics

to

the

totality of

the

symptoms,

Cholera,

comparative
the

of, 155-159
first stage

Camphor^
Rubini,

remedy
treats
a

for the

of, 158-159

Dr.,

225

cases

of, with

Camphor
Arsenical

without

single death, 158

on

Christison,

Sir

R., M.D.,
zi

Hahnemann's

Poisonings Clark, Sir Andrew,

for

on

the

absence of

of

any

fixed

ples princi-

the

treatment

disease, 9
Practical
Materia

Clarke,

Dr.

J. H.,

Dictionary

of

Medicay
Clinical Medic Concomitants

by, 119-120
to

Repertory
ay

the

Dictionary of

Materia

by,

121

of symptoms,

90-99,
Dr.

135,

139-141
1 1

Conferences on
Conservative

Homceopathyy by
medicine,

Granier,

182-184

196

INDEX
1

cured by aperients, not Constipation 177-178 Cured by the homoeopathicremedy, 177-179 treatment Contraries, by, 6 Conversion, my, to homoeopathy, 1-4 effects of, 80, 81, 83 Copper in infinitesimal quantities, 60-61 and vaccinosis, Cow-pox (or vaccinia),

\
1

Crookes, Sir W., researches quantities, 69

Cullen's
Materia

of, in regard

to

mal infinitesi-

Medica

translated

by Hahnemann,
181

25

homoeopathy, 14, 29, Of a dog, 100-103 Of Count Radetsky,103-106 Of dysenteryby Mercurius corrosivuSy 179-180 effected by Hahnemann, Cures examples of, 23-24,
Cure,
in paralysis 90-99

the aim

of

Curie, M.
Dr.

homoeopathicstock, 88 Paul Francis, induced by Mr. W. Leaf settle in England, 88-89

nature

comes Pierre,

of

to

Danger signals of pharmacy,

Darwin
on

extinguished by
173

modern

13

infinitesimal

83-84, quantities,
"

Gully, 84 tonics,"but by the Debilitycured, not by remedy, 175-177 the supposednecessity for, 50-53 Diagnosis, by
of, 5 1 Difficulty Disease, symptoms
Hahnemann's
the

Treated

Dr.

pathic homoeo-

languageof,48, 52
of the essential
nature

idea

of, 53-

57,
Not but

58-66
of
structure
or

a change primarily an

function,

alteration of the vital force, 5 3

INDEX

197

Artificial, produced
Health and their One disease nature, 72

by drugs, 56
are

dynamic

or

spiritual in

disease

partially

neutralised

by

another,

146-147
Sensitiveness 174-175 Diseases in the abstract
18
not

of

the

system

in

disease, 172-173,

do

not

exist

but

diseased

persons,

Specificsfor, do
150, 151,

exist, 19, 132,

134,

143,

149,

154,

175-176
doctrine

Chronic,

Hahnemann's

of, 33-34,

57,

58-66
Acute,
Not Of Of Hahnemann's definition

of, 58

material the the

things, 54

skin, suppression of, 62-65 skin, "c., caused

by

psora,

64-65
132, 133,

Drug-effects and,
135-141
Serum
treatment

resemblances

between,

of, 142-147
diseases in the
same

Incompatible

patient, 145-147

Quasi-specificsfor,

149 100-103
1 1 2-1 1

Dog, Meissonier's, cured,

Dose, meanin
An A of the

word,

allopathic, 112-113, homoeopathic,

of 113-115
1

114

Repetition Strength

the,
the,
or

14-1

5 related
to

of

not

necessarily
of

the

causation

cure

conditions, 125-126
57,

Doses, infinitesimal, 15, 16, 47,

67-89,

in

Ordinary, gradually

reduced

by Hahnemann,

67-

69,

IIO-IIl

198

INDEX

the Doses, infinitesimal,

great

importance
action

of, 68

Infinitesimal, theory of the

of, 71-75

Large

and

small, have

not

always opposite effects, 125

between,

Drug-effects

and

disease-effects,resemblances
135-HI
Wendell doses of Holmes See
on,
2

132^1

I33"

Drugs,

Dr.

Oliver

Infinitesimal First tested

Doses.
on

systematically
16 sick from

the

healthy

by

Hahnemann,
Tested Positive Proved
on

the effects

earliest

times, 16-17

of, 19

on

the
are

healthy,
the

19,

122,

148

Symptoms
Artificial

language produced
pf,
act
on

of

drug forces, 48-49

diseases powers of

by, 56
the vital
or

Dynamic
Method

force,

56

attenuating, diluting,
173

dynamising

68-69,
Metallic,

like

flint
powers

and when

copper^

yield

up

their

dynamic
The detection power Attenuated of
or

triturated, 68, 'j'j

dilutions is

of, in
chemical diluted

high

beyond
decimal

the

analysis, 69
on

either

the

or

centesimal Attenuation 192 In the detection

or

scale, 69
dilution

of, develops power,

67-69,

of, the
reagent, 70

human

body

is the

most

sensitive

Insoluble, the action Insoluble, Professor

of, 77-79,
Stokvis
on,

80-84
80-81

Homoeopathic
Dudgeon,
Dr.,

or

negative
of

effect

of, the, 109

Lesser

translation 3
1

Hahnemann's

Writings, by,

INDEX

199
of and

On
On

Hufeland's
Sir

opinion
Forbes

Hahnemann,
the Medical

42

John

RevieWy

45-46
On

Caspar

Hauser,

in

the

Homctopathic World^

Duncan,

Dr.

M,,

on

vaccinia of the

(or cow-pox),
vital

60
cause

Dynamic

disturbance

force, the

of

disease, 55-56

Dynamic Dysentery

powers cured

of

drugs

act

on

the

vital

force, 56, 72

by

Mercurius

coiroswus^

179-180

Emotions

produce

physical

changes

in

tissues

and

secretions, 55

Enantiopathic Enantiopathic Enantiopathic Erysipelas

(or antipathic) method

treatment treatment

of

using drugs,

is

6 merely palliative,
to

inapplicable
Professor Liston

many

diseases,6 Belladonna^

cured

by

with

46-47

Fallacies

of Homoeopathy
on

by

Dr.

Routh,

154-155

Faraday
Fevers,

infinitesimal
use

quantities, 70
o{ Aconite

the

and
qn

abuse

in, 151-152
41,

Forbes, Sir John,

Hahnemann,

43-46

Gentleness

of

homoeopathy,
on

184-185 Homceopathy^ by,

1 1

Granier,

Dr., Conferences

Hahnemann,
Bewails
the

absence curative

of

any

principle
of

for discovering
10

the

powers

medicines,

Therapeutic rule, 16, 26

200

INDEX

Hahnemann,
The first them Positive
to

study drugs systematicallyby testing

on

the of

healthy, drugs

i6

effects

studied

exclusively by,

19,117 Birth

of,

20

Familiar Works Works 29"

with

many

languages, by,
21,

translated and 30,

24,

25,
21,

26,
22,

28

contributions 3^ 3^140
master
22

by,

24,

26,

27,

Chemistry,
Arsenical Discovers

practical,a

of,

22

poisoningson,
a

soluble

preparation o{
system
23-24 translated of

mercury

ii
^

Lunatics, humane
Cures Cullen's Cinchona Enunciates Publishes Materia Persecuted

treating, 23-24

Kloekenbring,
Materia

Medica

by,

25

bark, his experiment

the the
Medica

with, 25-26

principles
Organon
in

of

homoeopathy,
29
1

26-27

18 10,

Tura^ by, 29, 90-99,

his 30 and obtains medical brethren

17-1 and

18

by

the

apothecaries,
Removes
to

Leipzig,

license

to

practise, 30-31
Thesis, his masterly, 31
Driven Protected Chronic Chronic Chronic Death
from

Leipzig,

31 Duke
at

and

patronised by
flock
to

of

Anhalt,
32

invalids

him

Coethen,

Diseases^ 5 vols., by, 32-34

diseases, his doctrine

of his first

of, 33-34,

58-66

wife, 34

Marries

Mademoiselle

d*Hervilly Gohier,

34

202

INDEX

Hahnemann,
The first

proving
his

of

nosode of

made the

by,

144

Nosodes,

explanation

treatment

by,

144-145

Incompatible
Nature's

diseases, his observations

revealed
to to

on,

145-146

forces he

all be

by, 148
true

Camphor^
the

foresees,
of

the

remedy

for

first stage Medica

cholera, 158-159
translated

Haller's

Materia
28

by

Hahnemann,

Hamilton,
Harmlessness

Dr.,
of

treatment

of

cholera

cases

by,
1

157

homoeopathic
Count

treatment,

71-175

Hartung,
Hauser,

Dr.,

cures

Radetsky,

1.03-106
123-130

Caspar, hypersensitiveness of, by

Dr.

Treated Health and

Preu, 124-129
are

disease 72

dynamic

or

spiritual in

their

nature, Helmholtz
on

infinitesimal and

quantities, 70

Herpetic

diathesis

psora,

59-66
of

Heteropathic
Holmes,
Dr.

(or allopathic) method

Oliver

using drugs,
2

Wendell,

on

drugs,

Homoeopathic
"23-24,

treatment,

examples
28,
44-45,

of, 3-4,

6,

7,

14, 68-

25-27,

sfi-M,
1

54"
1

69,

90-99,

108-111,

1 1 2-1

5,

33-141,

148-153,
180,

154-160,

169-171,

i75-i77"

178-

181-185 Prescriptions,
"

Homoeopathic
120-121,
"

30,

31,

49,

11

3-1

15,

134-141
"
"

Homoeopathic
in the

the

word
a

first used in

by
28

Hahnemann

title of

work,

1807,
the.

Homceofathic

Materia

Medica^

See

Materia

Medica

INDEX

203

Homoeopathic

Medicines,
effect of

what

are

107-1 the

1 1
"

Homoeopathic Homoeopathic Homoeopathic

into

medicines

is

negative

"

effect, 109 law, the, and

its
turns

application,
the

131,

141

manipulation
household medicines

deadliest

poisons

friends, 151
should be obtained 152-153 direct from

Homoeopathic Homoeopathic
Homoeopathic

homoeopathic

chemists,

numbers practitioners,

of, 162
of, 171

remedies,
remedies

harmlessness
as

Homoeopathic
On On

tonics, 175-177
on

Homceopathic Worlds

the,

Caspar Hauser,
statistics

23-1
1

30 60

typhoid fever, comparative

asthma,
a

of,

59-1

nearly

fatal attack with

of, 173--174
1-4,
181-

Homoeopathy
185,
"

compared
"c.

allopathy,

The

most

general

doctrine

that

exists,"

1 2

Cures H Sheds
a

the

patient by using symptoms

for its

guide,

new

light
14

on

all other

methods

of

using

drugs, Meaning

of the

word,
for
no

5 the

Scripture authority
The The word word
cure

word,
of

contains

idea the

infinitelylittle,16
law
"
"

represents

therapeutic

likes

likes," 16

Hahnemann's

principles of, 26-27

18 10,
art

Birth-year of,
A science and

29

of

comparisons, 48

Pathology and, 49-53

Infinitesimals

and,

69.

Bee

also

Doses

and

finitesim In-

quantities

204

INDEX
favour

I
of,lOO,

Homoeopathy,Meissonier*s testimonyin
103 Not
a

of question

belief

or

disbelief

its principles

can

be put

to

the test, 107, 181

the

Importance of,to
Has
no

community,
remedies

cut

and

dried

134, 150-152 for cut and dried

diseases, IJ4-135
The
art

of, 135
the viruses of
as well diseases,

of, a kind of homoeopathy, 143 Serums, injections

Tames
as

the

poisons

of insects, stings 143 The practice of, 148, 153 ? 1 61-167 Is homoeopathy spreading Practised secretly by many, through fear,162 Aims of, 167 of serpents and

Objectionsto, answered, 168-180

Does
not

fetter its adherents

but

sets

them

free,

169-171
Utilises the mistakes and of allopaths, over-dosings

169-171,173-174
Harmlessness Cures
too

of, 1 71-17 5

179-180 quickly, Hopefulnessone great advantageof, 181

A

system

of

"

cure," 181

the necessity for, often preoperations, Surgical vented by, 182-184 Gentleness of; does not force the organism, 1 84-1 8 5 like nature Often works imperceptibly, itself, 185 Elements 186-192 of,in a series of aphorisms, Hufeland, the Nestor of medicine of his day, 24

Huf eland's Journal^ 24, 26 of Hahnemann, Hufeland's opinion

42-43

-km-

INDEX

205

Human

body,

sensitiveness Mr.

of, 71,

82

Hutchinson,

Jonathan, 163-165
Doses.

advocates

toleration

of

homoeopaths,
Infinitesimal Infinitesimal time doses. See

quantities,
in Sir

Hahnemann
to,

far

ahead

of

his

regard
W.,
on,

70-71

Crookes, Helmholtz,

69
on,

Professor,
on, on, on,

70

Faraday, Professor,
Picken,
^

70 71-75 71,
on,

Mr.

Buist,

Tyndall,
Boscovich,

Professor,

73

Professor,
on

73

Stokvis, Professor,

78-81 80, P.,

81
on,

Nageli, Professor,
Wesselhoeft, Rutherford,
Effect Insoluble
,

on,

Dr.

W.
on,

81-83

Prof.,

87,

88

of,

on

Spirogyra plants,
converted

81-82

substances

by 68,

Hahnemann
77

into

homoeopathic
5

remedies,

Isopathy,

144.-145

Koch Koch's

follows

homoeopathy
too

in

using Tuberculin^

75

dosage

crude, 76

'

Lancet^
On

the,

on

pathology,
Liston's

52-53
cases

Professor with

of

erysipelas

cured

homoeopathic
Stokvis's
"

remedies,

46-47

Professor

address likes

in, 78-80
cure

Law,

the

homoeopathic
of

likes, 131, law,

141 90-99,

Application
X

the

homoeopathic
"c.

131-141,

148,

2o6

INDEX

Leopold

II. dies

after

repeated blood-letting, 39
on

Hahnemann's Likeness Likes

:
"

comments

the

case,

39-40
133

between let likes

"

disease be

effects

and likes

drug effects,
"

treated Hahnemann's

by

similia

similibus 16

curentur

therapeutic rule,
law, 131,
141 between

Likes

cure

likes
"

the

homoeopathic
the,
and of
are

Of

homoeopathy, drug
effects

resemblances

disease

effects, 132

Like-to-like

method

using

drugs.

See

pathic Homoeo-

Linseed

poultice,

a,
on

has

almost

fatal effect, 173-174 41

Liston, Professor,
Cures On
cases

Hahnemann,

of

erysipelas with
sect"

Belladonna^ 46~47
of
the

"this

medical

homoeopaths,

46-47
Lunatic,
a

dangerous,

cured

by Hahnemann,

23-24

Mackechnie,

Dr.,
Dr.,

treatment
on

of cholera
treatment

cases

by, 157
cases

Macloughlin,
the 157

the

of

cholera

at

London

Homoeopathic

Hospital

in

1854,

Marchal,

Dr.,
law

says

there

is neither

principle, faith, nor

1 1

in

(allopathic) medicine,
the,
first effort
on a

Materia

Medica,

towards

the

struction recon-

of,
Materia
1 1

rational

basis, 28
29,

Medica 7-1
1

Pura^

by Hahnemann,

90-99

The

Homoeopathic
theories
"

Materia
11

Medica 6-1 G.
18

admits

no

only facts, 49, by

Pure Dr. G. H.

Materia

Medica^

Jahr, by

1 1

Encyclopedia of
Allen,
118

Materia

Medica^

Dr.

T.

F.

INDEX

207

Guiding

Symptoms

oj

the

Materia
11

Medica^
19

by

Dr.

Constantine

Hering,
Practical

8-1

Dictionary of J.
H.

Materia

Medica^

by

Dr.

Clarke,
in
to

119-120
120

Symptoms Repertories
Medical Medical Medicine

the, anatomically arranged,

the. 8

See

Repertories

anarchists,

thought,
not

vicious

circle
10

in, 17

unprincipled, 182-184
on an

Conservative,
Melbourne

Herald^ the,

epidemic

of

typhoid fever,

159-160
Miasms of
acute

and

chronic

diseases, Hahnemann's

doctrine Of chronic

of, 59"66 diseases, the

three, 60-66

N'ageli, Professor,

on

the

action
80

of

infinitesimal

quantities of Copper^
Nosodes,
First

143-145

proved by Hahnemann, by, explained by

144

Treatment

Hahnemann,

144-

145

Burnett,
powers

Dr.

J. C,
of, 145

developed

the

therapeutic

Nurseries, homoeopathic,
151,
152

the

simple

remedies

in,

50-

Objections,
Odium Medic

some,
um

to

homoeopathy, Homceopathy^
1 00

answered,

168-180

and

Operations, surgical, the by homoeopathy,

The shorter

necessity for, often 182-184

prevented

plan

183-184

2o8

INDEX

in 1810, 29 the, publishedby Hahnemann Organofiy Ozone both produced and destroyedby chloride potassium or by peroxide of manganese, 79-80

of

Palliate, to, the aim of allopathy, 13,

Pasteur worked
on

181

homoeopathiclines,75 facts are Pathological accepted by homoeopaths, as often of vital importance, 49-53 discarded are Theories, mere, by homoeopaths,
49-53
Theories
are

fluctuating, 52-53

Pathologyand homoeopathy,49-53 Professors of, several distinguished, amongst

Hahnemann's The
A Lancet
on,

followers,50
52-53
on,

^ "

comic

paper

51

Permeation

Medicine of Present-day Dr. Dyce Brown, 167

by Homoeopathy, by

Picken, Mr.

quantities, 74-75 The Science of Homoeopathy by, 71-75 Pneumonia, comparative statistics of, by Dr. Routh,
,

Buist,on

infinitesimal

154-155

Poisons,

the

deadliest,under
household

homoeopathic manipufriends, 151

a

become lation,

{
1
'

has almost Poultice,a linseed,

fatal

effect, 173-174

Prescriptions, allopathic, complexityof,40-41 Homoeopathic, 3-4, 30, 31, 49, 90-99, "c.
Professionalism 4^ and its

effects, 7-8, 9-13,

30,

31, 39151, 159,

47" 51.

75-76, 83-84, 88, healthy, 19,

122,

100,

161-167 Proving drugs on

the

148

..-.^

2IO

INDEX

Roux,

Dr.,

on

the
treats

serum

treatment

of cholera

disease, 147, 29
with

Rubini,

Dr.,

225
a

cases

of

Capdc

of

without

single death, 158 therapeutic

"

^nesc, similia
sim)

Rule,

Hahnemann's
curentur
"

let likes

be

treated

by likes, i6\ by
hin

Hahnemann's in

therapeutic,
26
on

first formulated

1796,

Rutherford,

Professor,

Radium^

84, 87-88

Scarlatina

can

be

prevented

by

Bellaaonna

No.

3,

13+ Science

of Homoeopathy
to

Mr.
^

Buist other

Picken

on,

71 123-

Sensitiveness 130,

drugs
172

and

stimuli, 67-68,

Hauser,

Caspar,

remarkable

example

of

hyper-

sensitiveness, 123-130
In health
treatment

and

disease, 172-175
of diseases

Serums,

by,
a

142-147

Treatment 142

of

diseases

by,

species of homoeopathy,

Roux,

Dr.,

on

treatment

of disease
the

by,

142
treatment

Hahnemann

recognised
143, 144
"

of possibility

by,
Similia

similibus

curentur

let likes be

treated

(or cured)
16 in

by
Spasms
are

likes cured

"

Hahnemann's

therapeutic rule,
which
can
cause

by drugs

spasms

the

healthy, 17-18
"diseases" 149, 150, do
not

Specifics for

exist,

19,

132,

134,

143,

176
151, of 154,

Quasi-specifics, 149,
Statistics, comparative,
154-155

175-176 by
Dr.

pneumonia,

Routh,

INDEX

1 1

'

Comparative, Comparative,

of of
on

cholera,

155-159

typhoid fever, 159-160

infinitesimal
See three

Stokvis, Professor,

quantities, 77-80

Surgical operations. Sycosis,

one

Operations
miasms of chronic

of

the

diseases,

59-66
Symptoms, Danger
treatment

of, by modern
1

pharmacy,

of
use

extinguishing,
of 14

3 without

I
I

Made

by

homoeopathy,

obscuring

them,

Homoeopathy's
The
*

guide

for

curing
4.8, 52

the

patient,

14

language
the

of disease, of

Also

language
know
same

drug
the

forces, 48-49

;
"

Homoeopaths
Remain
the the

value

of, 52
of

manifestations

disease, from
53
vital

days

of

Hippocrates
of
the

till now,
of the

Manifestations

working

force,

Must
^

be

got

rid

of

by restoring 56
139-141
1

the

vital force

to

its normal

condition,
90-99, 135,

V
Concomitant,
i

Relative

value

of, 90-99,

35-141 150

Aggravation of, 91-96, 96-99,

1
4

Amelioration

of, 91,
92-93,
of

137-138

Peculiar,
Conditions

97-98,
in

135-136,
to,

I37-I39

time

regard
miasms

137,

138-139
diseases,

Syphilis, one

of

the

three

of

chronic

59-66

Thuja
^

cures

crop

ot

warts,

3-4
to

Time,

conditions

of, in regard
remedies

symptoms,
175-177

138-139

Tonics,

homoeopathic

are,

2 1 2
I

INDEX

Tonics, harm
"Slow Treatment. Trituration

done

by

the

indiscriminate

use

of, 176

poisoning by, 176

See

Allopathic ;

and

Homoeopathic

of insoluble

substances, "c., 68, 77

Tuberculin, 143^-145 Tumours,

"c.,
treatment

the

allopathic and
infinitesimal

the

homoeopathic

of, 103-106, 182-184

Tyndall, Professor, on Typhoid

Vaccination
A

quantities, 71,

73

fever, comparative statistics of,

159-160

and

vaccinosis, 60-61

speciesof homoeopathy, 146

(or cow-pox), and vaccinosis,60-61

Vaccinia

Vaccinosis, 60-61
Vital

force,

the

dynamic

disturbance

of, the

cause

of

disease, 55-56 Drugs, the dynamic powers Warts,

of, cured
W.

of, act

on

the, 56, 72

crop

by Thuja,
P.,
on

3-4 of quantities

Wesselhceft, Dr.

infinitesimal

Copper^ 81-83 Wilde,

Sir

W.,

testifies cured

to

the

severity of
Vienna

cases

of

pneumonia
On
the

in the

Homoeopathic
in the Vienna

Hospital, 154-155
treatment

of cholera

cases

Homoeopathic X-rays
and

Hospital, 156-157
used for

cause

cancer,

are

curing it, 131-

132

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