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A Physicians will be furnished at the most reasonable rates. Terms invariably CASH ON DELIVERY. V t PREFACE. \^ y t In furnishing the public with Homeopathic remedies and directions for their use, it is but proper that I should state my motives for so doing. These are : Ist. A knowledge of the vast superiority of Homeopathy over the old system. 2nd. A very largo portion of the population of the Provinces are not within the reach of a Homeopathic physician, and if they employ the remedies, are obliged to depend upon such knowledge of them as they can acquire from books designed for domestic use. 3rd. Though there have been many works published for this purpose, they are so large and obscure, that they perplex and confound, rather than instruct and guide those not already pretty well instructed in medicine. The con- stant call is for something short and plain. 4th. All these large works are behind the actual knowledge of the present day in regard to medicines and the treatment of the most common diseases. A work is needed correspording to the present advanced state of medical knowledge. There will be found in this little work a considerable number of the most important remedies, not mentioned in any of the large works and now and important applications of several others. 5th. The reputation of Homeopathic remedies has become so general, and the demand for them so great, that this country, like other countries, is likely to become flooded with Homeopathic quackery under the name of "specific Homeopathic remedies," no one knows what they are but him who prepares them. When a bottle or box is exhausted, the owner has no resource but to send to the getter-up of these nostrums, or some of his agents, to get it re- plenished. The unfortunate example of this mode of quackery has been set by a medical man in New York, who did thereby forfeit his standing in the profession, and was very properly expelled from the American Medical So- ciety. His example is being followed by others who have a higher regard for their own pockets than their professional reputation or the interest of the public. AH reasoning persons will prefer to know what the medicines are which they use, and when one is exhausted be able to replenish it at any place where Homeopathic medicines are kept, and at the same time enjoy the prac- tical benefits of knowing what the remedies are which efiects cures of difiFerent diseases. Beside these considerations, any reasoning person by a moment's reflection, will be convinced how totally inadequate these specifics are to cure all diseases for which they are advertised, and how unsafe it must be to trust them. For example, take the " specific " for fever and inflammations. For fever' in children, whether brought on by worms, iraproper food, fatigue, IBB! / VI. teething, or what not, the same Bpeclfic fercr pills ftro prescribed. But the coramon sense and observation of mankind, teach them that all these different causes and forms of disease cannot be successfully treated by one remedy. But this is only a beginning of the nonsense. Look further. For measles, the fever pills ; for scarlet fever, the fever pills ; for congestion of the brain, fever pills; for inflammation of the brain, fever pills; for pleurisy and inllam- mation of the lungs, the same fever pills. And the same specific and nothing else for congestion of the chest, palpitation of the heart, inflammation of the bowels, bleeding from the lungs, vomiting of blood, &c. And it is much the same through the whole catalogue of the " Specific Homeopathy." If these specifics are appropriate for some of the diseases for which they are recom- mended, they must be totally inappropriate for ot..er8, for they are prescribed for diseases that are totally unlike each other, and thersfore reqiiire a totally different treatment. We have no hesitation therefore, in saying to tlio public that it is totally unsafe to trust to these specific remedies for the treatment of the various diseases for which they are prescribed, as much so as to trust to the 1000 other mixtures advertised to euro everything. The deficiencies and inconveniences of existing domestic works I propose to remedy, while the quackery is avoided. Those who use the remedies will know what they are nsing, will rapidly gain a knowledge of the properties and effects, and thus be acquiring a valuable medical knowledge. I do not aim to make accomplished physicians of the public, nor expect that every case of disease can be safely treated domestically. But I do know, from numerous examples of domestic practice, that a long catalogue of acute and serious diseases, as well as lighter disorders, will be treated much more safely and successfully by families, by following the directions here given, than they are treated by the very best drugging physicians. Nor is it my design to treat of every disease to which humanity is subject or to prescribe every remedy in the materia medica. But I shall give brief and unmistak- able directions for curing the great mass of the diseases of the country, con- sisting of nine-tenths of all the cases for which the physician is usually consulted, with remedies enough to meet these cases ; among which is a con- siderable number of most valuable and even indispensable remedies which are not yet in use even by Homeopathic physicians generally, particularly in Canada. It is greatly to be regretted that so many Allopathic physicians, (and not a few in the City of Montreal) are dabbling with Homeopathic reme- dies, and pretending that they can if they like practice Homeopathy where it is appropriate, as well as we, without any of the study or knowledge necessa- ry in order to use them with any success or credit to the system. There is, as a general thing no one more ignorant of the principle of Homeopathy than the Allopathic physician, and when by their bungling misapplication of these beautiful remedies, they fail of success, or, by giving them in Allopathic doses, do serious mischief, they pronounce Homeopathy not adapted to such cases. As well might a bungler, after spoiling a board and mangling his hand by attempting to use a saw, pronounce a saw not adapted to such pur- poses. In short my one great object in this issue of medicines with appro- priate directions, is to make known and extend the blessings of Homeopathy and Homeopathic remedies properly applied, by briagiag the eommUiiitT to a Vll. practical acquaintance with thera, and induce thoin to witness tlieir bonofi- cial oirccts under thoir own administration and oxporionco. Wo liojte tiiat many who have never used Homeopathic medicines will be induced to malce the trial. I am fully aware that many ithyuicians arc opposed to giving the public any information in regard to medicines or thoir uscb. One tuason they assign for this is, that it leads to quackery by having the practice of medi- cine in so many incompetent hands. Hut I think that the better the public are Informed in regard to the properlii-s and uses of medicines and the prin- ciples of tiieir administration, the better tlioy are guarded against quacks and (piackery which are already so prevalent. Others wish to compel the public to come to them for the cure of every ailment. But besides the fact that so many through the country are too far from the Homeopathic physician to avail tljemselves of such aid, we are of tho opinion that the mo;o self-reliant the public can bo in regard to the greatest earthly blessing, health, the better. If physicians cannot keep sufliciently in advance of the public to make their services desirable from their superior knowledge, let us choo33 some more needed occupation. This, witli some, might be necessary, but rot the true, faithful and well informed physician. I have no fears that tlie public will become so highly informed, that they will not need the counsel, and frequent- ly the watchful attentions of the true physician. But they can, with suitable directions and medicines, treat successfully a majority of the most common diseaaes for which it has usually been deemed necessary to call a physician, and there is no good reason why they should not. The boxes of medicinea, and the work accompanying it, are got up with a view to the greatest economy, being cheaper than any outfit of similar value that has ever been sold. It will not be deemed egotistic by those who know him, to say that this work is written, and the medicines selected and prepared under the super- vision of one who has devoted years to the study as well as to the practice of medicine, and who in hia intercourse with the best and most progressive physicians of the day, and in the performance of his duties, among a large and very intelligent and respectable class of patrons for the last four years in tlie city of Montreal, the reading of tho latest practical works, and the habi- tual proving of new remedies on himself and others, has anxiously labored to collect practical information and apply it to the treatment of the diseases. Having been long accustomed to the preparation of medicines for his own use, and that of others, the remedies may be relied on as the purest and beat that can be procured. Practical knowledge, of all other knowledge is the most to be depended upon. ^ INTRODUCTORY. In the short space of forty-five years we have achieved a triumph which bodes still more brilliant success. Now we have our own pharmaaies all over the civilized world ; the insignificant little band) who first listened to Hahneman's teachings, has increased to tens of thousands ; the most intelligent and influential members of every civilized community honor us with their confidence and esteem ; we boast of chartered institutions, dispensaries, hospitals, colleges ; we have reared this cradle for Homeopathy, where she reposes like the in- fant Hercules of old, preparing herself, under the care of guar- dians who, I trust, will ever be mindful of their sacred ofl&ce, for the period when, strong, majestic, radiant with the sun-like splendor of a divine truth, she will go forth in the irresistible might of her man- hood, to do buttle for the great good of humanity, and to combat the mischievous practices of infatuated professors of the healing art, until every vestige of destructive therapeutics shall have been wiped out on the f' ce of the globe, and a suffering brother shall no longer be poisoned with gall and wormwood, whereas his parched lips were thirsting for the sweet and life-quickening nectar which every sick man, woman, and child has an inalienable right to expect at the hands of those who profess to be restorers of health. Ours is a noble and sacred position. We are not simply teachers and students of medicine ; we are decidedly the professed advocates and promulgators of a medical doctrine which will revolutionize to its very foundation a time-honored system of therapeutics. The old landmarks of medicine will be forever removed by this new dispenser of healing powers ; the horrible tortures which the deceitful genius of man has contrived for the relief of the sick, and to which the vota- ries at the shrine of an unregenerate Esculapius still adhere, with all the unfeeling tenacity of incarnate fiends, are to be buried in the abyss of eternal oblivion ; a whole empire of medical Pride, Supersti- tion, Prejudice and Interest must be overturned, and a new temple of healing art must and will be founded upon God's great law: that, so far from a relation of antagonism existing between the disease and its remedial agent, on the contrary, unites itself with it, as it were, by some mysterious but inevitable process of attractive affinity, and gently hushes and removes the disturber, without leaving a trace of -mmmmmm^xmim'' 10 his painful presence. These are the objects of our endeavours; our pride is not centered in a creed ; our interests are those of suffer- ing man ; owr worship is the love of truth; ottr school is boundless nature; our teacher, Reason, fortified by observation and experience- If our aim is elevated, our responsibUity is correspondingly great.— We owe it to the public, and above all to our own consciences, that we should be right. As we claim the unsparing criticism towards our opponents, we certainly should exercise the strictest watchfulness over the developments which are going on in our own midst, and are presented to the world as integral portions of the homeopathic fabric. A candid, fearless and impartial examination of our own doings and teachings can only result in good to the cause of medical truth, and to the sick ; moreover we have become a power in the land ; we can afford to exhibit our weaknesses in broad daylight ; our strength will become more apparent and formidable ; and the sting of Satire which once threatened to poison the very life-springs of Homeopathy, is now as harmless as the prating of babes, or the vapid nonsense of learned sots. Most persons who have not given special attention to Homeo- pathy have very mistaken notions of it. It is very commonly thought to consist in giving small doses. If an Allopathic physician gives very small doses, it is thought by some that he is almost Homeo- pathic. This is a great mistake. One may give just as small doses as we do, and yet make no approach to being Homeo- pathic Homeopathy consists in treating disease according to a certain fixed law of cure. This law is expressed by the phrase «' Like cures like." The meaning of this phrase is, that a medicine m small doses will cure a disease, the like of which the same medicine will produce on a healthy person if given in large doses. The first inquiry, which we make, when called to treat a disease, is "what medicine will produce a disease like it in a healthy subject, if given in large doses. When we find such a remedy we give it with entire confidence of success, if the disease is a curable one. The correct- ness of this law any one can prove for himself (if not blind with pre- judice.) For example, after one has seen fevers cured in a few hours by Geleseminum in doses of one or 2 drops, let him test the correct ness of this law by taking, when he is well, 5 or 10 drops of the same remedy. If he is at all sensitive, hfe will find within 5 minutes that his pulse has from 10 to 15 or 20 fewer beats in the minute than it, had before ; he will feel more or less chilly and dull. This will soon be followed by heat, a quick pulse, flushed face, fullness and pain of the head, and prehaps pain of the back and limbs. In short 11 he will feel that he has a fever. Soon a prickling of the skin is felt, and a sweat breaks out, and after a few hours he is well again. Now it is just because Geleseminum jjrorfwccs a fever in /arjre doses, that it cures a similar fever in small doses. The first dose I ever took of this remedy when T was in prefect health, I knew that it would cure our prevalent fevers, as well as I know it now, after curing hundreds with it, becasue I knew that the law " like cures like," was a true and reliable law. This is the law that guides us in all our treat- ment of diseases. Every remedy prescribed in this book for particular diseases, is prescribed because it produces a similar disease. This is the secret of our great success in the most formidable and dangerous diseases, a success that often astonishes those who do not understand the secret. Allopathic physicians have no such law to guide them. The only law they have for treating diseases is, the " cut and try" law, or the law of experiment, and all their experiments are made upon the sick, and at their expense. Our experiments are made beforehand on the healthy, and we enter at once on the cure of the sick, while they are experimenting upon them. Ours is a certain science— theirs is an uncertain art. It will be readily seen that we cannot safely give large doses. If we did we should produce the diseases W3 now cure. The accuracy of this law is proved to a demonstration, and every one may satisfy himself of it, a layman as well as a physician, and if this is a true law, then the practice of Homeopathy is the true practice, and all others are false. A most intelligent clergyman was investigating the truth of this law and one day called and related the following case. Said he, " In my young days I was in the habit of drinking wine. I have a most vivid recollection of the bursting head-ache, the parched mouth, the burning thirst, the nausea and the prostration, the morning after a hard night's drinking. I awoke a few mornings since with all these feelings in a most distressing degree, though I nad drank nothing I related my feelings to my wife, saying that I felt exactly as if I had had a night's debauch on wine. She laughingly replied that a homeopathic dose of wine ought to cure sua. I thought it a good chance to tes:- jhe truth of the principle. I took two drops of wine in some water, and the eflFect was most remarkable, much more so than I had ever witnessed from a dose of medicine. In five minutes my mouth was moist, my thirst abated, my head-ache vanished, my strength returned, and in 15 minutes I was perfectly well." Here was a beautiful illustration of the law. A minute dose, 2 drops of wine, nsBSumm 1/ I i i ! \2 cured in a prompt and truly homeopathic manner, a formidable train of symptoms, like those produced by largo doses of the same ai-ticle though without having taken the article to produce the symptoms. This is equally true of all remedies. Tea produces, in those not accustomed to its use, anxiety, trembling, weakness and palpitation of the heart, yet every lady knows that tea in moderation, is an excellent remedy for these very symptoms. Allopathic medical authorities furnish a thousand examples which prove this law, though they do not understand it. Tobacco, according to all allopathic authorities both produces and cures, giddiness, nausea, trembling and weakness. Agaricus produces and cures epilepsy ; belladone both produces and cures delirium and head-ache ; ipecac and antimony produces and cures nausea and vomiting ; nitric acid, iodine and mercury produce and cure salivation and ulceration of ilic mouth. We might fill a volume with similar examples. Large doses produce diseases small ones cure diseases. It may seem strange to those who have not looked at the subject, that the same remedy should act in such con- trary directions, and produce and cure the same affections. It is nevertheless founded in nature and reason, which is more than can be said of most medical doctrines. As I am desirous that every man, woman, and child who read this book should know more of the philosophy of medicine than Allo- pathic physicians do, and be able to meet the arguments brought by them against Homeopathy, I propose to explain the philosophy of this Homeopathic law so that all will understand it. It is founded upon a law of life— a vital principle. My hands aro cold, and I plunge them in cold water or rub them in snow, and what is the result? In a few minutes they are glowing with warmth — This is not a freak of nature. Nature has no freaks. Her laws are uniform and universal, and this is a little examplo of one of her laws. Take another example! My hands are hot, and I plunge them into hot water, and after a few minutes expose them to the air they be- come cool. Take other aud varied examples : I burn my hand it is hot, red, and inflamed, and very painful. On Allopathic principles we should apply cold to remove this heat. And what would be the effect " Why, the heat and pain would be relieved for a short time, but the vital principle of reaction is aroused against it, and the hand soou beoomes more hot, red and painful than before. Hence experi- ence without a knowledge of the law, has taught the profession that cold application to a burn, though a comfortable temporary palliative, 13 ble train le article mptoius. loso not tation of 3xcellent .tliorities they do [ties both roakncss. uccs and ices and produce 5htfill a ses small bavc not uch con- i. It is m can be read this lan AUo- •ought by hy of this hands ara and what ^armth. — laws are ■ her laws. them into ' they be- hand it is principles lid be the ihort time, I the hand ace experi- 3Ssion that palliative, is a very bad curative. But adopt an opposite treatment, and apply a heating stimulant, as alcohol, or spirits of turpentine. The vital principle reacts against this also, and in a short time, the heat, pain and inflammation subside, a comfortable coolness follows and the burn is soon cured. A restless patient is put to sleep on opium, but on the following night he is more restless and sleepless than before. We might give a thousand examples of a similar character. This will enable us to understand two universal and most important and practical laws of the action of remedies which the community should understand, if physicians do not. Such an understanding will do away ,with an immense amount of all pervading and mis- chievous quackery. Ut Law. Every medicine produces two directly opposite effects in the order of time : the first, the primary and transient effect ; the second, the secondary and more permanent one. To illustrate this law by an example, a patient takes a cathartic or a laxative. Its first or primary effect is, to stimulate the intestines to unusual, unnatural activity ; so much so that he has, during its action, a medicinal diarrhoea. But this effect is transient, lasting only a few hours. Then comes the secondary effect, which is exactly the opposite, viz. :— unusual and unnatural inactivity and torpor, producing constipation. Another illustration : opium or morphine is given to allay pain and procure rest and sleep. This purpose is an- swered by its primary effect ; but this soon ceases, and then comes the opposite or secondary effect ; that is, increased sensibility, rest- lessness, and sleeplessness, and this is increased with every dose. What is true of those two remedies is true of all others. Yet this is the strange principle on which all Allopath^! prescriptions are made ; that is, to get the primary effects of medioiL ;, which, if good, are at best but very brief, and are soon followed by the opposite effect, which, of course, must be bad. Everybody is familiar with the fact that m^?!- titudes of persons, after treatment, are left with lasting ruinous medical diseases, after Allopathic treatment, though the medicines may have done them temporary good. If the public were thoroughly acquaint- ed with this law, they would never tolerate another dose of Allopathic medicine for themselves or their families. If the physician should prescribe a laxative or cathartic to remove constipation, the better informed patient would say to him something like this : — *' My dear sir, as I understand the laws of cure, your dose would give me 14 .;lii II if transient relief by its primary effect, but the secondary effect will be just the reverse and wUl be lasting, so that I shall get only tempo- rary relief at the expense of a lasting aggravation of the very diffi- culty from which you propose to relieve me. I really cannot afford to pay such a price for so small a benefio." And the same reasoning applies equally to every Allopathic prescription for every disease. 2nd Law. But there is another law equally practical and equally important viz. -.—All medicines produce two exactly opposite effects according'.o quantity; that is, small and large doses produce pre- cisely opposite effects. So far is it from being true, that if a small dose will do a little good, a large one will do more the truth is, that if a small dose does good, a large one wiU certainly do mischief, for the effects of the two are just the opposite of each other. For example, a small dose of opium produces wakefulness and exhilaration, while a large dose produces stupor iind sleep. Small doses of rhubarb, mercury, and other cathartics, allay irritability of the bowels and cure diarrhoea and dysentery ; but the large doses, everybody knows, produces pre- cisely opposite effects. Very small doses of ipecac and emetic tartar allay irritation of the stomach, and stop vomiting and cholera mor- bus ■ but large doses produce irritation and vomiting. The one is the 'disease-curing, the other the disease-producing effect. Guided by this law, the physician will so administer his medicines as to secure the 'disejise-curing effect, and avoid the disease-producing effect Patients well-informed will be wise enough to refuse a pre- scription made in violation of this law. But the Allopathic physician always aims to get the primary or disease-producing effect. He knows nothing of treating disease by any other method. A wise patient will say to a physician who prescribes for him a large dose of medicine, (and all Allopathic doses are large, though they may call them small,) " Sir, I consulted you for the purpose of being cured, and you offer me a drug in a dose that will make me sick. The law of cure as I understand it, makes it no part of the business of a physician to produce disease, but his exclusive business to cure it. The time is past when the appropriate inscription on a physician's sign was a ' disease manufactory,' and the proper title of t pro- fession, < The Destructive Art of Healing.' I must insist on your treating me in harmony with the now well-known law of cure, or I must take the treatment into my own hands, or consult some one better informed." We can now understand the reason of the law, ''like ernes likeV 15 will be tempo- ry diffi- )t afford sasoning tasc. equally e effects ice pre- a small I is, that ', for the ample, a , while a nercury, iiarrhoea ices pre- bic tartar era mor- B one is Guided les as to iroducing 36 a pre- physician ■ect. He A wise ;e dose of r may call Qg cured, The law iness of a cure it. )hysician's ' t^ pro- 1 on your cure, or I some one we& like.*' We see a patient laboring under symptoms like those produced by large doses of belladona. This, then, must be the appropriate remedy, because in small doses it produces symptoms exactly the opposite of those produced by large doses, and, of course, the opposite of those under which the patient labors, and establishes an opposite effect ; that is, in other words, cures the disease. Is not this law of cure, then, founded in nature, and does it not commend itself to our reason and common sense ? And when we see our remedies in small doses prescribed according to this law, perform such wonderful cures, is it not just what we ought to expect ? We always know why we give any certain remedy, and know what the effects will be, for we have tried them all in large doses on the healthy, and understand their properties. How different is it with the Allopathic physician. Let us see how he learns to treat a disease. He takes up, for ex- ample, the study of fever with a view of preparing himself to treat it. He reads in his books that one physician recommends cold affusions, and another disagrees with him and thinks them dangerous. One advises wine, and another insists that the patient should have only cooling drinks. Many prescribe Peruvian bark or Quinine, and others object to these remedies as hurtful. Some recommend a free use of cathartics, and others warn the young physician against their use. Some recommend opiates, others think them dangerous. And so on to the end of the chapter, almost every remedy in the Materia Medica being recommended by some and repudiated by others. Thus furnished, the physician goes forth to take the lives of the pub- lic in his hand, at full liberty, under high medical authority, to em- ploy just what remedies he pleases, and sadly puzzled to make a choice. During all his practice, he never has a glimpse of any law to guide him in his perilous work. The best reason he can give for prescrib- ing any of his drugs is, that somebody thinks that ho has found it useful, without knowing why, in cases that seem similar. It is an unmitigated system of guess work and life and death experiment upon the sick and suffering. How different it is with Homeopathy ! When we see a patient with the symptoms of an ordinary fever, we give Gelseminum, because we have taken it ourselves, beforehand, while in health, and know that it produces just that train of symp- toms, and therefore know that it will cure them, and we are not dis- appointed. In another form of fever re give Tart, for the same reason, and with the same result. We always know lohy wq give a remedy, because we have a clear and unmistakable law to guide us. "Wg h^ye constantl'" new diseases or old diseases nuttinsr on np.w . 1 16 forms. We are prepared for them beforehand. Every Homeo- pathist knew years before cholera appeared in this country, that camphor, arsenicum and veratrum, would cure it, because these remedies had been proved on the healthy, and found to produce symptoms, like those of cholera. And when cholera appeared, we treated it with the most triumphant success in nearly all the impor- tant places in the United States. "While Allopathic physicians were experimenting, and their patients dying ; and they are still experi- menting on this and all other diseases. Even now, after so many years of experimenting, they cannot save half the proportion of patients that Homeopathists saved the very first year of its appearance. It is strange that a man, with any feeling of humanity, should not be anxious to diffuse a knowledge of a system of medicine possessing so many advantages, and so full of blessings to the sick ? I have no hesitation in assuring the public that any man or woman of ordinary sense, however little knowledge they may haVe of medicine, who will lake into their family a case of medicine, and apply them in every" case of disease that occurs in the family, or in the neighbourhood, according to the direction contained in this work, will on the whole, be more successful, — will cure a larger proportion of diseases and cure them quicker than any Allopathic physician in the country. He will sometimes meet with cases that areob^oureand difl&cult, which he will not find described, and which none but a physician will under- stand. Such disease none but a physician should prescribe for. Finally, I feel certain that if the public mind of the provinces of British North America can become imbued with the doctrines of Homeopathy, and generally adopt it in practice, it will be the most effectual remedy for the now all-prevalent and destructive practice of drugging, bleeding &c., &c., and be a vast saving of life and health. Try it, and then decide on its merits. Try it I say ! and thereby save your time, your money, and your health, and may be your life. Time is money ; you have not the leisure in these busy times for the calomel, salts, and senna of our ancestors. Your function is altogether to rapid for such rust as this to come into it. None but gentlemen of fortune and consummate indolence have a right to these experiments. There is an anecdote which I have always found very prophetic on this score, of Earl Howe, I think ; who feeling himself one day indisposed while in his cabin, and living as he did before the days of Hahnemann, incontinently took a black draught. He gave himself up to be useless for the next three days. Suddenly a strange sail hove in sight, perhaps in ! :, ■:jI 17 Homeo- ry, that se these produce ired, we 3 impor- ina were expcri- 30 many )rtion of jeArance. )uld not ossessing [ have no ordinary who will in every )ourhood, he whole, lascs and a try. He which he 11 under- ribe for. yinces of trines of the most I practice ■life and say! and I may be hese busy •s. Your e into it. ince have i I have Howe, I his cabin, ntinently s for the , perhaps many strange sails, and rapidly came nearer. He was summoned on deck, saw a likelihood of work, ran straight to the side of the ship, exclaimed " this will never do," put his finger down his throat, and shot the black draught into the sea. This admiral is here a mythos of Canada and Allopathy. And looking from the hint of him, I know that, as the Canadas gets busier and busier, it will spew the old dog-trot system out of its mouth. The time has come ; the industrial iron is becoming hotter and hotter ; our duties increase with every morning that we rise from our beds ; the enemy of inac- tion is in sight ; and Neptune is waiting over the Canadian bulwarks for Old Physic ; let him have it. I never could participate in the fear that I have seen exhibited by some in this city of Old Physic. It would be impossible for me to harbor such fear without losing all feeling of manliness. Changes from a great demand for an article, to a small, take place gradually ; there is always warning enough for the wise : and the result is most welcome and wholesome, inasmuch as the enterprise is created every time a new direction is given to skill, by the cessation of an old de- mand and the rising up of a new one. I do indeed believe that when Homeopathy comes to be universal, (and that day is not far distant), and the thousands become informed, and get all the good out of it that the best knowledge will admit, fewer doctors will be required, and those few will be rather physicians with insight, than men of routine, (for the mothers will have nearly all the routine) ; but then in the social expansion which goes along with this, how many new callings will come into being ; what ready ways of making money there will be when once honest enterprise grows more freely in the human heart ; and how little will a loss of function be regret- ted by vigorous men, when they see that function admirably per- formed by fathers and mothers in every house. There is something pusillanimous in the wail that is often heard from medical practi- tioners : — " Oh, dear, there is that shocking Mrs. Goodsoul, who is cutting the ground from under my feet with her ' minable little Home- opathic box and book." Why, my man, you have no spirit, you are on no ground of your own, or no such person could have interfered with you. Rely upon it, there is nothing less wholesome to the morality of a profession than to have a number of good-for-nothing idlers in its ranks, people that could be done without. A word to the Homeopathic practitioners. Gentlemen, let us revert aerain and ae-ain to the rnvsterimis ^• c .irfifls 18 b i' f m I which create both drugs and diseases ; revert to the law winch unites them into one, and by this union, frees the organisms from the pres- ence of the ininucul a-ont ; admire the great unity of God's govern, ment, which regulates the treatment of disease by the same law tliat shapes the animalcules of Nature into forms of beauty, causes the ac- tivity of the mind to gravitate towards kindred subjects, leads the worm to its food, and preserves the matchless harmony of worlds. Gentlemen, I feel that we are co-workers in a great cause— the cause of suffering man ; it is not personal gain, it is the love of truth that should ever stimulate our hearts ; we are commissioned tore- deem our fellow-creatures from the suffering which disease and the cruel genius of barbarous systems of treatment have inflicted upon them. Banded together for this noble end, God will be with us ; may He enlighten our path, and may the genius of love guide us to the temple of exalted and stainless manhood ! For my own part, I feel a deep interest in all that pertains to the good of mankind. And with this feeling in my heart, I can but desire to render, if possible, a service, by placing before the mass of the people, this beautiful science of the art of healing upon the prin- ciple of similia similibus curantur. There is a sacred precept, the purport of which is : " Let your light shine on the housetops, do not hide it under a bushel ! " And this precept is emphatically applica- ble to this beautiful art of healing. To keep the light of medical truth shut out from the popular mind is to ignore the spirit of this good precept, and to totally disregard the signs of the times. Old dogmatisms are fast flitting out of sight before the rismg sun of truth, and we shall never again bow to the mystic conclave of be- wigged and bepowderod pedants. For one, I am determined to use my endeavors to cause the bright and humane star of Homeopathy to shine in the palaces of the rich and the great, and the cottages of the poor and the lowly. The day is fast approaching when that arrogant spirit of professionally associated learning, which assumes the monopoly of all that is truly known of medicine, and the privileges and right of making all changes and discoveries in medical art and science wUl pass into oblivion and be known only among the things that have been. The day is near when the spirit which refuses to see and hear, and consider and treat respectfully all truth, by whatever man dis- covered—from whatever source it may proceed, will be condemned by all intelligent minds. What reflecting mind will not consider the spirit which makes a man a Loud-siaYe to a system devised hy man, ti i 19 1 unites 10 prcs- <«;ovorn. xvf tiiat I the ac- ids the rids. ISO — the of truth id to ro- and the ed upon vith us ; de us to IS to the can but 3 mass of the prin- sccpt, the )S, do not y applica- f medical •it of this rismg sun ave of be- the bright fthc rich sirly. The ifessionally at is truly all changes blivion and and hear, r man dis- idemned by insider the ».l T cu MV uiau, and whose proaiincnt olfcut is to orouto raoic revereace for uuthuiity than for truth ! r condemn the spirit which mt» learning above wisdom and common sense. I consider that I have a right to condemn the spirit which, in effect, binds men to a blind, unreasoning routine, and forbids their entrance into the tield of intelligent, rational experiment. Or the spirit which makes medical heterodoxy a social crime, to be punished by social proscription. I condemn the spirit which is the principal hindrance to the development of the noblest, most useful, and most important of all the arts. Well do I know what my opponents will say to all this, but 1 shall take no heed of their croaking about quackery, such croaking is only the silly twaddle of impotent fools in the place of argument. List of Remedies in pull Family Cask. Slrenjfth. NaM1£8. Strength. Contraction. 1 Acoiiitum nap. tinct. Aeon. 2 2 Agiiricua nius. pellets. 2 Agar. 3 2 Ainbrn ^riaia, tk 2 Amb. 4 3 Ammonium curb. trit. 3 Am. c. A 3 Apis mellilica, pet. 3 Apis. 6 3 Arum trypliyl, trit. 8 Arum. 7 2 Arnica mout. tinct. 2 Am. 8 3 Arsenicum alb. pel. 3 Ars. 9 3 Atropine. 41 3 Atrop. 10 2 Uelladonnn, (i 2 Bell. 11 3 Balsam copaiva, Bryonia alba, Co endulH, C( 3 Bals. cop. 12 3 (1 3 Bry. Calend. 13 tinct. 14 3 Calcarea carb. pel. 3 Calc. 15 3 Cantharides, ii 3 Canth 16 3 Caiilophyllin, trit. 3 Caul. 17 3 Chamomilla, pel. 3 Cham. 18 3 Ciiina, Coccu.us, a 3 China. 19 3 .( 3 Coc. 20 2 Colocynth, (( 2 Coloc. 21 3 Croton tiglium c; 3 Crot. 22 2 Dulcamara, (1 2 Dulc. 23 3 Ferrum met. It 3 Fer. 24 Gelseminum, tinct. Gels. 26 6 Glanderine, pel. 6 Gland. 26 3 Graphites, u 3 Graph. 27 1 Hamamelis virginica, tinct 1 Ham. 28 3 Hopur siilphuris. pel. 3 Hep. 29 1 Hydrastis Canadensis, tincl. 1 Hydraa. 30 3 Ignatia, pel. 3 igr. 31 2 Ipecacuanha, (( 2 Ka\. hyd. 32 3 Kali hydriodicum. u 3 33 3 Leptandrin. trit. 3 Lept. iiob. 34 2 Lobelia inflala, pel. 2 35 3 Macrotin, trit. 3 Mac 36 3 Mercurius Corros, pel. 3 Merc. cor. 37 3 Mercuriu.s solub. ii 3 Merc. sol. 38 3 Nux vomica, (t 3 Vax. 89 2 Phosphorus, (( 2 Phos. 40 3 Phosphoric acid, (( 3 Phos. ac. 41 3 Podophyllin, trit. 3 Pod. 42 2 Pulsatilla, pel. 2 Puis. 43 2 Rhus tox. it 2 Rhus. 44 3 Sepia, CC 3 Sep. 45 3 Sauionine, trit. 3 Sant. 46 3 Sulphur. pel 3 Sulph. t^ 3 Sulphuric acid, (( 3 Sulph.ac. 48 3 Spongia, (C 3 Spong. 49 2 Tartar Stib. trit. 2 Tart. 60 2 Veratrum alb. pel. 2 Verat. 30 Case of 32 of tub moht imimhitant Rkmeivieh. Ai'Kiiitiim. Atnhra gm. Amnion. Curb. Aniicu, ArRniiioiiiDt Atrnpiuo. Hflladonna. Urvoiiia. CiiIcikIiiId. Ciiulii|ihylii>i. ChKiiioniilla. ('olocyiilli, Duluiiiiinrii. (icliieiniiiiiiii. llHIMIIinoli*, Ilytlra*!!". n '2i •i3 i* Iprriir. K»ll. Ih. iMiicriiiiii. Mt-ro. Cor. Merf, "ol. Niix vom. lMic>»|)horu«. 35 •iti 21 as •i9 30 31 3'i rodopliylliii. I'uliBiil.n. IthiiH, tox. .Stllptl. Sul|iliiiric acid. H|Miii){ia. Tiirinr. Virniruni. Case of Remedies not found in most Pomesxio Woukb or Oases. 1 Ambra. 2 AgarioiiH. 3 Aininoiiium carb. 4 Aruiiii 1 Arnica. 2 Arsenicum. 3 Uelladoniia. Atropiiifi. lialN. Cop. Caloiubda. Cuulophylli". 9 10 It 12 (Itilxotiiiiiiim. (iluiidtTiiif. llniiiaiiK'lis. llydruvlin. 13 U Ifi 1.1'piandriii. MnLTotiii. IVxb'phylliii. tjantniiiiiu. Travelling Cases. 4 Colocyiiih. n (ieUeminuni. 6 Merc. cor. 7 Niix vom. 8 I'hoKpboru*. g I'(Hlopli)iliii. 10 Veruirum. «6 60 60 Remedy CoBCs and Book, "g ^^j 82 '• " '• ,■..",■.■■. 300 16 " " " ; 20O 10 " " " The ca.e.«f 16 remedies contain iho.e that arc not usually found in d«n,c,sl.c book. NB -While takins the homeopathic remedie., .he patient .hould aMain fr"'" ";•;«*•" ^^•T„ariicte.lmving medicinal properties, either in the form of drug», herb dr nks or ;:::at;,rpS^^^^^^^ ,he habit is not incorrigible, from green tea, coffee and tobacco. PROFESSIONAL NOTICE. Dr TItley gives special attention to chronic and difficult diseases, includinK that numerous class requiring the use of electricity for a peedy and permanent cu.e. On receiving full and particular written descriptions of disease, vrt)^ a fee of $3.00 for the medicines, an opioicm of the case, rh>. • detnll^d prescription and necessary remedies will be returu.d. 0...S from the country will have a critical examination and tv.escviption, with necessary remedies, or from 1 to 3 dollars for ordinary cases: special diseases 5 to $10. Persons remaining in the city will be attended on reasonable terms. Thougb he cannot oft^n leave his business in the city to attend patients at a distance, he may make consultation visits when required. Consultation and advice free to all. N B -Particular attentioa paid to female diseases. Dr. Utley can furnish frfat many references to cases of long standing, that were thought to be Icurabre that he has treated with perfect success in the city of Montreal and its vicinity. «-r nn T. -1 J« Qt-^nni nnr\nairs\ tnP. HftV- Office at his House mo. Zu. rwaucguuuc ....-.., ..^.^ ^ market, Beaver Hall, Montreal, C. E. lylliii. lln. tox, rio aciil. B. (iin. Oases. idriii, liii. tyllin. liiiu. rum. S(i 00 6 10 3 00 2 00 uk«. in nil other ■1) driiikHor , and when diseases, ity for a r written lines, an leoessary 1 have a dies, for 5 to $10. e terms. ;o attend required. ;an furnish light to be ' Montreal the Hav- I'KACTICAL HOMEOPATHY rot THI I'KOPLH OV TUI gtitissfc §a«tb 3^nuviatt fv0viu^^ss. FEVEUS. In a work like this it would bo worse than useless to treat of fevers under the various and numerous names by which they arc called in medical books. I shall rof;;ard all fevers as one disease, with a number of varieties, and give the treatment for the principle different forms it assumes. The great majority of fevers in this country are bilious, or bilious remittent, because they give evidence of bilious disorder, or disordered action of the liver, and have a remission every twenty-four hours ; that is, a period during which the fever is less. This usually occurs in the morning. This furm of fever, after some days or hours of languor, loss oF appetite, and perhaps nausea, headache and feeling of fatigue, makes its attack by a chill more or less severe, pain in the head, back and limbs, restlessness, a feeling of weakness, bad taste of the mouth and coated tongue. Its course will depend on the treatment. Under the physioing and drugging treatment its course is generally pro- longed for several weeks ; often assuming at a late stage, a low, typhoid form, and is not unfrequently fatal. After the chilly stage is over, which may be from one or two to six or eight hours, it is followed by a dry heat, continual headache, restlessness, loss of appetite, more or less thirst, and a general feeling of severe sickness. The tongue becomes more coated, with a dirty white or yellowish colour, the pulse is frequent, often from 100 to 120 in the minute. Towards morning, some remission comes on, and per- haps there is a slight moisture of the skin, the pains are less, and the patient sleeps more quietly. This is repeated from day to day. Sometimes the tongue is dry and of a browner colour in the middle. The edges and tips are sometimes red, and sometimes the whole surface of the tongue. III iM 22 This form of fever, if woU drugged ucording to ihe usual Allotm- thic practice, as I said, i8 usually prolonged for several wcK^ks I no mcJicme is given, if the patient entirely abstauis iron, iood a.id .ratifies his thirst with water otdy, and if the surface is washed ire- ouently whenever the skin is hot and dry, and the room kept well aired the fever will generally bo ended in from seven to nine days. But inder good Ilomoopathio treatment, it is usually cured lu a few hours, and when this fails in less than a week. TREATMENT. In the early or chilly stage, put a few drops of (JeU, in a tumbler and add an equal number of spoonfuls of water, and give a spoonful every half hour till the chill ceases, and perspiration is produced or the pains and fever subside. Then stop it as long as the improve- ment continues. As soon as the symptons begin to return, renew it. In a majority of cases the first dose stops the chill within 15 or 20 minutes If the first dose does not produce the effect, increase it to 2 3 or 5 drops, for there is a great difference in the (luautity required by different persons. In many cases i orajdrop is Bufficient. After a free perspiration is thus produced the pains subside and the patient goes to sleep, and when ho awakes, is con- scious that his fever "is broken up." It is important that this treatment should be adopted in the early stage of the attack. I have cured within the past 5 years, hundreds of oases of fever with this remedy alone, in a few hours. This is applicable to all f.vers that come on with a chill and pains as above described, whether catarrhal, or from a sudden check of perspiration, bilious, typhoid, or rheumatic. When these symptoms are present, Geh. is the remedy. If t.ie treatment is not commenced till a later period, it will often succeed, and should be tried as the first remedy, but there is much less certainty of success. But it need not be continued over one day it it is not obviously doing good. More fevers will be cured by this one remedy than by all the Allopathic drrgging treatment m the worlu. Another form of fever comes on slowly and almost imparceptibly without pain and with only a feeling of languor or fatigue and aversion to auy effort. The mind is dull and the tongue either merely coated or it is more or less red at the tips and edges, or it is dry and brownish through the middle. In these cases, if not soon relieved by G^efe. give Tart. Stib. (4 grains in a gill of water,) in teaspoonful doses every three hours and continue it for some days. ?J UUCZ Vlil-.: t|,p.rft will generally bo after tho first 24 hours, a daily 23 Allooa- ks. "if od lunl ud Iro- pt well c duys. )d iu a tumbler spoonful lucod or tuprove- •cnew it. 5 or 20 case it to (juautity drop is lio pains 1, is con- bhat this c. I have with this ?ers that catarrhal, loumatic. . If the succeed, auoh less ne day if y this one the world, larceptibly tiguo and ;ue either 33, or it is 'not soon water,) in ome days, rs, a daily abatement, and the fovcr will subside in a few days. If there is slcoplossncss, delirium or headache, give, besides, a dose of Bell^ three times a day. In fevers in which the bilious symptoms are most prominent, such as a yellow tongue, bitter taste, feeling of full nes or tenderness in the region of the liver, along the edges of the lower ribs on the right side, and pit of the stomach, costiveness, or bilious diarrhea, high colored urine, and feeling of nausea at the stomach, Leptandrin and Podo- phyllin are the remedies; one may bo given alone, or both alternately three hours apart. Doses 2 or 3 grains dissolved in a gill of water, a teaspoonful. If the fever has assumed a low, typhoid character, with delirium, great weakness, dry lips, which, with the teeth, are covered with a dark Cius^, twitching of the tendons and picking at the bod-clothes, give Ars. and Bell, or An. and llydrastiSf 3 hours apart. Und'^r this treatment, very few fevers will remain one week. In all severe fevers it is of great importance to have I'resh air passing frequently over a patient's bed to carry off the effluvia that Is con- stantly arising from the body. It has long been obsorved in hos- pitals, that patients with fevers did not do as well who were placed in a corner where a current of air could not pass over them. The whole surface should be sponged over several times a day with water, of a temperature to bo agreeable to the feelings of the patient. Once a day there may be a little saleratus, or soda, or ley from ashes added to the water. During the continuance of the fever there should be total abstinence from food, except water-gruel, rice-water, barley-water, or similar things made very thin for a drink, and even these had better be omitted for several days and only water given. The linen and bed-clothes should be changed daily. The patient should be kept entirely quiet, undisturbed by noise, and especially by con- versation, and the room should be cool and not disagreeably light. After recovery commences, if the bowels are costive, give a dose of Nux Vomica every night. INTEEMITTBNT FEVER — AQDE — CHILL FEVER. TREATMENT. During the chill and the fever, give Gels, as above. During the intermission, if there is bilious derangement, such as coated tongue, impaired appetite, headache, and feeling of illness, give Ipecac and Pod. alternately every one or two hours ; or Ipecac and Nux Vomica for a man, and Ipecac and Puis, for women and children. Within a rMv^-r.KnrAvf-i'^gimm* 24 I W I! if J.! ', few days, by this treatment, the di^ )raered state during the inter- mission will generally subside, and the patient will feel tolerably well except during thft chill and fever. Then, if the chills and fever con- tinue, give, during the intermission, Arsenicuvi every three or four hours. But few cases will continue many days under this treatment, unless complicated with other disorders. Many cases that have been treated for months with Quinine, will be cured by this simple course in a few days. I am perfectly convinced that Quinine has done infinitely more mischief than the ague would have done if left entirely to itself It undoubtedly stops the chill and the fever temporarily, but there are only two symptoms of a general disease added to it. Thousands have thus cured an ague a dozen times in the course of a season, which, after all, still remained, in an aggravated and more dangerous form than the first. If Ars. fails to cure it in a few days, give China in the same manner. SCARLATINA — SCARLET FEVER. This comes on with many of the symptoms of other fevers. After a short time, the pulse becomes very quick— often, in children, 120 to 140 in the minute. The skin is hotter than in any other disease. The scarlet eruption comes out over the body on the second day, but may be seen in thickly-scattered red spots or points over the tongue on the first day. The excess of fever often produces deli- rium. There is usually some soreness of the throat. This is the simplest form of the disease and the mildest. TREATMENT. Aconite and Bell, are the chief remedies, alternated every two or three hours. Whenever the skin is very hot and dry, it should be frequently bathed all over with water of a temperature to suit the feel- ings of the patient. This, if frequently done, in a remarkable degree dtaiinishes the fever and quiets the nervous irritability. After a good bathincr the patient will frequently recover from delirium, become quiet Tnd fall asleep, while the pulse falls from 10 to 20 in the minute. I have practiced this bathing in this disease, frequently with cold water, for the last five years. The fear that it will make the eruption " strike in," is totally without foundation. A chill shoixld, of course, be avoided. SCARLATINA — ANGINOSA. This is a more severe form of the disease, in which soreness and swelling of the XT i. « »-.«riTninanf atrTrmfi^m. The thrOat IS 25 e inter- ,bly well sver con- 5 or four eatment, ave been [e course ely more self. It here are housands a season, [angerous ve China rs. After dren, 120 sr disease, jond day, over the luces deli- lis is the ry two or should be it the feel- ble degree ■tera good m, become 20 in the frequently ) will make . A chill )reness and 5 throat is swollen inside and out. Swallowing is painful and difficult. If the inner surface of the throat is examined, it will be found red, inflamed, and often covered with a membrane, in patches of a dirty white, or ash, or yellowish color. The fever is high and the pulse quick. There is more prostration of strength than in the simple form, and more pains. TREATMENT. Aconite and Bell are still the remedies in the early stage, alter- nated every hour. If ulcers appear in the throat, or it is much swollen, omit the Aeon, and give Bell, and Merc. Cor. for men, or Merc. Sol. for women and children. If the throat remains ulcerated for some days, after the fever has somewhat subsided, omit these remedies and give Hydrastis (ten drops in a gill of water) in teaspoonful doses every two hours, and gargle the throat after each dose, with a wash of the same, 20 drops to a gill of water. I have recently seen some beautiful effects from the ubqo^ Hy- drastis in cases where the throat was badly ulcerated. MALIGNANT SCARLATINA. This is "I more dangerous form of the disease. The prostration of strength is much greater, the pulse weak and quick, the throat dark red and ulcerated, there is an extremely bad fetid breath, the nostrils are often excoriated or raw with a fetid, acrid discharge, and there is a tendency to gangrene of the throat, and general sinking. TREATMENT. When the symptoms appear, give several doses of Ammonium Carh.f 3 grains in a gill of water, teaspoonful every hour. This will frequently change the dark threatening color of the throat, and other corresponding symptons in a short time. Follow this with Hydrastis as above, for a gargle, and give Ars, every two or three hours. Most of the cases, even of malignant scarlet fever will be cured by this treatment. T need not say how hopeless they are with the common treatment. In the worst forms of the disease, with obstinate tendency to gan- grene, if other remedies fail, Glanderine should be given every hour or two. It is said, on good authority, " In terrible cases of scarla- tina, where the odor of the breath is putrid, and the mouth and throat are filled with tenacious mucus, while the swollen tonsils close the throat, this remedy alone, seems capable of rescuing the patient." .J^%^*i*/^<^^? ili! ! ! 26 In all malignant and gangrenous ulcerations, it is a remedy of great 'X treatment given for this disease in ^ts xnalignant form is eauallv applicable to the disease which has appeared m several parts Jt^e'unL States, under the name of ''^lack tongue/ or ^^^^^^^ nant Erysipelas. For dropsy, that sometnnes follows Scarlatina, Ars. every four hours. MEASLES. This comes on with languor, a coarse, harsh cough watery eyes, and fever, with pains in the limbs, headache and chiUness The eruption appears about Lhe fourth day, but before this it may be seen on the roof of, the mouth and throat. The remedy from the first is Gels, but in smaller doses than in fever-three drops m a turn- bier half-full of water, a teaspoonful every one or two hours, till the fever subsides. If the cough should remain troublesome, Bry,, Puis or Phos,, every two or three hours. The fever accompanying the Measles cannot be at once "broken up," like other fevers, but can be greatly moderated during its course by Gels., and the erup- tion under its use is often trifling. If there is troublesome dry cough, or nausea, or diarrhea, give Ipecac. ERYSIPELAS. This disease consists in a diffused, rather dark redness of the ski^n, with itching, burning fever; it appears in these forms, the simple, vesicular, and phlegmonous. , . .^ . „,„„„ It often appears about the face and head, and is then a dangerous disease. ' TREATMENT. In the simple form, consisting of a simple diffused redness without great swelling. Bell, alone, or alternately with Aconite, is sufficient Ly two, three, or four hours. In the vesicular form, that is when blis4s rise on the inflamed skin, if it is on the face and head Bell, and Bhus. If on other points, the same, or Rhus, and Graph. In phlegmonous form, that is, when the pain is deep-seated, and inflam- mation extends beyond the skin, into the parts beneath, with a good deal of swelling and severe pain, the two last remedies are good, but Apis. met. is probably the most reliable remedy. It may be given alone, or alternated with Bell, or Rhus, every two or three hours. RHEUMATISM. I need not occupy space in describing this common disease, as every one recognizes it. 27 ■ great form, is il parts • malig- rlatina, iry eyes, s. The r be seen the first a turn- till the le, Bry,i ipanying vers, but he erup- ome dry the skin, 3 simple, iangerous 3S without suflBcient t is, when lead, Bell, raph. In ,nd inflam- ith a good good, but J be given ! hours. «e, as every TREATMENT. If it is attended with severe pain, redness and swelling and fever, especially if it comes on rather suddenly with chills, give Gels. By keeping up a perspiration with this for a short time, the disease will frequently be terminated. If not, give Aeon, and Bell, alternately every two or three hours ; when inflammation has become somewhat diminished, give Mac, two grains every two or three hours, and con- tinue it as long as it is obviously doing good, or Bry. and Puis, one hour apart. If there is profuse perspiration which does not relieve, but only weakens the patient, as sometimes occurs, in this disease, give Merc. Cor. for men, or Merc. sol. for women and children, every two or three hours till this state is corrected. This treatment will cure a majority of cases quicker than they are usually cured, but there are chronic and complicated cases of Rheumatism, which require skill and experience. If the disease has been of long standing, electricity becomes indispensable to accom- plish a cure. NEURALGIA — PAIN OP A NERVE. The locality of this disease is various, and wherever located is very distressiua:. One side of the face or head is a very common lo- cation. It occurs most frequently in feeble and nervous females. TREATMENT. A majority of the cases will be promntly relieved by Gels., but it sometimes requires to be given in pretty large doses, repeated every half hour till the pain is relieved. Aeon, in drop doses of tincture, and a wash of equal parts of the same and water, applied over the painful nerve is often equally effectual, but if any feeling of numbness is produced, it should at ones be stopped. The disease usually consists of paroxysms with intervals of ease- During the intervals, give Ars. every two or three hours. If connected with disordered menstruation or other female difficul- ties, Mac. Puis, and Sep. during the intervals, only one at a time every two or three hours. INFLAMMATIONS. INFLAMMATION OP THE TONGUE. This is not a very common disease, and one that requires very prompt attention. The end of the tongue first becomes red and swollen, and in a few hours the whole tongue becomes swollen to such an extent that it protrudes from the mouth. 28 TREATMENT. Merc, every two hours till improvement is obvious, then less and lesM frequently. If there is much fever, j^ivc Aeon, between the dosca of Merc. When inflammation of the mouth and tongue, with ulceration of the gums is produced by Mercuri/, as is often the case in the old practice, give Hydrastis and wash the mouth with the same before each dose, with an occasional dose of Hepar. INFLAMMATION OP THE THROAT, OR SORE THROAT FROM A COLD. In the first stage of this disease, a few doses of Gels, will often cflFect a cure. If not, Arum, every two hours. If the throat be- comes ulcerated, a gargle of Eydrastis frequently, as in scarlet fever. INFLAMMATION OF THE TONSILS— QUINZY. In this disease, the tonsils or glands in the throat on one or both sides, are inflamed, red, sore and painful. The pain often extends to the ears. It is produced by cold. TREATMENT. As in all inflammatory attacks. Gels, will often " break up " the disease in a few hours. But if this fails, give Aeon, and Bell, while thoru is much fever. If there is but little fever, Bell, and Merc. If not soon improved, Arum, or Apis., or both alternately. In those subject to attacks of Quinzy, it will usually be avoided by washing the neck every morning with cold water and rubbing it well, and gargle the throat with the same. INFLAMMATION OP THE STOMACH — GASTRITIS. This is distinguished by the pain of the stomach, usually with a burning sensation internally and tenderness to the pressure, vomiting, especially when any food or drink is taken, a feeling of great prostra- tion, thirst, and often cold extremities. The tips and edges of the tongue are red— sometimes the whole tongue. TREATMENT. First give one or tv»o doses of Aeon., not more than six pellets in a gill of water, a teaspoonful eve/y two hours. If it is connected with indigestion of improper food, Nux. alter- nated with Ars. If the patient becomes greatly reduced, and the extremities are cold, give Ars. and Verat. INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS — ENTRITIS. By this, we mean inflammation of the outer or peritoneal coat of the bowels. It usually comes on like other inflammatory diseases. less and vccn tlio ration of the old ne before A COLD. m\\ often iroat be- ll scarlet or both xtends to up" the ell. while nd Merc. In those f washing well, and ly with a vomiting, it prostra- 33 of the pellets in 'ux. alter- nities are eal coat of y diseases, with a chill. This is accompanied or followed by pain over some part, or the whole of the abdomen, which is short and severe, often burning. The abdomen becomes sensitive and painful to the pres- sure, and is more or less enlarged or swollen. A full breath is pain- ful. There is often vomiting, the face is pale and looks anxious and suflFering. The breathing is short and quick, and the pulse quick and small— it is a dangerous disease, and may terminate fatally in two or three days. TREATMENT. During the early stage, give Gels, as in fever, and keep a perspira- tion for some time, till the pain and fever abate. But if this fails of giving some relief after a few hours, give Aeon, and Bell, alternately every two or tlireo hours till the violence of the disease abates j after- wards Bell, and Merc, every three or four hours. After the patient is fairly recovering, if there is constipation, give Nux at bedtime. Throughout the disease, cloths wrung out of hot water, laid on the bowels, and copious hot water injections greatly aid the cure. DIARRHEA. Under this head I do not include the disease in children under two years old. In ordinary cases, if it is produced by improper food, Nvx and Ipecac for men, and Puis, and Ipecac for women. A dose after eajh evacuation will be all that will be necessary. If the discharges are copious and watery, Ars. If not soon im- proved, Ars. and Verat., or Phos. acid. If the evacuations are bilious, yellow, green, or dark, Merc, or Pod. or both alternately. If they contain undigested food, Ars., or China, or Phos. acid, a dose, in all cases, after each evacuation. If the disease is at all bad, the patient should remain quiet in bed and abstain from food till cured. If the disease has been of long standing, Sulph. may sometimes be necessary. But generally it will be cured by Ars. or Pod. and Lep. alternately. I know of one case that had been of two years' standing, con. tracted in Panama, cured with a small vial of Ars. The patient had within two years, paid $500 to Allopathic physicians without rt- ceiving any benefit. When the disease aas continued for a long time, and the bowels much weakened, Hydrastis is a very effectual remedy. so DYSENTERY. This consists in inflammation of the mucous mcmfcranc of the lower portion of the bowels, and is distinguished by slimy and bloody evacuations, with pain and tenesmus, or straining without discharg- ing any of th(-. contents of the bowels. TREATMENT. The principal remedy is Merc, after each evacuation ; if pain ex- tends over the bowels or griping, give Coloc. alternately with Merc. "When this griping is alleviated, if there is no natural evacuation —only bloody mucus, or if there are passages ot little hard ball, give Merc, and Nux. If the disease has become established, do not be in a hurry to change this treatment, for it may require some days to effect a change. If nausea, or vomiting occurs, give Ipecac with the Merc, or if there is much thirst with nausea, Ars. till the sickness subsides. An injection of warm water several times a day, does a great deal of o-ood. If, after a time, the evacuations are somewhat bilious, yel- low, brown, or dark, give Pod. or China- In dysentery of long standing, Pod. and Lap, alternately, are effectual remedies. SEA-SICKNESS. TREATMENT. A dose of Mx taken half an hour before going on board will fre- quently prevent- this for some time. When it is felt, Niix, Ijyecac, Ars., Puis., and Mac. are very effectual remedies. One agrees better with some persons, and another with others. Armed with these remedies, none need suffer much from sea-sickness. In obstinate cases. Petroleum and Silicia are sometimes necessary. I have fre- quently been the recipient of very warm acknowledgments for the comforts conferred by these remedies. COLIC — STOMACH-ACHE. TREATMENT. If this arises from indigestion or improp ^r food, Nvx, or Puis. T from cold drinks, ice-cream, &c., Ars. In bilious colic, with viol pain coming on in paroxysms, with disposition to bend forward, Colo:. in pretty large doses is a most prompt remedy, often curing the most violent colic almost instantaneously. If necessary it may be repeated iu a few minutes. If there is great restlessness and bilious vomiting or diarrhea, Cham, or Pod. In flatulent colic, or colic from wind, Coloc. Coccfu- lus, or Cham. 31 nc of the id bloody discliarg- pain cx- ith Merc, ivacuation ball, give not be in ae days to ^rc, or if ides. ;reat deal ilious, yel- lately, are i will fre- IX, Ipecac, rees better with these obstinate [ have fre- ts for the Puis. J ath viol ardj Coloi. g the most be repeated r diarrhea, )loc» Cocoa- WORMS AND WORM DISEASES. TREATMENT. Santonine, one grain not to bo repeated under two days. If this produces no eftect, give two grains, then three grains or more ; this is usually the only remedy needed and does no mischief, and is more effectual than all the pink and senna, calomel, &c. of the shops. But what are believed to bo worm symptoms are often the result of indigestion and improper food, and are cured by Nux, Ipecac, and Pod. TAPE-WORM. TREATMENT. Drink freely of an infusion of pumpkin seeds bruised — Pumpkin- seed tea. There is abundant testimony of the efficacy of this simple remedy in expelling tape-worm. PILES — HEMORRHOIDS. This disease consists in enlarged veins filled with blood, either within the bowels, or just outside of the opening, or both. The tu- mors thus formed often become very painful, inflamed and tender. TREATMENT. If the tumors are external and very painful, and sore, apply a soft piece of linen, saturated with pure strained honey to the protrusion. In the mean time, give Aconite and Bell, every half hour alternately. Continue this inter- il and external treatment till the violent pain and soreness abates. The tumors should not be permitted to remain protruded exter- nally, as it will give rise to great suffering and pain, and other mis- chief. They should be oiled, and by careful pressure, returned entirely within the bowels, and aecured there by a compress and bandage. As constipation always increases the difficulty, the bowels must be kept in a healthy state. This is to be done by a regulated diet brown bread, fruits, &c., and avoiding all stimulating drinks and higb-seasoned food, and by appropriate medicines. Hux at night and Pod. in the morning, will generally remove the constipation and the tendency to the piles. If not. Mix one night and SulpJi. next, continued for some time. I have cured cases of twenty years' stand- ing by this course. In bleeding pUes, if the bleeding is profuse take Phos.f and if not relieved in a few hours, Hamamelis. one drop every hour, and if necessary injections of a gill of water and ten drops of the same. Avoid physic in this disease. If necessary, it is infinitely better to use an occasional injection of water ; Lept. is St \m another excellent remedy in this disease, twice a day or alternately with Ajns. Those who arc subject to this disease should always sit upon hard seats. CHOLERA MORBUS. This is characterised by an attack of vomiting and diarrhea of bilious matters, with pain and cramp of the stomach and bowels. It is very distressing, and may be dangerous, but is very quickly cured by Homeopathic treatment. TREATMENT. Ipecac alone, repeated every ten or fifteen minutes, is generally very quickly ciFectual. If the pain of the stomach and bowels is considerable, Coloc. may be alternated with Ipecac. This relieves the pain, while Ipecac stops the vomiting. If the patient has be- come much weakened and the above treatment does not promptly relieve give Ars., and if the diarrhea is at all obstinate, Ars. and Verat. alternately. ASIATIC CHOLERA. In the commencement of the attack, a few doses of camphor, in doses of a drop will often arrest it. If it does not, if vomiting is the most prominent symptom, Ipecac every ten, fifteen, or twenty min- utes is often ciFectual. But if there are copious rice-water evacuations of the bowels, and vomiting of the same, with thirst and prostration, the chief reliance is to be placed, upon Ars. and Verat., alternately every fifteen or twenty minutes. These are the only remedies generally required. Thousands have been cured by these remedies among the pea- santry of Europe, while from half to two-thirds of all the cases were fatal under Allopathic treatment. It has everywhere been won- derfully successful, wherever it has been tried. Should cholera again visit Montreal, as it has in years paat, all should be prepared with the remedies, and be familiar with the directions for their use. Oh ! that I could, for the sake of humanity, impress upon the minds of all, these truths, both physician and lay. JAUNDICE. This disease is strongly marked by yellowness of the skin and eyes, with languor, weakness, loss of appetite, coated tongue, and often headache. The urine is high-colored, and makes a yellow stain on the linen, and the evacuations from the bowels are a light clay color. TD W A TmrTP-lMT . The remedies are Lq)tandri7i, Merc, China, Pod. and Nwc. 33 Itoriiately always sit iarrhea of )wols. It ;kly cured ! generally I bowels is lis relieves ant has be- t promptly Ars. and amphor, in iting is the wenty min- Dwels, and ief reliance y fifteen or equirod. ; the pea- cases were been won- ild cholera e prepared r their use. I the minds le skin and tongue, and s a yellow are a light and Nux, Either of these may be taken separately, or any two of them alter- nately every three to six hours, till an improvement commences, (which will seldom exceed a few days) then less frequently. By these remedies the disease is cured vastly quicker, and the system is left in a better condition than under the old mercurial treatment. This is a disordered state of the liver, which may be inflamed, for which see INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER— HEPATITES, This is known by a pain just under the edges of the lower ribs of tho right side, and the pit of the stomach, with sensitivcnesss to pressure. There is often a feeling of fullness in this region, pain on taking a deep breath, and a sympathetic pain in the right shoulder. If it proceeds very far, there is obvious enlargement of the liver, producing a visible fullness in the region, constant dull or sharp pain, and a good deal of fever. There is a loss of appetite, perhaps nau- sea and bilious vomiting ; the bowels are costive or there is looseness with discharges of unnatural color from unhealthy bile. The skin and eyes are often somewhat tinged with yellow. There is often dry, hacking cough. It frequently comes on with a chill. TREATMENT. In the early stage Gels, is the most likely to " break up " the disease by copious perspiration. This remedy has the advantage of actingquickly, sothatifitfailsatall, asit seldom does, not much time is lost. Two or three doses will determine whether the expected eflFort is to be realized, the dose to be repeated every half hour. If it produces perspiration, or abates the fever and pain, it should be continued as long as it does good. If it fails. Aeon, and Bell, may be given every two hours till the acuteness of the disease has abated. If some soreness and pain remain, the remedies are BelL^ Merc, NuXf China and Pod, Bell, is preferable if there is restlessness, fullness, or pain of the head, fullness at the pit of the stomach, difl&cult breathing, thu-st, or dizziness. Merc, if there is yellowness of the skin, bitter taste in the mouth* and a tendency to chilliness. Pod. for the same symptoms, and irregular loose state of the bowels or nausea. _. — , — .„..,r>.v.vi.---i<^ vulii^vi licaa Ui hiiQ iivur, tj. urine, and constipation. uiirsc, rea 84 M CAina appliofl to almost all tho above symptoms, cspocitiUy if there is a conHiUerablo weakness. Either of these romediea may be given every three or four hours. inLI0U.>:NE88. This is not a professional term, but one which most persons un- derstand. It is like Jaundice, an affection of the liver and pretty closely related to it. One feels languid, dull, sleepy, especially after dinner: gets tired easily, appetite gets impaired; often there is a dull headache, and a tendency to constipation, and tho complexion loses its freshness and becomes of a dull, dirty appearance. People generally understand that these arc bilious symptoms. They are not unfrcquently the precursor of a bilious fever or jaundice. People having these symptoms generally suppose they need a " cleaning out," and accordingly take bilious pills or some other physic, which oft€n results in a " fit of sickness." I think I can point out what all who try it will find " a more excellent way." TRBATM2NT. Pod, is generally the necessary remedy. A single dose will often remove all these unpleasant feelings in a few hours. If not, continue it three times a day in two-grain doses. If there is a tendency to chilliness, or an inactive state of the bowels, after a day, take Mix at night and Pod. in the morning. This course, for a short time, will save a fit of sickness and a doctor's bill. DYSPEPSIA — INDIGESTION. The symptoms of dyspepsia are numerous. Feeling of a load m the stomach after a meal, sour erucitations, heart-burn, pain in the stomach, throwing up of the food, dullness and pain of the head, low spirits, nervous symptoms, &c. TREATMENT. For present relief from the effects of too hearty a meal, Nux or Puis, every hour till relieved. For permanent effect, if there is con- stipation with the other symptoms, Nux before each meal, for women Puis. In ordinary cases, either Nux, Puis., PJios. or Pod. before each meal will be appropriate. For heartburn, Nux and Pod. alone, or in alternation, with Phos. A regulated diet, the avoidance of stim- ulating drinks and tonics, &c., by all means avoid highly-seasoned food and physic. You need never expect to be cured by drugging. In chronic S6 if there r hours. ions un- l pretty \\y after hero is 11 iiplexion People Ehey are need a sr physic, oint out fill often continue idency to take Mix ort time, a load in tin in the ;he head, I, Nvx or 3ro is con- ibr women 3fore each alone, or je of stim- y-seasoned n chronic caHos, when the Htoiuacli lias become very nmeli weakened, the use of electricity will often expedite the euro in the most clmnuiiif^ manner, and save jnonths of treatment, or an entire failure. Those of Hodcntary habits, must abandon coulinemont and take free excrciHo in the open air daily. Daily bathin-j; with cool water, rubbing the surface well, ospeoially over the stomach and bowels, is of great service. COLD IN THE HEAD— CORYZA AND COLD AFFECTING THt: DRON- CHIiE — BRONCHITIS — BRONCHIAL CA.TARRH — COLD ON THE LUNGS. TREATMENT. If a cold afFccting any of these parts comes on with a chill, or with soreuees or rawness of the throat, wind-pipe or bronchioo, extending into the chest, or fever. Gels, is the prompt and sovereign remedy. A single dose of it will often <' break up " the violence of the dis- ease, remove the inflammation and soreness, and leave only a mil d loose cough, which will only require a few doses of Brt/. or Puis. The patient with a cold at all severe, should go to bed and keep quiet and warm till better. Medicine produces a vastly better effect when the patient is in bed and in a quiet and passive state, than when ho is moving about. If a cold is confined to the head, v/ith stoppage of the nose, Mux is the remedy every two or three hours till relieved. If there is profuse, watery or acrid discharge from the nose. Kali Ilyd. is perhaps the best remedy, but Ars., and Merc, are eflFectual. If there is a rough, raw, sore feeling of the throat or chest, with tightness, oppressed breathing and painful cough. Gels, is the remedy, till these symptoms subside. Kali hyd. and Phos. are good remedies. When only loose, painless cough remains, Bry,^ Mac. or Puis, will soon complete the cure. Abstain from food as in fever till the cold is relieved. INFLUENZA Is only an aggravated form of the above disease, prevailing period- ically and epidemically. TREATMENT. Similar to the above. — Gels, is the first remedy. If the symptoms are severe, Ars. and Merc. In the worst and alarming form Gland- erine is the most reliable remedy, every 2 hours till there is some abatement, then less frequently ; INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS — PNEUMONIA. This is distinguished from the preceeding affection of the bronchise by the following symptoms. fit 11 36 It usually comes on with a chill, followed by high fever, a full, strong, quick pulse, short, difficult breathing, a dull pain in one side of the chest, generally the right, which prevents a full breath, white coated tongue, and red cheeks. The pain in the side is sometimes changeable in its location for some hours before it settles into one fixed place. There is cough from the first. The expectoration is, at first, white and viscid, or sticky and tough ; at a later period it is reddish or brick-colored. If there was doubt before, as to the nature of the disease, there need be no longer after this reddish expectoration ap- pears, for this is a sure sign of inflammation on the lungs. TREATMENT. In the first stage of the disease, as in most other inflammatory diseases. Gels, is capable of breaking up the disease in the first 24 hours by producing free perspiration. Kepeat it as occasion requires till the fever and pain abate. If cough remains, with or without a little pain on taking a full breath, give Phos. or Bry. every 2 or 3 hours. Aconite and Phos. have been hitherto relided upon in the accute stage, and they are very effectual remedies — seldom failing to cure Pneumonia in 3 or 4 days, but Gels, is much more prompt and effect- ual if given at an early stage. If the disease has been neglected during the early stage and has become established, it is of course, not so quickly cured, but even then, instead of continuing three weeks and being fatal in a large proportion of cases, as under the old treatment, it will generally be cured, by following the course here prescribed, in less than a week, and never prove fatal unless in a very diseased or dilapidated constitu- tion. When the disease is thus advanced, befere the treatment is commenced, give Gels, as above. If it produces relief of the fever and pain by sweating or otherwise, continue it as long as improvement goes on. If it fails of producing a good effect after 5 or 6 doses, stop it and give Aeon, and Plws. two hours apart, till there is an obvious improvement observed. If it fails to produce a good effect after 5 or 6 doses stop it and give Aeon, and Phos., two hours apart, till there is an obvious improvement, then less frequently till the pain and fever have pretty much subsided. If some pain on taking a deep breath remains, then give Bry. every 3 or 4 hours for a day or two. If any difficulty remains, then give Sdph. three times a day. 51 "1 37 , a full, one side th, white )metimes )ne fixed , at first, 3 reddish re of the alien ap- tnmatory ! first 24 . requires rithoiit a y 2 or 3 le accute ; to cure nd effect- and has but even tt a large lerally be I a week, constitu- atment is :he fever rovement 6 doses, ere is an )od effect ITS apart, r till the 1 taking a • a day or IS a day. But in all cases continue the remedy given as long as the patient improve under it. In every stage a wet cloth, moderately cool, over the chest well covered with a flannel to avoid any chilliness, aids the cure. In some cases the cough remains dry an unusual length of time after the attack with very little expectoration, with great oppression of the chest and difficult breathing. In this case Tart. Stib. is the best remedy to bring on expectoration or loosen the cough, every hour or two till relieved. PLEURISY. This consists of inflammation of the pleura or covering membrane of the lungs. It has many of the general symptoms of Pneumonia, but the pain in the side is sharp, accute, stitching, instead of dull ; it is impossible to take a full breath on account of this sharp pain. The pulse is sharper and smaller — there is less expectoration, and it is not bloody unless it be some small streaks of blood. Not unfrequently the two diseases are combined, constituting what is called Pleuro-pneumonia. The treatment same as Pneumonia. BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS. TREATMENT. If there is much fever, Aeon, every hour till moderated, then Ham., one drop every hour, or half hour, or even one-fourth hour' according to the urgency. If there is sore, bruised feeling in the chest. Am. is an appropriate remedy. If there is much weakness, with irritation of the lungs, Phos. acid. ASTHMA. Confirmed asthma is a difficult disease to cure. The principle r*?me- dies are Ars, and Ipecac. Either of these may be given, during paroxysms every hour till relieved. In nervous or hysterical women, Aeon., Bell., or Ambra, sometimes promptly relieved by sufficient doses of Lobelia to produce nausea. Gels, sometimes afibrds prompt relief, especially if brought on by a cold. But the change of climate or locality effects the greatest number of cures. Many persons afflicted with it at the East are permanently relieved on removing to the West. Horses affected with Heaves, a similar disease, so as to be rendered useless at the East, are often entirely cured on being taken upon the Western prairies. This is one of the diseases that is often promptly relieved and eventually cured by electricity. Per- I' >i! 38 sons who have not been able to lie down for weeks, are sometimes able to do so from a single application. CODGH. This sometimes exists without obvious inflammation. If not of a consumptive character, J5ry., Plws., Fids., Balsam Cop., or Arum may be taken two or three times a day. Hoarseness without fever will be removed by Arum, Spongia, Ilcpar., Phos., or Kali hyd, DIPTHERIA. I look upon diptheria as an epidemic disease (^Sui generis) much resembling scarlatina, and the worst form of croup first described by Bretonneau, of Tours, in 1820, and called diptheretic, from which the present epidemic derives its name. I do not say that diptheria is croup and scarlatina combined, but rather a new disease which seems to comprehend the worst features of the two, and assimilates in its leading characteristics. Diptheria has been compared with cholera, typhus, influenza, scarlatina, &c., and I think not inaptly. In all these severe epi- demics, we find one common and essential fact, and that is, a general deprivation of the whole blood-mass to a greater or less extent, and in proportion to the degree of this toxaemia is the fatality of each epi- demic. No other analogy seems to exist between any of the above- mentioned epidemics, scarlatina and diptheria excepted. Dr. Madden, pf London, states that there are five types of dipthe- ria, which he describes as follows : — 1st. Common catarrhal angina, differing from the usual sore throat, by the great number of elevated papilla), like the large flat papillae, on the roots of the tongue, and occupying the arches of the palate, the velum, and the posterior walls of the pharynx. These papillae show no tendency to ulcerate, or become covered with any exudation ; they gradually disappear, together with the sore throat. 2nd. Acute tonsilitis, with an unusual amount of swelling of the glands, the enlargement being quite as perceptible externally as in- ternally, the mucous surface of the tonsils being deep red, and rapid- ly passing into ulceration. If, however, the ulcers appear early, arc clean from the first, and are not surrounded with a dark, fiery red line the . cases prove easily manageable, and run their course in two or three days. 3rd. Cases commencing much like the last, but the ulcerated sur- face speedily covered with a whitish curdy coating, very similar to sometimes r not of a or Arum dout fever i hjd. ris,) much scribed by rom which llptheria is hich seems ates ia its influenza, severe epi- , a general 3nt, and in each epi- the above- of dipthe- iore throat, at papillao, the palate, me covered th the sore ling of the nally as in- and rapid- V early, are k, fiery red irse in two 3erated sur- y similar to 39 the curdy pus of a scrofulous gland. Great variation in the degree of constitutional disturbance, some patients being scarcely ill at all, others suffering more or less with fear and delirium, and others again evincing great depression. All these varieties terminated favorably. 4th. The whole soft palate very much swollen, and pale red, while the mucous surface is smooth and glazed, the tongue thickly furred, deglutition very difficult, marked adynamic fever. These cases are slow, and for some days resist treatment, but ultimately recover. 5th. True diptheria, characterized by its peculiar wash, leather- like exudation, fetid exhalation from the mouth and nostrils, more or less phagedenic ulceration of the tongue, gums, and fauces, with profound general adynamia, often from the very outset. Such are the general characteristics of true diptheria, but in many cases these distinctions are not so exactly marked, one variety run- ning into another, and symptoms sometimes occurring, not compre- hended under any of them. The Homeopathic remedies for this disease are. Aconite, Bell., Protiodide of Mercury, Baryta Carbonacea, JSFux Vom., Lacheds, Ignatia, Bromine, Biniodide of Mercury, Kali bichromas, Mercurius corrosiovs, Causticum, Arsenicum, &c. But I would advise all who can, to call in a Homeopathic physi- cian as soon as the symptoms of this disease declare themselves, and not depend upon their own judgment. And never under any cir- cumstances whatever allow any physician to burn the throat with caustic or anything else. It is a barbarous practice, and should not be tolerated in this, or any other community. I know how this sounds, but I can prove that I am warranted in saying what I have said, and I repeat it ; it is a savage, barbarous practice to cauterize the throat, particularly in diptheria. INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS — NEPHRITIS. This usually comes on, like most inflammatory diseases, with a chill, accompanied or followed by pain in the back, not in the spine, but on one or both sides of it, that is, in the location of the Kidneys, tender- ness on pressure in this region, fever, nausea, often vomiting, the urine scanty and high colored, often bloody— the bowels constipated. The pain often extends down to the groin and neck of the bladder. TREATMENT, Gels, as in other inflammatory diseases, in the early stage, is the remedy, continued as long as it gives relief. This, if commenced early, will " break it up " by perspiration. V'lk I?'! 40 If this has been neglected, or the disease has continued for some- time, and Gels, fails of producing' the desired effect, and the pain shoots from the Kidneys down to the bladder, and there is colicky- pain, give JBelL every hour or two. If there are shooting, tearing or cutting pains, with very scanty urine, which is passed with pain, Canth. every 2 or 3 hours. In general these two remedies may be given to advantage, alternately. During the treatment, the bowels should be freely moved by copious injections of water, and make a free use of warm hip-baths, that is, sitting in a tub of quite warm water, deep enough to come up over the hips. INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER— CYSTITIS. This comes on with the same general symptoms as the last disease, with pain in the bladder, constant desire to pass urine, which is very scanty at each discharge, often bloody, and passed with terrible pain often with nausea and vomiting. There is a feeling of weight in the region of the bladder, and tenderness to pressure. TREATMENT. The treatment is nearly the same as that of Nephritis. If not soon relieved by Geh. in the first stage, give Aeon, every hour till the fever is somewhat abated, and the most distressing symptoms some- what moderated, the Canth. every 2 or 3 hours. The baths and in- jections, as in Nephritis, are still useful here. INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. This disease is characterized by pain of the head, rolling the head from side to side, dilated or contracted pupils, throbbing of the arteries of the neck and temples, delirium, drowsiness or stupor. There is fever with quick pulse. It is very apt to end in convulsions when fatal. TREATMENT. The chief remedies are Aeon, and Bell., giving the two first alter- nately, every two hours till the fever and other symptoms are some- what abated ; then Bell, and Bry. every two hours. Persevere in this treatment, even though the improvement may not be very per- ceptible. Do not irritate or torment the patient with blisters, mus- tard plasters, or any other irritating applications. Shut out all strong light, avoid all noise, and especially conversation within hearing of the patient, (the hearing of the patient in this disease is very acut•e^ : keep the room well ventilated, and of comfortably cool tern- 41 perature, and disturb and excite the patient as little as possible. Do not apply cold applications to the head. I have been entirely satisfied for years, that vastly more mischief than good is done by cold appli- cations in this disease. Cloths wet in hot water may be now and then applied for a short time only, with benefit ; keep the bowels free by injections of water, and keep the feet warm. Sponge over the surface of the body with warm water, if the patient is hot and rest- less. ,j BEAD-ACHE. Head-ache arises from a great variety of causes and is attended by variety of complications and constitutional conditions, that is very difficult to prescribe for, except for individual cases. 1st. It is often produced by indigestion or disordered stomach. This often goes under the name of sick head-ache. TREATMENT. Nux. will often promptly cure such cases if taken in time, or when the symptoms are first felt. Pod^ and Ipecac, are often ..qually good, and for women, Puis. The ' itne may be said of Mac, for wo- men. Nux. at night and Pod. in the morning will often prevent it in those subject to it. 2nd. It often occurs in females as an essentially nervous disease and is generally called nervous head-ache. In these cases Mac, Puis., and .S'c^ia are very often efficient remedies, and when relieved, an occasional dose of one or the other of these will prevent its recur- rence. If connected with female weakness or accompanying monthly dis- orders, the last three remedies are specially applicable. If connected with a hysterical state, Mac or Cocculus. If produced by grief, Ignatia. Either may be taken every hour or two till relief is obtained. A dose of Mac, Sep. or Puis, daily, will often do much to prevent these attacks. But a remedy of extraordinary power, and which will cure a large proportion of what are called nervous and sick head-aches than, perhaps, any other, is Atropine. I have cured, with it, a great many cases of long standing, that have resisted all other 1-reatment, some of 15 or 20 year's standing. It is most appli- cable to those cases that are not caused 'jy a disordered stomach or other like derangements, but depends on a lisordered condition of the nervous system itself— to cases that come on rather suddenly and are very apt to be acute and severe. It may be taken every 10 or 15 minutes till an effect is produced, increasing the dose if necesaarv. F 42 m I; -^f As soon as an effect is felt, suspend it till the effect ceases, or while improvement continues. If an over dose increases the T>r''>, stop it altogether. When the temporary aggravation ceases it^ wl .•■ flow- ed by improvement. This will cure the great majority of habitual nervous head-aches which have resisted all other treatment. Those cases that come on with dizziness, as the first symptom, will be almost uniformly cured in this early stage by Nux. In many cases of obstinate head-aches, which resist all remedies, electricity properly applied is a most important remedy, but it must be applied by one that understands the human system, or it may do mischief rather than good. I have effected many permanent cures of extremely obstinate cases by this means. I have not given direction for using this powerful agent, fc ecause I have long been convinced, from many examples, that it cannot be profitably or even safely used by the public, at least without some experience or special instructions. Nor is it a safe agent in Allopathic hands. It is a most beautiful and benevolent remedy in Homeopathic hands, used upon the Homeopathic principle, and in correspondin loses. I have never known of its use in Allopathic hands, when it was not like all other powerful remedies, in the same hands, as often produc- tive of injury as benefit, and sometimes very serious injury. INFLAMMATION OP THE EYES — OPTHALMA. TREATMENT. If this is acute, with deep redness, and severe pain, give Aeon, and Bell.f alternately, every two or three hours, till the pain is abated, and as long as it does good. At the same time, drop into the eyes, and apply over them, every 2 or 3 hours, a wash of 10 drops Aeon, tincture to a gill of soft water, applied as hot as can be borne. All applications to inflamed eyes, as well as to all other inflamed parts, should be warm or hot. Cold applications, though they may give momentary relief, as in burns, produce permanent reaction in the opposite direction, and do great mischief. After the violence of the disease is abated, if there is a sore or bruised feeling of the lids when touched, with sticking together at night, give Hepar. Sul. every 4 to 6 hours. If the lids itch badly, with burning, Nux, in the same way. In old and obstinate cases, Ars. and Sulph. are the remedies, only one at a time, 3 times a day ; or, if the lids are thickened or ulcerat- ed, Merc* in the same way. After the pain is abated, if redness and I, or while ?''}, stop it ;i ■ 'ilow- head-aches lat come on irmly cured 11 remedies, but it must •r it may do itinate cases cause I have )e profitably xperience or hands. Tt ithic hands, in doses. T 1 it was not ften produc- ve Aeon, and in is abated, nto the eyes, drops Aeon. borne. All flamed parts, ley may give ction in the alence of the the lids when I. every 4 to he same way. jmedies, only id or ulcerat- rednessand 43 fullness remain, apply JIam., a teaspoonful to half a pint of water. STY. Puis, or IIej)ar., or what is generally more certain, Ajris Mel., three times a day. Not unfrequently one or two doseSi will cure a sty when taken early. CORNS. Shave them close and appiy a liitlo patch of cloth, on which is placed one drop of the gum from the white pine. Let it remain until it comes off of itself, when the corn will have generally disap- peared ; if not, apply it again. This is a sovereign remedy. CHILBLAINS. Am. tincture, a teaspoonful to a gill of water, applied hot, affords temporary relief, but internal remedies are necessary. Of these, the most useful in ordinary cases are, Agaricus, and if the parts become bluish red color, BelL If there is troublesome itching, JVux, and if a few doses docs not relieve, SuTph. If the parts are very painful, PIios. Any of these may be given every three or four hours till an improvement begins. STING OF INSECTS, BEES, WASPS, &C. Ledum taken internally and applied externally is a very effectual remedy for these stings, as well as the bite of mosquitoes, flies, &c., allaying the itching and pain in a few minutes. A fresh onion applied to the part is a quick and effectual remedy. If applied immediately, it relieves in a few minutes. If later, it of course takes longer. A fresh piece should bo applied every ten or fifteen minutes. Am. Carb. applied to the part and taken internally often produces the same result. Perhaps the onion is effectual from the ammonia it contains. BITES OP RATTLESNAKES, SPIDERS, &0. I have boon for many years convinced, from actual knowledge of many cases, that the most safe and effectual remedy is alcohol in any of its forms, that can be most easily procured, say rum, gin, whiskey ' or brandy. It should be taken in large doses, every fifteen or twenty minutes till the symptoms begin to abate, or the patient feels its effects. At the same time the bitten part should be kept wet with the same. It is surprising how large a quantity will be sometimes borne in these cases. A quart or two of strong brandy has been tskfin in an liour or two withnnf, nnv nfirf>M^fihla offnnf +l>nT, +^ u:n m, J 44 the poison and cure the patient. But the poison of the alcohol proves quite a match for rattlesnake poison. It seems not to produce in- toxication till enough has been taken to fully neutralize the poison, and the excess only produces the ordinary effect. SPRAINS, &c. MECHANICAL INJURIES, BLOWS, PALLS, BRUISES, Arnica is the great remedy in these accidents. It should be taken internally in pellets and the parts injured rubbed frequently or kept wet with Arnica tincture, a teaspoonful in half a pint of water. If inflammation and fever follow, give Aeon. But where the skin is broken, or the flesh tore, Calendula is the remedy to use externally, the same as Arnica. It acts like magic in allaying pain and pre- venting inflammation. The edges of the cut or torn wound should, of course, be brought as near together as possible, and kept there. FATIGUE. When the muscles become fatigued by long walking or excessive labor or over exertion, a few doses, or a single dose of Am. or Ehus. afibrds great relief. If particular muscles or limbs arc sore and lame, rub them with Am, wash. BURNS AND SCALDS. Apply as quickly as possible, alcohol, whiskey, or rum, brandy, spirits of turpentine or soft soap, and keep it on, and the part tho- roughly protected from the air till the pain subsides. Nothing is better than soft soap, and this is generally at hand. I have seen this applied from early childhood and have never seen anything do better. Cold water, though it feels comfortable for the moment, is a very bad application. The above treatment curea burns in half the time. If there is any fever, give Aeon. CARBUNCLE. This appears, at first, much like a common boil, but larger and much more painful, and with much more constitutional disorder. It does not come to a point like a boil, but is broad and flat on the top, with several openings instead of one. It is attended with loss of appetite, depression of spirits, fever and prostration. It more commonly appears on the back, or the neck, but sometimes on the buttock. It is attended with great destruction of the flesh which mortifies and falls out, leaving a large cavity which is very slow in healing. At the close, the patient is as much reduced as 45 TUBATMENT. Give, in the beginning, Amnwn. Carh.—'^ grains in a gill of water, toaspoouful dose every two hours, and apply a cloth wet in the same, but twice as strong and hot, to the part— continue it as long as it does good. If it goes on, and openings appear in it and the pain is not abated, stop tliis and give Ars. every 2 or three hours. At the same time apply Causlic potaah powder, in and around the openings and penetrate as deep as possible into the heart of the tumor. Apply this once daily, placing over it a warm soft poultice of slippery Elm, flax seed, or bread. The above treatment is much better and more successful than that ordinarily practiced. The application of the caustic speedily changes and relieves the terrible burning pain of the Carbuncle ; it should never be laid open by the knife. MALIGNANT PUSTULE. This application is of frequent occurrence during some seasons, though its name is generally known. A large number of cases have come under my treatment within the last 2 or 3 years and I have found that many of them very much resembled the Carbuncle, though essentially different. They have been much smaller and generally located on the extremities. They seem, at first, like the bite of some insect, and the patient sometimes thinks it is. It is, at first, a little red, with a somewhat pointed elevation like a small boil, with the appearances of a little hole in the center of the lip. It is painful and burning. The inflam- mation increases rapidly and runs up the limb. If it occurs on the finger for example the whole hand becomes rapidly red and swollen. If it goes on it soon has several openings in it like a Carbuncle and ends in suppuration and destruction of the substance, leaving a large opening It is attended with pretty severe, generally burning pain, and considerable feverish disturbance. TREATMENT. Ammoninm Curb, is the specific and effectual remedy, given as in Carbuncle and applied in the same way. The pain is often re- lieved in 15 minutes, and in 24 hours the whole of the disease is changed, and the inflammation subdued. Since using this remedy I have not found occasion for any other. FELON — WHITLOW. This comes on with a pricking, sharp pain, inducing the belief 4.1,-i. 4.i,-,-~ ;« « __i:_j.-_ !._? •_ J.1- _ n . ^„ k » i « 46 TREATMENT. When the pain is first folt, put the whole hand in cold water— the colder the belter— until it becomes benumbed, then wi-ap it in flannel till it becomes thoroughly warmed. If there is still pain, repeat the process till the pain ceases. This course will cither cure the disease altogether or render it a comparatively less painful one. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN— FIRST^F WOMEN. AMENORRHEA— ABSENCE OF MENSTRUAL DISCHABGE. When a stoppage or suppression occurs in young girls, Puis, three times a day, or CaulopJi., or Mac, the two last alternately. If the menses do not make their appearance at the usual age, if the health does not suffer, do nothing. In no case give what are called " forc- ing medicines." Theydogreatmischief, and are often dangerous, and are the source of long and lasting difliculties. If sudden suppression is produced by a chill or getting wet, put the patient in bed, give one or more doses of Gels., put the feet in warm water, as warm as the patient can bear, apply hot wet cloths to the lower part of the abdomen, or use, if convenient, warm sitz baths- if the effect is not soon produced, give Puis, If the sup- pression is produced by a fright, give one or more doses of Aeon, and Puis If* at the time when the menses should come on, there are nervous or hysterical symptoms or spasms, Cocculus every hour or two. If there is Leucorrhea or Whites, instead of the regular menses, Cauloph, Mac. Puis, and Sepia are the remedies. Either one alone or either two alternately, three or four times a day. If the suppression has been of long standing in girls, with paleness, weak- ness palpitation of the heart, &c., the remedies are Gale. Garb., Femim, Puis., Sepia and Sulph. Either of these may be taken three times a day for a week, when, if not improved, take another in the same manner. DYSMENORRHffiA— PAINFUL MENSTRUATION. If the flow is profuse, with pain and sickness of the stomach, oive Ipecac, every half hour till relieved. Mac. or Gualoph, may be used in the same way, ohe first especially if there is headache. "^n .1 -e — c.T,,c ;p ihn nVxlnmnn.hvsterical svmptoms, difficulty of breatHng, and especially if the discharge is black, Cocculus. 47 But CauhpJi., Mac, and Puis, arc, in general, the three most im- portant remedies. When there are no particular reasons for using other remedies, the patient may take cither of them, (perhaps usually Cauloph. is the best), or cither two of them alternately, every fifteen or twenty minutes till the severe pain is removed. During the interval of a month, a dose of Cauloph. one day, and of Mac. the next, will generally prevent these painful recurrences, and eifect a permanent cure. But there arc obstinate cases of thid painful difficulty depending on particular causes, which cannot be prescribed for without personal attention. PROFUSE MENSTRUATION — FLOWING. If this is attended with pressing down pains and pain in the back, Bell, every half hour till this is relieved. If much reduced by loss of blood, a few doses of China. But the most important remedy k Hamamelis. If at all urgent, a drop of the tincture may be given every half hour, and if at all alarming, injections into the uteris with a female syringe, if handy ; if not, with any other, of a teaspoonful of the tincture in a gill of cold water, and often repeated, if necessary. This is equally appropriate whether the flowing occurs at the monthly period or any other. All this is for present relief. But for those who have, habitually, too frequent and too pro- fuse menstruation, and who are, at the same time somewhat feeble, give, during the interval Nwx every night and China every morning, for two weeks, and during the remainder of the interval, Calc. Carb. one night, and Sulj)h. the next. This will sel- dom fail to bring about an improvement, but if the state is not entirely corrected, repeat the same during the next interval, 'ihis has cured many cases of long standing in one, two, or three months, which had been treated for years without benefit. The worst cases of flowing after delivery are speedily checked by copious injections of cold water with Haniamclis or Am. and drop doses of Hamamelis. The cold water injections so much feared by some, at such times is perfectly safe. I have used them hundreds of times, and for many years, and never had reason to regret their use. LEUCORRHEA — WHITES . This disease so common among feeble women, is seldom perma- nently cured by the old drugging process, astringents, &c., but the most stubborn cases are daily cured by skillful Jlomeopathic treat- 48 ment. Thoro are cases attondod with ulcerations and other (liseased conditions, which rc(iuiro the personal attentions of the physician ; but by following' the brief directions which follow, a 1,'rcat nuyority of cases will be cured more promptly than is done by the ordinary prevalent medical treatment. The remedies generally required in domestic treatment or practice, are Caul., Mac, Pod. and Puis. In most cases, the two first are sufficient ; one may bo taken every morning and the other every even- ing in a dose of from three to five grains. Hundreds of cases will be cured by these two remedies. If the disease has continued for some time, it is frequently attend- ed by a bearing down of the womb. This will disappear when the Leuoorrhea is cured. Pod. is specially appropriate when bearing down and Leucorrhea come on after confinement — two grains three times a day. If Leucorrhea accompanies suppression of the menses, Puis, is the efficient remedy, three or four times daily. When the discharge is acrid or irritating, or there is internal smarting or burning, injections of the Hydrastis wash, as prepared to use in scarlet fever, is indispensable, and should boused, morning, noon and night. A dependence on mechanical support for the cure of prolapsus uteri is productive of infinitely more mischief than good. If the discharge is like jelly, or if it produce itching or burning, Sepia three or four times a day. My advice to all troubled with this disease is to attend to it at once, as it is productive of very serious trouble, particularly to the nervous system. SICKNESS AND VOMITING DURING PREGNANCY. This is sometimes very troublesome and even a dangerous affection, but by Homeopathic treatment can almost uniformly be promptly relieved. For this we have many remedies, and it is well to know several, as sometimes one agrees best and sometimes another. Often a remedy gives prompt relief but soon loses its influence, and another will be equally prompt. The patient may have the choice of the following ; Mac, in a majority of cases, is a sufficient remedy. If not, Ipecac, Arsenicum, Nux, Puis., Sepia, Pod., Tart, and Verat. may be em- ployed, each with good effect in different cases. They may be taken from once to five or six tiiues a day, according to necessity. A 40 doso of Mac. or Ipecac, i&t-., ut iii-ht will oltoii prevent the usual sickncd8 iu the ujoriiiiii''. CONl'INKMENT— CIIILDIIEI) Dll-'FIUULTIE8. As u propiirution for labor, a luultitude of Hoiueopathic physieians now toHtify to tlio moat bcnetit of Mac. and Caul. They render the labor niueli ahorter and nmeh easier, and prevent after-pains. Many who have always had tedious and difficult labor have (juiek and easy ones after this preparation. A j^^rain or two of one nmy bo taken at ni-ht and a ;j;rain or two of the other in the morning, for some weeks before eonlinement. These two remedies have proved a great blessing to thousands. rUREOULAR AND INEri'EOTUAL LABOR-PAIN. Caul, one grain every ((uurter or half hour till the pain becomes regular, which will generally be after one or two doses. Bell, and Nux. arc often effectual remedies. AFTER-PA !N. Caul, is the potent remedy, unless there is excessive flowing, not- withstanding its use, when injections of cold water with tincture of Uamamdis, arc required, use them. INFLAMMATION AND SWELLING OP THE BREASTS. Early in the attack, if it comes on with a chill, a few doses of Gels. as in fever, by producing perspiration, dissipate the disease. But if this does not check the inflammation, give Aeon, and Bell, alternately every two hours, till the inflammation is somewhat abated, and then Bri/. and Bell. Keep the breasts covered with a cloth wrung out of warm water. But if the case has been neglected or badly treated till suppuration has taken place, and the breast is discharging, give Phos. three times a day. If it has been of long standing, and the breast is very hard after the discharge has continued for some time, Calc. Carl., Sillcia, or Sulph., may be required. SORE NIPPLES. Apply frequently a wash of Hydrastis—iQU drops to a tablespoon- ful of water. MILK-LEG. Under ordinary treatment, this is a most severe and protracted dis- ease. The old school have never learned to cure it. The following directions will enable a husband to treat his wife for this serious affection, with vastly more success and cure her in one-quarter of the time that is rnnniirArl \\\r Alln^nflilo fi.^nfT»»^4- :„ u-, i. _i_-Mi/«-t hands. 50 ' -4 SI i '4 w ' It generally makes its attacks within one or two weeks after con- finement, like most other inflammatory diseases, with chilliness and fever, pain usually commences in the lower part of the howels, ex- tendi^ng to the groin, and thence down the limb. This commences to swefl, and in two days the whole lin.b sometimes becomes twxce its natural size. Though hot and inflamed, it is not red, but ol a very marked white. The feeling is hard and elastic. The disease con- sists of inflammation of the veins, and along the principal vems down the inside of the thigh and the back of the leg is the principal pain. These lines are intercepted, now and then, by a hard knob. Under the usual treatment, the limb does not return to its natura state and size for a long time, often for years-sometimes never. It is not unfrequently followed by a dropsical state. TREATMENT. As soon as the affection is ascertained, give Hamamelis tinct ten or fifteen drops in a tumbler half full of water-teaspoonful doses every two or three hours. •. i f i Bub the limb faithfully with a wash of the same, one tablespoontul to a gill of water, applied warm as possible. When the pain and tenderness are considerably abated, give the remedy less frequently, and apply it chiefly along the line of the hard and tender veins on the inside of the thigh and back of the leg, by rubbing and wet cloths. Continue this ^treatment less vigorously till the soreness and pain have entirely disappeared, and rub the limb with the wash daily till the swelling subsides. If, after this, any considerable weakness is felt, g've Nnx. at night and Ars. in the morning. Under this treat- ment this formidable disease will be comparatively triflmg. ^ Dropsy will not follow this treatment ; when it follows the o d routine, i re- quires skillful treatment, such as it would not be well to attempt to give you in this work. GENERAL DIRECTIONS. Never give physic after confinement. It is productive of infinite mischief. If the bowels are net moved in two or three days give iV.x. at Bight and ^n/. in the morning. If delayed four or five days, give injections of warm water. This is always sufficient and avoids the long train of evils that follow the use of cathartics. The proper treatment of a woman after confinement is as follows : After resting for a few minutes, inject into the womb a pint of cdd water, containing a few drops of Arn, or Calendnla tmc . If the flowing is excessive, repeat it with IlammieUs. Apply cloths wrung out of cool water to the parts, instead of hot and dry ones, ^^ash 51 the patient all over with wet cloth or sponge of a temperature to suit the feelings of the patient, without too much exposure of the surface and carefully avoid any chilliness. After washing and rubbing dry, put a wet bandage around her instead of a dry one, covered with a flannel or cotton one, dry. Keep the room thoroughly aired and cool. Kepeat the washing daily. Be no more afraid of water and air than before confinement. Under this treatment, a woman will be as well and as strong at the end of four or five days as in two or three weeks under the old abominable, physicing, confining and heating treatment. I am perfectly well aware that many, both in and out of the profession are horrified at this dreadful exposure at such a time. They seem not only to labor under a hydrophobia, but an airphobia. They relate cases in which women, after confine- ment, have been thrown into fevers, and had broken breasts, and even died from merely touching their hands to a cold wet cloth. This all may very well be. Shut a woman up in a tight, ill-venti- lated room at a temperature of 75 or 80, and roast her for several days without one breath of fresh air, before confinement, or after, and she will take cold by a very slight exposure, and so will a man. Any half-witted person might know that. But let a woman go on after confinement with the same free use of both air and water to which she has previously been accustomed, and she is in no danger of taking cold, unless the exposure is so great as to produce chilli- ness. The advantages of cold injection are the following : — 1st. The internal organs, after labor, are hot, fatigued and ex- hausted. An application of cool water to them is always extremely grateful to the feelings of the patient, quieting and strengthening. 2nd. It produces an immediate and prompt contraction of the womb, and thus insures the patient against an unnecessary or danger- ous loss of blood by flowing. 3rd. It is a sovereign preventive of after-pains, which often pro- duce 80 much suffering and exhaustion. This will be plain when it is once understood how after-pains are produced. When the womb is not well contracted, but remains open, blood flows into it and coagulates until it becomes accumulated in such a quantity that it excites the womb to contract, in order to expel it, just as it contracted to expel the child and after-birth. The pains will come on just as often as there is sufficient accumulation of coagulated blood to render them necessary to remove it, and no m 62 oftener. But if the womb is made to contract vigorously at first by a cold water injection, no sucb accumulation can take place, and there is no cause for pains to expel it, and of course there arc no pains. Why do after-pains increase with every successive confinement, so that after a woman has had many children they often become even more distressing than the labor itself? It is simply because the womb becomes so much distended and weakened, that it docs not contract promptly after delivery, but re- mains open so that blood flows into it in large quantity, causing re- peated efforts to expel it, and each efl"ort produces an after-pain. A few injections of cool water, or cold, if necessary, immediately, by giving tone to the weakened organ, produces the same freedom from after-pains. I have witnessed the delightful results of this treatment. Many patients who have the greatest fear of it at first become the loudest in its praise. Hydropathic practitioners have long practiced it, and hundreds of other physicians witnessing its safety and success, have adopted it, and all are delighted with it. One of the oldest and best Homeopathic physicians that ever lived, to whom I am very much indebted for my knowledge of Homeopathy contained in this work. Professor J. S. Douglas, A.M., M. D., for many years Professor in the Homeopathic College at Cleve- land, Ohio, and corresponding member of the Homeopathic Col- lege' at Philadelphia, and author of numerous medical works, writes thus, of this treatment. He says :— " I have received every year, from successive classes of medical students in the College, to whom I have taught the uses of water and air, nu- merous letters thanking me for the teaching, and speaking in rapturous terms of the success of the practice, and the reputation they have gained by it." He says, " I have never known of the first case of mischief done by it, when administered with any sort of pru- dence. The old ruinous, roasting and physieing practice is fast going out of fashion, and common-sense is taking its place." The woman after confinement, should abstain from all stimulating drinks and have only light unstimulating food till after the milk is fully established. If the after-pains require it, gi ve Caul. By this course, the milk fever on the 2nd or 3rd day, so common within the recollection of many, with often a broken breast in its train, will be avoided. A woman with a good physician and a good nurse should have neither milk fever or a broken breast. 53 NURSING SORE MOUTH. This is a sore mouth mostly affecting nursing women, but sometimes coming on some weeks before confinement. Under the old treatment it is often a very troublesome and often an incorrigible disease. If it continues for sometime it frequently extends alon^^ the mucus membrane of the stomach and bowels, producing intolerance of food and an obstinate diarrhea, under which the patient is rapidly exhausted. Many mothers are obliged to wean the child before the disease can be cured. By a very simple EomeopatJiic treatment, it is almost invariably and rapidly cured. TREATJIENT. Pod. 4 grains in a tumbler of water, a teaspoonful before each meal and at bed time, if began in an early stage often effects a speedy cure. If the case is not improved in a few days, take Nux. every night and Ars. every morning. I have cured cases of this disease with these two remedies in a week or ten days that had been six or eight months under treatment without benefit. Hydrastis is, in many cases, an invaluable remedy every 3 to 6 hours. It may be of the strength of six or eight drops to a tumbler of water and taken in teaspoonful doses, the mouth being well washed with the same before each dose, or the wash may be made 3 or 4 times stronger. In cases of long standing when the bowels have become affected, and the above treatment is not successful after a reasonable trial. Pod. and Leptandrin are invaluable. One may be taken at a time or the two alternated every 3 to 6 hours— 2 or 3 grains in half a tumbler of water and teaspoonful doses. There is not one case of nursing sore mouth in a hundred that will not b3 cured by this treatment, and in a much sliorter duration of time than it is usually done under medical supervision. In a few very obstinate cases in diseased constitutions, it may be necessary to take Sul^ph. 3 doses daily, for a few days, or Sulph., Gale. Garb. NERVOUSNESS. Many women, as well as some men in bad health have a train of symptoms well known as nervous. These symptoms generally depend upon a disease or disordered state of some organ or organs of which this nervous condition is only a symptom, and which must be cured in order to remove this symptom. But these distressino- nervous sensations may often be greatly alleviated by palliative 54 /-. „f tV,^ mmt l^^^J'^^.^Z.^.^o., an oeeasional dose :rZ;'::U lTti::r« a„apr„eure sleep, without anyof oi ThonL diseased eonditien whieh must be ^he »''-f "^^^J .traetion and attention « o-^Z Z^ rrvCs r £:r:lt :«rLdU, I ^e o^en restored . tmfo tlwe healtk and enjoyment by this splendid agen w.th other Copriate Homeopathic treatment. Electricity .s stnetly a Homco- X remedy, and when used on Homeopathic pnncjples, :s a mo Eull remedy in a long catalogue of diseases, of a character that is fC; rlVindeel to almost eery dise^e "^er it ^»;^-- chronic and in which, long diseased parts require to have their ex tZl vitality r. toed. But administered on Allopathic principles, a r^n Al opatL quantity, it is capable of doing, and often does do Lat and serious mischief, exhausting, instead of restoring vitality. _ _ Among the chronic diseases in which electricity has been, and is daitrbeTng, of the greatest utUity, a cure being often rapid y effected ate the failure of all other means, are rheumatism, neuralgy, palsy, asthma dyspepsia, affections of the head, head-ache, tendency tK, in- ^*riiver affections, old ulcers, all chronic inflammations, affections ortho Udneys, enlarged and relaxed abdomen in women who have WohUdren.^ith failing of the bowels, prolupsus uteri, andku- cSea tendency to dropsy, &.-, te- Many of these cases will be rmanentlycuredbytheaidof electricity which cannot be cured Sout. I have very lately greatly relieved a young woman ftl a great degree of nervousness by curing with electricity Z other HomeVthic remedies, a disease of the s,,me of long standing which had resisted all other treatment. DISEASES OF CHU.BBEN. SORl! MOUTH OP ISFANTS. Touch the mouth ^U over the sore surface, not rub it with awash .fmtZ, of the strength of 10 to 15 drops to a tablcspoonful of watef ;« 4 les a day." The child will swnllow a sufficient quan- tt ^ L a dose each time it is used. Mero., Jf.x, and &?pA^^«^. aro also effectual remedies. Either of them may be given 3 or 4 tmics a day. 55 -" SNUFFLES." STOPPAGE OF THE NOSE- Nuxc. is the sufl&cient remedy. Besides giving it internally 3 or 4 times a day, a prompt method of relief is, to rub a few of the pellets very fine v^ith a little sugar, | and blow a little of it up the nostrils through a quill. CRYING. When infants cry, it is always for some good reason. Endeavour carefully to ascertain the cause. It may be an uncomfortable state of the dress ; it may be chafed, and the sore parts are rendered pain- ful by being suffered to remain wet. It may be ear-ache, or more probably colic. If it is chafed, keep the parts dry — give Cham. 3 times a day, and wash the parts as often with Hydrastis, as for sore mouth, or Calendula. If not soon better give Sulph. twice a day. If it proceeds from ear-ache, the child will manifest it by uneasy move- ments of the head, and often by screams. In this case, if there is fever, give Aeon, and Bell, every 2 hours till the fever subsides, then Bell, alone. If this fails after a few doses, give Cham, and Puis. If the crying arises from colic, give Cham,, Coloc. or Bell. A great deal of colic pain and crying are caused by feeding the child when it should not be fed. It is a mistaken and very mischiev- ous notion, that a child must have food within a few hours after birth. If this were so, an all-wise Creator, who makes all necessary pro- visions for his creatures, would have provided it. The bare fact that the mother does not usually have milk lor it before the second or third day, is sufficient proof that the child does not need it before that time. For at least 36 hours it should not be fed at all, unless the mother furnishes the food before. A teaspoon ful of water occasion- ally, is the only thing it should swallow. Above all, avoid medicine of every description, even catnip tea, or saffron tea. Some seem to suppose that every child is both sick and starving as soon as it draws its first breath, and it must be outraged by unnatural medicines. Nine-tenths of all the fits, the vomiting, the colic and the crying in young children are produced by this abominable and unnatural treatment. Dr. Dewes, whose experience is very great, says he has never known a young infant have fits that had not been fed or dosed. If the mother's milk, from any cause, is delayed longer than thirty-six hours, the child may be cautiously fed with a mixture of new, thin cream, from milk that has stood not more than two or three hours, and water, with the slightest percepti- ble taste of pure white sugar, the proportion being three parts water to one of cream. 56 SCALD-HEAD— MILK CRUSTS. When sores first come upon a child's head, discharging fluid, and tbrming scales or scabs, Rhus, is the first remedy, three times a day for at least a week or two, and longer if the disease is improving. If it fails to eifect a cure, Sulph. three times a day; if the eruption is dry and scurfy, Ars. Wash the head clean daily with soap and water. In a majority of cases, however, Dulcamara, three or tour times a day, is the only necessary remedy. ITCH.— WHETHER IN CHILDREN OR ADULTS. Croto,i trig, 'and Label, alternately every six or eight hours will generally moderate the itching in a single day, and, as I know irom lerience, cure the disease in a week or two. If it fails, after this len.4hoftime,or is not improving, give i¥erc. Cor. three times a day for a week, and then the first remedies as before. Drymg up the disease suddenly by external applications, is a dangerous practice, often producing a variety of internal disorders, and sometimes death If the disease is incorrigible, however, there is no danger m a weak Sulphur Ointment, (1. Part of Sulphur to 10 of Lard,) thoroughly rubbed into the sores, at the same time that sulphur m Homeopathic doses, is taken internally three times a day. Croton is a valuable remedy in a great variety of eruptions attended with troublesome Itching, and so is Lobelia, in those eruptions that resemble the Itch in appearance. SUMMER COMPLAINTS. There are two distinct diseases that go by this name, viz : Cholera Infantum and Diarrhea. The most obvious distinction between them is, that the first is attended with vomiting and the latter is not. CHOLERA INFANTUM. This is a very prevalent and very fatal disease in this country, especially in cities like Montreal. It chiefly affects children between the ages of three months and three years. It sometimes comes on with vomiting and diarrhea at the same time, but quite as often the vomiting does not come on till the diarrhea has continued for a few hours, or sometimes a day or two. It is often rapid in its progress, and fatal in two or three days. At other times it is of long continu. ance, and reduces the little sufferer to a skeleton. It is attended with considerable fever, coated tongue, quick pulse, a good deal of pain and suffering, great restlessness, and rapid failure of strength. The chUd sleeps with the eyes partly open. The evacutions are frequent and exceedingly various m appear- ance bem- vellow. brown, or green often grass-green or 67 ; fluid, and times a day roving. If eruption is th soap and ree or four eight hours I know from Is, after this hree times a •rying up the »us practice, jtimes death. ;er in a weak ) thoroughly Homeopathic is a valuable troublesome ible the Itch viz: Cholera jetween them r is not. this country, tdren between nes comes on te as often the lued for a few a its progress, long continu- [t is attended 1 good deal of id failure of open. The s in appear- jrass-green or mixed, and sometimes the color often changing, scarcely any two successive evacuations being alike. In this disease, there is always inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stom- ach and bowels, or both, and inflammation or congestion of the liver. According as the stomach or bowels are most affected, the vomiting or diarrhea will predominate. If the disease goes on for some time, the brain is apt to become sympathetically affected, and under the Allo- pathic treatment of opiates, hopelessly diseased. TREATMENT. In the early stage of the vomiting and diarrhea, give Ipecac, after every act of vomiting or purging, this alone is often suJaScient to ar- rest the disease. If it fails, and especially if there is thirst, give Ars. in the same manner, not more than four pellets at a time, in half a glass of water, teaspoonful doses. If there is great restless- ness, Cham, alternated with either of the above remedies. If the evacuations are yellow, or brown, or dark. Pod. is an effec- tual remedy, 4 grains in half a tumbler of water, a teaspoonful same as the other remedies. When the evacuations are green, Agaricus is the best remedy, or Cham., Merc. Sol. or Pod. If the patient is much redaced, and the vomiting and diarrhea continue, Ars. and Verat. In many obstinate and protracted cases, when there is reason to believe that the bowels are ulcerated, Hy- drastis will save the patient. Pod. in alternation with either of the above two remedies, is also applicable in the same cases. DIARRHEA. Occurring in hot weather, or from indigestion, is usually quickly arrested by Ipecac, or Mix., or both alternated. If the evacuations are thin and watery, Ars. alone, or with Verat. If they are green, Agaricus or Cham., or both. If they are yellow, or brown, or dark. Pod. If the disease has been of long standing. Pod. and Lep.^ or Hy- drastis will often effect cures in cases that seem very discouraging. The remedy should be repeated after each evacuation. There are no diseases which require greater caution in diet than Cholera Infantum and Diarrhea. When cases are almost cured, the least imprudence in diet will cause a relapse, which may be fatal. Dulc. is sufficient in a great many cases of Diarrhea, especially in damp weather. II i! I ,Bn B>^»aiiu> 58 INCONTINANCE OF URINE-WETTING THE BED. The prb 3ipal remedies are Apis mel, Caath. and Pod. Onooi them may bo given three or four times a day. Phos. actd is often efifectual. CONVULSIONS, SPASMS, FITS. These are frequently produced by indigestible food, or excess, as from raisins, nuts, pastry, &c. In these eases, if it can be done, get down a sufficient quantity of warm water to produce vomiting. Whether this is effected or not, give Nvx., two or three doses, every two or three hours. If from worms, give Santonine, as directed under liat head. If from a nervous condition, without the above causes, Bell.y Cham., Amb., Nux., or Ignatia. During the fit, put the child in a cold bath, and apply a cloth wet in cold water to the head, then wrap in warm flannels and get the patient warm as soon as possible. WEAKNESS OP THE LIMBS, SLOWNESS IN LEARNING TO WALK. Calc. Carl. 2 or 3 pellets every day for one week, then Salph. in the same way, if necessary repeat it. An improvement will soon be apparent. CROUP. Give Aeon, and Sponga every 10, 15, or 20 minutes if the case is urgent, if not, less frequently. If not relieved by a few doses, give SulpTi. Add every hour till there is an improvement, then less often Hepar. is often an effectual remedy. At the beginning, put a cloth wrung out of cold water over the throat and chest, and cover it with a flannel, renewed every hour. WHOOPING COUGH. CorUlium mlrum and Ghelidonium often cure this disease like a charm. ( These two remedies are not in the accompanying cases, but can easily beprooured if Whooping cough should prevaU.) During the early stage, while there is fever, give Aeon, or Gels, and Ipecac. or Nvx. every three or four hours. In a later stage, when the fever has subsided, BelL and VeraU or Bdl. and Merc. sol. FALLING OR PROTRUSION OP THE BOWELS. Mx. and Ignatia are the best remedies, but only one at a time, three or four times a day. Xj £] O ■3? XT :EL £3 UPON THE IN suon AS ALSO A FEW REMARKS UPON DIET, THE USE OP COLD WATER, &c., &c. 1 I should be very sorry, indeed, to create any unnecessary alarm by anticipating the much dreaded epidemic — Diptheria — in the city of Montreal. Thus far our escape seems to bb providential. May Providence still smile upon us, and guard us against all such evils. But, if necessity should require it, we should be prepared to work, and with a faith born of experience, standing upon the ever- lasting and ever-living rock of facts, we know that we have medical or healing powers equal to the emergency of this or any other epidemic, and we are willing to put them to the proof on fair terms of trial, such as will secure their own independency of action so far as this may be necessary to a successful issue. I deem it necessary to make this known, and proclaim it forth with all my might to all whom it may concern ; and who does it not concern? As the fire-engines come, by their own natural guides to a house on fire, so do these necessities, to the community which wants them. In the hour of sickness and suffering and dread alarm. Homeopathy will hold out to you with an open heart and hand, and present to you from the God of Art and Science, the lives and health of thousands. When once you shut your eyes and heart against a thing without examining it, if that thing professes to be charged with a message of healing, you must take the consequences of all that is lost by such foolish and unhappy obstinacy. We are supposed to be reasonable I GO beings, therefore wc should not condemn without investigating. You all know very well that the possessions that endow our cmhzation n w and carry us in point of the material arts immeasurably beyond r'ancients/have eaeh and all been received at first with the eon- tempt and laughter of those whom they eame to serve. Should not this teaeh us to investigate and not make ourselves appear ridicu- lous to future generations ? There is a class who are neither one thing or the other, Homeo- pathic or Allopathic, such as a general thing, are people that have no minds of their own, or they are people that are easily influenced by surrounding circumstances, or ready to look at everything, but afraid to adopt anything-nervous people. There is another class hat make great use of an old common saw, and a very dull saw it island thank fortune it is fast wearing out, and will soon be among the things that were. It is only used now by those who are asleep and dream- ing agJnst Homeopathy, viz.: That it is all very well m chronic diseases, but inapplicable to emergencies and acute diseases such as Diptheria, Cholera, &c. Now I want to assure you that it ts ap plicable to acute diseases, and cures them with marvelous rapidity. To this I ca. make affidavit from daily deeds; there is an inexpres- sible pleasure m the velocity and certainty of such cures under sim- ple circumstances of inflammation, and of course when the disease does not fall upon the .oil of a bad and broken-down coustitu ion. When the latter is the case. Homeopathy will do more than anything else. My assertion can be born out by hundreds and thousands of practitioners in all prts of the world. Diptheria is one of the dis- eases that has been treated with marvelous success by the Homeo- pathic physician, particularly in St. J ohns, New Brunswick, as many of you no doubt are aware. I could give statistics to sustain hese assertions, but I have not the time and space to do so m th.s little work All the testimony would be on the one side, and m f xvor ot Homeopathy: and on the other there would be nothing but m irra- tional growl of impossible and improbable; words from se^ ment that would have checked steam, electric telegraphs, and all our recent gifts of God if they could have forbidden experiment. To me tho very thought that Homeopathy cannot tackle acute diseases is foolish and simply ridiculous. Oh ! how disgusting it is to hear foolish, simple-minded people even try to say one word against Homeopathy, those who hav. only such answers as these to the fol- in.^no- nnestions :-What d'. you know about Homeopathy ? Oh ! 1 don't know anything about it, T only know that it must be a hum- 61 tackle acute bug, because Old Pliysio has told mo so. Well, what do you sup- pose Old Physic knows about it ? Well, I don't know as tlu; old fellow knows anytliing about it. Have you over seen it tried ? No ! Do you wish to see it tried ? No ! Why ? Because 7 dori't believe in the little inll. I have heard these and many other such foolish replies to such questions. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearcst the sound thereof; and can in this instance tell from whence it cometh and whither it gocth — viz., from old physic to susceptible simple minds. But this old physic is fast drifting towards Homeopathy. The intelligent people are becoming tired of being physiced to death, and Physicians are obliged to treat human nature with decent respect. The most distinguished opponents of Homeopathy repudiate Satire as an un- worthy weapon. And Oh ! what a glorious thought, that the spirit of the God of nature is hovering over the dark waters of Medical Chaos, creating order and harmony out of confused elements which the struggling genius uf physicians has scattered about on the vast plan of therapeutics. There has been, since Homeopathy was born, great reforms of old abuses and old theories. But it can hardly be expected that Allopathic physicians, whose minds are wedded to the fallacy of materialism, should be able to analize the meaning of Similia Similihus with that nicety of perceptiun, without which, any heavenly truth remains either inaccessible to the human mind or hidden in the fog of scepticism a: d misapprehension. If Similia Similibus is a natural law, it must be capable of demonstration. We cannot expect to convince our intelligent Allopathic physicians of the truth thereof, until we shall succeed in establishing this law as one of the immutible principles of nature, the perception of which, con- stitutes an essential element, and therefore an inevitable result in the progress of our mental growth. Yes, if Similia Similibus be an universal law, and if it be true, that Infinite Wisdom operates in things infinitely great as well as in things infinitely small, according to an unchanging system of harmony, then every globule which a Homeopathic physician prescribes, should personate God's Providence to the suffering organism, and should administer relief just so far as relief is possible under the supreme laws of life. Observation has es- tablished the Homeopathic law as the only law of cure. Is there such a law ? Is an universal law of cure one of the principles of universal order ? To say that it is not, is to doubt the wisdom and goodness of providence. It matters not how disease came into the world. The bibiicai traditiou of the original siu, whether it be un- .J.J i;^ I fl « i ,1! 6t derstood in a literal or figurative sense, accounts for the introduction of disease in a manner sufficient for all practical purposes. Wo are told liiat the Creator was satisfied with His work. The design and working of the great machinery of creation were perfect. If there waa no disease, the probability is, that iherc were no drugs. If there were drugs, the Creator must have foreseen the eventual superven- tion of disease ; and if there were no drugs, he must have fashioned the forces of nature, that, with the introduction of diseases, drugs must have been produced. If drugs were intended as the natural neutralizers of diseases, I do not see how, with the belief in a Providence, whether the Providence of God, or the Providence of Nature, whose supervising and all-go- verning care extend to the minutest details of the great whole, the idea of a specific adaptation of drugs to diseases can be avoided. And if drugs are specifically curative under His infinite Providence, it can be shown that they cure Horaeopathically. It matters not how we understand man's original transgressions of Divine order. The fact that such transgressions took place, is es- tablished by the evidence of the actual as well as by the traditions of the past. The moral transgression tainted the physical creation, and the forces of disease were the inevitable result. But God could not permit these morbific forces to pervade the creation like wild law- less furies seeking whom they might destroy. He subjected them to the laws of order, by compelling them to fix themselves as it were in definite, concrete forms.' Thus it is, that medical agents embody or materialize, so to say, morbific forces, themselves resulting from man's original transgression and perpetuating themselves, with the hereditary consequences of this transgression in man, from age to age, from gen- eration to generation. In what do these hereditary consequences con- sist in a pathological and therapeutical aspect ? Why, they consist in the fact that man's organism is actually tainted with morbid tend- encies, corresponding with those forces of disease which a wise and merciful Creator compels to embody or substantialize themselves in our drugs for the use of suffering man. The Aconite-force is there- fore within us. The Belladona-force is within us, not actively, but m a state of potency, watching for an opportunity to break forth like a fury bent upon destroying the organism. Under the influence of some accidental cause, the slumbering Aconite-force becomes a re- bellious disease, and then it is that the healing artist steps in with the Aconite-plant in order to imitate God's own process of salvation. lie uriugs the Aconite principle as materialized in the plant, in con- 63 tuct with tho Aconite disoaso, and obliges the latter, by virturo of it« superior affinity to the former, to unite itself with the drug-molecules, and from an internal disuase, to become converted into an cxternid principle, of limited and harmless dimensions. Tiiis is what Hahne- mann meant when ho undertook to explain a Homeopathic cure upon the ground that a drug acts more powerfully than tho disease ; Hah- nemann could never have been guilty of the silly nonsense which his opponent imputed to him. To Homeopathy is reserved the glorious mission of restoring order in the dominion of Medicine. Order in Medicine implies a threefold hierarchy of facts : 1st. Force of disease, which are essences, essential principles or morbiBc causes eifecting corresponding derangements of the physio- logical functions, thereby producing, 2nd. Patliooy.^ ud lesions, which manifest themselves in the senti- ent understanding, 3rd. Bi/ abnormal sensations and alterations of tissues. This is the hierarchy of facts, without which, Medicine ia a chaos and a nonsense, and which implies a threefold order of studies ; Pathogenesy, or the science of morbific causes ; Pathology y or the doctrine of abnormal changes in the physiological functions, and lastly, Scmeiology, or the doctrine of symptomatic indications. Who can foretell whether it will be given to us to know the es- sences that perpetuate woe and pain among us ? We may never be able to solve this mystery, but it is reserved to Homeopathy to show that these essences do not float through etherial space in anarchical con- fusion ; Homeopathy will show that they are definite in number, subject to law and order, and admitting of a classification not depend- ing upon the fitful caprice of fancy, but resting upon the incontro- vertible and immutible dictates of Nature. Mere symptom-hunting will not accomplish the result, but a careful and unceasing comparf- son of drug-symptoms with pathological pneumonia will be a prelim- inary step towards the grand Nosology of Nature. And then, let us not despair of the chemist and the natural phil- osopher. Consider what has been done in the laboratory ! How the principles of matter have been hunted up in their hiding-places ! May we never know the forces that float upon the sun-beam into the at- mospheres of Nature, vitalizing tho wrminnl TM.i'no,Vina ;« +1, x of our planet, and developing them into visible forms in harmonic ti 64 relations with the constituent principles of man's own nature I The ancient philosophy which regarded man ?s a miniature-universe, is the very corner-stone of theosophic truth and a mine of practical use- fulness to the Homeopathic physician. Yes, the principles which originated the drug-world, emanate from, and are perpetuated by, man's sinful nature. He tasted of the fruit of the tree of the know- ledge of good and evil ; he substituted the lusts of his own will in the place of God's law of love, and the fallacies of his foolish wisdom in the place of God's eternal truth. The consequence of this moral transgression was, that man's physical organism became tainted with morbid tendencies or predispositions which, reacting upon the spheres of life, engendered morbific forces corresponding with those morbid tendencies. Every now and then, under favorable circumstances, those morbific forces, existing as they do in the bosom of the vital spheres, invaded the organism exciting its morbid predispositions into actual lesions. But, under God's Supreme Providence, these forces of disease are subject to definite laws of order, and means have been provided for their extinction. The forces which develope pathologi- cal lesions are the same forces that develope drugs in the crust of our planet. Drugs being the natural ultimations or material types of the forces of disease, will therefore manifest a tendency, and are indeed possessed of a power to absorb or attract these forces, to externalize them as it were with reference to the internal organism, and hence to hush up their disorderly workings amid the play of the physiological functions. Thus it is that God himself sets us a supreme example of Homeo- pathic action. With the very forces which create pathological lesions. He creates the means for their extinction. And the human artist imitates the Divine example by using for the cure of a pathological lesion such drugs as an EomeopatUc to it; in other words, drugs that harbor within their inmost bosoms the very fo:ces which had ex- cited the lesion, and the quality of which he determines approxima- tively, according to Hahnemann's brilliant teachings, by experimenta- tion upon the healthy as the only reliable basis of comparison between the phjrsiological series or phenomena of drug-action, and the patho- logical series or phenomena of disease. Here you have a generalization of the facts which may be said to constitute the great series of Homeopathy; man's sin tainting the vital spheres which support his pliyb.'ological organism, by the pro- duction of morbific principles that would utterly prevent God's fair creation, if, under His supreme providence, they were not held in ( € t C t S' t1 ^^ v\ it 63 order by eternal law.. Under God's government they do not rovo through the spheresof life like the unchained furies of hell, but they a ever tending downwards in obedienee to an inevitable neeessity ," t tho ' r" "' ''''' ^''""' '''^'^^^ ''- fi-^d f-rms. «ub wtl -^ ""'l '. -r'"' '''^^ '^P^^^^"S some specifie morbific essence winch will no ful to unite itself with this its material type, if such a union be still possible in the prostrated organism. Friends, would that I could make you see as clearly as I see it, hat our drug^yorld is a fixed and permanent revelation, in material forms, of the disease that afflicts humanity ! To me, Homeopathy is not a mere system of technicalities ; it is a christian science, a divine handmaid of the christian atonement. Sin begetting diseases which the laws of order compel oo fix itself in definite material, forms that become the agents for its own extinction. Is not this the Christian salvation enacted in the domain of therapeutics ? God permittin*^ sin to exist, and coining into the world to wipe out its terrible conse- quences. It has been said that Homeopathy is a system of atheism in dis- guise. Wno are the atheist-practitioners who flagellate the poor or- ganism with the rod and the scorpion, or the man who gently and sweetly ministers remedial agents for the purpose of removing pain ? I come not to destroy but to save." Nor was a drug created for the purpose of inflicting pain; its mission is to be a saviour unto sutiering man. It is the Physiological school, this medical Babylon of the day «iat IS guilty of atheistic materialism. Bcrard, the Professor of Physiology m tlie Medical School of Paris, teaches that life is the re- sult of organization, a doctrine that can only be accounted for and excused, m so far as it implies an acknowledgment of the magnifi- cently-beautiful harmony of adaptation existing between man's spiri- tual and natural organisms. Trousseau and Pidoux account for the phenomena of diseases and of medical action by the supposition of vital properties inherent in the constitution of matter. Living matter! A self sustaining, sel«.vins organism And if the harmony of the machine is di" turbed they bleed, blister, and burn it, as though the poor organism were at faul . They do not see that it is invaded by an enemy, from whose assaultsit should be freed without having additional tortures inflicted upon it. '' I come not to destroy but to give life." My friends we are f^ist approaching the day when Homeopathy Will be acknowledged as the great universal christian science of me- I 66 dicine. But wc must work for this noble end. The harvest is ripe and God's blessing awaits every honest labourer in the vineyard of his suffering humanity. Oh ! the goodness and power of God displayed in His creation is beyond all human comprehension. Homeopathy is a dispensation from God to man. He has shown us that the smallest drops of the life of natures juices, beyond all eyes to see, have each their predes- tinated and most manifold play of charities for the human constitu- tion. This planet we live upon was made by an Everlasting Physi- cian and Its flints, chalks, and sulphurs, and plants that g^ow, are t pa hate the diseases that may come upon us. Even poisons are r^Told ".'"'rV ^^^--^--e great pharmacopoe- ias as holding the world of medicaments in solution. The human hand of Providence, the vein work and sinew work of God's mercLs If rtrwil '^ "°7 ^"' r- ^^^"' ^" ^^'^^' correspoZee' DIET, COLD WATER, &C. The operations Of our medicines may be facilitated or retarded by he influences which operates upon the patient while he is under our t eatment. I am aware that what has been termed a Homeopathic ntl .\V '^f '"^ of abstainence from many things, the use of which has been rendered familiar and even necessary to u^ by Ion. or eries of influences, beanfig upon the action of our remedial agent n the human organism. We are in the habit of forbidding acid, Bpi es, aromas of any kind ; all artificial stimulants are stricti; inter! dieted during treatment ; even the most delicate and perhaps scarcely perceptible fragrance of a flower, would not be tolerated by a stiJ adherent to our dietetic rules within even a respectful distance of the mysterious globule. To an enlightened and liberal-minded follower V . ."!T°' ,'* '' '""^^'^'^^^S to trace the gradual unfolding of those stric dietetic rules which have frightened numbers of otherwise de- sirable patients away from the beautiful resources of our art. In his remarkable Essay, en^ .^^e the obstacles to certainty and simplicity m practical medicine insurmountable ?" Hahnemann de velops, m a few masterly strokes, his ideas concerning diet, such as they existed in his untramelled mind previous to the period when a certain lov6 of dogmatism becomes perceptible in his writin^^s • "A universal diet, like a universal medicine, is an idle dream!" ' We cannot lay down dietetic rules applicable to every case and to every 1 r r V d ii ti ai m F m SI an 67 lately a glJof* jlr lT>f ""^ •V''"'^ "" P'"'»»«» icrimi- ed whether ft was properTatTLv t""°"^"'«« P''?™'- iaquir- monia, but who still waJ, „f ' { "''" ™ "■«"^™S ft""" P"eu. stimulants from her eMdho„d JT"/"""'™^'! «» «"e use of such oopathy out of bool, ,7^ t' S^o'^mau had studied Horn- tended for the Z,W ;'!"'.' "-'^T' """ ■'" S°"^° ™'- - i- titiouer has Z ZlZ'ZZ' ?!' *""' *' «°°'' --- "^ *"= P- «»% maehinerr CLl*! '\^" T""'''? «» *e wants of the cannot operate ^;ir „ude,L' ''''" '"'""• ^» thousand artificial influences ivt ''"P^''''''^ °»'»Mc of those ten were, outgrowths ociXroleTusTt' """'"™''' ^' " humane and aecommodat gspir^t aid 7 "'"''^'^' ''""" whose soul delights in the cuUiS of fl™ "" T "'"""^ ^ '^■^^ as emblems of beauty let m .If "■ , ' "''° worships flowers the sight of a rosoSofa^ut 'vl t^ irthfoV 7''""^°'" '" our medicine scorns to render tl,« J", . ''*^"'*'='^ ""aje'ty of you that our delieate J2t t""^ ''""'''^'""'- ^^' '"" a^"re who preseribeT : Tl ^ it r 7? 'T '"^'^ ^^^ "^ *»- physician to use all his influntf ?.° '^ "^ '"''^ Homeopathic vating the tastes :!d":rhrpftLrTt ^""r ""'"^ Homeopathy before the „i„j. Pat'ents. Let us try to place iu the bosom o " Tsv t'^" "f . r '"'* '" """' P"-^?'- eeptions ; a drug-prer^^It^ ^ c^Hn^t v" """""'^ ^^^- accepted as a power bv fl,P r..,t i 7^, ^®' "°^«ss it is perceived and impress. J rude viltC Ttt '"T'" ""'"'' "" "«- '» medicinal agent is tendered hv„»l. ™. '°^ °'^"'™ ' ^he rights of the enemy whlL' !,""'';' "* ^^' '"'^'^ '» the which the pure sp rit o?heaV T ""' '" ''="' ™' "^ "'^ ^ouse desire the Ltu'l^r^J^TjT f™" '""''"*■ ^« in perfect freedom, yea tol Tft ""'.^'f"'^ --^edy as a friend, tiblc force of a superior attrit;!!' '"^^ *" '*' "'* ""^ '"'"i'- Should not this fact e, re se an b "' •' ."■""" ""* '' «»" ""t. -tastes Of both pa:::y;::rrr:rs;«'^:;^^ G8 ■"TS of perception, and this perfect freedom of choice on the part of the disease are interfered with by extraneous influences, just so far is the saving power of the remedial agent impaired and the purity of our essentially humane art tarnished. Most of tlie artificial tastes which civilization has created, some of which arc impure and disharmoniz- ing, are in direct antagonism with the gentle agencies that constitute our means of cure. We will naturally seek to remove them ; but let us discard all harsh, rigid, exacting dogmatism ; Ictus advise' mildly ; let us chide kindly. " A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax he shall not quench." An important auxiliary to the operation of Homeopathic medicines, besides diet, is water of various degrees of temperature. The use of water, as resorted to in hydropathic estt llishment?, may be in ac- cordance with theory, but it is not the legitimate oflFspring of natural science. A delicate organism shrinks back from such violent proceed- ings as packing, a powerful douche, and the like. I do by no means say that such appliances are inherently objectionable. By no means Let those who are willing or who delight in such powerful revulsions, be offered an opportunity of enjrying the stimulating influences of water m their fullest extent, provided the use thereof is justified by the exigencies of the case. It is the abuse of water that is con- demnable, such abuse of it as water-cure pliysicians are sometimes disposed to permit themselves. The petty despotism which some hy- dropathic physicians consider their privilege to exercise, is not com- patible with the humane and tranquilizing character of our practice. If some of you should feel disposed to associate the systematic use of cold water with the exhibition of Homeopathic medicines, I would advise you to be evei mindful of the delicate sensibilities of this liv- ing machine of ours. Rude shocks are unbecoming the peaceful dignity of our practice, they are unnecessary. ^ If the prostrated organism calls for help, tender this help at all times with gentle and discrete care. There is a deep truth in the mstmctive antipathies and sympathies of our nature. Listen to these mysterious and magic revealings. If an allopathic physician were a man; if the habitual preparation of gross wrongs had not utterly extinguished in the dreary wilderness of his heart every spark of noble and kindly feelings for the outraged susceptibilities of his pa- tients, he might have inferred from the instinctive loathing which his caxomel and jalap excite in the unsophisticated nature of a child Uiat such compounds are not acceptable to t'ae suffering organism! Why should not the spontaneous demands of human nature be re- 1 f t I w fa sp an wi flu 'tit 69 r;^'er" TifpS:r^z -^"r '- ""'°'^*- ^'^^^^^^ »^ desires to be refrerodbv°.r'™'*'^ ''""»« ^''''f-er sing of eold wl Oh':™:^'l''r='''! "^''^ "'™ " "- "'- and vitalizing ener.-ythl!h„ """> """""• '"f»rt The time has notton" ™f ^'■^™'°^*'P™''''■'''^-^°■•S«■'™• ".o r.,es of s„:„d t ; :• ^ :;:,;' '™ ^^f-^ »„t™, to drink of fresh cold wat r OA To f . ''""r""" ^'>™'-P»««»' a here, talce a little hoTl'e spLd 'wifh "' "'" '^ P°'™ ' you perspire and do you "oodron?-"'""™""' """ ™" ""J'" tte unerrin- instinctfor f . ""•'jvh.spers to tl,at eUild through the doelor knowslst! ^^' "^' ""' '' ''°-''' ^^ P°™». -d fevL'ToZlehrPhv' - ''"•™"'""' '° "-^^ "^^ -* •''«»- abominations of htdSaD "r '^'^ "'" ^">'= -arable break it. Cold water wlt '^"'"'' '""^ '™'^ » ™'' '» course of his title TrirL"^^^^^^^^^ f"™^ '"^ *'^ bis whole »toek of imperial rZ;" ?d t K S :f ' suiting nostrum with -.n int.v *• ., , ^ ^^^' nature-m- tbe patient aUve\re lu ":' rnt" A 'f^nd'" f '" ■■'°' "^f' '» ^^^ was a strong believer in eoM IT /i™"'' "^ "'»'=> » Lady who craved cold wat.r, one ^ Lu^ ~ '"S^™ f/r / *^ sponsibility of giving it to hor. It l^ ^ ba^f it'ellf "' '^ ^o^lltatdtHttlt ''I'r f t r^'^^^- ^ ""'" had to be oknged a nlbT'of tt::':;^^^ P,'"-^'"'™' i" the corning, expecting to «nd h r V ifc" ^IT "iT free from fever, and in a fair way of recov rv Of f *""■ tulated himself on the brilliant resulTof hi 1 ^ ''"""S^"- I should say his last i„<,„lt / . , "" prescription, or as remedy, JiZ^^^^Tzij^t:^ '■^^"^"■" '■^^'■' With his Calomel anrl Tolnn r ! ^ ^^ "' ^'^'^'^ "'^ «^e»' folly. "^'P' " ^^"^"» '^f'^ «f ^^«t«I perversity and A sponge bath to a fever patient is very sootliin. I • . with the operation of Homeopathic 1; uV:'" "^^^^^^^^^^ auence of water administered i^ this way!':;! ^L'rprwS"^;;: p..V r 70 liarytothe working out of those beneficient changes which the pa- tient expects at our hands. Wet bandages are likewise appropriate if patients desire them. I have known many a sore throat to be relieved by wrapping a wet bandage around it over night. Of course one or two thicknesses of dry flannel should be tied over the wet compress. Similar bandages maybe applied to the chest, bowels, extremities; they are admi- rably adapted to rheumatic difficulties; son., patients love to wear them day and night, others only at night; if carefully used they may confer benefit upon the patient and materially aid the operation of our drugs. One or two tmnblersful of cold watar just before bed time, will sometimes prove sufficient to arrest the development of an incipient influenza. Cold water thus used, often proves a natural means of exciting perspiration and starting a reaction which termi- nates m recovery. A pint or two of cold water upon an empty stomach IS an excellent regulator of the bowels ; cold water injections an hour after breakfast, are likewise commendable in cases of Chronic Constipation when depending upon habitual torpor of the bowels we can avail ourselves of the use of this beautiful agent furnished to us by the God of nature, to aid in the cure of many diseases. We should use every legitimate influence in our power to promote the internal and external use of water. I look upon it as a powerful emblem of mnocencc and truth. In a community, where cold water IS habitually used as a drink and for purposes of cleanliness the mind becomes naturally fond of perceptions of beauty and gentle impulses. And what IS equally important in a medicinal point of view, sickness will become more manageable under Homeopathic treatment, and the development of those inherent tendencies to disease which the nu- merous deviations from nature's laws, that characterise our present social mechanism, seem to foster, will be effectually prevented. Moralists and philosophers will tell us that we must turn back to the ways and manners of our forefathers in order to secure health and freedom from those many weaknesses with which our organism are tainted, Ah let me assure you that there are no return steps m the busy march of humanity to a destiny of greatness and stainless glory ISO, we never return. Onward is the wacthword inscribed upon humanity's banner as it flutters in the breeze that moves this ever varying and teeming life. Progress, eternal progress il G d' aw. We cannot return to past conditions, but we ma^ elevate our selves to conditions of a higher and nobler social life. We can never remove from our bones the liabOity to break ; but we may adopt such 1 t E s] Xi ar yc lal lal cie 71 «u.- daily d„&/,I to I V""' ". "'"'^ '" ""^ 1"=*™-™ of with, J poJlu; . ":S '7" and graduaUy do away fall on the ico, or L ,li„l„ 'Z '"""^ " ''"''' '» l-rokon by a c-y for .„cK ..cfd:!rT„re:i,rr ^"•'- Jk"^'° '^ - »=■ accordai: .^^ixzT^ s*? °^^^i:rr I'i ^: '" r«' his power to ffraduallv onn™rf . t \, ^ "'"'"W Jt not be in a™d«ery„hie1wtn ;^rr„a beau^fr"" " ■""" -W^«-di„g cal and intellectual powelT In Z " """T" °'""""'' P'-^'i- of seal and bodyouiSnt ' h,. ""> f'='™» «? this absolnte idea downtoave^iairttrulnt n"''' "'"?™^»' »««"'» dwindle To the naked' ej ;::;:;:/ ;7:".'f»- ^'""» '» ">-' < christian nation, never r^etl^t eonS'n: ' God l""' '™"'^' an organ sm with affection. ;„..ii . , "'ons. God has given us ties, aid he has !i™™ ' I -T™ ""^ ^ '■y™"' ■«^"=^i- into such forms Cig t Z' loTS v^d^T'.' °"'"'' "*- monts of the marvelous CJvitr/af T^'^' *". '^^ ^''"'"^ human life a failure ? To h„ 7 """"" ™"™sm. Is that seem cssen kl » ' ™ """" "'* o^Wbitions of life tional belgX "dt '7 ^ V'' ''" "' " *^'"'--'«^. - Has not tko d ri e Father I *",*•" '"'"" '" ""^ "S^reglte ? h,as been operatle for near y" T "T'" "'" ""^ ™^'^ «'^' worked the be^nmW ntT f f r^"""' ^'"""' ""<' *=" ^"^ »"t- period. to be ^;^::^:^fl^r^: " '"-^ ^""'™ - .Oa:^t:: izrr} r »{ ' -- ~ -- »ess and truth, of wb^:: '^^ ^ ^"^^1 a^ T- "' r^^' -ate result, a result which the S,^ ur of he wo iT " " '°«'"- offspring of his teachings, which hT protect^ 17 1''°°''"^ ^ *'= shield, and against which the 2er, of S a^ T"""*"" ranting of a fool in the presence Tt^naf :;!.tb " '"^°'^"' »' *= Permit me to say a few words about learning and wisdom ani:ers'l^^';^.^r'liTTirH^^^ ^.Physician, mind oft^ ^^fZ:^:^^ iS: tlrerto-iiLfarrr;:;:^ '" '"' ~'™ ^=-' eies would permit of any ana^:^ Z^--^ ^ ^"-^^ I If theory and fact of human pro-rcss is i-nored, and they try to reverse the ordor of things by making an old world obedient to a young world. Not so with our School. Experience has taught us that Icarnin- becomes tributary to wisdom, it occupies its legitimate sphere, and by the amount of its tribute is it valuable. The soul that abides in learning as an end— that pursues learning as an end-that finds in it food and raiment, and guidance— that surrenders itself to the records of other minds, perverts learnh.g, and perverts itself. The soul tint uses learning as a means by which to project itself into a hi-her life -thit stands upon it, with all its falsehoods, as upon a platfom from which It may survey a better truth and a nobler issue-uses learninc. aright, and is enriched. The future is an untold realm. Around each step, as the world advances, new circumstances will gather new diseases will develop themselves, new emergencies arise, nowrem'edies present tliemselves for a test. With all these the common sense and wisdom of the world are to deal, and not the world's learning Wo do not repeat through unvarying cycles the experiences of the pa^t Comparatively little of the human records of the life and thou<^ht of the ages, that are given, can have direct relation to the ages that are to come. If the earned men in the old school of medicine of the present day find themselves (and they soon will) left behind in the race of life, i will only be because they are walking among the graves of the ancient sons of an unregenerate esculapius, or busying them- selves with things for which the world would be better without and for which the real life of the world has no use, the wisdom and com- mon sense of the world is fast getting in advance of them. A man must sell his education as it is rated in the market, and he must s'p" ply he market with what it demands. But, after all, learning hJa great, a noble value. It is like the mould that accum'ulates fr^m th int? t r.V"'''''^""^ ^'''' '^ ''^''''^^' It furnishes a humus mto which the roots of mental and moral life may penetrate for r:tT;ixr " "^" ^"^ ''- -- -- -^^^ Human life is not like a bulb-a bloated tuber that batterns in the muck and kbyrinths of forgotten ages-but it is a sta k of ll/ burdened wi^ golden fruitage, and whispering through all .^s Zll of the life withm it and the influences without it. It is not a thing whose issue and end are in its roots, but in a life to which those roots are tributary ; and all the learni;g wL LVma; not be assimilated to that life is as valueless as thedustof its auth'rJ 73 •l he lonff and shorf nP tu has become so deeply i„ J "?*'«''«"'' ^ ""^ °P'"°"' -*"»P«">y gone bef„re-,o ^'^olir^T^f^ol y*' "' """" "''° '«'™ reverence to the o,„-„i„„ and r^^!' r, ?°""°''' ""■• "> P"^'°S oat freely into the fieM „f tZ .n/f .f"''"'' """ " '^'"'ot'4 Bat 16 prefer, to handle the "t i rl,r :*'"»" "^ " ^^'^ «■«■» of dead men ; but thi. slo.Zli ! 't^ 1 ^^'^ "'"^ ""o 8'oves old sraffl-grown turnpikes ■ Z°M "",""'"' "^ ""o present over to that which touches the inlercs „?°°°''°'^°'^P""'''S«"'''' ■'ogard and the humblest; this sto^pS ° •""{ '^J^'^^-^i'" Wghcst gross, at every toll-gate and K TZh f^" "'"^'' °^ P™" fcssors, is certainly against the .1 '""'='" "'' ''="»od pro- -doubtodly agaiuft tte "^^ t 0"!" ""-f '"^ ""'"' =" '' ^ »otly what that is. AnythC M '^' "' ""^ ^y ^nows ei- »P0U the spirit of inquiry wlich WT'^A'''''^ "''''='' ^^"^ ''"''ors abridges the freedom of tt^ngh wt'tlt tV'^ "'■ ^'^"^' "■"■ of past ages or of the present H™!. ^ ™'""''""' '" ">» We abjured. A living manf X " ' '" ^ ^^"^ *" ^' ""'"'^""'^'^ ""^ I>:.t ho cannot run. """^ ''"''^'J '» his back, may creep AmtlrthTilTAr^Cfr '<■» Provinces of British North ■»i»d. Let me assL IT tTai tt "'^•'""' ''^'^ """ »««"?!'« '-7 i»8 to frown down a tbZl] '! """""^ ^^^^ ^^ ««o«>Pt a..d women among you who hC -o u d^^^j^__ there are men a thousand times the sWlhmT/-: ""' '" *^'' "^^-^^ "»'* "pon the face of the glob 11!, °' "" ^' »»^'°='' College with their own unborrowed iLhT 1 T? '"""f'"' "»' '"''°» all, that nature is the fid tn J '' '' ™'*™'" *» ^"'"'^ »ns are raised by it, to enlar! a„d ,""^ f"^'^'''"- "'"' *»' ^ .and stiff. And iJth^se son rf the 60^ ." '' "''^» " «™" old ■« only because they sometZ tale . f""""^' ''"' ="""'«""». " routine, or because tteyC^ilt oM™.' °' ""^ ''°°'= "^ ^-^ o" ™k occasionally into to ^s^":;"'^^?'^'' P'-'a-'t^, and their instincts and their humatitr ,''""* ""^i '""''hen and healing. """"""y "^^ «»«io and active, they are safe o'ott;?iryorf:^rr:-- ""^-'"■■■^*-^» you, by your foolish silly noreC "" T"*™ «f those around when Homeopathy is offered to vouVn'" "^^ """"^ '""' y™' '^ how it is you have been ^"11 '^''-S^^on ? Ah 1 I know cal education, you dar«.„Mo '-'"'' "'" "''""' (""W of medi- ■ " ■ '""' 7"°^ 'hat, yoa have not the moral Ytl 74 '1 courage to do so. You fear you will ofFond jour old family Physi- cian who perhaps grinds his teeth with rage at the mention of I lomeopathy, or gives you a contcmptous look, and in some instances 1 am told, some of you are obliged to listen to violent invectives and blasphemy. All of which should and must have a grave bearinc. on . a truly pure and intelligent mind. But thank God there are family physicians among you, both nid and young, who are as all physicians should be, gentlemen in the sick room or out of it. And from the simple fact that they are gentlemen, they are never supercilious.- iiut, Homeopathy takes no cognisance of abusive appellations they cannot cover her with disgrace, or hide her beauty from the public ga.0, nor transform her into falsehoo \ My friends, that day has long since past. And now the consciousness of possessing her nma reasoning to be absurd; it is not presumption and impudence f alvl ?' ':' '' '' '^'' '' '' ^^^--^' ^^^« ^^« «t'te- down an. ' "^"^ ^'^^""- ^^^ ''' ^^ ^^^^^ -P^^ *« sit down and imagme its possibility, or its impossibility, but you are ugentb. pressed to try it, and test for yourself whether it be'true o" not. Ihousands upon thousands of the most intelligent and creditable witnesses in all parts of the civilized world, tell yl tu'lc^ll diseasesarereadilycuredbythisbeautifulitof/ealing. i "ue that, the question. Try the medicines-why should you no ToL Ho .. ^^ '*' '' '^' '""^^ ^^^ «"« ^ ««- old "school; and he is more likXtT.! t "''''"'«''' "^^y of the bonefici,,! account of the patient ^sM af ™1 '""^''^^ *» *" mot with facts and atguments but „„ . ™^""' S'"'^ *» be f rly you wii: soon finu, :re cht^," " ^^ ^ "•.'j"^""''"'"-' «4 oasy to satirise the face contorW at tt ^ *^° «"'' " « "no. a Jalap, &c, &„ bout to be ,11 .?*" °^ ""^ 'J»'»'»e' and Medicine never was intended rb'tM^f,'''''':'' >"-- nature, are medicines ? They are poiCs A ! b r^' " ""^ '■'"^- ^"t w.th reference to their action on L t f ""'' ""^ be divHed, are nutritious, and those whieA ' 2^" .'^'' '""' *»= »>'-h ana poison. Perhaps it will sTr^ L '" ^"^ """io^^.-into food doses in Homeopathy, but wh "T- '™° *" ^'^' « "ponderable " principle of Homennlttl ; ™ ""^ 'nveshgation of the tn.th of tK. --~-v -o u«„g raaae, these are the first mateite 76 for experiment. Tf twenty grains of Ipecacuanha will make a strong man sick, and if the twentieth part of a grain will eure a sick man ol" hi. vomiting, wo have two cases which can bo fairly compared ;— wo know that wo arc dealing with the same physical agent. But though largo doses must, in the firnt instance, bo tried, the in- vestigation cannot end with them. For if, as is uiKiestionably true, an inconcoi ably small quantity, or in other words an infinitesimal dose of this substance, Ipecacuanha, can produce the symptoms of Catarrh, or of Asthma, so severe as to threaten the loss of life ; and if similar small doses of the same drug can cure similar and equally violent symptoms, when they havd arisen from other causes, t.^^ . trial must bo carried into these much ridiculed but highly interesting re- gions. Thus the inquiry into the operations^ of this principle, Similia " Similihus Curantur," likes arc to be treated with likes-I can be pursued to a much greater ext-nt than at first sight would bo thought possible. We must follow where nature loads if we would know her truths. The assertions, therefore, that the action of small doses i contrary to common sense, is nothing but the cry of Ignorance, and, as such, is unworthy of attenti(ni. Similar assertions have often been made in similar ignorance. It is no new thing for great truths to be met by the same ignorant cry, '' it is contrary to common sense !" Galileo astonished the world once by the announce- ment, " that the succession of day and night was occasioned by the rotation of the earth, and not by that of the sun and stars "-and it will ever bo remembered that he was imprisoned in the Inquisition lor making such an announcement. How much docs the statement -that the earth moves-seem to contradict the common sense and observation of all men ! It is true, notwithstanding, as is proved by careful inquiry ; and so it is with the action of small doses, as is de- monstrated by similiar careful observation. The work of the Creator m every department of observation and science, presents not only mysteries, but a world of wonders ; yet the realiti/ of these wonder- tul things, m -.terious as they may be, cannot be denied. Not in acci lance with common sense do you say? Such an as- sertion my friends is made only in indolence, folly and mmltu. For every one has the opportunity daily of testing the principle upon which we administer drugs. Particularly the physician, who is already well acquainted with the poisonous action of dru-s Such indolence in this progressive age of the world as leads a m°an to pro- nouno'- an off-hand sentence of condemnation against any science that so deeply interests the human family, as the science of medicine ] c t d 77 «>"iply bcoauso it is not i,. «-. i ""or porso,,,.! o.^ioti ,11^11°^.^""^"^ " wo aro to strive without which indoal no ono o„„ „ °°, . ""P"™""" »'' others, branch of ™ie„„o... ;" °"° ™" P^P^ly booomo a student of any leforo ho hoar,/' Who„ „„ '^, T I "!'""° *■"■■ " """ '" ""^wor Homeopathy i, „ " hurnCjl^'f-^^' .'"'^•''°'''' '»"' ^^ "-at joct eiperimentany. aslt 1^^ l ° ° ''™' "'"''"<' "'o sub- «P0"' i" a praeti„:,'i„™ ™ti ; ""Z Ta-'l .""" ^""^ '■■' -- li-s phjsioKnomy y„u y^m "i ° ' "^"f ' """"^ 'f J"" will observe and Mishneas wWeh :^ atwer ." . °'"'1 '*'' "^ "kwardness ™»«1, let mo say it Z]T1 ^'''\. ^"^ '» "«' """-P'-ofe- out knowkdgo. 's„ J day ' utarhr f -^^ '" """-» ""- 'henletmcurgoyou totrv^W, ^^ ""S f™" disease, and ''"ow that in !n o^rdinrry'Ta^ Ze^r:: h ' 7 ^"°> ^«'' ' «.on your opinion would be altered T/ f '"^^^ "'"'• »»<' ;o endure the mortifieation of big r LTe"d 7"? "'" "^ °''"«^'' foohsh. I, is i„oi„j „ „, °° !, /" '"""°S once been ..ot loolced upon with rrenee To t^ :V "'"8 "' ™""'^' " « "oxiousto tho^who ar rdoJd with « ^kehood. It'is „b. extern and prejudice. They h" n! " T"""''""'!""""' of self- «.e contrary they would if The; SZh /T"^^ "' '"" °» ■■■'' of the mother rebels when tL 1, «• "'"''"' '"''"'"" i-^'i-ot treatment and nurtureof the tendTr°v '™, ''' '"^"^^^ » 'he from all the vile contamina L :f his'nr/'"'' «> P"-- - froo dical di^ases. Oh, do not po":: tt cl^d' ' '""" ^' '""■■=" ™- itead not to contradict and confute nnl * k ,- «nor.«„d,t..andd.e„:::Co'"^-11;^ m c^^i c C: Oi Ci ?' m, Die Dys Dys Erji Ver, (I Fall Fits Fatij Feloi Plow Gasti Heme Hepai Head- Hoars Indige IMEX. Ague Amenorrhea f siatic Oholera Asthma biliousness B'"tes of Musquitoes «' °ii^"*"^snakes P7» ^- spiders, Ac BW»g from .ie !,„„,, Bruises Burns and Scalds Broken Breasts '-'arbunclea Chilblains Cholera Morbus Cho era Inl^ntum J^holera, Asiatic V;onfinement Cuts Colic Convulsions in Children Cough Croup Crying Children Crystites Diptheria --"'■^^^*m Diarrhea J.." of Children Diseases of Children r»„ of Women Dysmenorrhea Dysentery Dyspepsia Erysipelas •Fevers Paj'i' ^"jermittent P,>i°^n/.*'^« Jewels ^its m Chiidren ^ atigue Pelon blowing Gastrites Hemorrhoids Hepatitis Head-ache Hoarsness Indigestion I J°^ontinance of Urine I inflammation of the Brain a " Tongue H " Throat « " Tonsil 11 jj Stomach M Bowels „ ^ Lungs u ,1 -Kidneys tt Bladder u [I Eyes <( Breasts 32 I Jaundice 4^9 Labor Pains Ineffectual 30 Leucorrhea '^"^''' 68 Lecture 38 Milk Crusts 29 Measles ?ljj*"&«ant Pustule 54 Jfervousness 4b I Neuralgia 46/A"ephriti8 al oSr^^^'^'- IJl P««io., Honieopalbj, I Pleurisy Pneumonia I Painful Menstruation I i^rofuse li Prices Professional Notice , Qumzy I Rheumatism , Scarlet Fever ■''■ I Scald Head £8 40 21 28 28 28 28 36 39 40 42 49 33 49 36 23 9 49 56 32 49 49 47 59 20 60 60 44 49 68 26 46 53 27 39 63 42 21 31 37 35 <6 47 20 20 28 26 24 66 49 30 Sore Mouth of Children " Throat " Nipples Hcalds and Burns Spasms Sprains fSS^ '° Learning to Walk Summer Complaint Sting of Insects Scarlatina 80 54 i Scarlatina Malignant 28 Stoppage of the Nose Stomach-ache Sty Tape-worm Weakness of Limbs in Children Whites Whitlow- Worms and Worm Diseases Vomiting during Pregnancy Whooping Cough 25 55 30 48 31 58 47 45 31 49 58 ERRATA. T ''■"■'^ '"''''"* '^ ''"*«*'* '' *^^> first line. ^^ 61.- « /'^«« in the place of^ten, eighteenth line. 69.- " ^'"P^^^Hn the place of mperta/, nineteenth line. 25 65 30 43 31 Jren 58 47 45 31 49 68 ■*-.. h •a*0 TlESasS I»TJ^Xalo. May we not steadfastly maintain that that system must necessarily be the most desirable and the most permanent, which realizes the grand object of making the true interests of the public, those of the physi- cian ? I think so. Therefore, I beg respectfully to ijiform the 2)nhhc that I have determined, so far as practicable, to do a cash business. By so doing, I shall save myself much disappointment and perplexity, as well as time, that I should otherwise devote to my pro- fession, and render a service by becoming more and more proficient in this noble art of healing. When a medical man ceases to be a student he should be compelled to cease practice. And usually a medical man has all the mental perplexity in pursuing his dailv round among his patients that he should have. And there certainly are perplexities in a credit business that I do not wish to encounter (I speak from experience). I can do far better, and work cheaper' and pay my own debts better, if I am paid promptly, and in the end all concerned will be far better satisfied, I shall always consider it my duty to favor those who work hard for a livelihood as much as I can consistently, but it is far better for them to pay what they do pay, on the spot. Medical services are a thing in the market, there- fore there should be no misunderstanding relative to it, and all can at once determine whether they can or will purchase 'the required article or not. Br. M. H. UTLEY, Hoftieopath, No. 22, Radegonde Street, Beaver Hall, Montreal, C. E. H mm