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PRINTED BV J. C. BECKET, 38 oREAT ST. JAMES STRMT. K >\' ^ v> )A ^" E X P L A N A T Tl V Tbo following lettoiB have appeared in tbo Montreal Transcrif^t. TLo commnni- cfttion was over an Bnonymoua Biguaiuro from a depiro that the qiu stion uf Uomoeopithy ehould be divested of all personal relatione, and thus left to be dealt with on its own merits. Two letters over the signature of Jn/i-f/wwiuc having apptarcd, one of which proffPFcd to deal with facte, it appeared desirable that stcresy sbonld no longer exint. " Anti-Hunibug" having also promised a third lettor, " Iloiria'opathy" felt it would bo hot- ter that the coirtfpondence ehould henceforth be over the writei's real name. That promised third letter has not appeared, and it must th< reforo be inferred that " Antl- Hnmbng" feels himself silenced. Resting upon the solid base of Nature's law, that like cures like, Uie Homoeopath has not the slightest fear of discusf-ion with the adherents of a practice of Medicine in which all is doubtful and uncertain, culy fo far as it accords with that law. The true Eoniceopath has no desire to injure the practice of any regular pro. fessioual medical man, but only urges upon the latter as a bounden duty to himself, to God and to suffering humanity, that he test fairly and honestly the great law upon which all curative action rests. There are now thougnnds of regularly educated Phy- Biciaus and SGrgoons who have given up the uncertainties and injurious treatment of Al- lopa'^hy for the safe and reliable practice of Homaopathy. Under its treatment acute cases yield and recover with a rapidity which amazes the most experienced practitioner, while many chronic cases are greatly relieved, or entirely cured, which resisted ihe skill and attention of Allopathic physicians for years. In some instances the farue medical man, who found his efforts baffled while an Allopath, met with almost immediate success after adopting the true method of euro. The correspondence is now placed in a complete form before the public, and intelli- gent men are asked to give their serious attention to a matter which relntcs so closely to their own comfort, and to the interests of Humanity. Montreal, August, 1864. ed by »nd by quantiii eiich mainly consists of bleeding, lejching, the administration of purgatives, emetics, diur- etics, the use of cauteries, sotons, nioxas, and the raising of puetular eruptions on tho healthy skit by the ap[)lication of croton oil and tartar emetic ointment, in fact tor- turing the healthy parts of the body outside or inside for the cure of the diseased part, and interruittini? ilio natural secretions of the healthy skin by periodically painting with Iodine, burning with turpentine, mu.s- tard, rod or white hor, irons, Spanish flies, kc, which conduct makes many patients believe that something onerg-jtic anu heroic has been accomplished. According to tho teachings of Ihia class of t'ractitioners, JiseaseH situated in ono or- gan of the body are thought to be allevi t- ed by exciting a (iireast iu imother orgin, and by administering Hiit)6t.incef in largo quanliiiriH »sLii.!i uKunot h.) made use of as eiirueiit-; of worn out tissuo, and winch aro CcJi^equeiitly rejrtctfd by Mie assimilative organs as wor'hlei's and injurious to tho ge- neral economy. TLoso BubiitanccB are varied occasionally a^ routine Buggtsts, but in their adminietratiou, for tba alkviation of disease there is no recoguitioo of a cnrative law in nature. If the Medical Ffccnlty of McaiU Univer- sity, or any liberal and progreBsivo cltizeng of Montreal aro anxious that tho )0UDg gra- duatoe emanating yearly from this Medioftl hchoo', Bhould be in possepsion of a larger amount of knowledge to fit them for their arduouH task, and tne best known means of alleviating tho distreBH of thi ir ( lUiW crea- tures throughout the Piovince of Canada, they should not rest satiKtlcd with the mere presentaiion of a Gold M dal to tho meat diligent, ©r perh'ips the most talented stu- dent, but they should do iheir best to estab- lish a chair to teacb tbo "Practiojof Phy- sic," according to the " DoctriTiOS and teach- ings of Homu,opathy." For the following reasons : — Ist. BecauBO Homo opathy possesBes a universal luiv of cure, and therefore raitOB tho praciice of physic to a 8f;ienco. 2ud. P.ocauso the adminisi-ratlou of me- dicines, according to the llom(i'.)pathic law, does not injure any part of tho healthy or- ganism. :!rd. BecauBfl tho properly selected Ho- rn djpathic remedy acts caratively on the disease itself, and removes it, (when cura- tive means are possible with man ) 'tth. Because the practice of medicine according to the doctrines and teachings of Uomtu^y of the piactlco of ph jBic according to tho doctr'nes und teach- in^fl of Homrropatbf can be demonstrated to be a philosopbical study, which becomes more and more interesting at every step of profcresa, and is worthy the profonndest scholar, the most capacious intellect, and the ptireHt cbristinn, 8th. Because the most intellectnal and experienced of the Allopathic school have in thtir honesty nciinowiedgeU that Allo- pathy is a delusion and a snare lu the treat- ment of Dynamic dikeaHes. 9ih. r>ccauHe the best time to learn the diderout methods of practice is during joutb, for it is a well known fact, that in the advanced years of life It is one of the most ditBcult tasks to unlearn that which was learned as truth — (although error}— in younger years. In 99 cases out of a 100, old men are found condemning that which they do not know, because they will not tipeud the time necessary in investigating the truth. 10th. Because Homd'opathy experiments only on healthy individuals and not on the t-ick. 11th. Because Homoopathy does away with the abwurd and heterogenous prescrip- tions of Ph^Kiciaus which often contain dozens of diilerent and nauseous materials, calculated to disturb the processes of nature, and to tight against each other in the dark, and which too frequently leave their unex-| pelied detritus to injure the living macbin ery for life. 12th. Because Homopathy docs not pan- der to the depraved tastes of people, who retjuire for their money a quantity of colour- ing matter, and a taste of something that bites, before they can believe a cure of their diseases possible. l.'ith. Because it is well known that young medical studentu would attend Homoeopa- thic lectures on the Practice of Physic, in large numbers, if they were allowed to do so by the Faculty of Medicine. 14th. Because Homdopathy will often cure diseases which are considered incur- able by ordinary practice. For these reasons 1 would earnestly re- commend the liberal and truth-loving citi- zens of Montreal and the Faculty of Medi- dicino of MiGiil College, to take into their most serious consideration the establish- ment ot a Homaiopathic Chair in the McOill College — (or shew cause why not, like rational men). By establishing and endorsing snch a chair, and granting a gold medal yearly for tho most proficient Student in Homoeopathy, the Faculty of Medicine, or any other, wcnld confer upon themselves lasting honor, for being amongst the first, to adopt a truth in practical scionre,"" which is fast revolntlonis- ing the whole Medical World, and which is now only condemned by those who are un- acquainted with it ; who are interested in itF downfall, or prejudiced against it. Homa-opathy is:consonant with the known facts of Anatomy, Chemistry and other col- lateral branches, and partakes of tho truths of these. Hooiccupathy serves to make physiology more clear, and gives a more profound appreciation of the gt-rms ot Pathological Anatomy, and should therefore have its disseminating power increased, by all legitimate means. Yours truly, HOMtEOI'ATHY. (AuTi-IIuMnra's Lbttiii No. 1.) To the Editor of the Montbbal TuANScikirT. Sib,— My attention has been called to a letter contained in your issue of I2th May last, under the ^i«naturo " Homu^opathy," laudating that system of practical medicine, and denunciaiing in equally vigorous terms what the Horn trofni tit ' /s are pleased to desig- nate the Jllloj.ntii ic mode of treatment. The writer of this letter brings to his assistance no less tbaa fourteen reusons in support of bis position, but, logically speaking, they are not reasons but rather postulates, which, if granted, the truly eclectic practice of the present day would tumble and totter to the ground. But there is little chance of that taking place, so long as one grain of sound commou sense remains existent in the com- munity. It is true that every and any in- Qovation upon tried usages will find its sup- porters for the time being, tho new fangled notion but to be discarded in its turn with those which precefled it. Despite, how- ever, of what llomuiopathy, Hydropathy, Sympopathy, and all other pathy's may do, and however much tho Professor of these 'pathy's" may delude the public, and ob- tain willing dupes, there cannot be the least doubt that nothing but the desire of acquiring the means of living, by preying upon the imagination of their dupes, lies at the foundation of all these difi'erenfpathys" When Hahnemann .started Homoopathy, ho revelled in his infinitcssimal doses, main- taining the doctrine, with "cimilia simili- bns curantur," that the energy of medicinen increased with their dilution, and that a medicine attenuated to the docillionth de- gree was far more potent in its effect npoa ■lisease than an ordinary grain of the same medicine ; and in fact that the more it was attenuated, tho more active and vigorous it really became. The supreme absurdity of this doctrine became eoon transparent, and, ti I I the und>! and was ; well phys dnty thini have nnfol saedl mostf that] sible after whall valul iCMPT. ed to s lb May jpathy," edicloe, ]a tetms todefliK- nt. The sBiatance pport of ng, they p, which, CO of the bar to the I of that of sound the com- 1 any in- id its Bup- w fancied turn with )lte, how- rdropathy, a may do, of these , and ob- ot be the I desire of ,y preying pes, lies at it "pathys" ■opathy, ho >Be8, main- ilia Bimili- f medicinefl ind that a lllionth de- tffect npon if the same more it was vigorous it absurdity of parent, and, accordingly, the Homceopathists soon be- came split up into several sects— some cf which still employ medicines in their in- flnitesslmal dnsos, while others use them in the ordinary doses ; thus sailing under false colours ; while a third cUbs adopt the me- dium courRe, on the principle, we supposed, of " in medio tutissimus ibis." Hahne- manism may indeed be said to be truly extinct at the present day ; and it is my sincere belief that nothing maintains its present nominal existence tban a deficiency of earning a livelihood by more honest and legitimate moans. The Bolf glorified man- ner in which your Homeopathic practition- ers will reason with yon, upon your extreme incapacity of perceiving what Is so palpable to himself, viz., the value of medicines given in quAutitiea so small that a drop of the St, Lawrence would prove energetic, may cap- tivate as it has undoubtedly done, many minds, but those capable of serious reflec- tion can certainly never become convinced by any such assertions. It requires a little more than the assertions of ii'ty years to do away with the accumulated experience of say two thousand — and yet the Ilomcuo- pathist are not by any means too vain to proclaim that they are attempting it. To prevent this letter from extending to an undue length, I will reserve a few facts for " Homujapathy" to digest for my next, and in the meanwhile, will inform him that the text of it will be his fourth postulate, that the practice of IIomuuDpa'.hy has been, and can be amply proved to be attended with more recoveries in all li'nds of acute and chronic diseases, when fairly tested, than the method of practice called " Allopathy." I do not by any means propose to enter into an argument with " ^lomu; opathy," as the subject is unfitted for your columns ; all I desire is to narrate, in as succinct a manner as possible, the results of a few cases which were placed under Homcnpathio treatment by the late Dr. Rosenstein, in the wards of the Montreal General Hospital, at that time under the service of Dr. Hall, of this city ; and in whica the fullest and freest sway was afforded the practitioner. I remember well the obloquy which was cast upon the physician for his supposed dereliction of duty ; but when it is recollected that no- thing but the interests of humanity could have guided his course; and that nothing unfortunate issued ; that the treatment pur- sued was witnessed at that time daily by al- most all the leading phyflicians of the city ; that the Homceopathist had the fairest pos- sible play, and that he expressed himself afterwards to that eftect, as I am informed ; what stronger proof could be adduced of the value of the two systems of practice. I have the honor to remain. Sir, Yours, truly, ANTI-HUMBUG. Montreal Transcripl, Juno 4, 1864. No. 2. To tht Editor of the Montubal Transcript. SiB,^8ome time has elapsed since my let- ter to you dated May 27th, In which I pro- mised to detail to you a few facts for '■ Ho- moeopathy" to digest, after doing which, I proposed to leave him to his meditations. The inflated, even arrogant style in which his letter id couched, merits a rebuke how- ever mild, and I trust that he will receive it in this letter in which I propose to op- pose facts to his axsertion.i. About the year 1845, Dr. G D. Gibb, now of London, Eog., acted as House Surgeon to the Montreal General HoBpit'il, which during the early summer months was under the professional charge of Dr. Hall ; Dr. Rosenstein was the only jubilant Homceo- path at that time in this city, and that he must have been a man of varied and deep learning, is proveablo from the fact that be wrote a book on HomiRopathy, however much his enemies may have desired nuch a con- summation. We should suppose therefore, that that fact, if it proved anything, would be sufficient to demonstrate his competance. He was promised charge of the earliest im- portant cases which occurred in the Hospi- tal, and the opportunity was not long want- ing. The first case which presented itself, was one of pure Inflammation of the lungs in a yoang man, and as this was an easily de- tected disease, and its limits definable, it was adopted at once, as the first subject of experiment. Dr. Rosenstein was forthwith Rent for, who after arriving at the Hospititl, stipulated as necessiry to success that the patient should be placed in a ward by him< self, and that he should not be tampered with in the least degree, and after the most perfect assurance on these points, the treat- ment was assumed at once. It is almost unnecessary to add that Dr. Rosenstein was informed by Dr. Hall, that if unfortunately the disease progressed, it would become the duty of the latter to take the case out of his hands. I have now to observe that the pro- gress of this patient was watched with con- siderable anxiety by (he late Drs. Holmes, Crawford and Badgley, by Dr. Campbell, and other physicians of this city who were all glad of the opportunity of seeing Homoe >- pathy fairly tested. The result was that the disease, despite of the treatment pnrsu- ed, made a decided but steady advance, i « m until ftbout the fonrth or fifth day of treat- ment, from a tritiio); Hpace at the upper part of the right lung, it had invaded nearly the whole of It. Dr. Hall now took the case in hiB own hands, and by the adoption of ener- getic meastirt) the pior man's life was saved, bat not b.fjre suriouu fears of it were on- tertaioed. Shortly after this unfavourable result of fluroce >patbic treatment, there presented themstilves for admisdlon into the Hospital no lea than three cnses of fever and ague. The esses were all well marked ; one case by a liver complication, the second by a complication of disease of the liver and dpleen, while the third was an uncompli- cated ca8». Dr. Ro-ienstein was again fent fcr, and was clI red the selection of the CBses, IMunh to the astonishmeDt of every one he chuse the eimplfst case of the three, Til - the uncomplicated case who was at once placed under his charge. The hospi- tal bo>ks will record the fact that in the course of about a fortnight the two compli- cated cases were discharged, while alter a protracted treatment of nearly si?: weeks the patient under homutopathic manage- meut implored Dr. Hall to assume the treat- ment (.'f nis case. I remember well that one day elapsed without that young man having had a shake (I forxel the technical term), when Dr. K excluimed, " now ho is cured —the disease is checked, and will never re- turn, while your cases, addressing Dr. Hall, may have the disease return at any minute." —But the following day witnessed another shakH, thus shaking to their foundations all the H «moe )path'a predictions. By way of exuibiting to the students then in atten- dancri, of whom I was one, the efhcacy of mere diet in modifying the progress of dis- ease, Dr Hall placed a case of the same disease, substquently admitted, on pluin milk and water, without a particle of medi- cine, and this man got on equally as well as did the case entrusted to the professional charge of Dr. Rjseustoin, Now, Sir, the foregoing is a truthful nar- rative, or it is not. That it is the former, there is abundant evidence even now in this city for i's substantiation. I have freely used Dr. Hall's name, a liberty for which I am sure ho will furgive mo, although I ques- tion much if I have a right to ask it, an, at the time he was a public officer, discharging an offi' isil duty, and whose acts were open to all kinds of criticism.— Fairer cases for t 'Sting the value of Homce )patbic treatment could not by anv possibility Lave been ae- 1 cted, and yet that mode of treatment moat signally -uilo'l. Now, Sir, how far the foregoing facts can go to prove " that the doctriaes and teach- " ings of Homa'Dpathy have been and can " be amply proved to be, attended with '* more recoveries in all kindi of acute and " chronic diseases when fairly tested than " the method of practice called Allopathy, " as taught by the Profesfor of the Practice " of Physic iu the University at present," Ih what 1 will leave f )pathy, since "Anti-Humbug" has refused to define it. Homoeopathy then is a principle established in nature for the ( ure of dynamic diseases, and, practically, it is as follows :— Medicinal substances have certain proper- ties which manifest tbemselves, on being administered to persons in health, by pro- dn an deraj will " I that] withi St. Ignoj thatf thoal tritnl and can ed with ;ute and ted than llopathy, Practlco n8ont," iH Htlon and lat perHOU Hcnlty by D did not [ictlco was thlc prac 8on with a inflnlte- •Inclple of com poop ; he wrote a itU a third g to Bub- [IMBUa. R4N9CBIPT. 2lh of May veme spaco 10 insertion iHshmHut of Medical Fa- rhat article ixiK, In two rd one. My l-Humbng'H" last, and I itfor" Anti- .8 hl8 No. 3 omlng, with irour to reply nymous let- Boldler firing edge: there- feebly I may ayself not at as the only lere la abun- l that «' Antl- f. ly? ug," it will ho It is meant by Humbug" has CBopathy then d Id nature ttic diseases, l8 follows : — jertaln proper- ves, on being lealth, by pio- daclng certain symptoms. When the first scruple dose of Ipecacuanha, for InHtance, was givun to a ptirson In health, Billoud Tomlting, with hutduche, vertigo, nausea, loss of appt'titc, Buvcr>t pain in thu stomacli, kc , were inducud. VVIion Ipueacuauha Is taken in hvr^'o d>)HeH by a person In bi'alth, It may be look(d upon as a general law, that thu ubov*t syuiptomH will taU'* place, UM any oiiu niuy Hooa Butlni|inle himself. KoKarding tho proKrens ol disenHo, Dr. Konuet says : "There was a time when it was supposed that the pro^resH of typhus fever, small pox, and many other diseases which are now always allowed to run their natural course, could be arrested by medical interference, but with r(jurpnHu, Mr. Kdltor, savors strongly of an " Dude Humbug" In the woik of iv !;ept furthe purpose, and Hiinctloned by both parties at thu time. W'tit re is this ruse book V (Jive us the record. Kvory Hospital worthy of tho name, iu any country, so records its caseH, as a mer( bant records his transactions iu IiIk Jay book, and then every addition or sulttraction from tho record may be seen, always afterwards. Where, I ask, is the record of this, and other cases, in the Montreal Oeneral Hospital ? ity tho t^\alnination and study of sucli records, of interesting cases, students build for them- selves a basis for Dfa^nosisand Treatment In after life, and a desire for upholding only that which is true. Without Biich study and ex- amination, a habitof vague solf-conceited as- (>crtion Is engendered while theiin- ly inconsistent, but how much even these most absurd trials of " Anti-Humbug" speak in favor of Homoeopathy, for in " Anti-Hum- bug's" emphatic ?«Qgaage, " nothiag unior- 11 a niudi* ounced a cured in who Lad aDorrba}!), She had for 8ev»in igly ttr- iieut" aU proprlatfl er to corae have had 3ted allo- recovered ese snfficH nore than ver.T ua- and ague the treat- le same aH >t. Bleed- given up, )ecific8 are 'lIopathiBta And what est authors Nelligan, ta with the nf action, " They are C8, eraptri- lao specifica rinciple of •pathy two The ioflam- [iaposed of, er and ague Dr. Roaen- t. '• Anti- all Ud how reatment of air trial of katched an- the experi- 18. In the the patient perimentera m from Dr. terminated, bearini; up of torture, ind yet they daya under believera in relieve** and n ia cert>iin- h even theae nbug" apeak pathic Hoaoi^al in Golden Square, and obaervlng that the atatiatics of this Hospital were not included in the general returns mado to Parliament, moved for conies of the returnu that had been rejected by the Medical Council. The motion waa agreed to by the House of Com' mons, when the above resolution, astound- ing to those who were not previously acquainted with HomoBopathy, was made. Dr. Horner pronounces this proceeding on the part of the Royal College of Physicians, as a " conspiracy against the truth, and against humanity itself." What can be thought of a profession which suppresses such ficta because they condemn its prac- tice, while its adherents are too prejudiced to tost Homoeopathy for themselves? The proceedings of the Medical profes- sion against Homcuopathy, says Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, is an e::traordinarv picture of prefatory patvc, vulgar wonder, ignorance, obtrusive vanity, plans for profit and popu- larity, fatal "blunders, diatractiug contradic- tions, and egregious empiricisms." The mean duration of Disease particularly Inflammation of the lungs, has been stated by Dra. Tessierand Louis of Paris, Dr. Hen- derson, Professor of Pathology, Uuiversity of Edinburgh, and Dr. Dietle, Allopathic Physician of Vienna, to be as follows : — Treated Homooopatbically. Allopathically. Average duration of cases 11} days. 29 days. Expectant syntero, ■' Anti-HumbugV'milk and water system, 28 daya. ALLOPATBT IXPENSlVI. St. Bartholomew's Hospital spends £2,- 600 sterling per annum, in drugs ; 10,816 pinta of black draught were adminiatered, and 29,700 leechea applied in one year. To thia catalogue mu.st of courae be added the gallona of lifo-blood let out by the lan- cet and the fearful amount of aufifering in- flicted by blisters and other external appli- cation^.— all, it will be observedjUineceMary. nay, far worae than unnecesxary. The death rate under Homotopatby is much less than under Allopathy for the duration of c" jes curable by both systems, is aa 11} for Homoeopathy against 29 days for Allopathy. Were the Montreal General Hospital con- verted into a Homceopathic Hoapital, it would be capable of relieving hundreds of patienta per annum more iL. i at preaent— just in the proportion that 11 1 daya bear to 29 days. The immense amount of real 12 good which wonid result, if Homoeopathy were adopted instead of Allopathy through- out the world, is almost incalculable. It is in the nature of such a power as Homceo- pathy to be encroaching, and it surely can- not be called "arrogancn" to proclaim boldly what one can defend as being true. " Jlrrogance," I chink, belongs to the procla- mation of error, and ' inflation" to the wind bag, which can be easily collapsed. I have thus disposed of postulate No. 4. I hope I have sustained it to "Anti-Humbug's" satib- faction. I shall endeavour in my future commnnication to sustain the remaining postulates, seriatim, and then draw my deduc- tions. Tours truly, JOHN WANLE8S, M.D. Montreal, July 14, 18C4. To the Editor of the Montki&i. Tbanscript. Sir,— With your permission I now pro- ceed to prove, what '* Anti-Humbug" has pronounced to be rather " postulates" than reasons. In my last communication the 4th postulate was disposed of, the others will be tafcen up seriatim. The 1st reason given in f«vor of the es- tablishment of a Homoeopathic chair in the Medical Faculty of McOill Universitv was " because Homoeopathy possesses a univer- sal law of cure, and therefore raises the practice of physio to a science." It is a well known circumstance that the medicines chosen by Homoeopathists are chosen for the ';nre of diseases, because the same medicine when given in a large dose to a healthy indi- vidual will produce symptoms similar to the symptoms of the disaase which is to be treated The legal way of proving that Homoeopath- ists select their remedies upon this law of cure, would be to swear a few Homoeopath- Ists and obtain their evidence from the wit- ness box. " Anti-Humbug" need not put me to this trouble, I presume. Instead of performing this feat, however, I will give him a few more instances which prove that medicines do act curatively and ac- cording to this law. Hippocrates said : " give a draught from the root of mandrake, in a smaller doae than will induce mania, and it will act curatively on mania." The symptoms which will follow the ad- miniatration of a large dose of corrosive sublimate to a healthy person— (says Tay- lor in his Medical Jurisprudence;— will be like those of dysentery, viz : tenesmus and mucous discharges mixed with blood, &c. In fact inflammation o' the stomach and bowels. *' Anti-Humbug" does not think of doubting that these symptoms recorded against corrosive sublimate by Taylor are correct. Homa^upathists Lre all just as well assurad that the same kind of symptoms in disease will cease upon the administration of dynamised doses of corrosive sublimate. The way to prove either is to try. I have abundantly tried it, and have found it true. Why won't "Anti-Humbug" study the mat- ter, or allow others the privilege of being taught the doctrine of Homoeopathy. Dr. Oroenevelt in 1703 published a little work full of interesting cases of Stranguary —which were cured by Spanish flies, a medicine which is well known to produce Stranguary in a healthy individual when given in larpe doses. For the publication of this book, the Royal College of Physicians of London committed Dr. Orounovolt to Newgate, by the warrant of their own Pre- sident. " Anti-Humbug" assumes a curtain form of academical persecution too.— As there is a good deal of space to be occupied in proving the other postu- lates, let me be a^ brief as posRible with each. These insts^ces of the law of cure will be sufficient to prove that there is one, and if there can be one case proved that medicines which produce a complaint, if not there, will cure a similar complaint if it be there, then that is sufficient, foi nature has never two laws for the accom- plishment of the same object ; all her laws are simple and of universal application for accomplishing the end in view. "It therefore raises the practice of physic to a science" is the remaining portion of the " postulate." What is a science 7 " Science is knowledge built on principles." The practice of Homoeo- pathy is based and built on the principle here enunciated, that medicines producing similar symptoms in health will cure simi- lar symptoms in disease, the latin formula of which is " simiiia similibus curentur." "Let likes be treated by likes." The lat postulate is thus established. The 2nd postulate is " Because the ad- ministration of medicines, according to the Homoeopathic law, does not injure any part of the healthy organism." I have proof from " Anti-Humbug" him- self to sustain this postulate, for he says "that nothing unfortunate issued" from the administration of the homoeopathic treat- ment of his great hospital cases, and the public will know that " onu drop of the St. Lawrence" will not injure any one. No, Anti-Hun^uug, " nothing unfortunate ever ioBues" from the homoeopathic treatment to the living organs, their homoepathic powers do not lie in tide direction of injuring organs, susi si Me( ud claJ ll ( IS I hope I ag's" BfttiB- my future remaining my dedac- 3S, M.D. shed a little Btranguary ish flies, a to produce ridnal wiien poblicatioQ FiiysiciaDB ounuvolt to air own Pre- 168 a curtain tlon too.— of Bpaco other postn- )08eHombng when he looks at the power of medicines from an allopathic point oi view, from which we can never see a cur- ative means established but through the telescope of a purgative, diaphoretic, an iodine painting, a moxa, ice. This estab- lishes the Fecond postulate. The 3rd postulate " Because the properly selected homoopathic remedy acts curative- ly on the disease itself and removes it (when curative means are possible with men)." Every material in nature is known by its properties. The Ipecac, the Cantbarides, MercuriuB Corrosivus,— are known by their properties, and the rtfects resulting from the administration of these properties, are likewise known. The proof that disease exists, is that the symptoms of the disease are present. Headache attended with Bilious Vomiting, Ac.,&c., are symptoms of a dynamic disease of the Stomach or Head. Ipecac will produce a similar disease of the Stomach or Head. How is that known 7 Because Ipecac will produce Headache, at tended with Bilious Vomiting, &c., &c., when given in a large dose to a healthy in- dividual. A dynamised dose of Ipecac will cure, " Headache attended with Bilious Vomiting, &c." How do we know that? In the same way that we know any other I fact. When a person who is suffering from ■' Headache attended with Bilious Vomiting, kc," receives a dynamised dose of Ipecca, immediately after he will have no more Huadache, Vomiting, &c. This is the proof that the Ipecac acts on the disease it- self, and removes it. I have been convinC' ed of the teet hundreds of times, and so may any one who will try, as Homa;o- pathists do. There have been no signs of any other organs becoming affected in an abnormal way by the administration of the dynamised dose of Ipecac. We therefore conclude that Ipecac has only acted on the disease of " Headache attended with Bilious Vomiting, &c , &c.," and has removed it. And as with Ipecac so with all the other HomcRopathic remedies. Facts again there- fore sustain postulate 3rd. Postulate 4 was sustained in my last letter. 5th Postulate. " Because HomoBopathic Medicine can almost always be administer- ed easily and without repugnance to all classes of Patients and under all conditions." If a person has had his brain concussed, or is in a state of Epilepsy, Apoplexy, Ac, bis mouth may be rigidly closed, yet s few pellets of the homoeopathic remedies may be always introduced between the lips, and ab- sorption will take place as well from the moistened mucous surface as if the pa- tient had^swallowod the medicine. How re- pugnant are the nauseous doses of allopathy to all, especially to children. Often have I seen the noses of little children held tight, so that they would have to breathe throngh the mouth, while forced to swallow the horrid stuff which the stom- ach will likewise do its best to cast out, by its own instinctive action. In fact every organ struggles to rid itself of these nau- seous, often deotructive materials, and it is this casting forth of the medicine, by these violent efforts, that is actually looked upon Ly many as a curative process. But this, my fifth postulate surely no one would think of disputing. tjth postulate, " Because the sick room during the treatment of the patient may be always kept free from appearances of blood and other repulsive and filthy results of Al- lopathic treatment." Surely this does not require to be established. Just visit a pa- tient under Homoeopathic treatment, suffer- ing from a similar disease, treated by A: 'o- pathy, and all this will be apparent. The haggard countenance under Allopathy from the narcotic, the uncomfortable result of leeches, the writhings from the dressings of blistered surfaces and other methods of torture, the prostration, &c., from purgation and diuresis, salivation, he, &c., all the«e ' (ire absent with Homoeopathic treatment ; the patient is calm and collected, free from I torture, recovers rapidly, and looks cheer- ful ; and even should death terminate the scene occasionally that last act of lifo may even taste of its pleasures. 7th. "Because the study of the practice of physio according to the doctrines and teachings of Homoeopathy can be demon- stated to be a philosophical study which becomes more and more interesting at every step of progress, and is worth v the profonnd- est scholar, the most capcoious intellect, and the purest christian." Lord Broughim defines philosophy as follows : *' He who in whatever situation his lot may be cast, prefers the refined and elevating pleasures of knowledge to the low gratifications of the senses, richly de- serves the name of philosopher or lover of wisdom." Oalileo, Hervey, and others, although persecuted, and set down as fools, must have felt a higher gratification in prosecut- ing the truth tnan their enemies did in per- secuting it, while the latter would not in- vestigate for themselves. Homoeopathists, especially those who have been Allopaths, as I have been myself, feel that it is an ex- tension of their wisdom to know the powers of the Homoeapathic remedies, which they had spurned and contemned before. And certainly it causes any man to become more 14 1 and more a lover of visdom, whea there is revealed at every step of research, powers in nature hitherto unknown to him. All that HomocopathistB wish is, that Allopatbists wonlu 8tnd5 the system and try it, and set aside their notion of the incredibility of it. We have nothing to do with incredibility in progress, ior much of our knowledge was incred ble a priori, we never would have had any improvement in any science if we had stopped our progress by the stupid cry of hicredibiljty. Such cries are almost always made in ig- norance, for those who make them have bestowed no study upon the subject Again, "Anti-Humbug's" ''grain of common senoe," which is to be sufficient to refiist the belief of a fact, is just as wise as the Academicians, who when applied to by the Ist Napoleon to ascertain if concen- trated steam, according to Fnlton's process, could propel a vessel, it is said that ''they replied by a bnr^i of Olympic laughter, and kfpt back the clock of civili- zation for a quarter of a century " It must certainly be a philosophical study to dis- cover that there a^e powers in nature, even in the minute divisal^ility of matter, which will cure diseases, according to a law, bet- ter than by other methods, as, see statis- tical tables. Surely the study of such powers, multiplying at every step of our in- vestigation, will be interesting, just in the ratio of our advnucament. Homoeopathy has to do with the germt of disease,— the lirst vital departure fros>. health in any tissue. These vital, local or general, in- s'incts, whether normal or abnormal, must be profound, and can only be reached by a profound curative agent, which will induce these instincts, when abnormal, to return to their normal condition. And what remedyis so likely^o alt'ect these instincts as one which is known to act on them exclusively ■ for, as we havo shown, the Homoeopathic Drug in large doses will produce similar symptoms to the disease which it is chosen to remedy. Consequent- ly these remedies (when the diseased symp- toms abate after their use)mu8t have induced the cause of these srmptoms, or abnormal vital proceRses, to return again to their nor- mal condition. Disease Is 1 >oked upon as a vital thing by Homoe jpathists : not a crude entity, or tumour, or inflammation ; these are only the effects of the abnormal vital cause : and what more worthy a profound Scholar and intelligent Christian than to trace out life in its action through organ- ism. Let this sufdce f. r the 7th postulate S;h. " Because the most intellectual and experienced of the Al'opathio school have in their honesty acknowledged that Allo- pathy is a delusion and a snare in the treat- ment of Dynamic Diseases." To prove this Fostnlate, I will simply qnote from a few of the eminent PhysiclanB of the Allopathic school. Sir John Forbes, Physician to our beloved Qaeen, regarding the " energetic treatment of Allopatbists," says,— "That evidence shows not simply the power of nature to overcome disease, bat to overcome this and the artificial dis- ease superadded by the energetic ignorance of the practitioner " Again be says — " I have indeed no doubt that a portion of the deaths which supervene to disease treated by art, are the direct produce of that art." Sir Astley Cooper said, ** that the science of medicine was founded in cocjecture and improved by murder." Dr. Reid says, "more infantile subjects are perhaps destroyed by the pestle and mortar, than in ancient, Bethlehem fell vic- tims to the Herodian Maseacre." Dr. Dickson says, "So far as my experi- ence goes, few people are permitted to die of disease, the orthodox fashion is to die of the Doctor." Keiper said " in most cases the .proverb is true, that the remedy is worse than the disease, and the Doctor more dangerous than the disorder. Hull- land said, " my opinion is that more harm than good is done by physicians." BuorLopve s:iid "that it would have been infinitely bettor if medical men had never existed." Dr. Lano said, " allopathic treatment is unquestionably an evil pregnant wfth re« suits inferior only to the original complaint, in its damai'ing effects on the constitution." Surely that is enough to prove my 8th postulate. 9th postulate will be generally acknow- ledged as a fact ; I will simply state it : '' Bdcause the most proper time to learn the different methods of practice is during youth, for it is a well-known fact that in the advanced years of life it is one of the most difficult duties of even a rational man to unlearn that which he learned as truth (although error) in his younger years, and that in 99 cases out of a 100, old men are found condemning that whicli they do not know, rather than spend the necessary time in investigating the truth. 10th postulate is a well known fact, " be- cauHe Homoeopathy experiments only on healthy persons, and not on the aick." However, I may mention, that the Materia Medica of Homa-opathists is simply a re- cord of the symptoms produced by the crude medicine in healthy persons,and the facts re- corded by Metlictl Jurists are very valuable to the Homoeopathists, when they rhow the direction of the actions of thevarioas poi- sons in the healthy organism. When the symptoms of a disease Are similar to those the al is puis Mer tout tbe> jurii T the 16 11 simply hysicians n ForbflB, regardiog tpatbiata," ot simply iliseaBe, ificial die- ignorance bays — •• I loQ of the tse treated bat art." he science cture and e Bobjects )estle and hi fell vie- my oxpori- ^ed to die B to die of nost cases remedy is liu Doctor ier. Hufli- nore harm bave been had never eatment is t with reo complaint, Qstitution." ve my 8th ly acknow- y state it : to learn tho is during ict that in one of the ktional man )d as trath years, and Id men are hey do not necessary a fact, " be- ts only on the sick." the Materia imply a re- by the crude the facts re- !ry valuable ey fhow the irarioas pol- When the lar to those produced on an healthy individual by a poison, we may be sure that that poison dynamised so as not to do barm, will act curatively in a email dose on the scources of the symptoms. Tho symptoms of tne disease are similar to the syraptoms of the poieon, we eay therefore the Bcources of these symptoms are similar. The cause of the abnormal tissue is a vital disturbanre, it is tho disease, and is a subtle thing. The antidote must necessarily be a subtle thing too. The criterion lor the selection of tbe remedy, was proved on the healthy individual in the Uoma pies of nature, and to ii)r;ht against each other in the dark — and which have too fre- quently their uuezpuUed dutiitus toiDJure tne living mac hiuury for lite." When it Ih true that every medicinal substance if tested on thu living machinery, produces its own peculiar set of actiuus there, it will be found that one medicinal substance will act on one part of tisHue, another will pro- duce dibturbance in another special T.>art of tisriue, a third, fourth and so on up to doz- ens, ail acting in different directions ; and theue selected and administered empirically are found to disturb tbe vital processes in- stead ot inducing them to return to their normal condition. Kegurding the unex- pelled detritus of those crude Allopathic ocseK refirred to in this postulate I may re- mark that when so much Gamboge, Aloes, Calomel, el hoc genux oinne has been and is given to individuals in disease, the in- stincts of the stomach and bowels may be, as it were, seduced into permitting their absorption into the circulating system by which they are carried to all parts of the body. Those crude medicinal substincea not being posse-sed of any element calculated to build up wasted tissue, can nevor be made to assume the form of li\Ing jells ; they are therefore always driven on through the organs unaseimllated, causing function- al disturbance, aud the further such detritus is carried the more is the difiSculty of ex- pulsion ; hence tbe reason why so much Mercury, Gamboge, Ac,, &c., have been found in the very bones many years after thfy have b^-en administered, thereby in- juring tbe living machinery for life. There is no doubt that the instincts of the stomach and bowels have better per« coptioDs as to what is good for the body than tho physician who administers such trash, but these instincts may be considered to be often somewhat off their guard by the effects of disease in the general system, and in conseq'.ience the evil things are allowed to pass muster when they should have been at once expelled as intruders having dam- aging properties. When Spanish flies are applied In large quantities to a raw surface of the ekin, tbe bladder and other internal organs will be selected as its sphere of poisonous actioc. When we have bags of serum thrown out beneath the Epidermis upon the application of a ffy blister, it is just an exemplification of the instincts of a part (when forced to self-defence) acting conservatively, so ab to have tbe least injury dune to the whole machinery. In tho administration of the pr( at majority of tho Allopathic drugs, tbe thing nccompliihed is simply a teaidug and torturing of tho instincts ot tissues, which might be better omp'oyed in the endeavour to remove the dist-BSu from the system, in accordance with natures laws. It is said ibat Uonioiopathic patients re- quire much fnith to believe in the powers of Homwopatbic drugs, — to my mind now, it requires a greater amount of faith on the part of Allopathic patients to believe in tbe curative powers of materials which are so well proven to make one sick, and to he at- tended with such undesirable effects as have been alluded to in theso communications. 12th postulate. " Because Uomoeupatby does not pander to the depraved tastes of many people who require for their money, bulk of colouring matter, and a taste of something that bites, before they can be- lieve a cure of their diseases possible." How often do medical men see indivi- duals who would pay cheerfully for a big bottleful of nauseous substances which when taken will really sicken them, and the more it sickens them, the more will their faith be increased as to its powers of healing, and the more they are hurt by tbe drugs, tbe more skilful the Dr. is thought to be who prescribes them; and this is called "common Bense." It will be apparent to all that tbis postulate will be granted. 13th postulate. "Secatisa 'A. 'a well known that young modiaal students would attend HomcropathicVectures on the prac- tice of phytic in lac'^e numbers, if they were allowed to do so by the faculty of medicine, before whom atjircsent they might bo afraid at their examinibtion for their degree." It is a well known fact that various Uni- versities and I Colleges have denounced Homoeopathisf'Si and rejected Students and applicants for their degrees and diplomaa, and have pasRed resolutions forbiddiag their 16 membera to bold any profoasional inter- conrse with those who adopt this Bystem of PrMtlsing Medicine, and this act of authority is exercised against all Homoeopa- thtets, without ever having studied the sub* joct as a branch of natural knowledge found* ed upon observed facts. By this means,many young men of an enquiriag disposition are prevented from acknowledging their desire to become acquainted with Homooopathy, not a few of whom are Medical Students of McQill College. The Royal College of Surgeons of Eng. land, however, fiods that " it is not expedi- ent to interfere in this matter," and it is to be hoped that McQill College will not only follow that example, but go beyond it in establishing a chair for the teaching of Homcuopatby, as I have endeavoured to prove they should do. 14th Postulate. <* Because Homd^opnthy will often cure diseased states which are considered incurable by ordinary practice." I have already given evidence in this correspondence that this is a fact, and it would be useless to multiply cases. "Anti -Humbug'' in his first letter states that "Homa>opathy" brings to his assistance 14 reasons in support of his position, but logically speaking they are not reasons but rather postulates, which, if granted, the truly eclectic practice of the present day would tumble and totter to the ground. But there is little chance of that taking plr,ce, so long as one grain of common sense remains existant in the community. It is true that . every and any innovation upon tried usages will find its supporters for the time being, the new fangled notion but to be discarded in its turn with tbosu which proceed it." ] t will be necessary for me to state to the public wbit this " electic practice of the present day" is of which "Anti-Humbug" seems to be a disciple. The celebrated firoussais said with his biting irony, *'tbe eclectics are always men ot superior merit ; they are never mistaken in the choice they make among the different sectii, and t-^ be on their list is to be infal- lible. Tbii:; is, I hope, a fine dose of presump- tion. What do yon think of it, gentlemen of the eclectic Hchool ? Could you succeed bet- kbr if you wished, ttr prove that medicine is only a map of traditi\r>ns, both true and false, of precepts both gv>od and bad, of practices both useful and dang rous and .-onseqnently not worthy of \fi plaoe in the rank of sciences 7 It appears tto me, that to say we are eclectics, is to declare there is no sound doctrine, that all th« ProfessotB have erred in a great many parilonlars, and that '' we" are the only oneR among all phyaicians past and present whci are never mistaken." Can " Anti-Humbng" be an eclectic after that 7 Does eolectioism begin to '* totter ?' Not yet, says " Anti-Humbug ;" " not while one grain of common sense remains existant in the comm unity." I will admit that com- mon sense is plentiful and powerful, but I deny that there is as much aa " a grain" of it in the whole community. This la only a postulate given by ** Anti-Humbug" to prevent hia edifice from tumbling' I asaert that there is not the millionth part of a grain in weight, or anything like it, in all the com- munity. " Anti-Humbug" may be ao fond of bigdosea, that he would prescribe a bigger dose than there h existing. If there la not a whole grain of common senae exiatant in the community, eclecticism must fall. Did " Anti-Humbug" ever see weighed in a pair of apothecaries' scales the 20th part of a scruple of " common senae." He never did, and never will, for however powerful com- mon sense may be, it is an infi nittsmal Ho- mu3opatbic remedy which, accoraing to "Anti-Humbug," should have no power, and could not therefore prevent hia tclecticistn from falling. " Anti-Humbug's agreement was " that if my postulates were granted the truly eclec- tic system of the present day would tumble and totter to the ground." There being no proof that there is a grain of common sense in the community, and I apprehend there will be no difficulty in granting that my postulates have been sustained, I therefore call upon "Anti-Humbug" to permit hia truly eclectic system, after its tottering, to tumble to the ground. And, moreover, it is the part of infinitilmal Homccopathie and powerful common Be^e to allow thb thing to tumble. This fully proven Homoeopathic scientific system of practising physic should be hail- ed by McOill College and the Oovernors of tbe Montreal General Hospital as a great boon to the community, and a harbinger of better times to suffering hu- manity all over the world. Like all other systems built upon truth, and which have made their way against dominant interests, Homooopathy has outlived and will continue to outlive the sneer of the ignorant.— HomcBopatby has its basis upon a rock, a%u can well affjrd to withstand tbe raging bil- lows of persecution, enmity and insult, with which it has to corUiead. Homoeopathy does not wish to find fault with the men w^o still cling to a worn out and dangerous sys- tem, it is merely desirous that the better system should be studied, and the worse one left behind. I am. Sir, yours truly, JOHN WANLE8S, M.D. Montreal, July 29, 1864. v.. itic after totter ?' ot while flzistant hat oom- al, bat I a grain" is ia only ibug" to I aesert if a grain the com- ■o fond ) a bigger »e is not lifltant in M. Did in a pair )art of a tever did, fal com- 8inal Ho- t<(llDg to )wer, and cleclicism I " that if ily eclec- Id tumble being no Don sense Bud there that my therefore ermit his tering, to ireover, it ;)athie and thb thing ! scientific d be hail- Ternors of tal as a y, and a "ering hu- I all other tiich have ; interests, [1 continue {norant.— fc rock, ar^u raging bil- QBult, with pathy does men w*iO ;erous sys- the better ) worse one 38, M.D.