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 MONTREAL TRACTS ON HOMSOPATHY.-JVo. 5. 
 
 a?i3:E 
 
 MISREPRESENTATIONS 
 
 HOMOEOPATHY, 
 
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 THOMAS NICHOL, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L., 
 
 Member of the Collroes of Physicians and Suroeoxs of Ontario 
 AND Quebec ; Member of the American Institute of Hom(eo- 
 pathy; Corresponding Member of the Hohceopathio Medi- 
 cal Society of Pennsylvania; One of the Contri- 
 butors to Amdfa System of Medicine, hosed upon 
 the Law of Homoeopathy ; Author of A 
 Treatise on Diseases of the Larynx and 
 IVachea in Childhood. 
 
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 Congestion of the lungs is a very frequent and very fatal disease 
 in Montreal, and indeed in all parts of this continent, and further it 
 is but imperfectly understood. I will therefore devote No. 6 of the 
 Montreal Tracts, which will appear on Oct. 1, 1889, to the con- 
 sideration of Congestion of the Lungs and its Dangers, and I trust 
 that its perusal will diminish, at least in some slight degree, the mor- 
 tality of this morbid state. 
 
 THOMAS NICFOL, M. D. 
 140 Mansfield Street, Oct. 8, 1888. 
 
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THE MISREPRESENTATIONS OF HOHIEOPATHT. 
 
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 In this tract I purpose stating and discussing a number of 
 the most prominent of the misrepresentations of homoeopathy 
 usually made by its opponents ; and as most of these are made 
 in grim ignorance of the subject, it may chance that these 
 explanations may " pour light on the eyes of mental blindness." 
 
 Undoubtedly, most of the opponents of homoeopathy are 
 honest and sincere, but even those who are in perfectly good faith 
 do not take any pains to master the subject. I remember con- 
 versing with an Ontario physician, able and conscientious, on 
 this subject, when he surprised me by remarking that he " had 
 made a thorough study of the subject.'^ I asked him when he 
 had made the thorough study and where, for I knew that when 
 he was in college homoeopathy was quite unknown in Great 
 Britain. " Oh," he rejoined, I have read Simpson's Tenets and 
 Tendencies of Homceopathy and know all about it." " Precisely 
 so," I replied, "you have read one single book attacking a 
 system of which the author was profoundly ignorant, and you 
 think you understand that system ! If a heathen reads Tom 
 Paine or Bob Ingersoll you would hardly think that he had a 
 competent knowledge of the Christian verities ! " But my 
 friend did not wish to continue the conversation on that line, 
 and yet there are thousands of physicians just like him, men 
 well versed in all the medical sciences, save the keystone of 
 them all, — the science of therapeutics. 
 
 1. Homoeopathy is of Modern Origin. — This statement is 
 fiequently made with the view of throwing obloquy upon 
 homoeopathy, by classing it among the many forms of quackery 
 which spring into existence, flourish for a brief season, and then 
 sink into merited oblivion. Now as homoeopathy is not one of 
 the countless theories of disease — the shadows of which have 
 
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 darkened the human race for so many generations — but a law 
 of cure—a. precious gift to suffering humanity from the gracious 
 Giver of all good, we may expect, on consulting the records of 
 the medical art, to find many intimations of the existence of 
 that law, and also accounts of cures effected in accordance with 
 it. And such we find to be the case. 
 
 Centuries before Claudius Galen promulgated his law, " Con- 
 traria contrai'iia eurantur" a law impracticable in innumerable 
 cases, for the most vivid imagination fails to conceive the 
 " contraria " of gout or rheumatism — Hippocrates enunciated the 
 homoeopathic principle in the following words : — '* Another pro- 
 ceeding : the disease is produced by similars, and by similars 
 which the patient is made to take he is restored from disease to 
 health. Thus, that which causes strangury where there is not 
 any removes strangury where it exists." The treatment 
 Hippocrates advises in suicidal mania is a kind of rough-and- 
 ready homoeopathy : — " Give the patient a draught made from 
 the root of mandrake, in a smaller dose than will induce mania." 
 A passage recognizing the homoeopathic principle occurs in the 
 Epistle of Democritus to Hippocrates : — " Hellebore given to 
 the sane pours darkness on the mind, but it is wont greatly to 
 benefit the insane." Many other distinct allusions to the 
 homoeopathic law may be found in the writings of Hippocrates, 
 and we know that he treated cholera morbus with veratrum 
 album, which is well-known to produce similar symptoms. 
 
 Galen followed with what Cullen styles " his false and unap- 
 plicable theory," and the ancient homoeopathy was obscured for 
 a time by the new and specious theory. The long night of the 
 Middle Ages followed, and not till the commencement of the 
 fifteenth century do we find any distinct allusions to the homoe- 
 opathic law of cure. At this period there flourished Basil Valen- 
 tine, a Benedictine monk, who wrote as follows : — " Likes must 
 be cured by means of their likes, and not by their contraries, as 
 heat by heat, cold by cold, shooting by shooting ; for one heat 
 attracts the other to itself, one cold the other, as the magnet does 
 the iron. Hence prickly simples can remove diseases whose 
 
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 characteristic is prickly pains ; and poisonous minerals can cure 
 and destroy symptoms of poisoning when they are brought to 
 bear upon them. And sometimes a chill can be removed and 
 suppressed, still I say, as a philosopher and one experienced in 
 Nature's ways, that the similar must be fitted with its similar, 
 whereby it will be removed radically and thorouglily, if I am a 
 proper physician and understand medicine. He who does aot 
 attend to this is no true physician, and cannot boast of his 
 knowledge of medicine, because he is unable to distinguish be- 
 twixt cold and warm, betwixt dry and humid ; knowledge and 
 experience, together with a fundamental observation of nature 
 constitute the true physician." 
 
 In the sixteenth century, Thcophrastus von Hohenheim, com- 
 monly called Paracelsus, used the homoeopathic principle exten- 
 sively in practice, but failed to perjietuate his system for want 
 of physiological provings of drugs upon the healthy organism. 
 Opinions differ greatly as to this man's true place in medicine ; 
 von Helmont styled him the " forerunner of true medicine," and 
 the " jewel of all Germany," while, on the other hand, the gifted 
 Zimmerman says that " he lived like a hog, looked like a carter, 
 found his chief pleasure in the society of the lowest and most 
 debauched of the rabble, was drunk the greatest part of his life 
 and seemed to have composed all he wrote in this condition." But 
 recent researches, especially by Eademacher, founder of the 
 Empiric school, place Paracelsus in a more favourable light. 
 
 The man was dissipated but brilliant, a kind of sixteenth cen- 
 tury Hahnemann minus his exact scholarship and iron tenacity 
 of purpose. In style the two men were at times strikingly simi- 
 lar. Compare von Hohenheim's saying, — "Countries are the 
 leaves of Nature's code of law, patients the only books of the true 
 physician. Reading never made the physician — only practice,' 
 with Hahnemann's words, which should be burned into the very 
 soul of all true healers : — " When we have to do with an art 
 whose end is the saving of human life, any neglect to make our- 
 selves thoroughly masters of it becomes a crime.'' 
 
 In his system, Paracelsus assumed the existence, on the part 
 
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 (>f the physician, of a power of direct intuitive knowledge of 
 diseases as a whole, not learned painfully in the schools but an 
 almost preternatural gift. 
 
 The system of Paracelsus was a system of specifics, and as 
 homoeopathy is neither more nor less than a system of specifics, 
 80 we find many truly homceopathic ideas in the voluminous 
 writings of Paracelsus. Thus he says, " Likes must be driven 
 out by like»," and " we must summon to our aid a spirit of good ; 
 Me must discover for every form of disease its own arcanum or 
 proper specific." Again he enunciates the homoeopathic law 
 very plainly in the following words: — *' What makes jaundice 
 that also cures jaundice and all its species. In like manner.the 
 medicine that shall cure paralysis must proceed from that which 
 causes it ; and in this way we practise according to the method 
 of cure by arcana." 
 
 In more recent times the celebrated Danish physician Stahl 
 v^'rites : — " The rule which is admitted in medicine, of treating 
 diseases by contraries, or by remedies which are opposed to the 
 effects of these maladies, is completely false and absurd. I am 
 persuaded, on the contrary, that diseases yield to agents which 
 determine a similar affection (aimilia swdlibua), — burns by the 
 heat of a stove near to which the parts are held ; congelations 
 by the application of snow and cold water ; inflammations and 
 contusions by the application of spirits. I have removed a dis- 
 position to acidity by small doses of sulphuric acid, in cases 
 where a quantity of absorbing powders had been employed with- 
 out any benefit." 
 
 Many more proofs might be adduced, but sufficient has been 
 said to prove that homoeopathy is not of modern origin. 
 
 2. HoM(EOPATHY WAS DISCOVERED BY A QuACK. — In ordei to 
 appreciate this mis-statement, a brief review of the more salient 
 features of Hahnemann's career is requisite. Studious at school, 
 Hahnemann, at the age of twelve, taught Greek to the junior 
 classes of the Princely school at Meissen, his birth-place, and 
 when he went to Leipzic, at the age of twenty, he was master 
 of both French and English. After a stay of two years at Leipzic, 
 
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 he repaired (1777) to Vienna, and was so fortunate as to be taken 
 by the hand by Dr. von Quarin, physician in ordinary to the 
 Emperor of Germany, who even took him to see his patients. 
 The famous Bischoff writes that " Freiherr von Quarin bestowed 
 on Hahnemann his special friendship." Through the influence 
 of Dr. von Quarin, Hahnemann was appointed physician. to 
 Baron von Bruckenthal, governor of Transylvania. In 1779, he 
 graduated at the University of Erlangen, Bavaria, and, after a 
 brief residence in Hettstadt, he was appointed in 1781 to the 
 position of district-physician at Gommern, near Magdeburg. In 
 1790, he removed to Leipzic and here he discovered that cin- 
 chona bark was capable of producing a medicinal intermittent 
 fever, and this was to him what the falling apple in the orchard 
 was to Sir Isaac Newton, or the swinging lamp in the baptistry 
 at Pisa to Galileo. In 1792, Hahnemann resided at Gotha, as 
 physician to a lunatic asylum which had been founded by the 
 reigning prince, an ancestor of the late Prince Consort. Here 
 Hahnemann was one of the first, if not the very first to treat the 
 insane with kindness rather than severity. On this subject, h^ 
 writes : — " I never allow any insane person to be punished by 
 blows, or other corporeal inflictions, since there can be no punisli- 
 ment where there can be no sense of responsibility ; and since 
 such patients cannot be improved, they must be rendered worse 
 by such rough treatment." 
 
 In 1796, Hahnemann published in the journal of his friend 
 Hufeland " An Essay on a New Principle for Ascertaining the 
 Remedial Powers of Medicinal Substances," which was his first 
 public avowal of the homoeopathic principle. In 18 1 2, while 
 resident in Leipzic, Hahnemann conceived the idea of giving a 
 course of lectures on homoeopathy to students and practitioners 
 of medicine who might be desirous of mastering the new system. 
 But in order to be permitted to do so, it was necessary to pay a 
 sum of money and defend a thesis before the Faculty of Medi- 
 cine. Accordingly he wrote the thesis De Helleborismo veterum. 
 This has been republished in the Lesser Writings, and shortly 
 after he commenced his course of lectures. 
 
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 In 1821, Hahnemann removed to Coethen, the capital of tho 
 Duchy of Anhalt-Coethon, having been appointed councillor and 
 physician to the reigning Duke. 
 
 In this hasty sketch we find that the highly educated friend 
 of von Quarin, Bischoff and Hufeland was successively physi- 
 cian to the Governor of Transylvania, director of the Georgenthal 
 Insane Asylum, and Councillor and physician to the Duke 
 of Anhalt-Coethen ; and the fact of his occupying these 
 honourable positions is sufficient to show that homoeopathy was 
 not diwcovered by a quack. 
 
 3. HoMCEPATHY IS QuACKKUY. — This is a statement frequently 
 made, chiefly by individuals who know little or nothing of the 
 system of medicine which they so confidently condemn. 
 Quackery is usually defined to be the possession of some secret 
 remedy which the individual retails for his private gain, but 
 refuses to disclose for the public good ; or, from another stand- 
 point it is understood to be a pretension to knowledge which 
 the individual does not possess. Now, homoeopathy is in all res- 
 pects the very antipodes of quackery. Homoeopathy courts 
 inquiry. Six years after discovery of the Law of Cure, 
 Hahnemann enunciated it in Hufeland's Journal, at that time 
 (1796) the leading medical journal in Europe, and neither 
 Hahnemann nor any of his followers have ever made a mystery 
 of homoeopathy, its principles or practice. 
 
 Does the inquiring physician or layman desire to investigate the 
 principles of homcBopathy ? Then he is referred to Hahnemann's 
 Organon of HomcBopathic Medicine, orignally published at 
 Dresden in the year 1810 and since translated into English, 
 French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, and Hun- 
 garian. After reading this work the inquirer can study the 
 treatises on the institutes by Kosenstein, Kau, Marsden, Dake, 
 Hughes, Dudgeon, Johnson, Cockburn, Joslin, Ryan, Burnett, 
 Clarke, Morgan, Marcy, Dunsford, Nichol, Salzer, Amake, Rus- 
 sell, Sampson, Everest, Black, Henderson, Hempel, Stens, Sharp, 
 Holland, Neidhard, Morgan, Grauvogl, Vanderburgh, Fellger, 
 Holcombe, Mohr, Lippe, Wells and Dudley. No other system 
 
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 of medicine possesses such an iirray of writiii^^'s on its philo- 
 sophy. 
 
 Ihn'.H the i)hy,siciun dt^siro to Hliidy th(( honid'oputhie Miili^riii 
 Medica? Tlien in addition to tlm glorious tor.u'.s of llulinc- 
 mann — the Alatcrlu Metl'nui Pura and the Cin'onir Dist'tisi's,'^ 
 we possess the works of Cleveland, llenii)el, Jidir, Avndt, 
 Peters, Teste, Lippe, Dunham, Ileinigke, Underwood, Sinar, 
 Gross, Giiornsey, Stai)f, Herin«,', Farrinj^'ton, Tossart, Hughes, 
 Dunsford, Mure, Hale, Hoyne, Hartinann, iJreyfoj^de, Curtis 
 and Lillie. The }j;u'at work (.f Dr. T. K. Allen, tlui Kovyelo- 
 pcedia of Pare Mtitv.rUi Medicd, in eleven volumes, is uow 
 complete, but sevciial important works are still in course of 
 publication, especially the Cijdopwdid of Drtifj PidhogniCHy, 
 in four volumes, and Constantino Hering's Gniilivg Sy7iipt(mis 
 of our Materia Mtdicit. Of the Maicr'ui Mcd'ica physiolo- 
 gical and applied, but one volume has appeared. Jn addi- 
 tion to these systenuitie W(»rks we have monogrjipli.s by JNfetealf, 
 Ileil, Hering, Hirschcl, Neitlhard, Jiurncstt, Maicy, 'IhoniitH and 
 Nichol, and l{ep•lrtoril^s by lli^npel, Neidhiird, (Jregg, Munroe, 
 Bcenninghansen, I'etroz, Wint(>rl»Mrn, iFaiir and Lee. 
 
 Does the inquirer wish to know precisely how homocujuitliic 
 remedies are prepared ? Then in addition to the Brlflsh 
 Haniwopathic Pharinacoj)a;ia, which is the standard with 
 very many physicians, we have Quin, lio'ricke, S])illan, .Inhr 
 and Gruner. Then in the imi>ortiint department of medical 
 botany, Germany gives ns Goullon ; Great IJritain, Hamilton ; 
 and the United States, Millspaugh. 
 
 Does the inciidrer wish to study the practical ajtplieations of 
 the homceopathic law to the cure of disease f Then he is reierred 
 to the works of Arudt, Jahr, Small, Dickinson, I5(ehr, llud- 
 dock, Laurie, Curie, Eave, Marcy, Lilienthal, I'eleis, .leanes, 
 Henderson, Kreussler, Hughes, Hartmann, Hunt, Hem])el and 
 Beakley. In clinical medicine we possess the works ol Clarke, 
 Yeldham, Bayes, lliickert, .lousset, Beauvais, Chepniell, Pelroz, 
 Martin, Epps, Jahr, llussell, iJuotf and Perkins. 
 
 Does the inquirer wish to study the homceopathic treatment 
 
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 of cholera, in which the system has won its brightest fame ? We 
 have the books of Tessier, Humphrey, Josliu and Salzer. In 
 diphtheria, too, that scourge of infancy, we have the writings of 
 Ludlam, Helmuth, Hunt, Neidhard, Morgan, Gregg, McNeil, 
 Dake and Oehme. In fevers, the works of Kippax, Panelli, 
 Lord, Rapov, Allen, Wilson, McLeod, Douglas. In diseases of 
 the respiratory organs, Holland, Shuldham, Tessier, Brigham, 
 Morse, Ruddock, Meyhoffer, Hartmann, Hale, Becker, Hay ward. 
 Of the digestive organs, Burnett, Bernard, Morgan, Broackes, 
 Komdcerfer, Humphreys, Lade, Bell, Becker, Wells; of the 
 nervous system, Peters, Hart, King, Shuldham, Worcester, 
 Wilde ; of the skin, Epps, Lilienthal, Jabr, Kippax, Winterbum, 
 Goullon ; of the heart. Hale, Wyld, Lade, Ai-mstrong ; of the 
 urinary organs, GoUmann, Morgan, Buchner. 
 
 Does a mother desire a hand-book for domestic practice? 
 Then she has the choice of Kelly, Shipman, Moore, Laurie, 
 Tarbell, Holland, Pulte, Small, Halsey, Bigel, Lutze, Hering, 
 Johnson, Freligh, Douglas, Guernsey, Hamilton, Curie, Epps, 
 Fleury, Ruddock, Caspari, Hempel, Morgan, Hill, Shuldham, 
 Millard, Hale and Jahr. 
 
 Is a more professional treatise on the diseases of children — 
 the very strongest point in homoeopathic practice — called for ? 
 Here we have the works of Thomas, Hartlaub, Ruddock, Drury, 
 Teste, Williamson, Becker, Duncan, Pope, Laurie, Hartmann, 
 Edmonds, Underwood, Minton and Nichol. 
 
 Does a surgeon desire to know what homoeopathy can offer 
 to " the art which is almost a science ? " In general surgery 
 we have Helmuth, in many editions, Franklin, Gilchrist, Hill 
 and Hunt; in special surgery, Yeldham, Morgan, Berjeau, 
 Eldridge, Kent, Small, GoUmann, Franklin and Hoyne; in 
 ophthalmic surgery, Augell, Peters, Becker, Allen and Norton ; 
 in aural surgery. Cooper, Sterling and Houghton ; in veterinary 
 surgery, Moore, Ruddock and Hurndall. In midwifery and 
 gynecology, Ludlam, Skinner, Pulte, Leadham, Matheson, Jahr, 
 Peters, Minton, Morgan, Hale, Guernsey and Conant. 
 
 All the books above mentioned are in the medical library of 
 the present writer, and many more exist in addition to these* 
 
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 Does the physician or layman wish to see what medical jour- 
 nals are issued in support of the doctrines of homoeopathy ? 
 I shall mention only those lying on my own table ; they are, 
 of course, only a selection. They are the Monthly Homceopa- 
 thic Revieiv ; the Homoeopathic World; ^the Annals of the 
 British Homceopathic Society ; the Noiih American Journal 
 of Homoeopathy ; the New England Medical Gazette ; the 
 Hahnemannian Monthly ; the Homceopathic Physician ; the 
 Clinique ; the Homceopathic Recorder; the Medical Counse- 
 lor ; the California Homceopath ; the Medical Visitor ; the 
 Buffalo Investigator ; the Homceopathic Journal of Obstetrics ; 
 the Chironian and the Medical Institute. 
 
 Finally, does the physician or medical student desire to 
 become thoroughly educated in homoeopathy ? Then on the 
 C'Ontinent we have fourteen well equipped medical colleges, 
 namely, the Hahnemann Medical College of San-Francisco, 
 California ; the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, 
 Chicago, Illinois ; the Chicago Homceopathic Medical College ; 
 the Homoeopathic Medical Department of Iowa University ; 
 the Boston University School of Medicine ; the Homceopathic 
 Medical Department of University of Michigan ; the Homoeo- 
 pathic Medical College of Missouri ; the Homoeopathic Medical 
 Department of the University of Nebraska ; the New York 
 Homceopathic Medical College ; the New York Medical Col- 
 lege and Hospital for Women; the Homceopathic Hospital, 
 College, Cleveland, Ohio; the Pulte Medical College, Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio; the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
 phia ; Minnesota Homoeopathic Medical College. These fourteen 
 medical colleges are further reinforced by forty-eight hospitals, of 
 which the largest is Ward's Island Homoeopathic Hospital, New 
 York, with 574 beds and 3,733 patients last year ; next to this is 
 the Homceopathic Medical and Surgical Hospital, Pittsburgh, 
 Pennsylvania with 200 beds and 1,114 patients last year. A 
 good idea of the size of these hospitals is gained by comparing 
 them with, say, the Montreal General Hospital, which has 175 
 beds. Among the special hospitals, we find the New York State 
 
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 Homoeopathic Asylum for the Insane, at Middletown, N.Y. 
 with 400 beds and 568 patients last year ; the New York Stat, 
 Asylum for the Chronic Insane, at Binghani[)ton, N.Y., with 
 1,000 beds and 1086 ]»atient.s last year ; and the Home for the 
 Aged Poor, Allegheny, Pa., with 220 beds. In addition we have 
 in the United States 46 Honupopathic Dispensaries, many of 
 them on a very large scale, treating many thousands of patients 
 each year. 
 
 What is the meaniiuj of all this array of hooks, and jour- 
 nals, and colleges, and hospitals, and dispensaries ? Simply 
 this, that homceopathy courts inquiry to the fullest extent, that 
 the fullest ])ossible intoruiation is afforded to all inquirers, that, 
 in fact, homo'oiiathy is the very antipodes of quai kery. 
 
 Quackery dwells in ilarkness. No quack ever yet revealed 
 the secret of the compu.sitiou of his medic auients. No quack 
 ever yet published a book of Materia Medica or on the j»ractice 
 of medicine. No college was ever founded for instruction in 
 quackery. 
 
 Honiivoitathy is vncha'tigimj and uiichatujeahle. The 
 manner of j)reparing the medicines may change, and new medi- 
 cines are constantly being acided to our therapeutic arnuunent, 
 but the principle itself can never chiinge, simply because it is a 
 law of Nature. Ages ago Hipi)ocrates cured cholera morbus 
 with veratrum album, and that plant is a leading remedy in 
 this disease at the present day. Even the dose was settled long 
 ago, for Hippocrates states that '' it is necessary to give a smaller 
 quantity to the sick than would produce similar symptoms on 
 the healthy." How much smaller he does not state, anil pro- 
 bably the experiments of that most acute observer were never 
 pointed in that direction. 
 
 I have said that homoiopathy is unchanging and U7icha7ige- 
 ahle. By this I mean that a medicine that cured a given 
 morbid state, wlien that fact was first ascertained, let us say by 
 Hahnemann, continues to cure that same morbid state to the 
 end of time. Thus in the year 1709 Hahnemann ascertained by 
 pure experiment the power of Belladonna to cure certain forms 
 
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 of scarlet fever ; Belladonna then still cures that same form of 
 that disease, and will continue to do so indefinitely. In the 
 year 1814 Hahnemann pointed out the curative relations between 
 Jthus toxicodendron and Bryonia alba and the war-typhus, 
 which was left as an evil legacy to Germany by the Grand Army 
 on its disastrous retreat from Moscow ; these remedies cure 
 similar morbid states to-day, and will always continue to do so. 
 Only the other day I gave the first named remedy in a case of 
 typhoid fever from first to last with the most gratifying results.^ 
 In the year 1830 Hahnemann, without ever having seen a single 
 case of Asiatic Cholera, stated that campJtor, veratrum and 
 cuprum would prove the leading remedies ; they are still the 
 chief reliance of the homoeopathic physician, and they will hold 
 that position as long as cholera is cholera. What was true with 
 us three generations ago is true to day, and will always be true. 
 We add to our knowledge but we do not disown the old know- 
 ledge, which did knightly service in the hands of our medical 
 ancestors, and which will continue to be a benediction to 
 humanity in the hands of our medical descendants. 
 
 Quackery is changing and changeable. — The most com- 
 mon form is that of the well-known pill-box, " with the proprie- 
 tor's signature in white letters on a red ground without which 
 none is genuine, and to counterfeit which is felony," but in 
 vastly higher medical circles it appears in the form of some 
 panacea for typhoid fever or diphtheria ; or, taking still another 
 direction, it recklessly offers to cure stammering in five minutes 
 without an operation ; or, still in the highest circles, it offers to 
 cure the hopelessly deaf or blind, well knowing that the deafness 
 and blindness are hopeless. All these are forms of quackery, and 
 with these homceopathy has nothing in common, any more than 
 the stately oak has aught in common with the foul parasite that 
 clings around its base. 
 
 Comparisons might be multiplied, but I trust that sufficient 
 has been said to prove that homceopathy is not quackery. 
 
 4. Homceopathy is inefficient against violent diseases. — 
 When Hahnemiinn enunciated his great discovery in that 
 
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 remarkable Essay on a Nevj Principle for ascertaining the 
 Memedial Powers of Medicinal Substances published in Hufe- 
 land's Journal in the year 1796, he stated that in chronic 
 diseases at least, the remedies ought to be chosen in accordance 
 with the law of similars ; and for some time after the publication 
 of that essay, he continued to treat acute dii^eases after the 
 ordinary method. Accident, however, revealed the remarkable 
 efficacy of the new system in acuie diseases, against which it has 
 been employed with remarkable success since the year 1798. 
 
 At the present moment if I were called on to demonstrate the 
 power of homoeopathic remedies over disease before an impar- 
 tial tribunal, say the Board of Governors of the Eoyal Victoria 
 Hospital, Montreal, or the Faculty of Medicine, McGill 
 University, Montreal, I would select such diseases as cholera, 
 dysentery, yellow fever, typhoid fever, typhus fever, scarlet 
 fever, pneumonia, and especially congestion of the lungs, as well 
 as all the acute diseases of childhood. And I would feel serenely 
 certain of a favourable verdict. 
 
 Thus when typhus fever and dysentery were devastating 
 Ireland in the year 1847, Dr. Joseph Kidd, at that time an 
 orthodox homoeopath, attended one hundred and ninety -two cases 
 in their own homes, amidst all the wretchedness of that most 
 wretched time, and the results of his treatment were as follows : 
 Mortality from typhus fever 2 per cent. 
 " " dysentery 14 " 
 
 At the same time, and in the same neighbourhood (Bantry) 
 Dr. Abraham Tuckey, an allopathic physician, treated a number 
 of cases in the Bantry Union Hospital, with every possible 
 advantage of cleanliness, ventilation and diet, and here the 
 results were : — 
 
 Mortality from typhus fever 13 per cent. 
 " " dysentery 36 " 
 
 At the same time an hospital was opened in Liverpool, Eng- 
 land, for the reception of sick Irish emigrants, and here the phy- 
 sician abstained from giving any medicine whatever, contenting 
 himself with watching the cases, giving great attention to diet, 
 
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 cleanliness, and so forth. The following were the results of this 
 expectant treatment : — 
 
 Mortality from typhus fever 10 per cent. 
 " " dysentery 25 " 
 
 Here we find that, while the moi tality in typhus fever, under 
 homoeopathic treatment was only 2 per cent., the mortality under 
 allopathic treatment was 13 per cent., while the loss when no 
 medicine whatever was given was only 10 per cent. 
 
 So that while homoeopathy saved 98 out of every 100 fever 
 patients, nature unaided by medicines saved 90 out of every 
 100, while allopathy, with every possible advantage of diet, only 
 87. 
 
 Again, Dr. Kidd, the homoeopath, lost 14 per cent, of his 
 dysentery cases, while Dr. Tuckey, the allopath, lost 36, and 
 the expectant treatment only 25 out of each 100. 
 
 Here homoeopathy saved 86 out of every 100 dysentery 
 patients, nature 75, and allopathy 64 only. 
 
 So that in these most striking tests, nature was a little better 
 than allopathy, or allopathy a little worse than nature, while 
 homoeopathy was very much better than either. 
 
 Or take pneumonia, intlammation of the lungs, a very com- 
 mon and very fatal disease in this city. Here is an outline 
 sketch of a tragedy which has happened quite too frequently of 
 late years. A prominent citizen is ill, he calls in a leading man 
 of the dominant school, who assures him jauntily that he has a 
 " cold, " and that " he will be around in a few days." The few 
 days pass and the patient gets no better very fast, and a second 
 practitioner, also a man of mark, is called in. The combined 
 wisdom of these gentlemen enables them to determine that 
 " bronchitis has set in," but that " no danger is present." More 
 days of anxiety pass, and the two medical attendants unite in 
 calling in a third, of course a man of light and leading. He sur- 
 prises his confreres by pointing out that the 'patient hi8 pneu- 
 monia, and that the situation is very grave. More days of 
 racking anxiety, now hoping against hope, now cast down to the 
 very dust, when the community is startled by the intelligence 
 that Mr. So-and-So is dead. 
 
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 What, then, has homoeopathy to offer in this dire disease ? How 
 do its results compare with the results of other systems of treat- 
 ment ? I will tell you. A certain Dr. Dietl, an allopathic phy- 
 sician attached to the Wiesbaden Hospital, Vienna, Austria,, 
 desirous of testing the efticafy of various plans of treatment in 
 this disease, instituted a sen a of experiments. In the course of 
 three years he attended 380 cases, 85 of these were treated by 
 repeated bleedings; of this number 17 died, or 20 per cent., the 
 remaining 38 recovered; 106 were treated with tartar emetic; 
 the mortality was now 20 per cent., 22 dying, 84 recovering. 
 The remaining 189 were treated by simple dietetic and hygienic 
 measures, no medicine whatever being given ; the deaths 
 amounted to 14 only, or 7.04 per cent, 175 recovering. 
 
 So that when Dr. Dietl treated inflammation of the lungs 
 with bleeding and large doses of powerful drugs he lost twenty 
 out of every hundred; and when he contented himself with 
 simple dietetic management he lost but seven out of every hun- 
 dred ! 
 
 In the same city and during the same period of time, Dr. 
 Fleischmann, of the Gumpendorf Homoeopathic Hospital, treated 
 538 cases of pneumonia with 28 deaths, a mortality of 5 per 
 cent. 
 
 Compare this with the results of Dr. Dietl's varied treat- 
 ment : — 
 
 Under allopathic treatment the mortality was 20 per cent. 
 " no medicine at all " '* 7 " 
 
 " homoeopathic treatment " " 5 " 
 
 It will thus be seen that the hcmceopath gains by giving 
 medicine, while the allopath loses by it. 
 
 The duration of this disease, too, varies astonishingly with the 
 treatment employed. Thus Dr. Tessier of Paris, and Dr. Hen- 
 derson, Professor of Pathology in the University of Edinburgh, 
 both prominent homoeopathic physicians, found that under 
 homoeopathic treatment the duration of a case of inflammation 
 of the lungs was 11§ days. From the allopathic side Dr. Louis 
 of Paris, and Dr. Dietl of Vienna, show that under "regular" 
 
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 treatment the average duration is 29 days. Under expectant 
 treatment — no medicine at all — it is 28 days. 
 
 How do the figures stand in pleurisy ? A very common malady 
 in all nortliern lands and one, too, in which homoeopathy is so 
 successful that Dr. liouth, author of the well-known Fallacies 
 of IloinitiO[Kdhy, udmits, that while the jnactiti oners of the 
 dominant school lose 13 out of the hundred, homoeopathic prac- 
 titioners lost but l:> out of each hundied. 
 
 Yellow fever has to-day a melancholy interest for English- 
 speaking i)eople, inasmuch as it has recently caused the death 
 of one of the most brilliant scientists of our day. It is, as 
 every one knows, a very prevalent disease in the southern parts 
 of this continent, Avhere it is almost as fatal as cholera. Omit- 
 ting all notice of inferior authorities, I turn to Dr. La Roche's 
 vohirninous work on this disease, in two volumes of fourteen 
 hundred pages, and 1 find that he states that the average 
 mortality is one hundred out of every three hundred and fifty 
 attacked— or, in other words, out of every seven persons attacked, 
 two die. 8o much for allopathic practice. 
 
 During the years 1853, 1854 and 1855, Drs. F. A, W.Davis 
 and W. H. Holconibe, two of the best homoeopathic practitioners 
 in the South, treated lOltJ cases, of which 55 terminated fatally. 
 This is a mortality of 5.4 per cent., or nearly nineteen out of 
 every three hundred and fifty attacked. Nineteen as compared 
 with one hundred ! 
 
 During the terrible epidemic of 1855 at Portsmouth and 
 Norfolk, Virginia, Dr. Lisle Augustus Kilisoly, whom I am 
 proud to claim as a fellow-student, treated 1 37 yellow fever 
 patients, of whom 8 died, and of these, five had previously been 
 tmder allopathic treatment. 
 
 In 1878, yellow fever raged in New Orleans and its vicinity, 
 and after its close the American Institute appointed a special 
 commission to report on the statistics. The following facts and 
 figures sum up the matter : — 
 
 " We lia<l here (New Orleans) 1,945 oases of yellow fever treated homoeo- 
 puthicaily, with a loss of 110 patieDts, — ft mortality of 5.6 per cent. 
 
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 ** We hail 1,909 cases ot yellow fever treated in cities and towns outside 
 of New Orleanfl, with a Iosh of 151 patients,— a mortality of 7.7 per cent. 
 
 *' This makes a total of 3,914 caHCH of yellow fever treated homoeopathi* 
 oally, during the epidemic of 1878, with a loss of 261 patients, — a mortality 
 of 6.6 per cent. 
 
 On the same ground, and during the same epidemic, the most 
 fevourable allopathic results averaged 17 per cent., while the 
 mortality, under the heroic treatment still in use in many parts 
 of the South, — bleeding, calomel, quinine — was greatly above 
 that figure. 
 
 Of cholera, we have had three visitations in Canada, in the 
 year 1831-2, in 1849, and again in 1854, and during these 
 epidemics thousands of our people died. Consequently, the 
 subject must always be one of deep interest to all thoughtful 
 minds, and a natural inquiry is: how do the homoeopathic 
 statistics compare with those of the regular school ? I hasten to 
 reply. 
 
 Just forty years had passed away since the eventful year 
 (1790), when the sagacious experimenter discovered that cin- 
 chona produced symptoms similar to intermittent fever, when 
 the tidings spread through Europe that the cholera — the scourge 
 of the Ganges — had left its Asiatic home and was rapidly 
 advancing westward. A full description of the disease was 
 placed in the hands of Hahnemann, and, after a careful com- 
 parison of the symptoms of the disease with the well-ascertained 
 symptoms of a number of drugs, he fixed upon the remedies 
 camphor, veratrum, and cuprum which, he stated, would prove 
 the principal remedies and also prophylactics. 
 
 The dreaded enemy came, and passed like a destroying angel 
 over the fairest provinces of Europe, and after its departure the 
 published statistics afforded means of comparing the results of 
 the rival systems. 
 
 Now, medical statistics differ very much in value. Cases 
 occurring in private practice are the least reliable, as the capacity 
 and honesty of the physicians may be questioned. But the 
 case is different when well-known physicians make the reports, 
 and, further, when they are able to give the names and resi- 
 
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 dences of the patients treated, so that the reports may be verified 
 or contradicted, as the case may be. 
 
 Next in value are hospital reports, where a large number of 
 cases of the same disease have been treated, under similar 
 circumstances. 
 
 The most valuable statistics of all are those verified by 
 government inspection, and if the government or the inspector 
 are hostile to the system inspected, then the statistics are all the 
 more valuable. 
 
 I would further remark that the results of homoeopathic 
 treatment in cholera dift'er greatly, and this difference does not 
 depend so much upon the severity of the epidemic as on the 
 skill of the physician. When men of transcendent ability, like 
 Dr. Eubini of Naples, or Dr. Bull of London, Ontario, are at the 
 helm, the statistics are simply astounding, for these eminent 
 men attended numerous cases of undoubted cholera without 
 losing a single patient. 
 
 Immediately after the cholera epidemic of 1830-31 in Eussia, 
 a report was made to the Czar of the total number of cholera 
 patients who had been under homceopathic treatment in the gov- 
 ernments of Saratow, Tambow and Twer. The president of the 
 Imperial Council reported the number of patients at 1273, with 
 108 deaths, making a mortality of less than nine per cent. 
 
 In April,1832, Dr. Kath was ordered by the King of Bavaria 
 to collect authentic information as to the results of the homoeo- 
 pathic treatment of Asiatic cholera ; and he reported, that out 
 of 1269 cases treated by fourteen homceopathic physicians in the 
 cities of Vienna and Prague and in Hungary and Moravia, there 
 were only 85 deaths, showing a mortality of less than seven per 
 cent ; while in the same cities and countries, under allopathic 
 treatment, the mortality was over thirty-one per cent. 
 
 In 1826 the Emperor of Austria forbade the practice of homoeo- 
 pathy in all the States of his empire, but the marked success 
 which attended the homceopathic treatment of cholera in Vienna 
 induced that excellent sovereign to cancel the decree in the year 
 lii36. 
 
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 In the year 1849 cholera ra^'ed in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Drs. 
 Pulte and Ehrmann, two leading Ijonui'oimthic |»liysicians, 
 attended 1,116 cases from May I to Augnst l.with a loss of 35 
 patients — a mortality of less than 4 ])or cent. 8o great was the 
 contrast of these results witli those reported by their alloi)athic 
 neighbors, that the truthfulness of the homoeopathic statistics 
 was publicly called in question ; and in self-defence, the two 
 physicians submitted their lists, giving names and residences of 
 all the persons treated ; and on inciuiry it was found that their 
 claim was correct. 
 
 In the year 1848, cholera raged in Edinburgh, Scotland, and 
 the six physicians of the Edinburgh Hoino'opathic Dispensary 
 attended 236 patients at their own homes, of whom 57 died; 
 This is a mortality of a decimal over 24 ])or cent. 
 
 In the same city, and during the same epidemic, 640 cases 
 were treated by allopathic physicians, of whom no less than 
 435 died — a mortality of 68 per cent. Hixty-eujld as compared 
 with twenty-four. 
 
 In the year 1854, cholera of a sov(;r(! type ragcul in liOndon, 
 and the General Returns made to Parliiirnent admitted a mortality 
 of 59.2 per cent. When the roturiis weie l)rought before the 
 House of Commons, Lord Robert Grdsvenor, now Lord Ebury, 
 noted that the returns from the HomcEopathic Hospital were 
 not included, though it was known that Dr. Macloughlin, 
 Medical Inspector of the CiMieral J'.oard of Health — an allo- 
 pathic physician, of course — had c(;rtitied to their correctness. 
 It was soon ascertained that they km I been Huppvcmed by a 
 joint resolution of Dr. Paris, President of thf! Royal College of 
 Physicians and the Medical Council ! Lord Jiobert at once 
 moved that the homeeopathic returns be brought before the; House, 
 and the motion was agreed to. Then the revelation was made, — 
 astounding to those unacquainted with honidjopathy,— that while 
 the allopathic mortality was 59.2 per cent., that the homcjeopathic 
 mortality was but 16.4 per cent 1 
 
 That is, that while the" regular " treatment savcid forty-one 
 out of every hundred attacked, the homoeopathic treatment saved 
 eighty-four ! 
 
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 During the Naples epidemic of 1854, Dr. Rubini, an homceo- 
 pathic physician of undoubted experience and trustworthiness, 
 attended 377 cases without a death. Two hundred of these 
 were in one institution, and his published statement has never 
 been contradicted. During the same epidemic other homoeo- 
 pathic physicians attended 215 additional cases, without the loss 
 of a single patient. 
 
 On August 7, 1854, cholera broke out in London, Ontario, 
 advancing from the East where it had been very fatal, especially 
 in Hamilton and Brantfoid. It was of a malignant ype, 
 and numbers died, but most forttmately Dr. Alexander 
 Thompson Bull, now of Buffalo, N.Y., had located in the 
 place just two weeks before the dreaded enemy made its appear- 
 ance. His first case was in the family of Marcus Holmes, Mayor 
 of the town, who frankly told him that he was called because 
 no one else could be had. The case, which was a severe one, 
 recovered, and during the entire epidemic the doctor attended 
 fifty-three cases, many of them in the stage of collapse, without 
 a single death. I was with Dr. Bull at the time and vouch 
 for the accuracy of these statements, which were never doubted 
 or contradicted at the time. During the same epidemic, the loss 
 under allopathic treatment was very great ; in the cholera hospi- 
 tal especially hardly a patient escaped. The treatment through 
 out was strictly homoeopathic, the lower dilutions being exclu- 
 sively used. 
 
 But, it may be argued, medical science has advanced greatly 
 since 1854, and the results to-day would be much more favour- 
 able. But during the last epidemic in the United States, in the 
 year 1873, the mort .lity, according to the government statistics, 
 was 52 per cent., which is more than double the mortality of the 
 least successful homoeopathic treatment on record. But even 
 this awful mortality is moderate compared with that experienced 
 in France, Spain and Italy during the epidemics of 1884 and 
 1885 — yesterday as it were. There the average mortality was 
 over seventy per cent., and as a result the medical men were 
 often driven away from the sick with sticks and stones. 
 
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 What success has homoeopathy in the diseases of children? 
 After ail experience of thirty-four years, during which time I 
 attended tens of thousands of cases of illness in children, I am 
 strongly of opinion that even if homoeopathy were totally useless 
 in the diseases of adults, it would still be a priceless blessing 
 were it only for its usefulness in the maladies of the little ones. 
 Statistics sujtport this claim. From the year lB30to 1842, the 
 Protestant Half-Ori)han Asylum in the city of New York was 
 under allopathic treatment, and the average mortality during 
 that time was 1 in 48. In 1842 the homoeopathic treatment was 
 adopted, and from 1843 to 1859 the average mortality was 1 in 
 145. So that, you see, the probabilities of a child attaining the 
 age of fifteen are as 145 if treated homoeopathically, compared 
 with 48 if treated allopathically. 
 
 Figures might be multiplied almost indefinitely, but sufficient 
 hasbeen said to prove to any impartial mind that homcBopathy 
 is mofit ejfficient aijainst violent diseases. 
 
 5. HOMCEOPATHY IS EVANESCENT AND WILL PASS AWAY.— 
 
 When I commenced the study of the great law of healing, I was 
 told by numbers of highly intelligent people, chiefly however of 
 my own sex — for the other sex has an intuitive appreciation oi 
 homoeopathy and its milder means of cure — that I was wasting 
 time and money and energy in the study of a system which 
 would surely wither and die, as numerous medical systems had 
 withered and died before it. Thirty-five years have passed away 
 since these very confident prophets uttered their predictions, and 
 I have lived to see two of the most confident of them enter the 
 ranks of homoeopathic practitioners, while most of the remainder 
 have become patrons of the very excellent homoeopathic physi- 
 cians of that part of Ontario. 
 
 During these thirty-five years the progress of homoeopathy 
 has been simply marvellous. Then we had on this continent 
 fifteen hundred physicians ; now, counting Americans, Mexicans 
 and Canadians, we have more than ten thousand. Then we had 
 in Canada not more than twelve physicians, of whom but two 
 possessed the legal right to practice : now we have one hundred 
 
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 and twelve, nearly all of whom are licentiates. Then we huJ but 
 two medical colleges with 14 professors and 2'20 students ; now we 
 have fourteen colleges with 200 professors and 1,050 students, 
 These colleges are well equipped, and are in all resjwdts the peera 
 of the best colleges of the dominant school. Then we had no hospi- 
 tals whatever ; now we have 58 hospitals, with 27,925 patients 
 last year. Then we had a few struggling dispensaries ; now we 
 have 4G with 1 38,694 patients last year. Then we had really but 
 one journal, the old North Ameincan Journal of Homoeopathy, 
 still flouiishing ; now we have twenty of the very best quality. 
 During these thirty-five years the homojopathic physicians of 
 this continent of North America have literally created a litera- 
 ture ; we who thirty-five years ago had to learn foreign tongues, 
 in order to acquire a knowledge of homoeopathy, have forced 
 foreign physicians to learn English in order that they might read 
 our books. 
 
 But, say the critics, — and it is marvellous how many are critics 
 of homoeopathy — all this progress has been made on the North 
 American continent, confessedly enterprising and progressive ; 
 how does homoeopathy stand with less progressive people ? 
 
 Let us turn to Spain, supposed by many to be ultra-conserva- 
 tive, some even say effete. Homoeopathy was first incroduced into 
 Spain by Dr. Horatiis, an Italian physician, attached to a royal 
 commission sent by the King of the Two Sicilies to attend the 
 marriage of Donna Maria Christina with Don Ferdinand VII. 
 Dr. Horatiis left no notable results behind him as his stay was 
 necessarily short, and the real pioneer was a Cadiz merchant 
 named Zuarte, who introduced the new science into Andalusia in 
 1830. Three years later three distinguished physicians adopted 
 homoeopathy, Drs. Lopez Pinciano, Rino y Hurtado, and Pru- 
 dentio Querol. A gi'eat impetus was given by the success of 
 Dr. Rino y Hurtado in the epidemic of cholera, which ravaged 
 Badtijaz in 1833, and in 1842 the same practitioner commenced 
 the first Spanish homoeopathic journal. Soon an animated contro- 
 versy was begun by the leading allopathic organ, the Boletano 
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 Dr. Cazetano Balseiro, who was finally converted to homoeopathy 
 of which he become a life-long champion. Dr. Lopez Piiiciano 
 also was very successful in the epidemic of cholera in 1834, and 
 he devoted himself for many years to the task of translating 
 homoeopathic works from the original German. 
 
 So complete was the success of the homoeopaths, that their 
 opponents invoked the assistance of the law, in order if possible 
 to crush the pestilent medical heretics. In Granada, Dr. Man- 
 uel Gidela was prosecuted for practising homoeopathy, but was 
 triumphantly acquitted. A short time afterwards, Dr. Jos^ Lopez, 
 one of Gidela's prosecutors, became insane, and having recovered 
 under the care of Don Felipe Gil, a leading homceopathic physi- 
 cian, he was himself converted to homoeopathy. 
 
 In 1844, Don Jos6 Nunez, who had studied homoeo[)athy 
 under Hahnemann himself, and practised successfully in Bor- 
 deaux, returned to Spain, and commenced practice in the capital. 
 One of his first patients was a noble of high position at court, 
 who had been unsuccessfully treated by the niost distinguished 
 physicians of the dominant school, and by them pronounced 
 incurable. Dr. Nunez was called in, and confidently predicted 
 a cure, which promptly followed his treatment. At once the 
 young Queen was drawn towards homoeopathy. Dr. Nunez 
 was appointed one of the physicians of the bed-chamber, created 
 Marquis and Grandee of Spain, receiving also the grand cross 
 of the Order of Charles III. and of the Civil Order of Jienefi- 
 cence ; he also received the royal permission to teach and 
 practise homoeopathy in the wards of the allopathic hospitals. 
 But the allopathic opposition was so strong that this plan could 
 not be carried out, so some years later a homoeopathic hospital 
 was founded, which was at once a public charity and an insti- 
 tution for the clinical instruction of students. 
 
 The royal example gave such an impetus to homoeopathy 
 that several journals were commenced with the view of spreading 
 the new doctrines, and also of meeting the attacks of the allo- 
 pathic press. The first of these polemic journals was La Gazeta 
 Homoeopatica, conducted by Don Roman Fernandez del Itio, 
 
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 followed by others of the same stamp, till, in 1846, the permanent 
 Spanish homcBopathic journal appeared. In 1845 the Marquis 
 de Nunez founded the Hahncmannian Society of Madrid, and 
 in the foUowiug year its official journal appeared. In El 
 Criterio Medico we possess a record of Spanish homoeopathy for 
 the past forty-three years, during which time it has ever been 
 the organ of the strict Hahnemaimian homoeopathy, while at the 
 same time it must be admitted that it has never impeded the 
 progress which study and experience inevitably V.ring. 
 
 At first the new Sociedad Hahnemanniana included nioit 
 of the homoeopathic physicians in Spain, but dissensions soon 
 arose concerning the vexed question of the dose. A number 
 held to the earliest practise of the master in the administration 
 of the lower dilutions and triturations, while the majority held 
 to the later views which sanctioned the use of infinitesimals 
 only ; so the low dilutionists organized the Homoeopathic 
 Academy of Spain, with Don Joaquin Hyssem as president. 
 In 1859, a truce was patched up, and the low dilutionists 
 returned to the Sociedad ; but in a year or tM'o a new secession 
 took place, and the Academy was revived under its old president, 
 who, by the way, was a Professor in the College of Madrid. 
 
 Notwithstanding these lamentable dissensions, which certainly 
 impeded the growth of homoeopathy, the public, — especially 
 the wealthy and cultured public — supported homoeopathy so 
 enthusiastically, that the allopaths could no longer restrain their 
 wrath at seeing the wealthy desert the camp of calomel and 
 bloodletting. So Doctors Fran and Conal attacked it furiously 
 in public addresses at the University, while Don Pedro Mata, 
 a very eloquent speaker, delivered a fiery oration in the Athen- 
 aeum. Don Pedro Hernandez followed in the homoeopathic 
 interest, and the result was that Don Pedro Mata's eloquence 
 produced results contrary to his wishes ; at the same time 
 similar discussions were carried on in all parts of Spain, resulting 
 in the conversion of a number of allopathic physicians. 
 
 In 1878, the Homceopaihic Hospital and Institute of St. 
 Joseph was founded, with a full staff of lecturers. From 400 to 
 
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 600 patients are treated annually, chiefly acute cases of a serious 
 nature, and the Dispensary, which is thoroughly appreciated by 
 the poor of Madrid, treats 800 patients a month. The medical 
 school attached to the hospital had 43 students in 1885. 
 
 The Dispensary of the Madrid Homoeopathic Society treated 
 6,422 patients in 1885, and, in addition, nearly every homoeopa- 
 thic physician in Spain has a free Dispensary of his own. 
 
 The Marquis de Nunez died in 1879, but his old patrons, the 
 Royal family, have in exile always remained steadfast friends 
 of the homoeopathic cause. 
 
 At the present time there are 53 homoeopathic practitioners 
 in Madrid, and 41 in Barcelona and its vicinity, and in all the 
 Spanish dominions there are 600 homoeopathic physicians. 
 Homoeopathy has always held Cuba with very excellent physi- 
 cians, and Dr. Plana y Cunill y Castroverde, an avowed homceo- 
 path, was Dean and Eector of the University of Havana. Indeed, 
 in all the Spanish dominions, there is a curious absence of the 
 odium medicum so rife in English-speaking lands ; for example, 
 some years ago. Dr. Garcia Lopez, a well-known homoeopath, 
 was appointed Professor of Physiology in the University of 
 Salamanca. 
 
 I have been thus minute in detailing the history of Spanish 
 homoeopathy, because its history is that of our beneficent science 
 in all civilized lands. Everywhere the same furious opposi- 
 tion on the part of the physicians of the older school, 
 everywhere the same rapid yet abiding success, everywhere the 
 same triumphant success. Everywhere, too, the same strange 
 unity amidst every possible variety of nationality, and to-day 
 if six physicians, a Brazilian, a Russian, a Spaniard, a Hindoo, 
 an Englishman and a Canadian, were called on to prescribe for 
 the same cholera patient, Lhey would all give the same identical 
 remedy. 
 
 But, say the critics once more, homoeopathy may be suited to 
 the keen, incisive American mind and to the stately Spanish 
 intellect, but is it suited to, say, Asiatic peoples ? Let us turn to 
 India, with a national intellect probably inferior to the Persian 
 
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 and certainly inferior to the Japanese, and what do we find in 
 that vast realm with her ancient civilization and her almost 
 incomparable literature ? 
 
 There are to-day three mighty forces at work in Hindoostan, 
 namely, the christian religion, English law, and homceopathic 
 medicine. Christianity is everywhere victorious, and thjre are 
 now a million of native Christians wbeve forty years ago they 
 were counted by scores. Thus, in the province of Tinnivelli, 
 ■with a population of eighteen hundred thousand, the mission- 
 aries of the Church of England baptized sixty thousand converts 
 from heathendom in a single year. English law, too, stripped 
 of its cumbrousness, is rapidly superseding the antiquated 
 native systems of law. 
 
 I regret exceedingly that space fails me and that I cannot 
 now tell of the Indian homoeopathy, with its Calcutta School 
 of Homceopathic Medicine vfith its thoroughly educated native 
 lecturers, but one being a European ; of the excellent Calcutta 
 Journal of Medicine with its native editors and writers ; of 
 the rapidly growing homceopathic literature, including the best 
 treatises on cholera in any language ; of the numerous native 
 practitioners, many of them holding British qualifications ; of the 
 homoeopathic hospitals and dispensaries maintained by native 
 sovereigns and nobles, and of the very cordial reception given to 
 the evangel of healing by the vast native population. I would 
 like to tell, too, of the persistently hostile attitude of the allopa- 
 thic physicians and of the almost volcanic outbursts of profes- 
 sional jealousy, and when I write the Tract entitled " The 
 History of Homoeopathy" I will not overlook Hindostan. 
 
 I submit that the evidence I have adduced is sufficient to 
 prove that homoeopathy is permanent and will abide. 
 
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