THE

HOMOEOPATHIC

Law of Cure.BY

T. M. TRIPLETT, M. D.

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SIMILIA. SIMILIBUS CUKANTUR.This is the law of similars. It is the Homoe-

opathic law. The English of it is, like cures like.Its meaning is, small doses of any drug willcure a disease similar to that caused by largedoses given to another person. It don’t meanthat a drug will cure the same disease it pro-duced, but that it will cure a similar one fromother causes. The word Homoeopathy comesfrom two Greek words that mean like affection.not same affection. So if a person were poisonedwith Arsenic or any other drug, we would notgive smaller doses of the same divg. So alsothe assertion made by the Allopaths that ‘■ Likecures like,” means “The hair of the dog willcure the bite,” is as false as it is cheap.

FOUNDATION OF THE LAW.The action of every drug varies in degree

according to the dose. The effects produced bylarge and small doses of the same drug areexactly opposite in health and disease. Largedoses of whisky prostrate one person, smalldoses stimulate another. Large doses of Opiumcause sleep in one, small doses cause wakeful-ness in another. Large doses of Ipecac causenausea and vomiting in one, small doses curenausea and vomiting in another. Large dosesof Mercury cause diarrhoea in one, small dosescure diarrhoea in another. And so every knowndrug in large doses will cause a certain kind of

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drug disease, while small doses of the same drugwill cure a similar disease from other causes,two directly opposite effects from the samedrug in different doses.

SELECTING THE REMEDY BY THIS LAW.When we see a patient with symptoms similar

to those caused by large doses of Aconite, wegive him small doses of Aconite, because thisremedy in small doses will produce an oppositecondition, which would be health. If a patienthas a disease similar to that caused by largedoses of Belladonna, we give small doses ofBelladonna, because this remedy in small doseswill establish an opposite condition and so curehim. And so for other cases, each taking smalldoses of a medicine that would in large d<>sescause a similar disease in another person. Thuswe always have a remedy that directly opposesthe disease. When we see the striking curesthat follow the remedy selected by this law, weare not surprised, we expect nothing else.

ADVANTAGES OF THIS LAW.1. As a medicinal and a natural disease

which are similar in their conditions and symp-toms must arise, from a derangement of thesame organ, so a medicine selected by this lawmust act directly on the affecb d part and nowhere else. We are thus enabled to locate theremedy exactly where the disease is located.

2. A medicine selected by this law is notantagonistic to, but becomes the complement ofthe « iseased organ, giving support just where itis needed, and thus becoming a powerful help tonature in her work of restoration. The remedy

Law of Cure.thus selected never makes a mistake, don’t putthe brakes on the patient instead of the disease.

3. A remedy selected by this law neverreacts against the patient. The sick organ issimply helped back into a condition of health,and then the action of the remedy ceases. Themedicine don’t overshoot the disease and hitthe patient.

ABOUT THE DOSE.Some people think Homoeopathy consists in,

and is limited to sugar pellets. And so whenthe Homoeopathic physician departs from hismedicated pellets or tasteless medicine, theythink he has also departed from Homoeopathy.Now Homoeopathy is not a matter of quantity.It is the name of the law by which we selectour remedies. The law don’t say anything,about the dose. It gives us the right remedy,,but dont’t tell us how much or how little of thatremedy to give. Five drops of the tincture ofAconite might be given in strict accordancewith the law, whereas, in another case an infini-tesimal globule of the same medicine might beadministered without any sort of Homoeopathicrelationship to the disease. We vary our dosesaccording to the case. To one patient we maygive an infinitesimal dose, to another a drop ortwo of an undiluted tincture, and to another anintermediate dose, and all in strict accordancewith the Homoeopathic law. There are someAllopaths who verily believe when they givesmaller doses they are approaching towardHomoeopathy. As Homoeopathy is a law ofselection and not a quantity, their reduced

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doses, selected in the old fashioned way wouldonly punish their patients a little less, that's all.

NECESSITY FOR THE SMALL DOSE.When we select a remedy by the law of sim-

ilars, there is. however, a races ity for a more orless small dose. We have seen that this lawgives us a remedy which acts directly on thediseased organ. The susceptibility of a disetisedpart is more or less exalted. A sound eye canbear the full blaze of the noonday sun. But asingle ray of li-rht is painful to an inflamed eye.And so a diseased organ is much more suscepti-ble to drug action than it would be in a state ofhealth. It don't require much medicine to acton a sick organ. Large doses of a medicinethat acts directly on the diseased part wouldnot give it curative support, but would overdoavd exhaust it. As the increased susceptibilityof the diseased part variesaccording to the partaffected, the nature of the disease, the age andconstitution of the patient, so our doses vary.A blunt, phlegmatic man who eats tobacco,drinks whisky, and talks politics would requirelarger doses than a sensitive, finely organizedwoman. Adults may require more me Heinethan children. If the Allopaths were to selecttheir remedies as we do ours, they would haveto give our doses. If it were our purpose tomake our p diems drug sick by affecting healthyparts, as they so often do, we would have togi\e their doses, it takes much less medicineto make a sick organ well than it does to makea well organ sick. Hence our small doses andtin ir large doses.

Law of Cure. 7ACCESSORY TREATMENT.

It has been said that we practice medicineaccording to an “Exclusive dogma.” This isanother mistake. With Homoeopathic treat-ment we frequently use accessory means. Weinsist on the faithful use of all hygienic meas-ures. If a person has swallowed poison, or ifsome hard, undigestible food in the stomach orbowels becomes the cause of sickness, we givean emetic or cathartic, just enough to removethe offendingcause. We make frequent use ofcold, tepid or warm baths. Sometimes we usepoultices or fomentations. In any incurablecase with great pain, we palliate with Morphine,Chloral, or anything that will give relief Incases of impoverishment of the blood fromdeficiency of iron, we give some preparation ofiron in large doses, not as a medicine but asa blood diet, till this normal constituent isrestored. We use stimulants in certain cases.Occasionally we use enemas or injections. Wegive persons who have been poisoned the properantidote in doses large enough to destroy thepoison. The treatment of acute malarial aguewith Quinine or some other preparation ofPeruvian bark, is to a great extent antidotal.Our western and southern epidemic agues arecaused by a specilic poison called malaria.

Quinine is an antidote to this poison. In i grainto 2 grain doses every 2 to 4 hours, it is fre-quently curative in these agues by destroyingthe poison that causes them. Hut after aguehas continued aw ilr-, and the stomach, bowels,or other organs become diseased, attended by

8 The Homoeopathicgenera] weakness, Quinine is useless. Quininewill antidote the ague poison, but it will not curethe disease which that poison produces. It willsuppress most any kind of ague, but it willsuppress the patient too, and he will grow moreand more susceptible to the malarial poison.Many agues are made chronic by the Allopathicabuse of Quinine. We don’t use Quinine inchronic ague at all, for there it is worse than awaste of time. Nor do we by any means use itin nil acute cases; only in some of those occur-ring in a malarious season. Cinchona, fromwhich Quinine is made, has a great many usesand we always give it in the dilutions. Wenever give crude Quinine except in certaincases of malarial poisoning, and then we give itfor the purpose of destroying this poison. Theforegoing and other similar common sensemeasures don’t belong to any “Pa thy.” Tly?yare common ground, occupied alike by bothschools. The practice of surgery and obstetricsas far as mechanical management is concerned,is of course also the same in both schools.But when we come to select a remedy for itsmedicinal action, then we differ radically fromthe Allopaths. The selection of medicines fortheir medicinal action, constitutes the greatbody of our practice. Our use of the commonsense measures mentioned is merely accessoryto this.

EVIDENCE OF STATISTICS.The doctrine of Homoeopathy has been ex-

plained. You see the reason and good sense ofit. Let us see how it fares when put to the test

Law of Cure. 9fit the bedside of the sick. We shall see how itsresults compare with the results of Allopathicpractice. Facts and figures tell the story. Suc-cess is the best of all arguments. Let ns seehow the figures tally in hospital and in privatepractice.

1. Hospital practice. In 64 Allopathic hospitalsthe mortality in all diseases was 10 per cent. In21 Homoeopathic hospitals the mortality in alldiseases was 5 per cent. Here we had just halfas many funerals as they. In 22 Allopathic hos-pitals the mortality in cholera was 48 per cent.In 7 Homoeopathic hospitals the mortality incholera was 18per cent. Herewe dug 30 gravesless to every hundred cases than they. In 2 Allo-pathic hospitals the mortality in typhoid feverwas 24 per cent In 2 Homoeopathic hospitalsthe mortality in typhoid fever was 8 per cent.Here we saved 16 in every hundred cases morethan they. In 4 Allopathic hospitals the mor-tality in pneumonia was 22 per cent. InSHornoe-pathic hospitals the mortality in pnemonia was6 per cent. Here they lost more than 3to our 1.This is what Homoeopathy does in the worstforms of disease. It is unnecessary to trace thecomparison down into milder types.

2. Private practice. For this information weare indebted to Dr. Kellogg. The official re-turns of the Boards of Health of New York,Boston, Philadelphia., Newark and Brooklyn,covering a period of four years, show that 4,071Allopathic doctors report 72.802 deaths; andthat 810 Homoeopathic doctors report 8.116deaths. Hni e are 80.918 deaths. The averageto each Allopath is over 17, Our average is 10.

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If all ihese persons had been treated on Homoe-opathic principles, over 32,000 human beingswho were wrapped in the long white garmentsof the. dead, might have been restored to health,happiness and friends. It is facts like thesethat lead a prominent New York Life Ins. Co.to give lower rates to patrons of the Homoe-opathic practice. This they do as a simplematter of justice. The Allopaths don’t believein statistics. They are not to be blamed forthat. Statistics don’t come out right for theirside.

EVIDENCE OF EXPERIENCE.There are hundreds and hundreds of us who

were once Allopathic doctors, and some wereAllopathic professors. When in that school wewere as successful as others of the same school.We know by experience that we have found abetter way. To go back to the Old Schoolwith its little routine of Quinine, Opium, Calo-mel, “cathartics,” “astringents,” “diuretics,”“ diaphoretics,” “ stimulants,” “ sedatives,”“ alteratives,” and “ tonics,” would seem to usjust as it would seem to a farmer to go back tothe old reap hook and wooden plow. Again,there are hundreds of thousands of the wealth-iest, best educated and most intelligent peoplein this country who used to take Allopathictreatment, but now employ Homoeopathy. Andyou couldn’t to save yourself get them to takeany other kind of treatment. Why ? Becausethev knew tyy experience that it is better in itselfana its results than the old fashioned treat-ment. There is no argument under the stars

Law of Curt. 11dgainst a]fact of experience. Don’t forgetHint.

ALLOPATHIC EVIDENCE.This is thrown in that you may know what

some of the most distinguished Allopaths sayabout the results of their own practice. “Nine-tenths of diseases are medicinal diseases.” —Dr.Farre. “Medicine, poor science I—doctors,poorphilosophers!—patients,poor victims ! n—Fray-part. “The science of medicine is founded onconjecture, and improved by murder.” SirAstley Cooper. “We have assisted in multiply-ing diseases; we have done more, we haveincreased their mortality,”—Dr. Hush. “Thephysician being, then, a blind man with a club,who, as chance directs the weight of his blow,will be certain of annihilating nature or thedisease.”— l)r. Maunsel. “My opinion is thatmore harm than good is done by physicians;and I am convinced that, had I left my patientsto nature, instead of prescribing drugs, morewould have been saved.”—Dr. Ilufeland. “Thescience of medicine is a barbarous jargon, andthe effects of our medicine on the humansystem are in the highest degree. uncertain ;

except, indeed, that they have already destroyedmore lives than war, pestilence and faminecombined.”— Dr. Good. This is sad, but verysignilicant testimony.

THE DIFFERENCE.Homoeopathic treatment is simple. We give

one remedy at a time, or sometimes two inalternation. Allopathic treatment isnumerous.With pills, powders, mixtures, plasters, andsharp steel, they puke, purge, bleed, blister,

12 The Homoeopathicsalivate, narcotize, depress and stimulate adlibitum. Ours is a pleasure, or seldom unpleas-ant. Theirs is a punishment, a tight with thelittle folks to force them to take it. and a wrymouth with the big ones Ours is safe, neverfollowed by bad results. As the Irishman said,our medicines don't “keep the patient sick fourweeks after he gets well.” Theirs is unsafe,frequently followed by painful and otherwisedistressing consequences Ours cures morequickly, because we relieve the diseased organdirectly without affecting other organs. Theirscures less quickly, because, owing to drug com-plications it sometimes takes their patients aslong to recover from their treatment as it doesfrom their sickness. Ours cures more surety,because, by treating the sick part directlywithout assaulting the physiological integrityof healthy parts, we husband all the life forces.Theirs cures less surely, because of the mass ofmedicine with indirect action, resulting manytimes in the establishment of drug diseases inhealthy parts. For a dray disease uses up asmuch lije force as any other ol the same extent.

OBJECTIONS ANSWEUED.

“Your doses are too small."’ Well they aretoo small to make people drug sick. Hut theyare large enough to work a cure in everycurable case, and that's all anybody needs.Who wants more? Isn’t it better to be cureddirectly by our remedies than to have thestomach stuffed and the blood poisoned withnauseous drugs? Who wants to undergo thepunishment of Allopathic treatment when he

Law of Cure. 13actually has a better chance of recovery underour safe and pleasant remedies V"I have no faith in homoeopathy Yes there

are some people yet, even among those who arecultured and relined, who have no faith inmedicine unless it is bitter, 01 otherwise offen-sive, and no respect for a doctor unless he halfkills them with his treatment. We don’t carewhether you have faith in our medicine or not;if you take it according to directions and yourdisease is at all curable, you will get well, faithor no faith. Y'our faith will follow your cure.“/ hare hied Homoeopathy; 1 have given your

small doses, and they didn't amount to anything.”

says some Allopath. Poor fellow, he thoughtHomoeopathy was simply a small dose. Thefact that it is a principle and not a quantitynever entered his pate. He gave small doses ofmedicine that had no sort of Homoeopathicrelationship to the disease, and he thought hewas trying Homoeopathy. His small dosesfailed, and he thought Homoeopathy failed also.Hut there was no failure on his part in makingan exhibition of his ignorance of Homoeopathy.

'‘'‘Homoeopathy is quackery .” A sober manwho can make such a declaration as this shouldnot be allowed to go far from home. An Allo-path in New York was heavily fined for callinga Homceopathist a quack, the court holdingthat “ Quackery consists in conduct, and not increed.” Homoeopathy is now a large and wellorganized school with its colleges, hospitals,dispensaries, journals and societies. It is re-spected and patronized chiefly by the best peo-

14 The Homoeopathicpie of this country. In the face of all this, suchan assertion is merely the irresponsible twaddleof a bigoted brain.

Homoeopathy is nothing but “ expectant ” or do-nothing treatment. Why have the practitionersand numerous patrons of our school never madethis discovery ? Marvelous that none but ouruniformedenemies ever mads suchan assertion.Put them to the pinch, and there are but fewAllopaths who have the hardihood to claim thatour treatment is any less successful than theirs.While this is so, we know both by statistics andindividual experience that a larger per cent, ofrecoveries does actually take place under ourtreatment than under theirs. If ours is merelylet alone treatment, then if they would let theirpatient’s alone, would not as many recover asours V If we never cure anybody, and yet moreof our patients recover than theirs, how manydo they kill ? This is the argument, and thereis no escape from it.“ Homoeopathy won't dofor bad cases.” Yes it

will do for bad cases, and the worse the case thesafer it is. The worse the disease the greateris the comparative saving of life by Homoeo-pathic treatment. According to statistics aswe have seen, we save in typhoid fever 16cases in a hundred more than the Allopaths do.But in cholera, a much more fatal disease, wesave 30 cases in a hundred more than they.The reason is plain. Our treatment never usesup any of the patient’s vitality. Theirs does.The severer the disease the less the patient canafford to have any of his little remaining vitalityused up by strong treatment. No greater mistake

Law of Cure. 15can be made than to suppose Homoeopathy isnot equal to the most dangerous di eases.Bight lu re its superiority is most marked.

'“They sail under false colors .” By this theAllopaths mean that while we pretend to prac-tice Homoeopathy we really practice Allopathy.

It is a very sad thing for a good man to makesuch a charge as this, for by it he exhibits apitiable ignorance of what he thinks he is talk-ing about. Our text-books are a faithful expo-sition of our practice, just as theirs are a faithfulexposition of their practice. No Allopath whohas given 30 minutes to an examination of ourliterature would make such a statement, unlesshe had abandoned himself to an irresponsiblerecklessness. If we were to practice as the Allo-paths do, we would be no more successful thanthey are. Then it is very strange our patientshave never found out that we “Sail under falsecolors.” Theyknow our treatment differs fromthe Allopathic, both in its pleasantness and itsbetter results.

'■'■Homoeopathy will do for children and.babies,but it won't dofor grown people." Dr. West, anAllopath, says, “So severe are the diseases ofchildren that 1 in 5 dies within a year afterbirth, and 1 in 3 before the completion of thefifth year.” What a weak, puny little thing ababe is, and yet the disease that attacks it isjust as virulent as that which attacks the adult.If Homoeopathy can cure your sick child withits very limited powers by which to resist dis-ease, don’t common sense teach that it is asmuch better for you by as much as your powers

16 The Homoeopathicof resistance exceed those of your child V Weare much obliged for the compliment. IfHomoeopathy will do for‘‘Children and babies.”it will certainly do for adults. Hut this oojec-tion is really a tacit admission that Allopathictreatment is too strong for children that ithurts them. The objector has no particularfaith in Homoeopathy, but he knows it will nothurt the little ones. .Now Allopathic treatmentis just as hurtful to adults as it is to children.If you cut 10 feet from a rope 60 feet long, youhave a long rope left—hardly miss what is gone.But if you cut 10 feet from a rope 20 feet long,it is half gone, and you miss it at once. Strongmedicine uses up as much life force for a manas it does for a child, but as his stock of vitalityis so much larger, he can stand it. An adultmay have vitality enough to overcome the dis-ease and the treatment both; but is that anyreason why he should take strong medicine ?

“ Jimmy Jones swallowed a wholebottle of Homoe-opathic medicine , and it didn't hurt him at all ,

therefore it wouldnt do a sick person any vood.”Let us see. A quantity of medicine that wouldhurt a well person would hurt a sick person justthe same. If it would hurt a well person, thenit ought not by any means to be given to a sickperson. A medicine that would make a wellman sick would make a sick man more sick.Our doses are not large enough to make a wellrna)i sick , but they are large enough to make asick man well. Homoeopathy attacks the disease ,

not the patient. An amount of medicine thatwould make no impression at all ou a healthy

Law of Cure. 17organ, would make a very decided impressionon the same organ when diseased, because of itsexalted sensibility. That is why a medicinethat would not hurt a well person would cure asick person. You remember the old Allopathicadage, u Medicine must make a man sick beforeit can cure him.” We will suppose a man’s lifeforce is equal to 60 pounds; the disease hasused up, we will say, two-thirds of his lifeforce; he has only 20 pounds left. Now if‘‘Medicine must make a man sick before it cancure him,” how much life force will the treat-ment use up V Purging, vomiting, blister, de-pression, narcotism, and many other drug com-plaints are produced purposely by the Allo-paths. These are drug diseases they set up inhealthy organs to relieve the sick organ. Nowwe think it is not necessary to burn a wholehouse down to roast a pig. We cure the dis-eased part directly without producing drug dis-eases in healthy parts; hence only a smallamount of medicine is required. In this waywe have roasted pig without setting lire to thewhole house.

THEORY AND FACT.The efficacy and superiority of Homeopathic

treatment are matters of personal experiencewith all of us who were once Allopaths. Theyare also matters of personal experience with themultitudes of our patrons; for they have aboutall come to us from the Allopaths, and so havetried both methods of treatment. Now layingall theories aside, we know by the test of expe-rience that Homoeopathic treatment does the

18 The Homoeopathicbusiness more pleasantly and more surely thanany other. The Allopaths and their adherentsoppose Homoeopathywith what do you think?

simply theoretical objection ». They have hadno experience with it, have never given it anintelligent trial. You have tasted honey. Youknow by experience that it is sweet. But someobjector rises up with a good deal of dignity,and with a very plausible theory proceeds toshow you that you are mistaken, that honey isnot sweet at all, but that it is bitter. You say,“ Have you ever tasted honey V” He replies,,k No, I have never tasted it, but I have alwaysheard it was bitter, and then I have the argu-ments to prove it.” You would say to theobjector that he had better verify the sweetnessof honey by a practical test, and then modifyhis theories to correspond with the fact. Don’tyou know that those who have had experiencewith Homoeopathy believe in it with all theirmight? Some of them would send forty milesfor a Homoeopathist rather than take Allo-pathic treatment for nothing. And those whohave had no experience with it, and so knownothing about it. had better give it an intelli-gent trial or say nothing about it. No man canoppose a fact with a the ry. It will only be theworse for his theory, that’s all there is of that.

QUEUY.Well then say you, why don’t the Allopaths

go to practicing Homoeopathy ? Because theydon’t know anything about it. They know aslittle about Homoeopathy as they do about thegeography of the moon. True, they read the

Law of Cure. 19incoherent platitudes which they find about itfrom time to time in their journals. Theystudy Homoeopathy just as an inlidel studiesChristianity when lie reads Tom Paine’s Age ofReason. They study it from an enemy’s stand-point for the purpose of condemning it. SomeAllopaths pretend to know a great deal aboutHomoeopathy, even more than we know aboutit ourselves. They fabricate a ridiculous cari-cature, call it Homoeopathy, and hold it upbefore the people very much as a man puts ascarecrow in his garden. But this creature oftheir own creation is just about as much likeHomoeopathy as a scarecrow is like a live man.Many of them have given Homoeopathy a fairand thorough examination, and the result isthey are to-day practicing according to itsprinciples. Some of them believe in Homoe-opathy and would like to practice it, but theyhave not moral courage enough to assert theirfaith. Our pharmacy men in the cities tell usthat very frequently Allopaths buy Homoe-opathic medicine of them on the sly, andalways with the injunction, “Don't you tell.”They are afraid of having their professionalheads chopped off And that is just whatwould be done. That is the penalty for owninga conscience, unless it is an Allopathic con-science.

QUANTITY AND QUALITV.The quantity of any medicine determines

merely the intensity of the quality. The greatthing is to get the right medicine in the rightplace. If we have not the right medicine, an

20 The Homoeopathicincrease of quantity will only make mattersworse. Some people will take a few doses ofHomoeopathic medicine, and if it don’t cure atonce think there is nothing in it. Butthey will take large doses of nauseous drugsweek after week, and though they do not im-prove they think it is all right because the med-icine has a big bulk and a strong taste. Theythink it is doing something. Well, so do we.It sometimes eives the undertaker a job. Quan-tity cannot make up for quality. The Homoe-opathic law gives us a medicine with the rightquality. The quantity is determined by thenature of the case. When a patient dies underour treatment—for the windowless chamber ofdeath is the destiny of all —it is never becausehe did not have medicine enough. For thoughwe never punish our patients with medicine, wealways give enough to cure where a cure ispossible.

Rl DIC'D I E.Why do the Allopaths ridicule Homoeopathy?

Why did they ridicule Harvey when he discov-ered the circulation of tae blood? Why didthey ridicule Jenner when he first introducedvaccination ? Why did they ridicule the manwho first proposed tying a silk corl around ableeding artery, instead of thrusting a red hotiron into it? Why did scientific men ridiculethe man who discovered that the earth revolvesaround the sun ? Why did they ridicule thetelegraph; the steam engine, steam navigation,the railroad ? Why has almost every greatreformation been threatened with the “Scien-

Law of (hire. 21tific ” halterV We have a good deal of charityfor the Allopaths, because havingneither reasonnor argument with which to oppose us, weexpect nothing but ridicule.

GOOD COMPANY.Homoeopathy is patronized mostly by that

class of people which stands in the lirst rank ofmind, culture and influence. A few years agoan Allopath in Chicago, at one of his societymeetings complained that the Homoeopathicphysicians were ringing most of the silver doorbells on the avenues, while they were left withthe river and lumberyard practice. It is truealso of other large cities that a majority of thewealthiest and most prominent people employHomoeopathy. Homoeopathy don’t go downmuch into the lower classes of society. Therethey must have something so strong that two orthree doses will turn them inside out, or theythink nothing is being done.

PKACTICING 11 BOTH WAYS.”There are but two schools of medicine, the

Homoeopathic and the Allopathic. The Allo-pathic school is composed of “regular” and“ Eclectic” Allopaths. Occasionally a wiseacreis found who pretends to practice “either way.”according to the wishes of his unfortunatepatients. No such doctor is fit to lie trusted ineither school, for no living man can masterboth. Put all such fellows down as catch-penny quacks.

OBLIGATION.Physicians are shorter lived than any other

class of professional men. The hardships they

The Homoeopathic22endure are sometimes enormous. You knownothing of the solicitude your physician has foryou when you are sick. You owe him not onlyyour good will, hut you are under peculiar obli-gation to remunerate him for his service in duetime

CLOSE WOliK.The Homoeopathic practice of medicine is no

child's play. There is no routine about it. Wetreat diseases, not according to their name butaccording to their nature. A man with noeducation and only a thimbleful] of brains may(Hayrace Homoeopathy, but he never can pi noticeit.

PROG HESS OF HOMOEOPATHY.This is simply wonderful. From its one man

starting point a little less than a century ago,it has gone out into millions of mansions andhomes in all civilized lands. The best and mostintelligent people everywhere honor it withtheir respect and patronage. No reformation ofany kind has ever made greater progress. Butevery step of this progress has been made againstthe bitterest persecution ami the intensest oppo-sition on the part of the Allopaths. Yet whilethey have been heaping peisecution, ridiculeand slang upon us. we have been movingstraight onward, healing the sick and dailygrowing in favor with the people. For as thepeople of this free land scorn a religious phansee, so they disdain a medical pharisee who cunstand up with a brass brow and thank God thathe is “Regular”—that he knows it all. Theintelligent people of this country longago made

Law of Cure. 23up their minds that they are not going to beeternally punished with physic. Quinine, Opium,Calomel, and other pernicious drugs. We havemade this progress also against the disgrace ofquacks, numbskulls and otherwise incompe-tent men in our own ranks; for we have themjust as the Allopaths have them. But theyhurt us more, because their failures are putdown to the discredit of our school. Peoplehave fallen into the hands of these impostorsand supposed they were trying Homoeopathy.But in the end the real has always been distin-guished from the counterfeit. Arid IIomo&~opathy will continue to make progress. It willbe the medicine of the future, just as surely ashuman intelligence advances. The time willcome when the assaults now made on thehuman organism with violent drugs will existonly in the medical literature of the past. Thewisdom and goodness of the coming years willmelt away the intolerance and prejudice of OldMedicine. And so in the future of the yearsthe healers will have a unity of law and a unityof art, and over all will rest the benediction ofa grateful humanity.

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