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DEC 18 '^02
The Monthly
Homeopathic Review
Vol. 46, No. is
DECEMBER 1, 1902.
[Price is,
EDITED BY
A. C. POPK M,D., & D. DYCE BROWN, M.A., M.D.
a* (Jonfmfs:
An Object Lesson ...
Two Arum Cases. By A. Midgley Cash, M.D.
The Evolution of Therapeutics. By P. Jousset, M.D.
Homoeopathy among the Allopaths. By D. Dyce Brown, M.A., M.D.
The Present Status of Homoeopathy. Being the Presidential Address
Delivered before the Fifty-eighth Annual Session of the American
Institute of Homoeopathy, Cleveland, O., June 17, 1902. By James
C. Wood, M.D. (Continued from, page 6S9)
Reviews.
Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin. By J. Henry Allen, M.D., Professor
of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Hering Medical College, Chicago, Ill.
The Principle of Homoeopathy successfully applied in the Treatment of
Parturient Apoplexy, commonly called Milk Fever, when occurring
among Cows kept for Breeding or Dairy Purposes. By J. Sutcliffe
Hurndall, M.R.C.V.S. ...
The Physicians’ Diary and Case-Book, for 1903
The Concise Chemical Analysis Chart
Notabilia.
The British Homoeopathic Association and the Twentieth Century Fund
Phillips Memorial Hospital
Lieutenant-Colonel Deane, B.A.M.C.
Sydney Homoeopathic Hospital
Hughes’ Memorial Fund
Meetings .
British Homoeopathic Society
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Obituary.
T. G. H. Nicholson, M.R.C.S. ... ... ... • •• ... 757
Correspondence .
Hahnemann’s Schema ... ... ••• ••• ... 758
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AN OBJECT LESSON.
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THE MONTHLY
HOMCEOPATHIC BEVIEW.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
The question of the relations between the two schools of
medicine, the homoeopathic and the allopathic, crops up
from time to time, and we cannot but notice with a measure
of regret that the sighing for union between them is heard
almost exclusively from one side only. The old school
are quite content to let matters go on quietly, as they
have done for some considerable time. No indication
comes from their side of a desire for a united profession,
animated by liberty of opinion and of practice, at least
in so far as homoeopathy is concerned. Liberty of opinion
and practice is permitted and encouraged in every direction
except in the one direction of homoeopathy. Any new
medicine which is recommended by someone on the most
theoretical, or rather hypothetical, grounds is taken up,
tried, reported upon, and dropped after due experimenta¬
tion. Any new theory of treatment is calmly discussed
as a legitimate subject for consideration, and adopted,
or the reverse, according to circumstances, till it is found,
when weighed in the balances, to be found wanting. But
exception is always made in the case of homoeopathy.
If a medicine is brought forward which is palpably homoeo¬
pathic in its curative action, and explainable in its results
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in no other way, provided in the publication of its “ dis¬
covery ” as a “ new remedy ” no allusion is made to the
tabooed principle on which it acts, its action being explained
in a quasi-scientific way sufficient to blind the eyes of
those who are not “ in the know,” it is all right. The
medicine is adopted and absorbed as a “ new remedy,”
and praised in its results on the authority of Dr. So-and-So.
But if the principle of its action is openly and honestly
stated, the old school will have nothing to do with the
“ new remedy,” and the introducer of it probably has
reason to regret his honesty and moral courage. The
policy of silence which has been for many years now the
leading plank in the allopathic platform, is evidently
adopted in the hope of quietly absorbing us. They
“ discover ” our well-known medicines, use them, find
them more or less successful as “ tips,” and when told
they are homoeopathic they politely reply that they are
nothing of the kind, that they are given on the authority
of So-and-So, who explains their action in a scientific
manner, and that they always use them. The hope of
this species of procedure is that in no long time so much
of homoeopathy will be quietly adopted that they will be
able to absorb us entirely, and leave us no raison d'etre
for our existence, while they, at the same time, ignore the
base-rock principle on which these medicines are found
to be successful, and refuse to discuss it, or openly allow
it to be claimed as a law of therapeutics. They thus hope
to save their face, avoid climbing down from the pertin¬
acious and uncompromising attitude of dogmatism which
they have maintained ever since the days of Hahnemann,
and so triumph over us in the end.
When this is so manifestly the policy of the old school,
one wonders to find that in the homoeopathic school there
should be any other feeling than that of defiance. We
know we have in our custodiance the greatest truth that
has ever been enunciated for therapeutic guidance, a
truth which is actually a law of nature, so that we can
base on it, with greater success than by any other method
of cure, our practice, not in one or two ailments, but in
the whole circle of disease. We are bound in honour to
stand up for our principles, and for liberty to act on them,
whatever the opposition may be or may involve, believing
that in the end we shall be victorious, since truth must
prevail over error. But we are also bound not merely
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to stand, but to put on our armour and fight in order to
conquer. We have a position rendering it quite un¬
necessary to be otherwise than completely independent.
We have our hospitals, our dispensaries, our societies,
our annual and international congresses, our journals,
our consulting physicians, and our operating surgeons,
and what more do we want ? And yet we, to our surprise,
find among a few of our school a desire, we might almost
say a craving, to be re-united to the old school. These
men do not wish to give up their principles and practice,
but they dislike isolation from the majority, and exclusion
from the old-school societies and intercourse, and fancy
that some approach on our side might be welcomed by
the other. Theoretically, and in the abstract, we agree
that union in the profession is a desirable consummation,
but such a union is not one at all unless the old school
agree to it on our terms. The irreducible minimum of
these terms on our part is the free and full admission
of the truth of the law of similars, a full recognition of
right on our part to practice in accordance with it, an
admission to all societies and hospitals on a footing of
perfect equality, and also free scope for papers and
discussions on homoeopathy in the allopathic journals.
Any union short of this is not only utopian, but absurd—
a contradiction in terms; in short, an impossibility.
We should otherwise be simply absorbed, and like the
story of the Lion and the Lamb, the lamb would only have
lasting peace inside the lion, and be seen no more.
We find the same yearning for union existing among
a few of our colleagues in the United States, and it is here
that we get the Object Lesson which gives the heading
to this article. In the Medical Century for October we
have an editorial entitled “ The Lion and the Lamb,”
and in it we read : “ The injury done to homoeopathy by
our liberal-minded members joining old school societies,
is well illustrated in the case of the two prominent Buffa-
lonians who recently joined the Erie County Medical
Association. We have been informed that these gentlemen
renounced neither the distinctive name of homoeopathic
physicians, nor their principles, yet American Medicine ,
on June 7th, in speaking of the matter, said: 4 These
physicians will now be looked upon as regular practitioners,’
in that triumphant way, as if to imply that heretofore
they were irregular, and the simple joining of an old school
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society changed them from irregularity to regularity, and
this item has been gloatingly copied by a large number
of the journals of the dominant school. If the allopathic
school hopes to swallow the entire homoeopathic school in
the manner these two gentlemen were disposed of, we had
better give the lion a wide berth and let him continue
his roar.”
This is just the result we should have expected; and we
are not sorry that the -fiasco has actually occurred, and
that thus the striking object lesson is before us as a warning
of what may be anticipated from attempting to mix oil
and water. In this country such a fiasco is not likely to
occur, as at the present time we venture to assert that no
old school Medical Society would listen to any application
for membership coming from a homoeopath, unless he
were prepared to recant his opinions and renounce all
connection with homoeopathy, at least in name. He
might then be allowed to practice as he likes on the quiet,
but he would find himself in a very unhappy predicament,
obliged to smother his convictions, and act a dishonest
part, pretending to practice one way while actually
adopting another, and we should pity him from the bottom
of our heart. If our weaker brethren, especially those
in country practices, who are some distance from large
towns, and have to fight the battle single-handed, would
look at the facts of the present position of the two schools
in their relation to each other openly and in a common-
sense way, they would see that the way to attain their
object, with which all sympathize in the abstract, is to set
their back against the wall, resolve to fight more vigorously
than ever, and be more independent than ever, with
the assured consolation that the war must come to an end
sooner or later, and the more determined the stand that
is made, the sooner will be the victorious ending. Let
them read again the able and inspiriting words of Mr.
Knox Shaw in his presidential address at this year’s
Congress, and those of Dr. Wood, the President for this
year of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, which
we have reproduced for our readers’ pleasure and gratifi¬
cation in our issue of last month and of this, and let them
once for all have courage to do their utmost and help on
by their whole influence and bearing the new forward
movement of the British Homoeopathic Association.
In so doing, while advancing the cause of truth, they will
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be doing the best for themselves in the end, and will win
the respect of their opponents. That this last remark is
correct we know, and its feeling was once voiced to us by
one who has recently been removed by death, and whom,
therefore, we may now not shrink from naming, Mr.
Lennox Browne. In a conversation he said, “ I wonder
you homoeopaths don’t put yourselves more in evidence
than you do, and fight. You would be far better if you
did.” This, coming from a prominent member of the old
school, has never been forgotten by us, as showing how
much more we are respected when we stand up boldly
for our principles and fight for them, than when calmly
lying on our oars and letting the boat drift. Still more
should no homoeopath cherish the idea of offering himself
as a member of a society at the risk of a sharp rebuff,
unless he is prepared on the principle of “ anything for a
quiet life ” to be swallowed entire, and disappear, thus
losing the respect of his former colleagues and likewise,
and most assuredly, that of his new associates.
We conclude these remarks by quoting another and
excellent passage from the editorial in the Medical Century,
and we trust the object lesson we have had will have the
desired effect: “ That there is an attempt to be made
by our old school friends to swallow us cannot be doubted
a moment by those who keep in touch with the signs of
the times, and that this is to be done by first greasing us,
or, perhaps, seasoning us with the spices of flattery, can
also not be doubted. The thought occurs to us, why
are our old school brethren devoting so much attention
to the homoeopathic school ? Why do they not seek
to amalgamate and swallow the eclectic school, a school
with numbers equal almost to our own ? The answer
seems clear ; the success of homoeopathy ; the fact that
homoeopathy is the school that has become accepted by
the educated people of the land to such an extent as to
set our brethren, not to investigating our claims, since
they compete so successfully with their methods, but
antagonize us, absorb us, and do away with what they
have ever termed the trading on a name. All their energies,
all their dynamite is expended against the rock which
homoeopathy has become. Eclecticism and eclectic
medicine is not liked any better by them than is homoeo¬
pathy, yet we do not hear of any special ostracism or
antagonism on the part of our allopathic brethren against
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that school. The fact is, despite all that has been written
recently regarding the unity of medicine, the dominant
school is not ready to accept the condition that homoeo¬
pathy demands of it, a condition that involves the recog¬
nition of the underlying principles of our system, and the
frank statement of the fact that much of the therapeutic
progress in that school is due to the influence of homoeo¬
pathy, the recognition of our law of cure in short.
“ Furthermore, we, as a school, should bear in mind
the fact brought out by another speaker at the Utica
meeting, namely, that truth and error cannot be amal¬
gamated without truth suffering, and although the old
adage of truth crushed to earth being bound to rise, yet
why submit it to such an avoidable indignity ? As
President Wood in his address before the Institute truly
said : 4 From the standpoint of a homoeopathic physician,
it is not yet time to surrender either our name or our
distinctive organization. The law of similars, or, if you
please, the law of substitution, can no more be separated
from the distinctive name of homoeopathy than the
teachings of Martin Luther be separated from that of
reformation.’ ”
TWO ARUM CASES.
By A. Midgley Cash, M.D., Torquay.
1. Cure of Severe Pain in Maxillary Joint .—Lady C.,
aet. 94, seen in August, complaining of pain of a high
degree of intensity (not otherwise easily described) in the
right temporo-maxillary joint. Felt on chewing or
speaking, but coming at any time without often any
apparent cause. There was no inflammation or tenderness
about the joint. Constitution gouty, and liable to chronic
bladder troubles. She was wearing a plate which fitted
her mouth comfortably, but whenever she removed it
a severe attack of pain would occur. The pain had lasted
off and on for six months, and latterly had become more
frequent and more severe, often apparently affecting the
ear also. She got Belladonna and Causticum, which gave
her relief for about a week. At the end of that time the
pain returned severely*in the jaw, together with pain on
swallowing, and a sense as if the throat was obstructed.
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Arum Triphyl. 3x was now prescribed, 2 drops every
two hours. The next day she could report marked relief
to pain, and the discomfort in the throat was gone. The
pain continued to diminish, though for some days it would
offer to return when moving the jaw, as in speaking. The
arum was continued for three weeks, at the end of which
time the pain was entirely gone, nor has there been any
return since it was discontinued five weeks ago.
In this case Arum acted very satisfactorily-—removing
a well-defined, distressing pain of six months’ duration
(of an obstinate nature) in a very old and feeble patient.
In Allen’s Handbook of Materia Medica under “ Face ”
is given: “ Sprained pain in lower articulation of jaw
when swallowing.” This, though not at all the symptom
of my case, is yet the nearest thing to it I have found in
the repertories. Under “ Maxillary Joint ” in the cypher
repertory I do not find Arum given, neither is it in Lippe’s
repertory, though from this work I got the indication
for belladonna, which at the first, in conjunction with
Causticum (also a maxillary joint medicine), gave temporary
relief. However, Arum is worthy of notice in acute pain
in the temporo-maxillary joint, and from my experience
of it I shall keep it in mind in any similar future case.
2. Relief of a Chronic Inflammatory Condition of
Mouth and Throat , 'probably due to Drain Poisoning .—
Miss E. F., set. about 35. Recently returned from Rome.
The drains had been up in the street near her rooms, and
she appeared to have had a dose of sewer gas. First
came a sharp attack of suppurative tonsillitis, and she
was very ill for some time. This was followed by an
aphthous condition of the mucous membrane of the mouth,
which remained red and irritable at the date of my first
inspection. The throat was in a similar condition; the
lips were sore ; there were large varicose veins at the
base of the tongue. She was dyspeptic and flatulent.
Bowels uneasy, irritable, and irregular.
The treatment consisted in regulating her diet, and she
was given Pulsat. 3x, gtt. v ter die, and 2 tabloids Merc.
Sol. 3x at night. Healing began in the lips, and the
bowels became more easy and regular. The condition,
however, of the mouth and throat remained much the
same.
In addition to tonic measures she then took Arum Tri.
3x, grs. ij thrice daily. In thirteen days she reported
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herself as much better—the throat feeling easy and the
sub-lingual veins rather reduced in size. Improvement
continued, so that in another week she could report herself
cured, the mucous membranes of the mouth and throat
having recovered their normal condition.
The Arums, Maculatum and Triphyllum, are well-
established remedies in scarlet fever and diphtheria with
severe throat and mouth complications. It is chiefly in
the acute cases, and in such of these as exhibit a high
degree of intensity, that the remedy comes into use.
However, it seems to act well also in cases of a more
chronic nature, where the force of the poison falls upon
the mucous membranes of the mouth and throat, as in
the case cited. It is interesting here to note the association
of scarlet fever and diphtheria with drain poisoning, which
latter was apparently responsible for my patient’s attack.
THE EVOLUTION OF THERAPEUTICS.
By P. Jousset, M.D. 1
The study of general pathology has always comprised
four chapters: man, malady, cause, and therapeutics.
Before the last of these Tessier stopped, disheartened by
the nonsense which then (1840) represented this part of
medicine. We were emerging at that moment from the
excessive therapeutics of Broussais, and of his pupil
Bouillaud, whose method of treatment by repeated blood
lettings was after all but a distant echo of Broussaism.
Chomel posed as the avowed adversary of this kind of
therapeutics, and professed to represent the common-
sense method in a sort of synchretism where evacuants and
vesicatories predominated. He went to extremes in order
to demonstrate the therapeutic errors of his adversaries,
for we read in the Clinique de V Hotel Dieu the history of
a young girl suffering with rheumatism, where he applied
the method of blood letting, coup sur coup , simply in order
to demonstrate its falsity; and although the account
shows aggravation of the complaint after each bleeding,
he continued the experiment to the end, that is to say to
the autopsy/ 2
1 Translated from VArt Medical , March 1902, by Dr. Blackley.
2 Clinique de Chomel , vol. II, p. 228.
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Louis, the friend of Chomel, the unintelligent statis¬
tician, laboured hard to demonstrate that pneumonia
was cured a few days earlier by means of tartar emetic
than by the antiphlogistic method. 3
Recamier, who came next, applied through thick and
thin the most outlandish methods and the most energetic
means; but it was chiefly by his application, often dis¬
astrous, of surgery to medicine, that he showed his unfor¬
tunate activity.
Above this rabble soared the grand figure of Andral, who,
in his sceptical wisdom, resolved the whole of therapeutics
into apozems and red-currant syrup. It remains only to
mention Magendie, the clever joker who under the name
of experimental medicine placed expectancy on the pinnacle
of therapeutics. Such is the picture, as sad as it is exact,
which therapeutics presented towards the middle of last
century. It is easy to understand how, in the face of such
a hopeless mess, Tessier found himself drawn towards the
reform of Hahnemann. This reform, represented by a
positive law and by an experimental materia medica, had
a scientific character which was totally lacking in the
official system of therapeutics. Doubtless Tessier, and
after him his pupils, were wrong in not making sufficient
reservations both against the exclusivism of the law of
similars, as well as against the evidences of illuminism
and mysticism which taint one part of Hahnemann’s
work; but this fault was owing on the one side to the
splendour of the truths contained in the first part of
Hahnemann’s reforms, and on the other, and principally,
to the odious persecution which cast the disciples of the
new doctrine violently and unjustly outside schools and
hospitals, and forced them, so to speak, to serve under a
flag with all the colours of which they were not absolutely
in sympathy.
At the present day there is certainly some amelioration
of this state of things, and as the teachings of the laboratory
have shed a new light upon the curative art, it seems
possible to propound a “ constitution ” for therapeutics.
I.—Therapeutics of Hippocrates.
Hippocrates has been called with good reason “ the father
of medicine.” We find in fact in his books, side by side
with errors which belong to the age in which he lived,
3 Louis *.—Memoire sur les effets de la saignie, p. 55.
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truths of the first order, axioms which have come down
through centuries without being weakened, views large
and profound which belong only to men of genius. In
therapeutics especially, Hippocrates formulated the
general principles which constitute the very basis of that
science. These principles comprise : a doctrinal formula,
that it is nature which cures the disease ; and two in¬
dicative laws.
(1). It is the organism which cures the disease. Natura
medicatrix. Nature cures diseases! This axiom con¬
stitutes the essence of Hippocratic therapeutics : it is not
hypothetical, and rests upon rigorous observation of the
sick. Clinical observation demonstrates that all curable
diseases, even the gravest, can be and are cured without
any treatment. It is therefore incontestable that the
organism can and does suffice for the curing of diseases.
The axiom natura medicatrix rests upon the observation
of the sick at the bedside. But our age has furnished
one more demonstration of its truth, that, namely, of the
laboratory. The destruction of pathogenic microbes by
phagocytes is an example of the organism defending itself,
by its own powers, against the attack of a morbific agent,
and a proof of the possibility of the spontaneous cure of
disease.
Professor Bouchard, with his clear insight into patho¬
logical problems, has said : “ Whether we consider it in
its normal or in its pathological conditions, phagocytism
is one of the manifestations of natura medicatrix ; one of
the methods of a natural attempt at preservation and
cure.” 4
To what extent and in what manner may the drug and
the doctor intervene in these dramas of health and disease,
of life and death ? Hippocrates goes on to tell us : in
the formula medicus interpret et minister , which the Hippo-
cratists have always translated : The physician is the
minister and interpreter of nature. The physician ought
therefore to study the morbid process in all its details,
its causes, its symptoms, its lesions, its movement, that
is to say its evolution. Medicus interpres. The phy¬
sician having thus seized the whole expression of the disease,
becomes the minister capable of choosing the remedy.
How shall this choice be made ? Routine, caprice,
4 Microbes Pathogines, p. 9.
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fashion, and inspiration are evil counsellors, and we should
remind ourselves in any case that medical intervention
is only legitimate when it is justified by an indication .
Now what is an indication ? Indication is the evident
necessity for decided action , but this is a general law. What
are the rules which will guide the physician in particular
cases ? Hippocrates has formulated two laws of indication,
to wit, the law of contraries and the law of similars.
Let us now study these two laws, and state precisely
the sense of those texts of Hippocrates which enunciate
them.
(a) . Law of Contraries. —This law has for its formula,
44 contraria contrariis curantur .” 44 If we always know,”
says Hippocrates, 44 we should be in a position to admin¬
ister what was useful, taking the indication of the remedy
from amongst contraries.” 5 Thus Hippocrates takes
the trouble to precisionise ; the law of contraries does not
apply to the disease, but to its cause, consequently he is
right in saying that this law of indication is only applicable
to diseases of which we know the cause. We must not
lose sight of this meaning of contraria contrariis if we
wish to understand what follows. If the true sense given
to the law of contraries by Hippocrates needed to be
rendered more exact, the following adage would leave no
doubt upon the point: sublata causa toUitur effectus.
This adage is the necessary and universally accepted
complement of the law of contraries.
(b) . Law of similars.—Similia similibus curantur!
This formula is from Hippocrates, and it sums up and
governs the facts we are about to relate. 44 The disease
is produced by similars, and by means of the similars
which have caused it, the patient returns from sickness
to health. Thus, whatever produces strangury, which
is not, cures strangury which is ; cough, like strangury,
is caused and removed by the same thing.” 6 Similia
similibus curantur. Let us precisionise the sense of this
formula! Did Hippocrates wish to say that it was the
similar of the cause , which should be given in order to
cure the disease, as we have seen that he said concerning
the law of contraries ? It is easy to demonstrate that
such was not his thought. He does not say in fact, that
if cold produces strangury and cough (as is possible), that
s Vol. vi, p. 93, Littre's Translation.
6 Loc. cit. y 336 and 337, §12.
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we should prescribe cold in order to cure them; but he
says definitely that the disease is cured by the similars
which we administer . Now that which we administer is
a drug, and the only possible sense of the passage from
Hippocrates is this: The drug which produces strangury
or cough is the drug which cures these two symptoms.
Besides, apropos of the law of contraries, Hippocrates
specially names the cause, and with the law of similars
he does not mention it. The interpretation which we
give to the thought of Hippocrates is that which has been
accepted by all medical men, and for that reason the law
of similars has remained inoperative. If all that were
necessary to cure a disease were to apply the cause that
produced it, where would have been the difficulty ? But
to choose a drug capable of producing the very disease
which we wish it to cure, it is necessary to know the action
of drugs upon the healthy, a method of investigation
which had become a dead letter.
Hippocrates fixed the value and significance of the law
of similars by a clinical application thereof, when he treated
and cured a case of cholera with veratrum album . 7 Vera-
trum album produces in the healthy man the symptoms
of cholera, and in prescribing it Hippocrates applied the
law of similars.
En resume , Hippocrates teaches that it is the organism
which cures diseases, and that two laws ought to guide
the physician in his therapeusis, the law of contraries and
the law of similars.
Whence did Hippocrates acquire this knowledge of the
power of the organism in curing disease ? Who taught
him the two laws which answer to all the difficulties of
practice ? And, above all, whence has he derived the
apparently paradoxical axiom of similia similibus curantur ?
Evidently from tradition and from what he then called
ancient medicine . We do not know, and shall, probably,
never know, the exact sources from which Hippocrates
drew these therapeutic axioms. After all, what matter!
Clinical observation has justified the axiom natura
medicatrix , and the law of contraries answers, with the
law of similars, to all the necessities of therapeutics,
whether curative, palliative, or prophylactic.
It is the law of contraries which guides the surgeon in
i Loc. cit., tome v, p. 15, § 10.
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removing, after injury, the causes of pain, haemorrhage,
or deformity. It is also this law which gives to the
physician the rules necessary for combating and evacuating
mineral, vegetable, and animal poisons. It is the law of
contraries which teaches the technique necessary to
avoid accidents after traumatism, accouchement and
operations, for it teaches us to destroy the microbe which
causes pyaemia ; and the results of aseptic surgery are
evidence of the fertility and power of this law of contraries
when it can seize and destroy the cause of the disease.
Again, the law of contraries teaches us the rules of palliative
therapeutics. It teaches that opium can take away pain,
that chloral can procure sleep, that purgatives remove
constipation, that cold water lowers the temperature,
etc., etc. In a word, palliative therapeutics, which
always consists in suppressing a symptom, finds in the
law of contraries an absolutely sure guide how to apply
for this purpose the properties of drugs which we have
learnt by experiments.
The law of contraries, however, ceases to be applicable
to those diseases whose cause is said to be internal , and
we shall see in a coming paragraph that all attempts,
even in modern times, to apply the law of contraries in
choosing a remedy for such have failed. The internal
cause of disease, even of such as is evolved with the aid
of a pathogenic microbe, is nothing but a particular
property of the organism, which renders it apt in certain
conditions and with certain causes at work to produce
a determinate morbid process.
The organism is, or is not, a favourable soil for the
development of disease. This is the keystone of etiological
teaching; and since the contrary of this particular dis¬
position of the organism does not exist, it is impossible
to apply here the law of contraries. If the law of con¬
traries is inapplicable to the cause, still less is it applicable
to the disease itself. What is the contrary of pneumonia,
of typhoid fever, or of diphtheria ? The mere asking
of the question is an absurdity.
But how do we know that the law of similars can suffice
to guide the physician in the choice of a drug for the cure
of a disease ? In the following manner : Drugs adminis¬
tered to a healthy man produce .in him a complexus of
lesions and symptoms arising in a certain definite order,
and which from analogy we may call a drug-disease. It
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is the knowledge of this drug-disease which makes treat¬
ment by similars possible. Thanks to the initiative of
Hahnemann and his immediate pupils, and thanks also
to therapeutists of the present day who busy themselves
with pharmacodynamics, these drug-diseases enable us
to apply the law of similars. We now know not only
what produces strangury or cough in a healthy man, but
the study of pharmacodynamics has revealed to us the
symptoms and lesions produced by the majority of
remedies, so that physicians of the present day are able
to apply the law of similars by relying upon experimental
Materia Medica.
Here we would interpose a remark of the highest practical
importance, especially to those of our colleagues who
have studied Materia Medica from a different point of
view to ours. It is that we, by means of methodically
graduated experiments, study, in men and animals, the
ensemble of symptoms and lesions produced by drugs,
constituting in fact a sort of drug-disease. We never
forget, in fact, that such studies have for their object the
immediate application of the law of similars to the treat¬
ment of disease ; in this way we place on a lower level
what is now called the 'physiological action of the drug,
and as for the hypertoxic effects which kill an animal in
a few minutes, they are almost (? quite) useless. When
we study, for instance, the action of digitalis upon the
heart, we place in the front rank, on the one hand, the
knowledge of the cardiac depression and asystole produced
by large doses, and on the other the superexcitation of
cardiac contraction produced by feeble doses. We
should, doubtless, be happy to know if the action of digitalis
is centred upon the pneumogastric, upon the intracardiac
ganglia, or even upon the muscular fibres of the heart
itself, its physiological effects in fact; but we do not
occupy ourselves needlessly with the claims of the various
rival theories which profess to explain these facts. In
the same way the experiments of Franck, who kills a dog
in two minutes with digitaline, appear to us destitute
of all therapeutic utility.
Our method of study is something quite different. We
administer small but ponderable doses, which we increase
or diminish in quantity or frequency according to the effects
produced. This method, which ensures a long survival of
the animal, gives us a tableau of symptoms and lesions
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which cannot be obtained by the enormous doses usually
employed. Some examples of such experiments will serve
to illustrate our method.
(To be continued.)
HOMCEOPATHY AMONG THE ALLOPATHS- 1
By D. Dyce Brown, M.A., M.D.,
Consulting Physician to the London Homcepathic Hospital, and to the
Phillips Memorial Hospital, Bromley, Kent.
Mr. President and Gentlemen,— In rising to read this
paper, I cannot but feel, as we all must do, how sad our
associations are in connection with it. You are all aware
that our lamented and dear colleague Dr. Richard Hughes
had agreed to write a paper for the Congress on the above
subject, which had been selected by the Council. Had
he been spared to be with us to-day, we should have had
a real treat in the way that he would have written the
paper, full as it would have been of information and
detail, expressed so gracefully, and dealing with our
colleagues in the old school in a gentle and broad-minded,
though firm, manner. It would have been a paper which
would not only have been listened to with marked attention,
but would have well repaid reading afterwards. All this
we may conclude from our knowledge of Dr. Hughes’
personality and character, as well as from our remembrance
of his previous numerous writings. But the hand of
death was laid upon him before he had written anything.
Had he written the paper before he went on his last
journey to Belfast, I should have had the sad task, as
secretary, of reading it for him, and so my part would
have ended. But as this was not the case, the Council
requested me to fill his place and write a paper on the
same subject. I feel, therefore, that I stand before you
at a great disadvantage under such sad circumstances,
and I hope you will deal leniently with my endeavour
to fulfil the task allotted to me.
My aim in this paper is to show how largely, from
comparatively recent times till the present day, our friends
of the old school, while running down our principles of
treatment as unscientific, as the u grave of medicine ”
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and as absurd ; while refusing to meet us in consultation,
preventing us becoming members of the various medical
societies, or holding any public appointments in connection
with hospitals or otherwise; while calling themselves
“ regular ” practitioners, and us, consequently, irregular
ones; in other words, professionally tabooing us; and
stating, as the Lancet did the other day, that our treatment
“ is tantamount to no treatment at all,” yet show clearly
how our principles and practice are adopted by them,
though without any acknowledgment, or any hint of the
source from which the “ new ” treatment is obtained.
Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery, and
in spite of all denunciations of our principles and conse¬
quent treatment of disease, it cannot but gratify us to
find that in this unmistakably practical way our views
are steadily leavening the practice of our opponents. Our
gratification is, however, a trifling matter. But what
is more important, and well worth the consideration of
those who taboo us, is that it is one of the strongest argu¬
ments in proof of the truth and solid basis of our thera¬
peutics. When we find a man who opposes our views,
and not merely opposes them, but denies their scientific
nature, and will have nothing to say to us in consequence,
and yet adopts our treatment—treatment that from an
allopathic standpoint is utterly wrong and absolutely
contra-indicated, treatment that is explicable on no other
theory than the action of the law of similars, and who
publishes his successful use of such therapeusis, we
maintain that his theoretical opposition is simply ridiculous
and a contradiction in terms. We have always stated
that however beautiful homoeopathy is in theory, the
practical results of the theory are the only tests that are
of real value. If a theory fails to be borne out in practice
it is worthless. Hence, per contra , if our opponents find
the homoeopathic treatment a success, whether prescribed
wittingly or otherwise, the ground of theoretical objection
is cut away from their feet. It is this practical, forcible,
and irrefutable argument that I propose to demonstrate
in this paper. There is, therefore, nothing original in
my paper. It is simply an array of facts, collated for a
special purpose, but perhaps of more value as an argument
than an article containing original views. You will also
be good enough to observe that in arranging these facts
I quote entirely from allopathic writers , and abstain
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altogether from any statements from homoeopathic
sources, either as to pathogenesis or treatment.
Perhaps I should begin by recounting the remarkable
amount of blind evidence, that is, evidence given un¬
wittingly, which Hahnemann discovered in his marvellously
wide reading in medical works published before his own
day. Showing an extraordinary amount of erudition,
Hahnemann studied these works after he had thought
out the doctrine of similars, to see if any conscious or
unconscious use had been made of it since the days of
Hippocrates, who stated that “ Some diseases are cured
by likes, and some by contraries.” The amount of such
evidence, which he published in support of his views, is
remarkable. If any of my hearers have not read these
cases, the sooner they do so the better for themselves
and for their further appreciation of the careful study
and learning of the great Hahnemann. But though this
information remains a sealed book to allopaths because
they will not look into it, yet it would take up more time
than I should feel warranted in doing in a Congress paper
to go into these ancient records. And, besides, it might
be said that they were too ancient to have much bearing
on the relations between the two schools to-day. I there¬
fore only refer to them in passing as being most interesting
and instructive, as showing how long before Hahnemann’s
time the principle of similars was frequently acted upon
in practice. They are well worth reading, and constitute
what I would call the first chapter in the books of evidence
in support of my present argument.
The second chapter consists of similar evidence from
old-school standard authors up till the time when Dr.
Sydney Ringer published his Handbook of Therapeutics
in 1869, the epoch from which I date the commencement
of what I term the third chapter.
This second chapter evidence I now proceed to analyse.
I have got together the goodly number of forty-one
medicines, common to both schools , of which we find the
homoeopathic employment—that is, their use in curing
disorders similar to those produced by these medicines
in full doses, recorded by standard writers. These
standard works from which I quote are : (1) Trousseau
and Pidoux' Traite de Therapeutique , 7th edition; (2)
Pereira's Materia Medica, 3rd edition ; (3) Wood's Materia
Medica ; (4) Waring's Manual of Therapeutics ; (5)
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Christison on Poisons , 4th edition ; (6) Taylor on Poisons ,
4th edition; (7) Graves ’ Clinical Lectures , Neligan’s
edition.
These medicines are, alphabetically :—
1. Acid Sulphuric. —Taylor, Pereira, and Wood con¬
cur in stating that it causes disturbance of digestion,
griping pain in stomach and bowels, and purging, often
with blood. Wood states that this may occur from its
“ too long continuance in medicinal doses.” Conversely,
its use in diarrhoea is too well known to require references,
so also is its value as a stomach “ tonic ” in small doses,
while its use in painter’s colic, which is characterized by
severe abdominal pain, is well known.
■ 2. Acids Nitric and Hydrochloric act in a similar manner
in inflaming or irritating the stomach, while both are
largely used in small doses as stomachic “ tonics,” to
improve appetite and digestion.
4. Acid Oxalic. —This produces pain, bloody vomiting,
and great prostration, and the stomach is found, post¬
mortem , red and inflamed, while Waring states that an
Italian physician had obtained “ uniform success ” with
its use in inflammation of the mucous membrane of the
stomach.
5. Alum. —Trousseau and Pidoux state that when
employed externally it at first contracts the vessels, pales
the inflamed part, the swelling and the colour of the
part are diminished, and the tissue seems as if dried up.
But if (the opposite effect) the application be used too
strong, or too long continued, this primary condition is
followed “ by the phenomena of true inflammation.”
Pereira and Wood make similar statements. Conversely,
in a weak solution, its value as a gargle or an eye-wash
is well known. Internally these same writers state that
in large doses it causes pain in the stomach, difficulty
of digestion, with vomiting and diarrhoea. Conversely,
Waring quotes Sir J. Murray as speaking of it in the highest
terms in catarrhal affections of the stomach, while he,
Wood, and Pereira all speak of its success in the treatment
of diarrhoea.
6. Ammonia. —The use of ammonia as a “ diffusible
stimulant,” chiefly in the form of sal volatile, in fainting,
collapse, and general depression is in daily employment.
But it is not generally known, or at least is conveniently
forgotten, that in large doses ammonia produces this
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very state—great depression, faintness, collapse, coldness
of the body, feebleness of pulse, and loss of voice. Hence
its constantly used medicinal effect is purely homoeopathic,
a fact which the public have no idea of.
7. Antimony, or its usual form tartar emetic. —Its use
in the old school is pre-eminently homoeopathic. Its
pathogenetic effect is well known, causing loss of appetite,
nausea, vomiting, and much depression of the vital
powers, and diarrhoea, with much irritation of the alimen¬
tary canal. Majendie found in his experiments with
animals that it almost always produced inflammation
of the lungs, from which the animals died. Schloepfer
obtained the same results, as recorded by Christison, and
Taylor states also that it causes congestion of the lungs.
Conversely, we find Graves speaking of its use in certain
forms of dyspepsia. But its value in pneumonia is well
known, and here we find the homoeopathicity of it in
pneumonia by the effects of large and small doses. When
it used to be given in large doses under Rasori the mortality
was, as quoted by Dr. Hughes Bennett, 1 in 5, while in
cases treated by Dr. Dietl, of Vienna, with diet only, the
mortality was 1 in 13J. Pereira, in fact, naively remarks
that “ if tartar emetic has a tendency to inflame the lungs,
or at least to occasion pulmonary engorgement, we should
expect that large doses of it would not be very beneficial
in acute pneumonia.” This is common sense. Those
who still use large doses of it find that it is only in “ sthenic ”
cases that it can be borne, and that in debilitated subjects
it is “ contra-indicated.” Dr. Gairdner, of Glasgow,
in his Clinical Lectures, gives an admirable exposition
of the true dosage of antimony in pneumonia, which I must
quote. He says: “In general, I regard the ordinary
physiological action of antimony as quite opposed to its
therapeutic action (the italics are Dr. G.’s own), and when¬
ever they occur I make it a rule either to suspend the
remedy or diminish the dose, believing it to be, on the
whole, much safer to forego the possible advantage of the
antimonial medication than run the risk of superinducing
the least degree of poisonous action.” He then gives a
case where he gave tartar emetic to an enfeebled, exhausted
patient, and says : “ In this case, as in several others
of similar character which have occurred to me, I ventured
notwithstanding the extreme weakness and exhaustion
of the patient, upon the administration of small doses,
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along with difEusible stimulants, and was rewarded by
seeing the remedy produce its best effects, viz., a therapeutic
without the least trace of a physiological action. The dose
should rarely exceed the i^th or even i^th of a grain to
begin with in such cases—sometimes even less.” This
is exactly the homoeopathic idea—giving a remedy which
causes a similar state of disease, and in doses small enough
to produce no aggravation, thereby obtaining the curative
result. And the constant prescription by allopaths of
tartar emetic in pneumonia and bronchitis is a pure piece
of homoeopathy. Apropos of the irritative action of
antimony on the gastro-enteric mucous membrane, it is
noteworthy that Trousseau and Pidoux state that when
given in pneumonia “ antimony was more useful in those
cases, precisely, when the stomach and intestines were
most irritable.” This is beautiful homoeopathy.
8. Arsenic. —The entire modern use of arsenic by the
old school is, I may say, entirely homoeopathic. Its
action on the gastro-enteric mucous membrane, causing
great gastric and intestinal pain of a burning character,
red tongue, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea of a watery type,
prostration, cramps in the legs, and tenderness in the
epigastrium and abdomen, is too well known to require
more than this short description. One would have thought
that to employ it as a medicine in these very conditions
when the result of disease, would be too obviously contra¬
indicated from an allopathic point of view to be thought
of, and, if used, too obviously homoeopathic to pass
unnoticed, or its meaning pondered over. Yet such is
the case. In 1857 Dr. Black, of Chesterfield, writes to the
Lancet , recommending arsenic as being, in his experience,
a 61 specific ” in cholera , even in the stage of collapse, and
states that a Liverpool physician, disgusted with the
ordinary treatment, had found such success with it that
he now used no other medicine. Trousseau advises it
in chronic diarrhoea and the diarrhoea of phthisis. Dr.
Handheld Jones quotes Mr. Hunt, the writer on skin
disease, as speaking of its “ eminent utility in checking
chronic diarrhoea and gastric irritation,” while Dr. Leared,
of the Great Northern Hospital, writes to the British
Medical Journal praising its value in certain forms of
gastric pain. Trousseau and Pidoux speak of its improving
the appetite, facilitating digestion, and in “ diminishing
the sensibility of the stomach,” and in gastralgia. They
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add that their own observations, added to those of others,
“ seem to us to authorize the employment of arsenic in
extremely small doses (a doses extremement petites) in
certain refractory organs of the digestive organs; for
example, in dyspepsia or gastro-enteralgia, accompanied
by obstinate diarrhoea, and in certain cases of lientery
with a cachectic state that nothing else can modify.”
Dr. Begbie, of Edinburgh, in his “ Contributions to
Practical Medicine,” gives a passage which is worth
quoting: He says: “ As to an irritable condition of the
gastric mucous membrane being a bar to its employment,
late experience has proved that in many cases arsenic is
the most valuable remedy we possess for allaying and
ultimately removing this morbid condition. An intimate
sympathy exists between the skin and the mucous mem¬
brane of the bowels; and it has been remarked that in
many cutaneous affections diarrhoea is apt to concur and
to keep pace with the progress of the primary disease.
It is certain that in such cases arsenic can be employed,
not only with advantage to the skin affections, but with
a corresponding improvement in the condition of the
bowels ; the relief and cure of the two disorders being
coincident with the development of the earliest symptoms
of arsenical operation. But apart altogether from this
class of cases, there is another where the skin affection
complicates the disease of the bowels, and where the
continued irritation, with frequent dejections of vitiated
secretions and bloody mucus, gives rise to the suspicion
that ulceration of the inner coat has taken place; or
where the evacuations are of such a character as to lead
to the belief that a process of eruption and desquamation
analogous to that observed in the skin is going on. In
such cases small doses of arsenic cautiously administered
have been found highly serviceable—correcting the
secretions, checking the diarrhoea, and restoring a healthy
character to the mucous membrane. Arsenic has lately
been extolled as a remedy in cholera, having been
employed in full and frequently repeated doses during
the vomiting, purging, and collapse of the disease.”
Christison, quoting from Hahnemann (!), describes the
symptoms of chronic poisoning by arsenic as follows:
“ They are a gradual sinking of the vital powers of life,
without any violent symptoms—a nameless feeling of
illness, failure of strength, slight feverishness, want of
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sleep, lividity of the countenance, and an aversion to food
and drink and all the other enjoyments of life. Dropsy
closes this scene, along with black miliary eruptions, or
colliquative perspiration and purging.” To place against
this picture, Dr. Graves, in his Clinical Lectures, gives
a case where the patient was “ in an extreme state of
emaciation and debility—in fact, a complete skeleton,
and unable to support himself on his legs. . . . For
the last two years he had never slept at night, except in
consequence of an opiate.” He was put on arsenic, and
the result was that his sleep gradually returned, “ he
daily gathered flesh and strength, and in the course of a
month was so altered for the better that were it not for
the depressed nose no one could have recognized him to
be the same being whose misery a month ago had so
strongly excited our commiseration.”
Next, as to the action of arsenic on the skin, the various
forms of skin eruption well known to be produced by
arsenic require no reference, while conversely the value
of arsenic in nearly every form of skin disease is universally
recognized.
Inflammation of the conjunctiva is uniformly seen in
over-dosing or poisoning by arsenic, with sandy
pain, redness, oedema of the eyelids and lacrymation.
Conversely, we find Handfield Jones saying that “ arsenic
appeared to be a specific in chronic inflammation of the
eyes and of the lids.” Waring says: “In catarrhal
ophthalmia, and more especially in those forms which
are of a passive, subacute, or chronic character, or where
the irritability of the conjunctiva is excessive, arsenic
has proved very beneficial in the hands of Dr. Mackenzie.
In strumous ophthalmia Dr. Thorp states that arsenic
is a most valuable agent in inveterate cases.”
Arsenic produces epilepsy. Christison gives a case
which he calls “ a good example of epilepsy supervening
on the ordinary symptoms of inflammation.” Waring
quotes several authors who had used it successfully in
this disease. It also produces convulsive movements
of the voluntary muscles, as stated by Christison, Taylor,
and others. Taylor gives a case where the patient “ had
such a degree of nervous irritability that a current of air
caused spasms and convulsions.” In a case of my own,
of poisoning from arsenical wall-paper, which was seen
by another doctor with me, the symptoms so exactly
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resembled chorea that, before the cause was discovered,
I had advised arsenic as the remedy. Conversely,
Pereira, Begbie, and others speak in the highest terms
of its value in chorea, the former saying, “ I know of no
remedy for this disease equal to arsenic, which, in a large
proportion of cases, acts almost as a specific.”
Now for the chest-symptoms of arsenic. Christison,
Taylor, and Pereira all testify to the power of arsenic
to produce irritation of the lungs and air-passages, shortness
and difficulty of breathing, chest pain, and pneumonia,
oppressed respiration, and dry cough, with hot sensation
in the air-passages, and, post-mortem , redness of the lining
of the bronchial tubes, with pneumonia. Conversely,
Dr. Begbie speaks of its value in bronchitis, bronchial
irritation, hay-fever, and asthma. Of its use in phthisis,
Trousseau and Pidoux speak very highly. They say:
“ We have seen the diarrhoea moderate, the hectic fever
diminish, the cough become less frequent, the expectoration
take a better character, but we have not cured. Never¬
theless, the results which we have obtained are motives
of encouragement to us, and nothing prevents us hoping
that in cases only slightly advanced we might obtain a
cure.” Dr. Leared also speaks of the advantages he
found from arsenic in phthisis. And Waring quotes
M. Garin, a French physician, as saying that in chronic
bronchitis with copious expectoration and much emaciation
he had used arsenic with much success. I may justifiably
repeat that the entire modern use of arsenic is homoeopathic.
9. Belladonna .—Its power to produce convulsions is
well known, while Trousseau and Pidoux speak in very
high praise of its value in epilepsy, in eclampsia of infants,
and of puerperal women. They say that “ belladonna
administered in small doses sometimes produces unhoped
for results.” On the bladder, these authors state that
a demi-paralysis is produced, with involuntary emission
of urine, and, conversely, that it is one of the most effica¬
cious remedies in incontinence of urine. Brown-S^quard,
Handheld Jones, Waring, and numerous writers testify to
the same. On the brain, the action of belladonna is well
known, causing mania, hallucinations, delirium, and
general mental excitement. On this Trousseau and
Pidoux remark—and this quotation is very important
from our standpoint: “ Analogy, that guide so sure in
therapeutics, ought to lead us to use belladonna in the
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treatment of mania, inasmuch as belladonna taken in
large doses produces a temporary mania; for experience
has proved that a multitude of diseases are cured by
therapeutic agents, which seem to act in the same manner
as the disease to which we oppose this remedy.” This
is a beautiful testimony to the law of similars. Waring
says: “In the delirium occurring in fevers and in
erysipelas, belladonna is sometimes a more effectual
sedative than opium, and is often admissible when the
latter is not so.”
Next, the testimony of Trousseau and Pidoux, Pereira,
Taylor, Handheld Jones, and Waring is clear and decided
as to the power of belladonna to produce a scarlet eruption
resembling that of scarlet fever. Conversely, the obser¬
vations of Hahnemann that belladonna acts as a valuable
remedy in scarlet fever, and also as a preventive, has
been called in question by various allopathic writers;
but Waring most fairly gives the authorities and facts
for and against, and winds up by saying, “ The weight of
testimony is decidedly in favour of its preventive action.”
He then adds that “as a remedial agent in scarlet fever
belladonna appears to be undoubtedly a valuable remedy,”
and he quotes several authors in support of this. In
erysipelas, on account of this pathogenetic red rash, it is
the chief remedy with homoeopaths. In support of this
practice we have the authority of the celebrated Liston.
In the Lancet , after giving several cases of erysipelas
treated by himself with aconite and belladonna, he says,
after speaking of its good effects, “ Of course we cannot
pretend to say positively in what way this effect is pro¬
duced, but it seems almost to act by magic ; however,
so long as we benefit our patients by the treatment we
pursue, we have no right to condemn the principles upon
which this treatment is pursued.” He then goes on to
say that this is the homoeopathic remedy for erysipelas,
and continues: “I believe in the homoeopathic doctrine
to a certain extent, but I cannot as yet, from inexperience
on the subject, go the length its advocates would wish,
in as far as regards the very minute doses of some of their
medicines. The medicines in the above cases were
certainly given in much smaller doses than have ever
hitherto been prescribed. The beneficial effects, as you
witnessed, were unquestionable. I have, however, seen
similar good effects from the belladonna prepared according
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to the homoeopathic pharmacopoeia, in a case of very
severe erysipelas of the head and face, under the care of
my friend Dr. Quin. The inflammatory symptoms and
local signs disappeared with very great rapidity. Without
adopting the theory of this medical sect, you ought not
to reject its doctrines without due examination and
enquiry. We shall continue the employment of this plan
of treatment in erysipelas so long as we find it as successful
as it has been.” It is quite refreshing to find such honest
and fearless views coming from such a celebrated man,
and to find them published in the Lancet of that date.
Had our opponents generally adopted such an attitude
towards homoeopathy, it might have been to-day the
dominant practice in the profession.
10. Bismuth .—We have evidence in Pereira and
Christison of bismuth causing gastro-enteritis, watery
purging, with pain and vomiting, and, post-mortem , well-
marked evidence of inflammation of the bowels. The
converse medicinal action of bismuth in irritative dyspepsia,
vomiting, and diarrhoea is well known. But I pass over
this without pushing the point, as we are often told that
bismuth is frequently adulterated with arsenic, and that
these irritative symptoms are the result of the arsenic,
and not of the bismuth.
11. Cinchona and Quinine .—The action of cinchona
in producing a state very similar to that of ague—the fact
that led Hahnemann to the discovery of the homoeopathic
law—has been disputed by some writers. But there is
ample evidence of it in trustworthy authors, and in the
facts noticed in the workers in cinchona and quinine.
And we find the authority of Trousseau and Pidoux
supporting it. They first quote Bretonneau as saying:
“ Each day’s observation proves that cinchona, given
in a large dose, determines, in a great number of subjects,
a very marked febrile movement. The characters of
this fever, and the time when it shows itself, vary in
different individuals; oftenest, tinnitus aurium, deafness,
and a species of intoxication precede the invasion of this
fever; a slight shivering then occurs ; a dry heat accom¬
panied by headache succeeds to these first symptoms ;
they gradually abate and end by sweat. Far from
yielding to new and higher doses of this medicine, the
fever produced by cinchona is only exasperated.”
Trousseau and Pidoux then go on to say : “ But if strong
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doses are renewed each day and continued during a long
time, besides the stomach pains of which we have spoken,
there manifests itself a species of fever exactly indicated
by M. Bretonneau, and which affects an intermittent
type when the cinchona is given in an intermittent manner.
This fever is a species of vicious circle in which very often
inexperienced physicians turn who are ignorant of the
action of cinchona; they redouble the doses of the
medicine, and throw the patient into a state which may
be very serious.” Conversely, of course, cinchona and
quinine are par excellence the remedies in ague—a pure
piece of homoeopathy.
Next, as to its action on the stomach, the use of cinchona
and quinine as so-called “ tonics ” in certain forms of
dyspepsia and gastralgia is too much in daily employment
by the allopaths from the time cinchona was discovered
till now to require references on this point. But it is
not generally known, or at least the fact is ignored, that
this drug produces in large doses the very conditions it
is so commonly prescribed to cure. If this is doubted,
hear what Trousseau and Pidoux say : “ In the healthy
body, in a moderate dose, its ingestion causes a feeling
of inconvenient heat and weight in the region of the
stomach. In persons a little irritable it cannot be borne,
and causes vomiting. ... It caiises pains in the
stomach which take in certain persons a remarkable
intensity. These pains, which persist some length of
time after the medicine has been omitted, yield with
difficulty, and ought in general to prevent physicians
employing it for too long a time continuously in the
treatment of gastralgias, which call for tonics. . . .
When the digestive tube is in a normal state, quinine
determines there a moderate excitation, which shows
itself oftenest by a simple augmentation of the functions
of that organ. But if the digestive tube be in a morbid
condition, or if the dose be too large, or, still more, if the use
of the medicine be too prolonged, this excitation changes
easily into inflammatory irritation in all its degrees and
with all its consequences, viz., thirst, vomiting, local pains,
and diarrhoea.” Cinchona and quinine are therefore here
shown to be purely homoeopathic as stomach “ tonics.”
Lastly, the action of quinine in causing headache,
vertigo, and noises in the ears is well known, while
conversely its value in curing or relieving these very
conditions is equally well known.
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12. Chlorine .—The action of chlorine, when inhaled
undiluted, or in too strong a solution, causes spasm of the
glottis, violent spasmodic cough, tightness of the chest,
difficulty of breathing, and inflammation of the air-tubes
and lungs. All authors, as Pereira, Wood, Christison,
Trousseau and Pidoux, etc., agree in this.
Conversely, Trousseau and Pidoux say : “ It cannot
be denied that chronic catarrhs have been most successfully
modified by that method of treatment, which has most
frequently produced acute bronchitis.” Please mark
this remarkable admission. They then state that M.
Toulmouche, of Rennes, obtained good results in the
treatment of acute and chronic catarrhs by inhalations
of chlorine. His cases amounted to 309. Dr. Wood, of
America, says: “As a useful remedy in chronic inflam¬
mation of the air-passages, I can speak confidently of its
good results.” He discovered its beneficial action by
its curative effect on himself while suffering from chronic
catarrh, and says: “ From this fact I inferred the use of
chlorine inhalations in chronic bronchitis, and have ever
since taught the use of this remedy to my pupils. Others
have found it not less beneficial.” Its good effect has
since then been recognized, though seldom used, as it
became officinal in the British Pharmacopoeia of 1857.
13. Chlorate of Potash .—A case is reported in the
British Medical Journal of 1858 in which stomatitis was
produced by this drug, while of its power to cause salivation,
Trousseau and Pidoux say : “ The most remarkable and,
so to speak, characteristic phenomenon which follows
the ingestion of chlorate of potash consists in salivation,
proportionally abundant as one increases the dose.”
Conversely, in ulcerative stomatitis it is looked upon as
nearly a specific in the old school; while in mercurial
stomatitis, in which salivation is a constant and essential
symptom, Trousseau and Pidoux say: “ Thanks to the
most numerous and most decisive experiments, we may
consider chlorate of potash given internally, if not an
infallible specific, at least as the means most generally
efficacious in the treatment of mercurial stomatitis.”
Fortunately, we now seldom see a case of this disease,
but the facts remain all the same.
14. Chloride of sodium .—Common salt. Used as a
daily article of diet in small doses promoting digestion,
it is not generally known that in large doses it causes
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vomiting, and in still larger ones inflammation of the
intestinal canal, as stated in all works on toxicology.
15. Copaiba .—Of its pathogenetic action Wood says :
“ If continued long, or given largely, the copaiba is apt
to produce an obvious irritation of the urinary passages,
evinced by a disposition to frequent micturition, and
uneasy sensations of burning or pain in passing urine.
. . . The irritation of the urinary organs sometimes
amounts to complete strangury, with scalding and cutting
pains, bloody and scanty urine, etc. Occasionally the
renal irritation is so great that the kidneys almost cease
to secrete.” Conversely, its therapeutic use in certain
conditions of inflammation of the urinary passages, viz.,
in gonorrhoea, is well known. From its irritative effects
it is a usual rule not to give it in the acute stage for fear
of aggravation of the inflammation. Trousseau and
Pidoux’s article on copaiba on this and other points is
well worth study. In the Cydopcedia of Practical Medicine ,
vol. i, it is stated that “ in chronic cystitis occurring in
persons of a strumous diathesis, or in debilitated con¬
stitutions, more advantage is often derived from stimulants
of the urinary organs, such as the turpentines, and, above
all, small doses of copaiba and cubebs pepper.” Mr.
Liston says of cystitis that copaiba will “ often remove
speedily the most intense irritation when all other means
have failed.” When copaiba is given in large doses it
is well known to cause disturbance of the gastro-enteric
tract, and Wood says : “ If continued long, or given largely,
it is apt to disturb the bowels . . . producing nausea
and vomiting, with or without purging,” while he on the
next page says : “In chronic inflammation of the intestinal
mucous membrane, especially when attended with ulcers,
or supposed to be so, it would appear to be clearly
indicated, and it has, in fact, been employed with decided
advantage associated with opiates in chronic diarrhoea
and dysentery.”
16. Cuprum. —Copper. Its physiological action is so
well known as to require no reference now to any works
on toxicology. It causes nausea, vomiting, with griping,
colicky pains in the stomach and bowels. The abdomen
is distended and painful, the pain increased by pressure
and not relieved by vomiting. Then follows purging,
with tenesmus. There is violent headache, with cramps
in the thighs and legs. There is hurried breathing, small,
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quick, irregular pulse, great weakness and prostration,
intense thirst, cold perspiration, and coldness of the limbs,
giddiness, stupor, coma, and generally convulsions,
followed by paralysis of motion and sensation, and death.
The stomach and intestines are found after death much
inflamed and ulcerated. One would have thought that
a drug producing this condition of gastro-intestinal
inflammation would be the last medicine from an allopathic
point of view to be prescribed in diarrhoea and ulceration
of the bowels. But, as is well known, copper is one of
the medicines most used and most trusted by the old
school in chronic diarrhoea, and in the diarrhoea of phthisis,
in which ulceration is usually present. Wood says:
“ The particular conditions in which I have found it
(sulphate of copper) especially useful, and in which, so
far as my experience goes, it is equalled by no other
remedy, is a kind of chronic enteritis, attended with
diarrhoea, distressing pains in a particular part of the
abdomen, with or without tenderness on pressure, emacia¬
tion, great depression of spirits, pulse often, though not
necessarily, frequent, and a moist tongue. In such cases
I have been disposed to ascribe the obstinacy which they
exhibit, and sometimes in an extraordinary degree, to the
existence, within a comparatively small extent of the
bowels, of a chronic, indolent ulceration, which requires
a strongly excitant and alterative impression to enable
it to take on a healing tendency. I have seen these,
after having been treated by a diversity of remedies,
opiates, astringents, etc., and lingering month after month
without permanent relief, yield most happily to the
persevering use of this remedy, combined with a little
opium to render it less offensive to the stomach. A
beneficial change is usually experienced in a few days,
and afterwards regularly advances to a cure.” This is
pure homoeopathy.
Although it produces convulsions, it has been used
with success in chorea and epilepsy, as cited by Pereira,
Wood, and Waring.
17. Cubebs .—Wood says that “ in excess it produces
irritation or inflammation in the urinary passages and
a general febrile condition.” Conversely, its use in
gonorrhoea is well known, and under copaiba I quoted
a passage where its value, like that of copaiba, in chronic
cystitis is testified ^to.
(To be continued.)
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THE PRESENT STATUS OF HOMCEOPATHY.
Being the Presidential Address delivered before
the Fifty-Eighth Annual Session of the American
Institute of Homoeopathy, Cleveland, 0., June 17,
1902.
By James C. Wood, M.D.
(Continued from p. 689.)
In the face of these facts are we not in duty bound to
stand by the many little coteries of men who, in this
country and in Europe, are waging an unequal fight for
the sake of principles which they believe to be right and
just ?
Again, in logical sequence, I approach question three.
“ What evidence can we put forth going to show that
the law of similars, upon which the homoeopathic school
is based, is a law of nature and a law of cure worthy of
being elaborated and studied by all who have at heart
the best interests of humanity ? ”
In answering this question it is necessary to form some
conception of what nature is. I think it can best be
defined by the words “ unity ” and “ harmony.” The
science of nature is the study of relations by which matter
and elements are bound together. Therefore, a new
scientific fact is simply the perception of a new relation.
A “Law of Nature,” then, means a law which fits or
matches other well-known laws with harmony and
precision. “ Thus,” says Dole, “ each new element,
as it is discovered, fits into a kinship of elements, where
before there had been a gap. The unrevealed thing is
not yet a truth till its relationship is found out. As soon
as the scientific eye sees with regard to the new flower
or tree, the new chemical element, the new planet, that
this matches with all other things known; as soon as
the astronomer finds that the hitherto supposed disturbance
in his calculations is in fact demanded by the law of
gravitation, that it heralds the presence of an unknown
asteroid, the area of truth, that is, harmonized knowledge,
is widened.”
Carrying this beautiful conception of nature to its
logical conclusion, we are forced to believe, even in these
days of intense materialism, that an all-wise Creator did
not create harmony so complete that “ the characteristic
of everything natural is that it fits together with everything
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else ” only to leave his children at the mercy of caprice
and chance in contending with disease and suffering.
Must we see order in one place and chaos in another ?
“ Must we,” to paraphrase again from Dole, “ stand in
wonder at one moment at the marvellous correlation of
the machinery and the forces of the world, and then at
the next moment be struck aghast at the disorderly results
of the working of this Titanic system in the one realm
where its working concerns us ”—in disease, in life, and
in death ? To me, a physician, the supposed unity of
nature avails but little if it merely correlates the several
natural sciences into a “ poem or symphony ” from which
nothing can be omitted, and stops short of affording a law
of cure which is beneficent and reliable.
But while it is probable that a law of healing exists in
nature, it by no means follows that the law of similars
is that law. In undertaking to prove that it is, it is
unfortunate that all methods of cure must ever remain
without the domain of the exact sciences. It is impossible
to repeat experiments in the biological sciences as in
chemistry and in physics. Even in the exact sciences,
as we call them, which deal with facts, we touch forces
that we cannot understand. Herbert Spencer has shown
that we cannot take up any problem in physics without
being quickly led to some metaphysical problem which
we can neither solve nor evade. If this is true of the
science of physics, how much more true is it of the science
of the human organism. In disease no two cases are
alike, and it is impossible to make invariable deductions
because of the disturbing influences of constitutional bias,
race, and environment.
I therefore know of no way of proving that the law of
similars is a general fact, a principle, a law of nature,
except by clinical demonstration. Learned hypotheses
may be brought forward to explain a fact, but they still
remain hypotheses. We may find it difficult or impossible
to explain why a magnetized steel bar when it is encircled
by a current of electricity will move to the right hand
or to the left, instead of pointing steadily to the north
pole of the earth ; but it is a fact, nevertheless, that it
will. It is impossible to explain why the ripened apple
drops to the earth instead of flying off into space, but it
is a fact that it does drop to the earth. It is difficult to
explain why oxygen will combine withjthe other elements
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only in the proportion of sixteen parts by weight; but
it nevertheless remains a fact—a law of nature unalterable
and uncompromising. And so it is with the law of similars.
It is hard to explain why a remedy which will produce
certain symptoms when given to a person in health, will
cause similar symptoms to disappear when administered
in disease. It nevertheless remains a fact, demonstrated
beyond all question in the clinic and at the bedside, that
it will do so within certain limitations. This one fact
is worth more to the agonized mother bending over her
sick child, than all the theories set forth by all the physicians
since the dawn of civilization. It matters little to that
mother whether the shibboleth of homoeopathy is expressed
indicatively or subjunctively, so long as her child is
restored to health. 1 The old world is weary of the quibb¬
ling over creeds, definitions, and formulae. In any
department of thought it is the essence of truth rather
than its form of expression that the earnest seeker most
cares for. Theories and hypotheses put forth to explain
the law of similars “ inductively founded upon innumerable
instances ” only obscure its almost sublime simplicity.
Homoeopathy is, then, a practical fact to be observed
at the bedside. It is simple and intelligible ; and it stands
upon its comparative merits. There has never been a
public trial of it made, but that it has gained immeasurably
by comparison with the methods of treatment of the older
school. Let us enumerate some of its most obvious claims
to superiority, which have been emphasized by many
writers :—
1. Homoeopathy affords a practical guide in the
treatment of disease, while so-called regular medicine,
as regards therapeutics, notwithstanding its marvellous
strides in all other departments, is still in a condition of
chaos and uncertainty.
2. Homoeopathy aims at the eradication of disease
whenever this is possible, rather than merely to afford
palliative relief.
3. Homoeopathy economizes the vital powers by
administering the minimum curative dose. 7
4. The homoeopathic physician first learns the proper¬
ties' of drugs by experimenting upon the healthy, rather
than upon the sick.
1 There has been much useless discussion by various homoeopathic
writers as to whether the now historical phrase should read “ Similia
similibus curantur,” or “ Similia similibus curentur —T. C. W.
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5. The homoeopathic physician is therefore better
prepared to treat any new form of disease which may
present itself than is the so-called regular physician, for
the reason that he bases his treatment upon the phenomena
of disease rather than upon its essence, and deals with
such phenomena inductively rather than deductively.
The foregoing claims are not re-echoed at this time in
the spirit of a narrow partisan who can see nothing good
beyond the realm of his own school of medicine. On the
contrary, I realize that it is becoming more and more the
mission of the true physician to prevent rather than to
cure disease. I realize, too, that there are many other
methods and possibly other laws of cure. I am aware
that for infinite ages human beings have suffered and died
under all methods of cure, and that the best we can do
under the most favourable conditions is too often futile
and valueless. These claims are presented for the purpose
of comparison rather than from a spirit of boastfulness.
If they are substantiated by facts, as I honestly believe
they are, let us pass to question four :—
u What have been the chief obstacles to the growth of
homoeopathy and its acceptance by the dominant school
of medicine ? ”
I have already intimated* that the growth of homoeo¬
pathy and institutions homoeopathic has been, in many
sections of this country at least, far from unsatisfactory.
Now, if the law of similars is the best and most universally
applicable of all the laws or methods of cure yet enunciated
or evolved, as we claim, should it not long ago have been
accepted by progressive and scientifically inclined
physicians of all schools ? Hahnemann promulgated
this law at a time when, as later experiments proved
beyond all peradventure, the treatment in vogue was
doing infinitely more harm than good. Hahnemann
himself was a physician of acknowledged ability, culture,
and scientific attainment. He had more than a national
reputation as a chemist and a scholar. He was a recognized
member in good standing of the so-called regular profession.
He published his first observations and experiments in a
well-known and recognized journal of his school—
Hufeland’s ; and the law which he enunciated was destined
to revolutionize the practice of medicine and pharmacy.
Yet it remains a fact that the law of similars is still un¬
acceptable to a great majority of medical practitioners
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throughout the world. It is our duty, as custodians of
this great law, fearlessly to analyze the reasons why this
is so. Such an analysis will show that the great obstacles
to the acceptance of homoeopathy have been two in
number. They are, first, the dogmatic and ultra¬
conservative spirit of scientists in general; second, the
counter-dogmatism of Hahnemann himself and of certain
of his followers.
In approaching the discussion I shall first remind you
that the dogmatism of science is and ever has been the
most intense of all forms of dogmatism, that of religion
not excepted. As John Fiske puts it, “ There has grown
up a kind of puritanism in the scientific temper which,
while announcing its unalterable purpose to follow Truth,
though she leads us to Hades, takes a kind of grim satis¬
faction in emphasizing the place of destination.” On
the whole this vigorous and rigid scientific temper is
commendable and desirable, but if the evidence of truth
is not immediately forthcoming ; if such evidence conflicts
with long existing conceptions of truth, history shows that
all innovations destined to promote the welfare and
happiness of mankind have ever been contended against
by human passions and human prejudices. Thus in 1592
a celebrated anti-religious professor of Padua had so little
faith in the discovery of Galileo that he declined to look
through the great astronomer’s telescopes in order to
disprove the charge of “ heresy ” which had been made
by the church. In 1737 Galvani, when he announced
his great discovery, was dubbed “ the frogs’ dancing-
master.” In 1743 Lavoisier, a noted French scientist,
declared, in discussing the possibility of aerolites : “ There
are no stones in the sky, and therefore none can fall upon
the earth.” In 1752 Benjamin Franklin was greeted with
shouts of laughter by the Royal Society of Great Britain
when he declared the identity of lightning with other
electrical phenomena. And as recently as 1822 Daguerre
came very near being consigned to an asylum for affirming
“ that he could fix his own shadow on magical metallic
plates.” Nearly fifty years after Harvey had announced
his great discovery to the world, the Paris Royal Society
of Medicine gravely listened to an essay which classed
it among the impossibilities. Jenner’s great discovery
of vaccination, notwithstanding that it affords us security
from that horrible and once universal plague, small-pox,
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is still bitterly opposed by a small minority of educated
physicians. Hydrotherapy, while to-day the chief reliance
of the older school in the treatment of fevers, was ridiculed
for years by that school. Electro-therapy and hypnotism
were long practised by irregulars and quacks, before the
regular profession investigated their worth. And certain
men prominent in the profession are to-day emphasizing
the inutility, if not the actual harmfulness, of antisepsis
and asepsis, even though thousands upon thousands of
lives are annually saved by the practice inaugurated by
Lister. Such being the attitude of the scientific mind
toward all great revolutionary discoveries, it is perhaps
not much to be wondered at that the law of similars should
make headway but slowly.
One would, however, naturally think that the revolt of
Descartes against the scholastic philosophy of the seven¬
teenth century, and that the contributions made to science
by Newton, as well as the discoveries of Harvey, Black,
Lavoisier, and Copernicus would have so prepared the
way for the advent of a great and natural law in healing,
as to have made its reception cordial and its application
universal. But it is hard for men of any generation not
to be influenced by the prejudices and errors of their
predecessors and contemporaries.
In the second place no earnest student of the history
of homoeopathy can, I think, fail to recognize the (fact
that much of the opposition with which it has had to
contend is due to factors inherent in the teachings of
Hahnemann and a small party of his followers. Hahne¬
mann’s dogmatism in his older days repelled many who
otherwise would have investigated his system. It was
a dogmatism begot by persecution, by exile, by poverty,
by calumny, by unreasonable and intolerant criticism,
and finally by victory and success. This man, who drank
of the very’dregs of poverty for truth’s sake, well deserves
all the encomiums that you and I who have profited by
his sacrifices can bestow upon his memory. The very
least that a grateful profession in this great republic could
do was to insure the perpetuation of that memory |by
erecting in our capital city the most beautiful and artistic
monument in that city. I cannot say too much for^the
genius of this great man and physician. His name will
be handed down to successive generations as one of the
world’s benefactors. His writings, compared with the
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writings of his contemporaries in medicine, were far in
advance of his day and generation—a fact which, if
anything, intensified his dogmatism. But hypothetical
explanations have led more than one great mind into
waters too deep for safety. Facts do not fit hypotheses,
even though reason says they should. The strength of
any chain of arguments is no stronger than its weakest
link ; and thus Hahnemann, by the use of such terms as
“ vital principle.'’ dynamic action,” “ spiritual ” and
“ potentization/’ obscured the law of similars with
theories based upon hypotheses which, until the end of
time, will remain nothing but hypotheses. The law of
action and re-action asserted itself here as it ever has done.
Hahnemann passed from the gross materialism of his day
to extreme infinitesimalism, which has ever retarded the
recognition which homoeopathy long ago should have
received.
Had Hahnemann possessed a personality less attractive
and a genius less inspiring, it is possible that his dogmatism
would not have so thoroughly infected some of his followers.
In my mind there is little choice between the dogmatists
belonging to the different schools of medicine ; at the best
the difference is only one of degree. Should I live to be
an hundred years old, I shall never forget the impression
made upon me by two such dogmatists, while a student
of medicine in the University of Michigan, when its
homoeopathic department was but a few years old. A
professor in the department of medicine and surgery,
narrow and intolerant, made the assertion that “ he
would rather a patient suffering from intermittent fever
would die under 20-grain doses of quinine, than get well
under the thirtieth dilution of natrum muriaticum.”
When the information was carried to a certain instructor
in the homoeopathic department, he replied that “ he
would rather a patient would die under a strictly homoeo¬
pathic remedy than get well under massive doses of
quinine.” Four hundred years before, these men would
have attained to high rank in the Inquisitorship of
Torquemada.
Men of this stripe are yet to be found in all schools of
medicine, but I am glad to say that they are growing fewer
in number each year. It is useless to meet them by bland,
unmodified denial, since, as De Quincy says, “ all errors
arise in some narrow, partial, or angular view of truth.”
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They do not seem to realize that the problems of medicine
will never be solved once for all, but that each generation
has to make its own solution. Those in the homoeopathic
school are, as a rule, honest and sincere in their convictions,
which makes them all the more unreasonable. I have
no desire to restrict them in freedom of thought or liberty
of action. They should, however, be willing to grant
equal privileges to all others. The term “ mongrel,”
when one sees fit to advocate measures other than homoeo¬
pathic, no longer has a place in the literature of any
modern school of thought. The “ holier than thou ”
assumption belongs to the dark ages rather than to the
twentieth century. Criticism of the Organon should not
be confronted by traditional views and dogmatic statements
which decline investigation and revision. Hahnemann’s
teachings should be accepted for what they are worth
to-day, not what they were worth one hundred years ago.
New discoveries and innovations in medicine and prophy¬
laxis should be duly investigated and not contended
against, as though truth were better subserved by jealously
ignoring all without the pale of the law of similars. If
that law cannot withstand the searchlight of twentieth
century methods, it were better a thousand times over
to let it go to the wall than to lose one single life by clinging
to an exploded dogma. If you think that I am putting
the case too strongly, let me ask you to carry the application
to the bedside of your own household!
Personally, I have no fear of such investigations and
such comparisons. If homoeopathy is what we claim for
it, investigation and comparison will but aid us as a school.
If it lose by comparison, we should be the first to express
our gratitude for better methods. u There is,” says
Emerson, “ a statement of religion possible that makes
all scepticism absurd.” There is, in my opinion, a state¬
ment of homoeopathy possible which will purge it of its
superfluities, and make it acceptable to all thoughtful and
intelligent physicians. This cannot be made in a day.
Further, it must be done by the homoeopathic profession
itself. New provings along the lines followed this year
by one of our special societies, utilizing, as was done, the
microscope, the test-tube, and all modern methods of
diagnosis, are imperative. We should work for a large
endowment to accomplish this end. There is here an
opportunity for some of our philanthropic rich to do a
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world of good for suffering humanity—a fact which we
should keep constantly before the public.
“ Is homoeopathy losing in numbers, prestige, and
popularity, as claimed by certain writers of the dominant
school of medicine ? ”
It must be admitted that, since the dominant school
has changed its attitude toward what it pleased to term
the “ sectarian schools,” a considerable number from the
homoeopathic ranks have taken degrees from so-called
regular colleges. Down to five years ago, with two or
three exceptions, converts from homoeopathy to the
dominant school were almost unheard of, whereas converts
from that school to homoeopathy were many. The new
order of things was therefore proclaimed far and near as
conclusive evidence that homoeopathy was dying, if not
dead. In order to controvert this statement, I wrote
to all of the homoeopathic colleges in this country asking
for the number of graduates and students of regular
colleges who have, during the last five years, received
degrees from homoeopathic colleges. I find that during
this period 284 men and women, coming from the ranks
of regular colleges and schools, received degrees from
eighteen homoeopathic colleges in the United States, with
two colleges to hear from. During the same period of
time there has been a total of 1,930 degrees conferred by
the same colleges. Let the gentlemen of the older school,
who annually “ bury ” homoeopathy, ponder over these
figures. We have so often been killed and “ buried ” by
our enemies that the process is becoming rather agreeable
than otherwise. We revive with alacrity, and continue
to press the electric buttons which open the doors of the
wealthy and the cultured throughout the land. I ask in
all earnestness if it were possible for any advocate, no
matter how ingenious and plausible, to inaugurate a
system of medicine which could survive one hundred
years of criticism and persecution, becoming, as it has,
a great power in this free land of ours, were it not founded
upon a great truth rather than upon a mere hypothesis ?
In spite of the most unjust legislative restrictions which
prevail in nearly all foreign countries, homoeopathy has
established itself in every civilized community on the
face of the globe. Homoeopathy is neither dead nor
dying, but, on the contrary, is daily gaining in prestige
and popularity.
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Finally, “ What should be our attitude toward the
dominant school of medicine and toward innovations in
medicine ? ”
In answering this question it is first necessary to define
the legitimate sphere of homoeopathy and its limitations.
I discussed this phase of the subject in an address which
I had the honour of delivering before this body three years
ago, and as Dr. Dake so concisely expressed my views
I quoted from him as follows:—
1. “ The homoeopathic law relates to no agents
intended to affect the organism chemically.
2. 4 4 It relates to none applied for mechanical effect
simply.
3. “It relates to none required for the development
or support of the organism when in health ; and
4. “ It relates to none employed directly, to remove
or destroy parasites which infest or prey upon the human
body.”
To this series of propositions I would add :—
1. It relates to none which acts in a purely eliminative
way to rid the system of poisons and ptomaines.
2. It relates to none which acts in a purely physiological
way, as a food ; and
3. It relates to none which acts in a purely stimulative
wa y.
I believe that an explanation such as the foregoing,
fairly and squarely expressed, will disarm criticism and
extend the usefulness of homoeopathy. It places our
school upon a broad and liberal foundation, which will
appeal strongly to all earnest students of medicine. It
will limit the law of similars to its legitimate sphere o£
action—the curing of diseases which are curable by the
principle of substitution, and leave its advocates free to
utilize all methods of cure or relief which will best subserve
the interests of the patient. There are, to be sure, men
who will claim that the homoeopathic remedy is all-
sufficient for all conditions. If these gentlemen have
become so proficient as to require nothing without the
domain of the law of similars in contending with disease
and suffering, they are to be congratulated; there are
comparatively few of us who possess the knowledge to
do so. Personally, I believe it the duty of the physician,
first to prevent disease, if possible ; secondly, to cure
disease which he cannot prevent by the safest, surest.
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and easiest method at his command; and, thirdly, to
bring comfort and relief to the incurable by those means
which are most available and most satisfactory, whether
homoeopathic or otherwise. This course leaves a wide
scope for the application of the homoeopathic law, while
it broadens our conception of the healing art. We are
physicians first, and homoeopathists secondly.
Watts once said : “ The mind which is searching for
truth ought to remain in a state of suspense, until superior
evidence on one side or the other inclines the balance of
the judgment and determines the probability and certainty
to the one side.”
Unfortunately all truth cannot be put into the forms
of a mathematical proposition, and “ he who would master
any truth must learn what a jealous mistress he must
serve.”
How much more inspiring would have been the history
of medicine had these trite sayings been kept in mind by
the men who have gone before. How much more honour¬
able will the history of the future become if we now heed
them, and purge the profession of its dogmatism, bigotry,
and intolerance. Scientific inductive research,” says
Tyndall, “ requires patient industry, and a humble and
conscientious acceptance of what nature reveals. The
first condition of success is an honest receptivity and a
willingness to abandon all preconceived notions, however
cherished, if they be found to contradict the truth.”
The medicine of to-day is but the consummation of
the medicine of the past ages, and infinitely more is
expected of us than of our forefathers. Much more is
being accomplished than formerly without the use of
drugs. Prophylaxis is no longer what the Platonic Atlantis
was to the Greeks—a mythical land of unfulfilled promises.
The wonderful conquests of surgery are the marvel of the
age. The germ theory of disease has revolutionized the
practice of both medicine and surgery. Pathology is
rapidly finding its place among the exact sciences. Micro¬
scopy, hsematology, and skiagraphy have added much
to the certainty of diagnosis. Notwithstanding these
wonderful strides, our frequent failures at the bedside
ought to make us modest and thankful for any new method
or system of cure which promises to benefit mankind.
We are as yet able, in our efforts to comprehend that
which pertains to the essence of life, and the dissolution
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of human beings, which we call death, to penetrate little
beyond structural appearance and functional phenomena.
We can classify neither an idea nor an ambition, and much
patient research remains yet to be made in the field of
psychology. We are still groping our way in darkness
in dealing with the great primeval and ultimate facts—
the beginning and end of life. Haeckel and others have
undertaken to solve the problem from the standpoint of
materialism, but have dismally failed in their efforts to
do so. In view of these limitations, can we afford to be
narrow and dogmatic in our efforts to conserve life and
assuage suffering ?
The medicine of to-day needs, more than all else, men
like Lyman Abbott, Phillips Brooks, and Archbishop
Ireland to liberalize it. No sincere and educated physician
belonging to any school should be ostracized because of
his particular belief in therapeutics. The one standard
should be that of knowledge, character, and professional
conduct. The real sectarians in either religion or the
sciences are the intolerant and the bigoted.
I believe with Richard Henry Savage that, “ there is
no man, no sect, no single school, which can in these
broadening days of intelligence tie down the human
hearts of the twentieth century to any bounden or grovelling
belief.”
“We have a debt,” says Emerson, “to every great
heart: to every fine genius : to those who have put life
and fortune on the cast of an act of justice : to those
who have added new sciences : to those who have refined
life by elegant pursuits.” That debt was formally
acknowledged by this Institute when, in 1899, it adopted
the following definition of a homoeopathic physician:
“ A homoeopathic physician is one who adds to his know¬
ledge of medicine a special knowledge of homoeopathic
therapeutics. All that pertains to the great field of
medical learning is his, by tradition, by inheritance, by
right.”
We append the report of the Committee on the Presi¬
dent’s address :—
The Committee on President’s address desires to express
its hearty and very general endorsement of Professor
Wood’s views.
We especially commend his interpretation of the present
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status of homoeopathy—its broadening influence \ upon
the progressive medical thought of the last century, and
his belief that its influence is still operative, and for years
to come will remain operative in maintaining homoeopathy
as a specialty in therapeutics.
We recognize the dogmatic spirit of Hahnemann, to
which reference has been made, to be the outgrowth and
natural sequence of the non-receptivity and bigotry of
the time in which he lived. While we deplore the necessity
for such a professional attitude, we are of the opinion that
it was necessary for the development, the growth, and
the very existence of homoeopathy. The mysticism
characterizing some of Hahnemann’s theories serves to
show the human element, but it in no way detracts from
the lofty scientific basis of his work.
We recognize the current tendency toward medical
affiliation throughout the land, but inasmuch as a recog¬
nition of the law of similars is still withheld, we commend
the attitude of the President in urging continued separate
organization.
So long as the therapeutics of the old school is destitute
of a guiding law, the strenuous promulgation of the law
of homeopathy is a necessity, and our present organization
must be maintained. . >
We would in no way discourage or obstruct the advent
and widespread adoption of sentiments of fraternity and
toleration among medical men, but until there shall be
evidences of mutuality and reciprocity among men of
varied faiths in medicine—to give as well as to receive—
there can be no furling of colours or abandonment of
distinctive organization. This attitude is, for the present
at least, imperative, in order that the interests of our
school may be protected and that the truths of homoeopathy
may be disseminated.
We further recommend that the address be published
in pamphlet form for distribution.
(Signed) James W. Ward, M.D., Chairman .
0. S. Runnels, M.D.
H. P. Bellows, M.D.
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Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin. By J. Henry Allen,
M.D., Professor of Skin and Venereal Diseases. Hering
Medical College, Chicago, Ill. Philadelphia : Boericke &
Tafel, 1902.
Our colleagues in the United States are prolific in the
publication of books, many of which are valuable, though
we cannot say this of all. The above work seems to us
too much of a book written for the sake of writing a book.
Coming from a Professor of Skin Diseases, we expected to
find the results of the author’s special experience, which
would have been really valuable. Had he pointed out, for
the help of the student or busy practitioner, the compara¬
tively small number of remedies which are in the majority
of cases required in each form of skin disease, with their
indications of course, but specially with the results of his
own individual experience, stating what remedies, theoretically
indicated, were largely successful, or otherwise, it would
have been a real boon. Many remedies in the pharmacopoeia
have marked skin symptoms in their pathogenesis, while
some of them are clinically much more valuable than
others. Anyone can ascertain from a Materia Medica,
in its various forms of presentment, and a Repertory, what
medicines have skin symptoms, but they are so numerous
that a student, and often a practitioner, wants to have the
guidance of a skin specialist to show him from special
experience which of these numerous drugs he is likely to
find meet successfully the case he has to treat, and what
success he can record with certain medicines as compared
with others. But this valuable information which one
expects from a Professor of Skin Diseases is conspicuously
absent in this work. The book might have been written
by anyone with a Materia Medica at his hand, even by a
student. There is nothing original in it, or anything
which one cannot get elsewhere. We shall, of course, be
told that such information is not wanted by the true
homoeopath, and that each individual case must be treated
on its own merits and its own individual symptoms. This
is perfectly true, but in that case what is the use of a
book on skin diseases when the Materia Medica and a
Repertory are at hand ? These are open to every one to
study individualization. But in a special book on the
subject we expect more than this, but we don’t get it.
As we ha^e stated before, when reviewing other works on
homoeopathic medicine, there is in every disease a prevalent
type, so marked in its symptoms as to enable us to call the
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disease by a special name, differentiating it from something
else. The prevalence of this special type results in the
fact that, in the majority of cases of the given disease,
certain remedies—comparatively few—are required, while in
those cases which differ from the ordinary type one has to
study other drugs to meet their requirements. Thi6, then, is
what we look for in a book, as the embodiment of the
author’s special experience. After giving his experience,
the indications for unusual cases come in well as a supple¬
mentary part.
Dr. Allen’s general description of each form of disease
are well enough, though they can be found in abundance
in other works, but the therapeutical part, which is, of
course, the really important feature of a homoeopathic work,
is of little value. We get a long list of alphabetical
remedies for each disease, followed by a summary of the
pathogenesis of a certain number of them. Thus, under
Eczema, we have an alaphabetical list of 90 drugs, with a
sketch of the indications for 30 of them, arranged alpha¬
betically. Dr. Allen very correctly insists on the fact that
skin diseases are not merely local disturbances, but are
dependent on something wrong constitutionally, but we find
that dietary directions, which are of the utmost importance,
are treated in the most perfunctory manner, for example in
Eczema. We note also that Dr. Allen is a strong anti¬
vaccinationist.
The second half of the book, consisting of 125 pages, is
devoted to what Dr. Allen entitles “ Dermatological Thera¬
peutics.” This is a resume of the skin symptoms chiefly,
of 185 remedies, summarised from the Materia Medica. He
advises no external application of any sort, even to palliate
intense itching, except occasionally olive oil.
The book is a disappointment.
The Principle of Homoeopathy Successfully Applied in the
Treatment of Parturient Apoplexy , commonly called Milk
Fever , when occurring among Cows kept for Breeding or Dairy
Purposes. By J. Sutcliffe Rurndall. M.R.C.V.S.
Headland & Co., 1902.
This is a very interesting brochure , and Mr. Hurndall has done
well to publish the results of the homoeopathic treatment of
this disease in cows, one of the most fatal and unmanageable
diseases that the veterinary surgeon has to deal with.
Nothing more convincingly proves the efficacy and benefit
ofj treatment by the great law of similars than to be
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able to show its success in the lower animals, where fallacies
cannot occur, and whore the results are patent. There can
be no place here for the influence of imagination, and the
facts speak for themselves. Mr. Hurndall points out that
44 the rate of mortality has been and is still disproportionately
high as compared with that in the common and better under¬
stood ailments of cattle. . . and although the disease
has attracted much attention, veterinary pathologists are far
from being agreed as to its nature. The various opinions
held as to the character of the disease and its causes account
for the uncertainty which exists as to its treatment, and one
may add, without being chargeable with any discourtesy, the
unsatisfactory results attending the same.” He proceeds to
show how, when the allopathic veterinary surgeon prescribes
in accordance with this or that pathological theory, when
“he is quite uncertain what organ or organs are the real seat
of the disease, whether the udder, the uterus, the brain and
nervous system, or the digestive organs,” treatment cannot
be otherwise than unsatisfactory. Whereas, when the
homoeopathic veterinary surgeon prescribes, he is able to
discard uncertain pathological views, and treats the case by
the guidance of the various symptoms by which the disease
presents itself to his observation, and which are met by
giving medicines which “ cover ” the totality of symptoms.
This is, of course, the only true method of therapeutic treat¬
ment. Mr. Hurndall proceeds to give descriptions of the
various forms and stages of the disease, and their marked
symptoms, and then names the chief remedies which meet
the various forms and stages, both in the way of preven¬
tion and of cure of the actual disease, with their patho¬
geneses, as far as this disease is concerned, very fully given.
He claims successful results far exceeding those of
allopathic treatment, and urges the trial by veterinary
surgeons of homoeopathy in the Milk Fever of Cows f He
points out that with the present unsatisfactory results of
allopathy they cannot get worse results from homoeopathy,
and may get much better ones. That they will get
better results Mr. Hurndall, from his large experience, is
quite sure. Besides the medical treatment, he goes fully
into the details of general care, nursing, and dieting required
by the cows when thus seriously ill.
We commend the study of this able brochure to all
veterinary surgeons, and we are pleased to notice it in our
columns, as giving valuable evidence of the truth of the
law of similars in the treatment of the lower animals, and
so adding to the cumulative proofs that the law of similars
is a law, and par excellence the law of therapeutics;
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The Physician’s Diary and Case-Book for 1903. London :
Keene & Ashwell, Limited.
We have much pleasure in once more drawing our readers’
attention to the above excellent diary and case-book. There
is good space for diary and short notes of cases for each
day, and nearly two hundred pages of blank paper for
further notes, with an alphabetical lettered index for names.
There is besides the usual information on matters of general
interest, and, of course, a calendar. Every practitioner
should have a copy of this useful diary.
The Concise Chemical Analysis Chart. London : Jarrold &
Sons, 10&11, Warwick Lane, E.C.
We have received the above, and for those engaged in
chemical analysis we are sure the Chart will be a great
help, as facilitating practice in qualitative analysis. The
details are full and clear.
NOTABILIA.
THE BRITISH HOMOEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION AND
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND.
A concert in aid of the above took place on October 30th,
at the Norfolk Hotel, Paddington, at 3.30 p.m., admirably
organized by Mrs. H. J. T. Wood and Mrs. Stephenson, of the
Ladies’ Committee. There was an excellent audience, and
the concert was much appreciated. The financial result
left a substantial balance in hand for the funds of the Ladies’
Committee. The British Homoeopathic Association is much
indebted to the energetic action of the Ladies’ Committee,
and especially to the ladies above-named, for having got up
this delightful concert. Tea was provided for the audience—
an excellent idea.
Mrs. John H. Clarke, of Clarges Street, the wife of the
editor of our contemporary, the Homoeopathic World , organized
a sale of silver articles at the Holborn Viaduct Hotel, on
November 20th and 21st, in aid of a fund for instituting a
“ Burnett Professorship of Homoeopathic Practice.” A
number of the late Dr. Burnett’s patients wished to perpetuate
his memory in some tangible form, and it was deemed that
the most suitable form of doing so, and the one that it is
believed he would have rejoiced in, would be the foundation
of such a professorship. We understand that the promises
for this object are such as to render its success assured. The
proposal was brought before the Executive Committee of
the British Homoeopathic Association and has received its
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full sanction and approval, the funds to be administered by
the Association for this special purpose. Mrs. Clarke’s
spirited action in getting up the silver sale was much appre¬
ciated by the Committee, and a vote of thanks was passed
to her for her good work. We hope to report in our next
issue the results of this sale. Fancy bazaar prices were not
asked, but only the ordinary shop prices, the silver having
been bought at manufacturers’ cost.
Lady Duming Lawrence has promised a donation of £100
to the funds of the Ladies’ Committee. Donations to the
Twentieth Century Fund are coming in very satisfactorily.
One of £100 has been given through Dr. Hawkes, of Ramsgate,
the donor’s name being kept secret, and another of £30 from
Miss Jane Houldsworth, per Dr. Dyce Brown, has been
received.
We would specially call attention to the announcement
that a drawing-room meeting is to be held, by invitation,
at Brighton, at the house of Mrs. Rudhall, 3, Sussex Square,
on Saturday, the 30th inst., at 3.30 o’clock, for the purpose
of founding a Local Branch of the British Homoeopathic
Association. Much interest is, we believe, being evinced
in this movement, and an important deputation from the
London Executive Committee will be present. We wish
the movement all success, and hope to give full particulars
of the meeting in our next issue.
THE PHILLIPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
We have pleasure in recording the concert in aid of the
above valuable institution, which was given at the Grand
Hall at Bromley on the evening of Wednesday, the 12th of
November. These concerts are, we are glad to see, becoming
annual, and are, we know, looked forward to with much
interest by lovers of music and well-wishers to the Hospital.
The concert of this year was, as formerly, a great success.
We have not heard the exact amount that was obtained,
but as the hall was quite full, the proceeds must be satis¬
factory, as they have been in former years. The decoration
of the hall with flowers was quite a feature of the evening,
while the list of all the performers was unusually large, and
the programme full and admirable. Among the leading
performers were Mesdames Ella Russell and Ada Crossley,
and M. Tivadar Nachez, who, even if alone, would have
sufficed to draw a full house. We understand that most, if
not all, of the distinguished performers gave their valuable
services gratuitously, which gave the concert additional
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charm, and enabled all the proceeds, after paying expenses,
to go to the Hospital. The whole was a very great and
gratifying success, thanks to the organising of Mr. Lindsay
Bell. '
We also note with pleasure, as announced in the Bromley
and District Times , that when Bromley resolved on having
a Peace and Coronation Celebration on August 9th an
appeal wa« made for liberal subscriptions, not only to make
the celebration a success, but that the residue might be
given as a donation to the local Hospitals. The result was
that £102 remained over for this object. It was then
resolved to, if possible, augment this sum, and a further
appeal was made for that purpose. Mr. T. Dewey generously
offered to augment what was raised by the 31st of October
by a donation from himself of one-fourth of what was
raised, besides offering to pay all expenses in connection
with the movement. This effort resulted in a fund of £660,
including Mr. Dewey’s handsome and generous gift; and
of this sum the Phillips Memorial Hospital comes in for a
sum of close on £160.
We heartily congratulate the managers of the Hospital
and the medical staff on this valuable addition to their
funds, over and above the proceeds of the concert.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DEANE, R.A.M.C.
We have much pleasure in informing our readers that our
friend and colleague, whom we have hitherto spoken of as
Major Deane, has been promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
His promotion, after so many years of valuable service in
the Army, and after his excellent and energetic work as
Special Plague Commissioner for Calcutta, is well deserved,
and we congratulate him. We are pleased to hear that
Colonel Deane is coming to England in February for a
month’s leave of absence, and that he will read a paper at the
British Homoeopathic Society on “ Notes on the Plague in
Calcutta.” He may be assured of a warm welcome from his
colleagues in England.
SYDNEY HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL.
We are glad to learn that at a public meeting held in July
at Sydney it was resolved to establish a Homoeopathic
Hospital in the Metropolitan District, and arrangements
have been made to take over a suitable building, at 301,
Cleveland Street, where the business of the Institution is
now being carried on. We are informed that the movement
has been largely and influentially supported.
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We congratulate our colleagues in Sydney, and the public
of Sydney, on this important forward movement. We have
no doubt it will be successfully carried out, and it has our
very best wishes, as the capital of New South Wales should
certainly have a Homoeopathic Hospital. The fact of this
movement having been set on foot shows what ^a firm
position homoeopathy has obtained in the Colony.
In issuing a circular appealing for funds, the committee of
management enclose a statement “ with a view to showing the
economical value to the public of the homoeopathic system
of treatment “ as shown in the official report of the various
Hospitals in Melbourne, taken from the Report of the
Inspector of Charities for 1901. These comparative statistics
are so interesting that we cannot refrain from reprinting
them.
Daily average of in-patients....
Melbourne
Hospital
285
Alfred
Hospital
114*2
Melbourne
Homoeopathic
Hospital
878
Average cost per occupied bed
£78
£68
£62 3s 3d.
Total out-patients.
15,806
3,483
7,344
Estimated cost of out-patients
£1,808
£577
£277
Average cost of each in-patient
£4 11s. lOd.
£4 15s. lid.
£3 4s. 8d.
Local contributions.
£11,505
£4,310
£2,395
Government grant .
£13,800
£4,000
£1,400
Cost of management .
£7,627
£2,944
£1,301
Mortality, per cent.
14-5
12-7
6-7
Average stay, in-patients—
Male.
20 days
25 days
18 days
Females .
22 days
25 days
18 days
These facts speak for themselves, and
require no comment.
HUGHES’ MEMORIAL FUND.
The following have been received by Dr. Blackley since last
announcement;
£ s. a.
W. Clowes Pritchard, Esq. .. .. .. 2 2 0
Dr. A. Spiers Alexander.. .. .. .. 2 2 0
Society Homceopathique de France .. .. 4 0 0
8 4 0
Previously reported .. .. .. .. 783 19 G
£792 3 6
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London Homoeopathic Hospital on Thursday, November 6th,
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1902, at 8 o’clock. Dr. Roberson Day, President, in the
chair.
The following specimens were exhibited by Dr. E. A. Neatby;
(1) Uterus removed by vaginal hysterectomy, showing
carcinoma of cervix ; microscopic section from same, showing
junction of diseased and healthy portions. (2) An ovary
removed by cceliotomy, showing papilloma protruding
through the albuginea ; microscopic section of the same.
(3) A small uterine myoma removed by myomectomy.
Recovery ensued after operation in all these cases.
Section of Surgery and Gynaecology.
F~ A paper was read by Dr. Vincent Green entitled “ Post¬
nasal Adenoids : A Clinical Study.” Dr. Green pointed out
that a considerable divergence of opinion exists as to the
etiology and treatment of this disease. The mucous membrane
lining the pharyngeal vault and its immediate vicinity is
well supplied with mucous glands opening on its surface,
and in the underlying connective tissue are the usual lymph
nodules, which are especially abundant in this region.
Adenoids are brought about in much the following way :
As soon as a child is able to crawl about it inhales the dust
off the floor ; this, travelling in the air current through the
nasal meatus, impinges on the pharyngeal vault, in which
mucus always tends to accumulate. This soon becomes
loaded with germs and irritating particles, which cause the
mucous glands to hypertrophy with the resultant excessive
secretion, and in the same way set up an enormous pro¬
liferation of the lymph nodules. To make a certain diagnosis
the pharyngeal wall must be seen or felt. Hypertrophied
turbinates are sometimes met with as a complication of
adenoids. In such a case the prognosis should be guarded,
as removal of the adenoids will not relieve the symptoms
of obstruction. A great deal can be done in the way of
preventive treatment. Many infants are troubled during
the first few months of life with an accumulation of mucus
in the naso-pharynx, impeding nasal respiration. In such
cases the nares should be mopped out with a camel’s-hair
brush with a suitable lotion. As regards treatment for
adenoids, a cure may often be effected by carefully-regulated
breathing exercises, the persistent use of a nasal snuff, and
the elastic chin-strap, with at least a two months’ residence
by the sea, preferably in the Isle of Thanet.
Where nasal respiration is nearly or quite impossible
immediate operation is advisable. If the operator is sure
of his assistant, this can be done under nitrous oxide. If the
operator, however, is dependent entirely upon his own
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exertions, he will probably only get sufficient time for the
operation by using chloroform. During the last two years
at the out-patient clinic at this hospital the writer of the
paper had performed the double operation of tonsillotomy
and adenectomy on fifty-one patients under the one adminis¬
tration of gas. But whatever is used, gas or chloroform,
Gollstein’s curette or Lowenberg’s forceps, the most important
part of the treatment will still remain in the after-care and
treatment of the patient, especially with regard to what is
no longer a necessity, but a bad habit only, namely, breathing
through the mouth instead of the nose.
In a discussion which followed the reading of this paper
Mr. Dudley Wright, Dr. Herbert Nankivell, Dr. Galley
Blackley, Dr. Byres Moir, and the President took part, and
Dr. Vincent Green replied.
Dr. Nathaniel Grace, of Tunbridge Wells, then contributed
a report of a case of gangrene. The patient was a man of
fifty-one years of age. His habits had not been strictly
temperate, and he had been a few years ago successfully
treated for rheumatic gout. At the time of coming undei
observation his condition was as follows : Right foot: Red
line at the base of the great toe running outwards and
forwards, just excluding a piece of the fourth toe and altogether
escaping the little toe. Beyond this the toes were black.
Left foot: The toes were a purplish red, with the nail of the
great toe distinctly black. Hands : Tingling pains were felt
in the fingers of both hands, and the nails and finger tips
were discoloured. He was put upon secale 3x, and the hands
rapidly became all right, but the feet grew rather worse.
The gangrene of the right foot became distinctly moist with
foetor, and about a week later the heels and sides of both
feet developed irregular dark purple patches. Secale 3x
was given, and arrangements were being made to remove
the patient to the hospital, when the epidermis suddenly
commenced to separate, leaving quite healthy skin beneath.
Pain was complained of shortly after, up the right leg.
Nothing was to be seen, but on palpation in the lower third
of the thigh a hard, cord-like structure was felt, which was
very tender. There is little doubt that this was a thrombosed
vein, probably the femoral itself. Secale was continued and
nitric acid 3x was also given.
The part in front of the “ line of demarcation ” on the
right foot gradually separated ; the remaining ulcer healed
without any trouble. He lost the nail of the left great toe,
which has, however, since been replaced. The patient can
now walk about almost as well as ever.
Dr. Grace propounded the question as to what form of
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forms, it could be inflammatory or the blocking of a main vein y
in the moist division, and in the dry , symmetrical gangrene or
ergot poisoning. Of these all but one form in the moist
division are excluded, viz., blocking of a main vein, and one
form in the dry, viz., symmetrical gangrene.
An interesting discussion on these points ensued. Drs.
Dudgeon, Byres Moir, Neatby, Goldsbrough, Stonham,
Mr. Dudley Wright, Drs. Nankivell and Spencer Cox, Mr.
Wynne Thomas, and the President took part, and Dr. Grace
replied.
A third paper was read by Dr. James Searson, of Brighton,
entitled “ Is there too much Readiness to favour Operative
rather than Medicinal Treatment?” of which the following
was an epitome : It is evident that there is amongst all
homoeopathic practitioners an increasing faith in drugs.
Conditions regarded as incurable by other systems of medicine,
are by homoeopathic practice proved to be curable, so that
the question may well be asked, Why should any arbitrary
limit be imposed on the curative possibilities of drugs ? If
a well-defined symptom, which is in all probability dependent
upon some pathological lesion, is amenable to drug action,
why should the lesion itself not be hypothetically curable ?
Among the writer’s earliest cases was one of glycosuria,
which appeared to be a case of undoubted diabetes mellitus.
The patient, a man over fifty, complained of polyuria, dry
mouth, and excessive thirst. Sugar was found persistently
in the urine, and the specific gravity was high. The patient
was put on nitrate of uranium 3x. At the end of one week
the sugar had disappeared, and only re-appeared when, as a
test, the drug was withheld. The contention is not that
uranium is an unfailing remedy for all diabetic cases, but that
a drug in minute doses can produce objective as well as
subjective curative phenomena.
A few years ago Dr. Lauder Brunton called attention to
the action of minute doses of opium in curing constipation.
He had observed it, he said, but could not account for it.
If one drug when introduced into the body in infinitesimal
dose can go straight to the spot at which it is aimed, if the
administration of another can cause an objective change in
one of the body excretions, why should not the curing of
tumours be within our range ? Papillomata, both of skin
and mucous membrane, have been dispersed by internal
treatment only. Tumours of breast, clinically indistinguish¬
able from so-called incurable tumours, have been made to
disappear by the action of such drugs as phytolacca or conium ;
and cases have arisen where even in carcinoma cures have
taken place. Corroborative evidence of the^curative influence
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INDEX.
PAGE ' PAGE
A.
Address to the King, British
Homoeopathic Congress.610
Advance homoeopathy! Dr.
Bichard Hughes... 7
Aims of the twentieth century
fund, Dr. Dyce Brown. 91
Allopathic leavings, Dr. Stanley
Wilde. 89
Anaesthesia, discovery of . 33
Anti-toxin in diphtheria . 622
Anti-typhoid inoculation ...... 616
Anti-vaccinationists, a pill for 216
Do. the fate of an. 217
Appendicitis: its relation to pelvic
disease in women, Dr. Florence
N. Ward . 205
Arsenic in beer.427
Do. in cancer. 568
Arum cases, Dr. Midgley Cash 710
As others see us . 38
B.
Banquet to Dr. Seldeu H.
Talcott . 437
Barium cases, Dr. Stonham_ 140
Belladonna, poisoning by.622
Berlin, Dr., diabetes insipidus
and lycopodium . 628
Birmingham homoeopathic hos¬
pital . 375
Bournemouth Hahnemann con¬
valescent home. 166
Brighton homoeopathic dispensary 164
British Homoeopathic Society,
24, 100, 159, 251, 314, 366,
422, 494, 614, 692, 753
Do. do. Association, 290,
419, 496, 750
Do. do. Congress, 25, 162,
464, 546, 566, 610
Brown, Dr. Dyce, aims of the
20th century fund . 91
Do homoeopathy among the
allopatns.719
Do. pneumogastric paresis .. 350
Btjrford, Dr. George, six con¬
secutive years’ work ... .596, 665
Cadbury’s milk chocolate.700
Calcarea pointer, a, in intermit¬
tent fever, Dr. Choudbury .. 626
Cancer and arsenic.568
Do. and malaria, Dr. Proctor
11, 229, 318
I Do. and its treatment.321
Carbuncle, case of Dr. K. Sircar 559
I Choudbury, Dr., a calcarea
I pointer in intermittent fever.. 626
I Church Stretton as a health re¬
sort, Dr. Murray Moore.344
Clifton. Dr. A. C., homoeopathy
its polity and policy.... 197
Do. a warning . 127
Clinical notes, Dr. Majumdar .. 29
I Combined foetal and maternal
dropsy, Dr. Munster. 16
j Compound tablets . 41
I Confetti, dangerous. 440
Congress, British Homoeopathic
25, 162, 464, 546, 566, 610
Conversion to homoeopathy, the
story of my, Dr. Mahendra
Lai Sircar.598
Croydon homoeopathic dispen¬
sary . 316
Cunard- Cummins, Dr. L., hy¬
datid disease. 150
I D.
Day, Dr. Robebson, proposed
extension of London homoeo¬
pathic hospital. 61
Deane, Lieut.-Coi. 752
Diabetes, eucalyptus in.428
Do. insipidus and lycopodium,
Dr. Berlin.628
Discussion on Congress papers.. 546
Dispensary, Sussex County
homoeopathic . 162
Do. Brighton homoeopathic 164
Do. and convalescent home,
Bournemouth. 166
Do. and cottage hospital,
Leicester.431
Do. Wirrall . 316
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Dudgeon', Db., microbial theory !
of cure . 349
Do. Edinburgh therapeutics 657
Do. Hahnemann’s schema .. 758
E.
Editorial Articles : —
To our readers. 1 .
Edinburgh medical journal |
and homoeopathy. 2
Our editorial staff.26, 326
Sound advice . 63
Dogmatism in medicine rerttt*
public opinion. 129
A recent action at lav* . 193
Richard Hughes, M.D.257
Cancer and its treatment .... 321
Our annual congress. 385
British homoeopathic congress 449
The Otago branch of the
British medical association
and human life. 513
Progress and pitfalls . 577
Present-day therapeutics in
the old school. 584 |
Chair of homoeopathy in !
Wurtzburg . 595
Homoeopathy among the
students at Guy’s hospital 641
An object lesson. 705
Ear, disease of middle, Mr.
Yearsley. 284
Eastbourne Leaf cottage hospital 168
Epilepsy and crime. 621
Eucalyptus in diabetes.428
Evolution of therapeutics, Drs.
.Tousset and Blackley. 712
F
Footsteps of Hahnemann, in the,
Dr. lercy Wilde. 135
“ Force” Food. 630
G.
Glucose in urine of low specific
gravity . 626
Goldsbbouoh, Dr., neurological
cases . 200
Groot, Dr. de, rational causal l
therapy. 147 j
H.
Hahnemann’s schema, Dr. 758
Dudgeon.
Hahnemannfavouredvaccination 251
Do. hospital, Liverpool _ 375 I
Hayle, Dr. T. H., methods of |
choosing drugs. 535
Hayward, Dr. Chari es, and
general medical council. 40 I
Homoeopathic hospital, proposed i
extension of, Dr. Roberson
Day. 61 I
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Homoeopathy defined, Dr. Pope 7
Do. its polity and policy, Dr.
A. C. Clifton. 197
Do. at Guy’s hospital.641
Do. in Japan.249
Do. in Calcutta. 433
Do. in Switzerlanu. 250
Do. in Tasmania. 36!)
Do. in Bavaria . 5t>7
Do. and nursing. 251
Do. and the Lancet, .389
Do. among the allopaths_719
Do. chair of, in Wurtzburg.. 595
Homoeopathic hospital, London,
annual meeting. 234
Do. do. Phillips memorial,
annual meeting.244
Tl. 43_• X._ T» •x' l. i) t 1 An
Do. Society, British, 24, 100,
159, 251, 314, 366, 422,
494, 614, 692, 753
Do. Association, British, 290,
419, 496, 750
Do. dispensary, Croydon... 316
Do. do. Wiri-all . 316
Do. hospital, Birmingham.. 375
Do. cottage hospital and
dispensary, Leicester .. 431
Do. hospital, Plymouth .... 432
Do. Congress, British, 25,
162, 464, 546, 566, 610
Do. sanatorium in Italy .... 497
Hogan’8 nerve. 507
Hospital, Leaf cottage, East¬
bourne . 168
Hughes, Dr. Richard, obituary
article . 257
Do. memorial fund, 317, 429,
.»10, 565, 614, 701, 753
Do. portrait of, frontispiece A: 469
Do. American opinion.. 497, 567
Do. principles and practice,
Dr. J. W. Hayward.... 639
Do. do. do. Dr. Proctor.. 703
Do. advance homoeopathy! 7
I.
Intestinal obstruction, cases of,
Dr. Stonham. 397
Iodide of potassium in sypmlis.. 255
K.
Kaiser-I-Hind gold medal. 41
King’s Tuesdays, the. 699
L.
Lambert, Dr. J.R., pathological
prescribing, etc.541
Lancet and homoeopathy . 389
Lead poisoning. 31
Leaf homoeopathic cottage
hospital, Eastbourne. 168
Lectures on diseases of the air-
passages, Sir F. Semon,'42,103, 168
Louisville hospital, statistics of 570
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Majumdar, Dr., clinical notes 29
M'Lachlan, Dr., case of sciatica
cured by tellurium. 526 j
Malarial fever, treatment of.... 568 !
Medical education, essay on, Dr.
Storrar . 670 I
Do. etiquette and human life 499 I
Do. ethics, Mr. J. Wybom.. 126
Mercury, physiological and thera- |
peuticaction. Dr. Pope, 267,827,404 ,
Method of choosing drugs
homoeopathically, Dr. Hayle 535
Microbial theory of cure, Dr.
Dudgeon . 349
Minneapolis Homoeopathic Med- j
ical Society. 428
Moore, Dr. Murray, Church
Stretton as a health resort.... 344 i
Munster, Dr., combined fcetal
and maternal dropsy. 16
N.
Neurological cases, Dr. Golds- i
brough . 200 |
New preparations . 233
Neild, Dr. Edith, tubercular
peritonitis. 13
North American Journal of
Homoeopathy ..219
Nutmeg poisoning . 426
O.
Obituary Notices
Dr. F. E. Boericke. 125
ajt.. *n_vv_tir:i j. c % c.a i
Mr. Brenchley Wildt. 254
Dr. Richard Hughes . 257
Dr. Gioacchino Pompili...... 317
Dr. Henry Ussher . 379
Dr. Wm. Tod Helmuth.440
Dr. Selden H. Talcott. 508
Dr. J. Climenson Day... .575, 631 .
Dr. H. L. Mariiny. 575 ;
Dr. Rudolf Virchow . 633 !
Mr. T. G. Nicholson . 757
Odium medicum. 571
Ontario Medical Council .436
Otago Branch of Brit. Med.
Association and human life .. 513
P.
Pathological prescribing ft om a
homoeopathic stand-point, Dr.
Lambert. 541
Peritonitis, tubercular. Dr. Edith
Neild. 13
Phillips memorial hospital .. 36, 751
TYI_ __ £ 1 1/ o:_ OIO
Plague, case of, Dr. K. Sircar.. 213
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Pneumogastric paresis, case of,
Dr. Dyce Brown. 350
Poisoning by nutmeg. 426
Do. by belladonna. 622
Pope, Dr., mercury, its physio¬
logical and therapeutic
action. 267, 327, 404
Do. homoeopathy defined .. 71
Present status of homoeopathy,
Dr. J. C. Wood. 678, 734
Proctor, Dr., cancer and
malaria . 7
Do. Hughes’ principles and
practice . 703
R.
Reviews:—
Physicians’ diary and case
book. 18
Origin and nature of mutter
and force, Dr. J. W. Hay¬
ward.18, 422
Pocket manual of homoeo¬
pathic materia medica, Dr.
Wm. Boericke. 98
Cardiac debility, Dr. Nankivell 100
Homoeopathic pharmacopoeia
of the United States . 154
Practical medicine, Dr. Morti¬
mer Lawrence. 156
The Medical Annual. 214
Homoeopathy, its extension in
Great Britain . 216
International Homoeopathic
Directory . 289
Text-book of practice of medi¬
cine, Dr. Cowperthwaite .. 360
Cats. How to care for them,
etc., Dr. Edith K. Neel .... 365
Text-book of gynaecology, Dr.
James C. Wood .419
Ophthalmic diseases and thera¬
peutics, Dr. A. B. Norton 421
Principles and practice of
homoeopathy, Dr. Hughes 560
Therapeutics of fever, Dr. H.
C. Allen. 61)
A lecture on homoeopathy,
Dr. J. H. Clarke. 689
A contribution to the aetiology
of cancer, Dr. A. T. Brand 689
Report of the plague in Cal¬
cutta, 1901-02, Major Deane 691
Diseases and therapeutics of
the skin. Dr. J. Henry Allen 746
Chemical analysis chart. 750
Homoeopathy in milk fever of
cows, Mr. Sutcliffe Humdall 748
Ramsgate and Dr. Hawkes .... 436
Rational causal therapy, Dr. de
Groot. 147
Rectal troubles and their treat¬
ment, Mr. Dudley Wright.. 33£
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S.
Scarlatina, serum therapy in ... 250
Sciatica cured by tellurium, Dr.
M'Lachlan. 526
Science and homoeopathy, Mr.
J. M. Wybom. 236
Sectarianism. 26
Semon, Sib Felix, lectures ou
diseases of the air-passages,
42, 103, 168
Shaw, Mb. Knox, signs of the
times .455
Signs of the times, Mr. Knox
Shaw .455
Sibcab, Db. K., case of plague 213
Do. case of carbuncle.559
Do. Mahendba Lal, story
of my conversion to
homoeopathy. 598
Six consecutive years’ work, etc.
Dr. Burford. 596, 665
Small-pox epidemic, the . 218
Stacey, Db. F. E., cases of
Weir-Mitchell treatment .... 352
Statistics of Louisville hospital 570
Stonham, Db., some barium
cases . 140
Do. cases of intestiual ob¬
struction. 397
Stobbar, Db., essay on medical
education .670
Story of my conversion to homoe¬
opathy, Dr. Mahendra Lal
Sircar. 598
Stricture of oesophagus, Mr.
Dudley Wright . 144
Strychnicine. 616
Sugar, substitutes for. 439
Sussex County homoeopathic dis¬
pensary . 162
Sydney homoeopathic hospital 752
Syphilis, iodide of potassium in 255
T.
Taloott, Db. Selden H., ban¬
quet to . 437
Tasmania, homoeopathy in .... 369
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Therapeutics of the X-rays_424
Do. of small doses. 697
Tinctures or fluids, which ? Mr.
J. M. Wybom.416
'Twentieth Century Fund, aims
of. 91
Do. do. Dr. Byres Moir .. 97
Do. do.160
Do. do. Dr. A. Clifton .... 197
Do. do.213
Do. do.267
Do. do. meeting in Station¬
ers’Hall. 290
Do. do. 379, 443
y.
Vaccination—who discovered ?.. 246
Do. Hahnemann favoured .. 251
W.
Ward, Db. Florence, appendi¬
citis in women.205
Do. Db. James W.249
Warning, a, Dr. A. C. Clifton 127
Weir-Mitchell treatment, cases
of, Dr. F. G. Stacey .352
Wilde, Db. Percy, in the foot¬
steps of Hahnemann .. 135
Do. Db. Stanley, allopathic
leaviugs. 89
Wirrall homoeopathic dispensary 316
Wood, Db. J. C., present status
Weight, Mb. Dudley, stricture
of oesophagus . 144
Do. rectal troubles and their
treatment. 338
Wurtzburg, chair of hoinceo-
W pathv in. 595
ybobn, Mb. J. M., medical
ethics. 126
Do. science and homoeopathy 232
Do. tincturesorfluids,which? 416
Y.
Ykarsley, MacLeod, diseases
of middle ear . 284
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of drugs over swellings, growths, and tissue change is found
in the action of potassium iodide in gummata ; that of
bryonia in bursal effusions ; benzoic acid in ganglia ; the
dispersal by various drugs of meibomian cysts ; the marked
reduction, if not dispersal, of bronchocele by drugs; the
cure of acne ; the effect of antitoxin in diphtheritic exudations ;
and the effect of thyroid extract on cases of myxoedema,
etc., etc. This was the gist of an argument that there might
be too much readiness to favour operative measures.
Dr. Goldsbrough, Mr. Wynne Thomas, Dr. Herbert
Nankivell, Mr. Dudley Wright, Mr. Knox Shaw, and Dr.
Neatby discussed the subject from different aspects, and
Dr. Searson replied.
OBITUARY.
T. G. H. NICHOLSON, M.R.C.S.
We regret to have to announce the death of Mr. Nicholson,
one of our Liverpool colleagues, at his residence in Wallasey,
Cheshire, on October 19th.
Theophilus G. H. Nicholson was born in November, 1832,
and was the son of the Rev. E. Nicholson, Rector of Win-
stanley, Salop. He studied at Edinburgh and Owens College,
and became M.R.C.S. in 1861. He practised for several
years in Bangor, where he was highly esteemed. Mr.
Nicholson removed to Liverpool about twenty-seven years
ago. During this period he has served the Liverpool Homoeo¬
pathic Dispensary and the Hahnemann Hospital as Medical
Officer, Dentist, or Anaesthetist. He invented an inhaler for
the simultaneous administration of oxygen and chloroform,
and was probably the pioneer in this method of anaesthesia.
Mr. Nicholson exhibited gifts as an inventor in many other
directions, and claimed to be the first to suggest the use of
phosphorus cartridges against the Australian rabbit pest,
a method which has been successfully adopted, although
without acknowledgment to Mr. Nicholson.
Mr. Nicholson had been in indifferent health for a year
before his death, during which period he was attended by
his friend Dr. Watson, in consultation with Dr. Cash Reed.
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CORRESPONDENCE,
HAHNEMANN’S SCHEMA.
To the Editors of the “ Monthly Homoeopathic Review .”
Dear Sirs, —I have a great esteem and admiration for Dr.
Proctor, and am truly grieved when I find myself at
variance with him on subjects appertaining to medicine,
and more especially to homoeopathy. In his note on Dr.
Hughes’s Principles and Practice in your November number
he censures rather severely a portion of a criticism of mine
on Hahnemann’s Schema, quoted by Dr. Hughes from my
Lectures delivered fifty years ago. I think he has quite
misunderstood the purport of my observations from not
having read, or from having forgotten, the full text of the
passage from which the quotation is taken. He says some
years ago he pointed out the unsoundness of my analogy in
the Review ; and fully hoped that we should never hear it
quoted again, but apparently Dr. Hughes was not convinced
by his condemnation, as he quoted it again approvingly.
My objection to the schema form of presenting the results
of the provings of a medicine were founded on the fact that
the provers of a medicine were not all affected alike. Each
prover indeed presented a different morbid picture — a
medicinal disease differing in some respects from those of
his fellow-provers. To mix all the symptoms of all the
provers together was, I considered, to render it impossible
to discover what was the actual medicinal disease produced
in each, and consequently the study of the materia medica
was greatly impeded by the arrangement under anatomical
heads. This has frequently been animadverted on by
writers on homoeopathy, and was felt to be such a serious
drawback to the study of the pathogenetic effects of the
medicines in Hahnemann’s materia medica by the Vienna
Homoeopathic Society, that they made re-provings of some of
his medicines, and by giving us the day-books of the provers
enabled us to acquire a much clearer knowledge of the
action of the medicines than we could obtain from the
schema form in which Hahnemann and many of his followers
presented them. Dr. Hughes’s immortal work, the
Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy , is an attempt to give us
the medicinal diseases produced by medicines in the natural
order of their development, so that they can be studied like
the ordinary records of other diseases. Unfortunately,
Hahnemann’s own medicines could not be treated in this
manner, as we have none of the day-books of his provers,
and all their symptoms are jumbled together in the schema
form, which renders it difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain
the special form of medicinal disease developed in each
prover, and consequently to obtain a perfect knowledge of the
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pathogenic powers of the medicines. My analogy of the Hahne-
mannic schema, with the family portrait, where each feature
was separated from its natural connexions and arranged side
by side with the same feature of the other members of the
family group, is as true and as apt to-day as it was fifty
years ago, and I am not ashamed of having made it. Dr.
Proctor is quite mistaken in supposing that my illustration
implies the indiscriminate throwing together of the symptoms
of different members of the botanical family to which the
schemated medicine belongs. On the contrary, it is the
symptoms of the different provers of the same medicine
which I object to have thrown indiscriminately together.
Dr. Proctor’s mention of chamomilla in this connexion is
singularly unfortunate, for if he will look at Hahnemann’s
account of it3 effects in the Materia Medica Pura he will not
fail to observe that, with the exception of about thirty
unimportant symptoms observed by Stapf, and three from
ancient authorities, the whole of the proving is Hahne¬
mann’s own contribution ; but with regard to how many
provers there were, what quantity of medicine they swallowed,
or how the symptoms were distributed among the various
provers, he gives us no information whatever. Fortunately,
we are not limited to Hahnemann’s pathogenesis of
chamomilla for a knowledge of the action of that drug.
Hoppe’s admirable proving in the Horn. Vierteljahrsch.
(Vol. xiii.), and the trials of it made by the members of
the allopathic Medical Society of Vienna, supply us with a
number of more or less interesting accounts of the patho¬
genetic action of this useful medicine. But while Hahne¬
mann’s chamomilla is the record of a one-man prover—or T
should rather say contributor, for it is evident, though not
stated, that the provers were several, women as well as
men—it is different with many others of his medicines ;
his pathogenesis of belladonna, for instance, contains a
complex of the proving3 of himself and fourteen
others, together with observations by seventy-four
old authors, disassociated from their natural connexions and
presented in the fragmentary form necessitated by his
unfortunate schema form. The schema is not a scientific
arrangement of the symptoms of the provers ; it is rather
a sort of rough or rudimentary repertory, useful no doubt
to the practitioner, but not suitable for the satisfactory
study of the medicine’s powers. If Dr. Proctor prefers to
study the action of medicines in such an artificial dis¬
ruption, then for him the Cyclopcedia of Drug Pathogenesy
has been compiled in vain, and no doubt he infinitely
prefers the Encydopoedia of Allen, where the schema form
has been rigorously adhered to.
Yours faithfully, R. E. Dudgeon.
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book we have been discussing. It reflects the utmrst credit upon the author, and in the hands of
any intelligent person its information may be the means of doing incalculable service to those in
need. This, the second edition, has been revised and enlarged; it is issued in a very handy sized
volume, and is admirably printed in very clear type.’*- Colonial Trade Jouma .
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CHRONIC SORE THROAT;
OR
FOLLICULAR DISEASE OF THE PHARYNX:
Its Local and Constitutional Treatment , with a special Chapter in
HYGIENE OF THE VOICE.
By E. B. SHULDHAM, MD., Trin. Coll., Dublin, M.R.C.S. ; M.A. Oxon.
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those who do not hold the homoeopathic rule of simiha simdibm curautar , can bar ly fail
to pronounce excellent .”—The Graphic.
Professor C. J. Plumptre, of King’s College, writes of this work:—“I never met with
so much valuable information in so small a compass, and there is not a word in it that I do
not endorse most heartily and concur in most thoroughly.”
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