Liebig, remarks by letter of an attack on Professor Henderson in relation to homœopathy Law, the term how applied Lee's, Mr. Edwin, statement respecting the hospital at Leipzig Life power, misdirected, is disease Like and identical, difference between Linnæus, respecting the agency of pollen Logie's, Captain, experience respecting homeopathy Louis, M. on phthisis Lung-disease in cows treated homœopathically Luther, Dr. observation on stomach as a general post-office Macartney, Dr. on modes of cure by nature 169 163 55 172 70 10 48 107 226 98 192 74 185, 186, 187 145 Medical Gazette's opinion of the Manchester Medico-Ethical Association 172 175 232 11 Medical witness in case of Mr. Pearce, comments on evidence of Prussia, stringency of the law in, respecting medical men 216 97 Simpson, Mr. respecting treatment of typhus Sleep, modes of inducing natural and forced, the difference want of, under disease, the voice of nature Smiles's, Dr., testification to prevention not cure, the physician's object Smallpox, death from . Southwood Smith, Dr. case by Spain, progress of homoeopathy in Squill, use of, in inflammation of lungs Stomach in a state of health, conditions of Strangury and its cure by Cantharis Page 59 14 14 15 113 79 24 51 206 49 CHAPTER I. Certain axioms in regard to the discovery and the propagation of truth. The perfection of truth.-Definition of a genius. Opposition to the discoverers and the applyers of truth. Triumph of truth.- The undignified opposition to Homœopathy. The three kingdoms in nature.-General and distinctive features.-Life and its actions.-Organs and functions.— The conditions necessary to health.—Exhibitions of health. The conditions necessary to disease.-Exhibitions of disease.-Points of contrast between health and disease.-Picture of a medical warrior.-The heroic system of medicine.—The physician's object.—The means by which he realises his object.-Remedies. The peculiar position, in which the professional advocate of CHAP. I. Homœopathy at present stands, being one of antagonism to the majority of that profession to which he belongs, renders it necessary, or, at least advantageous, that any history or explanation or defence of what the homoeopathist believes in reference to medical practice, to be the truth, should be prefaced by a brief reference to the treatment which Truth has, in all ages, experienced when first introduced to the notice of mankind. HISTORY, the record of the experience of individuals in past times; OBSERVATION, the experience of the individual in times present; and the CONVICTIONS, produced by the observation of mental phenomena and of the steps through which the mind has passed in its several progresses towards truth, testify to the following axioms :-That truth has been discovered at distinct and often at distant intervals; That the opposition, always created upon the discovery and the diffusion of any truth, has been proportioned in strength, intensity, and amount, to the interests A CHAP. I. which the truth, by the very necessity of its nature, either must, or appears likely to, overturn; and, That truth has ultimately triumphed. In regard to the first axiom, that TRUTH HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AT DISTINCT AND OFTEN DISTANT INTERVALS, do not the facts, that the world has existed so many hundreds of years, and that, though so much truth has been discovered, so much remains undiscovered, testify to the soundness of this axiom? This axiom does not imply that truth was ever imperfect. It came perfect from the Divine mind, and exists in the universe in all its glorious perfection. Even ancient mythology teaches this, when it in its poetic relation declares, that Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, came forth from the brain of the mythological chief god Jupiter, fully formed and perfectly armed; a relation vividly testifying to the belief among the philosophers of olden times in the, as originally created, perfection of truth. In reference to the essential perfection of truth, and, at the same time, its gradual discovery by man at distinct and often distant intervals, how appropriate are the beautiful imagery and the forcible language of Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing, addressed to the parliament: "Truth indeed came into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape, most glorious to look upon; but when he ascended, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them. We have not found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming: he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection." Indeed, the truths of creation have been written on the pages of that wide spread book ever since the day when the sons of God shouted for joy on beholding the beautiful lines of the Divine hand-writing; that hand-writing has been there ever since; but a genius, one, who can read and record with a beauty nearing to its perfection, the fingering of God, has appeared only once in a century; and it was not till the last century, that the genuised eye of Hahnemann read the great truth, which the |