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J A LECTURE DGUVEKED BKKORK TIfE IIOMn-'OPATlIlO MEDICAL SOCIETY OP CANADA, AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING IN HAMILTON, MAY lo, 18J5, J ANO REPEATHD BY EEIJUKST, IN TIIH CITV OF TORONTO, JUNE 2.>, 1855. rUBIJSHKD BY THE aOCIETY, WITH AN APPENDIX OF THE PROCEEDINGS 01'" THE SiiCIKTY. EY JAMES LILLIE, M.D., D.T)., rKOKEBSOR or UACLAY COM.KGK, TOKOXTO. TORONTO: rniNTED AT THE GLOBE BOOK AND JOB OFnCE. 1855. 1 1 I Otontcnts ; Organon of Hahnemann and Edinburgh Eeview, 1830— Hooping Congh, Drosera R.— Dyppepsia, Charcoal, Chaiic— Priueipio of HonKLopatliy easily disproved, if false— Allopathy professes to cure Acute Fever by Bleeding—Fallacy— Frank— Mart yn Paine— Experiments of Dr. M. Hall— Dogs bled to death— Patients too— Dr. M. Hall's coimnents— Bleeding unscientific— Endless contradictions of its leading advocate? — Andral, (called) the first Pathologist in the world, knows not how to bleed — Confessions — Recoveries not owing to Bleeding, but to Nature— Homoeopathy and Acute Fever— Habnematm— Aconite— His Challenge — Bleeding palliative merely to High Pulse— Aconite curative— Mr. Liston, of London— Dr. A Fleming of Edinburgh— Dr. F. mistakes the secondary action of Aconite for the primary — Author's experiments on himself and family— Fleming's experiments on Dogs and poor patients— Drugs are poisons— Fatality of Allo- pathic mistakes and practice— Evidence apparently proving that Dr. Fleming poisoned patients in Edinburgh Infirmary with Aconite- Folly of Medical prejudice against infinitesmal doses, shewn from the nature of Fever— JVertoiis-Frank, Hall, Syme, Alison— A miasm— •word— thought— may produce disease— Why may not a Decillionth eure it? Scarlet Fever — Cholera— EUiotson's Confessions— Criticisms thereon— Hahnemann and Cholera— Statistics— Inflammation of the Lungs— Allopathic practice threefold more fatal than the disease — Dr. Dietl's famous experiment in Vienna— Homoeopathic treatment 1 i LECTURE. 7\. S It is now a quarter of a century since my attention was first drawn to Homa'opathy,by an article in the Edinburgh Review of 1830. After attending medical classes in the University of that city, I bad abandoned the study of Physic, under a deep conviction that whatever truth there might be in Anatomy, Chemistry, Physiology, Pathology, or Botany, considered merely as natural sciences, still the science of healing, or Therapeutics, had no existence. The discus- sion in the Review, at once acute and witty, bold, and in the main candid, i,hook my medical scepticism, and I be- came satisfied, if there was an art of healing at all, that the Organon of Samuel Hahnemann must be its text-book. It was not, however, till eight years after, that the subject came under my attention once more, with an interest that has been growing ever since. It was then that Hooping Cough invaded the parish of which I was Pastor. I was led to test the pretensions of Hahnemann a» to having dis- covered a remedy. I gave six globules of the DecilUonth of Drosera Rotundifolia, to six children respectively. Next day I found them all decidedly better. Two of them had never hooped, after taking the remedy. Struck by this ap- parent success, neighbours came for help. Above forty cases were thus treated satisfactorily ; five or six being treated AUopathically, of whom two died. I now deter- mined to examine Hahnemann's Arzneimittellehre,Materia Medica, or Exposition of Remedies. I was arrested by the assertion on Vegetable Charcoal, that the millionth of /, a grnin was more powerful in its action on man, llian llic whole grain in ilH eriulc lorivi. Without delay I l)urn('il the wood, prepared the eliareoal according to direetionH, and gave some of the millionths to a farmer who comjjlained of dyspepsia. On his return he was curious to know what what he had takcn,as it had worked him so well,that he had got more good from it, than from anything he had evr tried. The very same experiment was made with Calcarea Car- bonica, or Oyster shell, with the same happy results. By experiments like these, I soon became completely con- vinced that Samuel Hahnemann had really discovered the true science of cure. What then is the grand principle of the system of Ilomceopathy ? As the name implies, the principle is, that a drug can only cure a disease, provided it has the power of producing symptoms analogous to the disease, in a healthy man. For example how was Hahnemann led to think of Drosera in Hooping Cough ? Because on trying the juice of that plant on healthy individuals, he found it produced a cough, which struck him as a lively picture of the disease. Thus the 58th symptom is, "Cough,the shocks of which succeed each other with such rapidity,that he can scarcely breathe." How was I led to think of giving charcoal to the farmer.? It was because I remembered especially, among other things that I found corresponding, the 2'19tli symptom : "In the evening, pain in the pit of the stomach, which was even painful to the touch; at the same time nausea,and dis- gust which seizes him, even on thinking of eating." An- other dyspeptic farmer was treated with Calcarea, because the symptoms in the drug and the disease, were more ana- golous than in Charcoal. Bytouchmg the patient's system in the direction of the disease, tiie reaction of the vital force is called forth against the disease in the direction of health; nntl ns llic vital forcf is n peMinnmonl causo, the effort wliicli it inodiU'L'M is i)(>rmiin(.'at ; lliut is, il is eurutivo, not piilliiitivt!. OiU! int'onMU'o is very clear from this statement, viz., if llalineniann and his disciph^H are mistaken in tlu^rtc things it must be the easiest thing in tlie world to demonstrate their error. L^4tflil>I^M»l"0"lW'IINi»i 10 day. On the morning of the third day the pulse is 1 10. She is bled again seven ounces. In the evening, however, the pulse was 132 and strong. Leeches were ordered, but hot procured ; and Mr. Hey found on his return, that the pulse had fallen to 120, without any leeching at all. Had he only taken the hint to wait, the pulse would probably have come down still more, and the mother been saved. But no? Mr. Hey must bring down the pulse of 120, by taking three ounces from the temporal artery. Well ! The pulse did come down to 112 ; but mark, next morning, it was up to 126. Thus the three ounces, instead of really, that is permanently, lowering the pulse, actually raised it six beats. The artery again gave up its three ounces, and things seemed better. But lo ! In the evening, the pulse is 140 ! Life is again drawn from the artery, and the pulse falls to 120. Now, Mr. Hey becomes alarmed, and calls for help. All he has gained by his four operations, since the 3rd day, is to raise the pulse from 110 to 120. The physicians arrive — they blister. Next morning the pulse is 1 16 ; but at morn it is up again to 140 ! Palsy now be- gins to set in ; the doctors fly to wine and ammonia, and after tossing for a few days, and refusing all medicine, the poor mother at last is still ! It is dreadful to compare this statement, with the experi- ment on Dr. Hall's lower animal ; and still more dreadful to find Mr. Hey confessing that the case was no exception, even in his practice (and he was at the head of his profes- sion as a surgeon,) but, on the contrary, was merely one of a *' melancholy" group. What unprejudiced mind can doubt, they ivere bled to death ? Dr. Hall, commenting on that very case, declares, (p.99,) " It is impossible to imagine a more interesting and in- " stmctive train of events. Nothing but a careful exami- " nation is wanting, to make it complete as an illustration r^ (t n of the effects of extreme loss of blood upon the brain, " lungs, and other organs of the body." Dr. Hall at p. 6 gives us the following " interesting and instructive" passage :— " I have already stated the symptoms «*of reaction from loss of blood, accurately resemble those of '* power in the system, and of morbidly increased action of '< the encephalon (brain ) and that from these causes, the « case is apt to be mistaken, and mistreated by the further " abstraction of blood. The result of this treatment is " again apt to mislead us ; for all the previous symptoms are « promptly and completely relieved ; and this relief in its " turn again, suggests the use of the lancet. In this manner " the last blood-letting may prove suddenly and unexpect- « edly fatal." Such then is the blood-stained circle in which the ablest Allopaths are almost necessitated, by their own candid confession, to make their patients travel. Dr. Hall is very earnest in distinguishing inflammation from irritation, as an opposite condition, demanding oppo- site treatment; while he allows that the symptoms of both « accurately" resemble each other during life, and present many common appearances in death. How then can they be distinguished from one another ? Dr. M. Paine, how- ever, rejects the distinction entirely, insists they are one state, and equally demand the lancet. Still he maintams, the weapon must be wielded with consummate skill, mas- much as bleeding too little would make the inflammation worse, and bleeding too much would light up inflammation, where it had no existence before. But if the leaders of the medical world are thus at issue, as to the safe use of the lan- cet, how can it be expected that ordinary practitioners should avoidthe most fatal mistakes? Whatever medical schools may teach, they cannot teach the use of the lancet, for the teach, ers themselves are all at odds what should be taught. We find Tley, and Gordon, and Denman, all candidly acknow- ^ J< d ¥ ^'* ; I (.J E^ ^^a gf" .«».;-W»««»»'' .«MUMweM^> / 12 ledging the fatality of their mistakes about blood-letting, and though tliey supposed, they found out at last a safer way, by increasing the quantity drawn at the outset of the disease) they have failed in convincing a majority of practitioners of the correctness of their method. Besides,what had the teach- ers of these able men been doing, not to instruct them how to use the fatal instrument, so as not to stumble over corpses in their way to truth ? The fact is, to this day, professors de- clare in ell'ect that they cannot teacli the use of the lancet. For example. Dr. EUiotson, late Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of London, tells us (p. 123 of his lectures,) "I am satisfied, that general bleeding is continual- ly omitted, when it might be most advantageously adopted." Then (p. 129) he adds, "supposing, however, as is very likely to happen, that the patient has been bled too much," and after j)erplexing himself and his readers, he finally winds up by saying; "these matters, however, cannot be learn- ed minutely by precept." Nay, verily, " these matters" are not " learned" at all, if blunders, as Dr. E. says, are daily made in bleeding too little and too much. But then it is clear if these matters cannot be learned, it must be, because they cannot be taught; and if they cannot be taught, it can only be, because they are not known. The utter want of all science in bleeding, may be demon- strated from the practice and confessions of the famous Andral of Paris. This physician has the reputation of being the first pathologist in the world. If any one knows how to bleed, he must be the man. Judging from his writings, he seems to be a man of truth and candor. What then is his testimony ? After detailing his first case of Inflammation of the bowels (in his Clinique Medicale,) he declares " here, blood-letting exercised no beneficial influence." If so, it is clear Andral was mistaken in bleeding at all. But it may be said this proves nothing against bleeding, it merely shows IS that a great man may blnntler. Unfortunately, however, for such a reply, Andral declares that this case was like "many others," — that it is " one among a thousand," in which bleeding was absolutely useless, nay, it did not even "pre- vent anew inll.unmationfrom setting in." Now if an An- dral may be a tliousand times mistaken in bleeding, this can only be, because there is no science to guide in the opera- tion. Commenting on his second case,Andral declares,"here, again the total inelHcacy of blood-letting." And to con- firm his view of this frequent ineilicacy, he quotes the cases of two medical students who died under the lancet, and thus winds up ; " Here arc two well marked cases where blood- letting was equally inetlectual, either to remove the still slight symptoms which existed at tlie time it was employed, or to prevent the development of more alarming symptoms." Here it cannot be yiretended, that blood-letting was too late in being resorted to, for it is expressly allowed the symptoms were "still slight " when it was employed. But if blood-letting cannot deal even with such cases, why should it be supposed capable of curing more dangerous ones ? Should it be pretended, that it is only on great emergencies, that so powerful an agent should be employed,then the ques- tion will be, why it did not cure those two cases, when they became more alarming ? But this, Andral expressly says, it failed to do. Andral gives the casesof other five medical students who werebledlbrfever, two of whom died. Out of these seven yoimg men,therefore,fourdied in spite,if not in consequence, of bleeding. It is a singular fact hvl one medical student, whose case was rather severe, was left by Andral without any treatment at all, and got well. I call attention to this now, because it is a curious confirinalion of what I w'!l soon mention at length viz, the memorable result of Dr. Dictl's experiment at Vienna, when of the patients bled. Nt -ary^-^y- ww— 1.8 14 / :) and vomited, and purged, about three times as many dicil, as when left to nature alone. And it is worthy of still more special notice, that five other cases of fever left byAndral to nature, recovered. Weighing all these things carefully together, I maintain, that Allopathy cannot cure Inflammatory fever. That pa- tients often get well under the lancet, and its various ac- companiments of Calonel, Tartar Emetic, Blisters, &c., is not denied. These recoveries, however, are due to the re- cuperative energies of nature. They take place in spite of, not in consequence of, these dangerous expedients. Let us now very briefly consider the theory and practice of Homoeopathy in Acute fever. In 1811, Samuel Hahne- mann published the first volume of his Arzneimittellehre, or Materia Medica, containing an account, among other things, of the action of Aconitum Napellus, on the healthy subject. In the introduction to that drug, we find the fol- lowing statements : — " Although the following symptoms " do not express all the medicinal power of this precious " plant, they do not the less furnish the sagacity of the Hom- " oeopathist, with the means of judging how far it may be " useful in certain diseased conditions, against which vul- " gar medicine has hitherto employed, often in vain, and " almost always with sad results, its dangerous resources, " such as copious blood-lettings, and the apparatus of what " it calls the antiphlogistic treatment. I refer to fevers, " called purely inflammatory, in which the smallest dose " of Aconite, which allows us to renounce all the remedies " acting in an antipathic manner, cures with promptitude, " and without leaving any consecutive affection. In mea- " sles, in miliary fever, in inflammatory fevers with pleu- " risy &c., the efficacy of this plant is almost miraculous. " It is precisely in those cases, in which the partizans of " Allopathy boast most loudly of their method ; it is in great. X 15 « acute inflammatory fevers, in which they fancy themsclvcf* «• alone able to save the patient by bold and frequent bleed- " ings, and think that so they will carry it over Homa;opa- " thy, that they deceive themselves most grossly. There, " in fact, Homoeopathy displays more than anywhere else " its immense superiority, as it has no need of shedding " one drop of blood (that precious vital juice, of which Al- " lopathy makes such enormous, thoughtless and irreparable " waste) in order to triumph over these dangerous fevers, " and lead them back to health." I do not apologize for the length of these quotations, since they really embody the most important announcement that was ever made in Medicine. If these statements of the founder of Homoeopathy be not true, it is the easiest thing in the world to disprove them. Inflammatory fevers are no such rarities in this world, noi is a drop of Aconite so hard to procure, and divide, that the enemies of HomcEo- pathy could have had any difiiculty in covering Hahnemann with shame, by challenging him to make his words good, in the presence of impartial witnesses. But this, these false brethren (for Hahnemann was a regular physician a» well as they) never dared to do. What they did, was, to harrass the immortal reformer of Physic, by low malignant prosecutions of the apothecaries, first at Ka-nigslutter, and then in Leipsic, and to drive him into exile in Anhalt Coe- then, thus confessing by implication the impossibility of meeting Hahnemann in the field of fact, and scientific con- troversy. In the prolegomena to his Materia Medica, Hahnemann thus appeals to his unworthy persecutors : " But I will " point out to my adversaries a more powerful, an infallible " way of overturning, if it be possible, this doctrine, which " threatens to stifle their conjectural art. " Homoeopathy rests solely on experience. Imitate mc. M J ill I 16 / I* ' • / " says she, with a loud voice, but imitate well, and you " will see, at every step, the confirmation of wliat I advance. " What no Materia Medica, what no system of Medicine or " Therapeutics, have ever been able hitherto to do, she de- " mands with load voice ; she irill De judged by the results." This gauntlet has lain before the eyes of Allopathy for forty-four years, and it lies untouched tliis day. Hahnemann declares in the passage formerly quoted, that the smallest dose of Aconite enables us to dispense with all antipatliic agents, in the ease of Inflammatory fe- vers. For example, were we to try to restore a frozen limb by hot water, we should be using an antipathic agent, just as we should be doing, were we to apply snow to a burn. Experience demonstrates, that the successful practice is, snow for the frozen limb, and warm alcohol for burns. Hah- nemann justly claims these ))opular facts, as instances of the Homfeopathic law, by which the agent acting in the direction of the disease, wak(!s up the vital force, against the disease, in the direction of cure. Bleeding is antipathic to a high pulse, because its pri- mary action is to lower the pulse. The necessary result is, that the vital force reacts, and raises the pulse as high^ or hif^her than before. To bring down the pulse therefore, as well as to allay all the accompanying fever symptoms, it is necessary to employ an agent, whose primary action is to quicken the pulse. The secondary result is, that the vi- tal force reacts against the drug, in the direction of health. Many substances possess this primary power of raising the pulse, and are thus homoeopathic to Inllammatory fever. None, however, in this inestimable virtue, equals the Acon- itum Napellus. The extraordinary power of this " pre- cious plant," as Hahnemann truly designates it, can no lon- ger be denied, even by Allopathy. The late Mr. Liston, one of the most eminent surgeons of the age, proclaimed the ( HI 17 power of Aconite, in very small doses, to wubdue Liflam- matory fever, and liad the moral eourage (and it was not small) to own, that he had learned the fact from HomcB- opathy. Alas ! That so few seem to be able to afford to follow his example. What shall we say of Dr. Alexander Fleming, President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, who, ten years ago, came out with an inaugural dissertation on Aconitum Napellus, setting forth its marvellous powers in curing acute Rheumatism, and inferring, forsooth, that " it will pro- bably be found," highly useful in Pneumonia, Pleuritis, &c ! Now I would ask, did not Ur. A. Fleming know, that Aconite in Acute inflammations, had been proclaimed by Hahnemann, as with trumpet, 40 years before ? If he knew it, and tried to conceal it, that he might seem to be a dis- coverer of the very trulhs, which Homoeopaths are acting on, every hour, throughout the civilized world, then his as- surance is only matched by his disingenuousness. If he did not know it, his ignorance totally disqualified him for the task he undertook. In either case, the Medical Faculty ty of the Senatus Academicusof Edinburgh, are sharers in his deep demerit. Dr. Fleming does not seem to be aware there is such a thing as Homoeopathy in the world. He very quietly tells us, p. 31 that " Aconite exerts a direct sedative action " on the vascular system, reducing, in the first instance, the " frequency of the pulse." Now, if this be true ; if Aconite indeed reduces, " in the first instance, the frequency of the pulse," it must be antipathic to Inflammatory fever, not Homoeopathic to it, as Hahnemann supposes. In that case, Hahnemann was entirely mistaken in saying that he cured Inflammatory fever, by a remedy that was not antipathic. Is it possible that Dr. Fleming was • tc of the vast sig- nificancy of his declaration, thai the pii.uary action of Acon- ( / • / 18 itc brought down the high pulse ? If, ns ho supposes, he has proved this, he has given HomcDopathy as a science, its death blow. He has proved, that Hahnemann (\\d not know what he was doing, when he wrote his dissertation on Aconite, and that his disciples are really Albpathists ia the greater part of their practice. If Aconite acts directly a» a sedative, reducing, in tho first instance, the frequency of the pulse, then it acts pre- cisely like bleeding, and its indirect action would necessa- rily be to elevate the imlse, under the antagonism of the vi- tal force. But where, in that case, would be the advantage of Aconite over Bleeding, which Dr. Fleming wrote hi» dissertation to demonstrate ? The truth is, the direct ac- tion of Aconite is on the nervous system, and its primary action on the pulse, is to raise it ; the secomlary effect, and the permanent one, being the falling of the pulse below it9 ori'^inal beat, under the reaction of the vital force. This sec^ondary effect, Dr. Fleming mistakes for the primary, and consequently the graduating medal of 1841, was as- signed under a mistake. I speak on this subject with the confidence inspired by 18 years continual experience. I know that the primary action of Aconite is to heighten the pulse. I have repeat- edly called the attention of professional men on the other side, to this remarkable fact. Again and again, have I asked them to feel the morbid pulse, its rise ind fall, under the action of a small fraction of a drop of Aconite, has been predicted, and within fifteen minutes has the prediction been fulfilled. r. . •♦ It was only last Friday week, that one drop of Aconite was dissolved in a tumbler of water, poured back and for- ward from one tumble.- to another 50 times, and divided among 4 persons, whose ages were 65, 18, 11,8. Their pulses just before taking the dose, which was a table spoon- ^ /> 19 fill of the solution, Htootl 61, 50, 76, 72. A fno minutes af- ter swallowing, tin; pulses were respectively, 03, 60, 84, 90 ; i. e. 3, 10, 8, and 18 beats, higher than before taking the dose. In half an lionr^ however, the first pulse which had risen 3 beats under the primarij action af the Aconite, had fallen to 54, that is, 7 beats below its original beat of 61. One week after the last experiment, 3 drops were dissol- ved in the same way, and divided among 3 males, whose ages were 55, 20, 18. Before; the dose, the pulses were 62, 80, 72. A few minutes after the dose, the pulses were 64, 88,76 respectively, having risen 2, 8, and 4 beats. In less than half an hour, however, tliey had fallen to 58, 70, 70, that is 4, 10, and 2 beats respectively, below the original point. How then has Dr. Fleming been misled in so simple a matter.' Apparently, by not looking after the primary ef- fect, till the secondary had set in. Thus p. 23 he says, that one hour or more after 5 or 6 drops, the pulse is found to be diminished in strength. " Thus a pulse which in the "normal state beats 72 in the minute, will, bij that tiniCj " have fallen to about 64." To ascertain the primitive ef- fect however, the Dr. should have examined the pulse, a fei(f minutes after the dose was taken. Had he done so he would have found out, that the pulse did not fall from 72 to 64 by a direct descent, but first rose, probably to 80, and then be- gan to fall to 64. And it is just becau.se the pulse goes round by 80 in such a case, that it is disposed to remain steadily at a lower figure. Had Dr. Fleming properly attended to his own experi- ments, on the dogs which he killed with Aconitine, he might have found out the truth, on this all important point, about the j9rmari/ action of Aconite. Thus in his 14th experi- ment on the English terrier, p. 102, he tells us that " in 20 minutes" (i. e. after the poison had been taken) " severe I so " retelling came on ; he began to stagger, and the Inspira- »' tion became laborious (18 per minute.) The pul»e was then «(thati» 20 minutes after taking the pf)ison) " M4, regular, "of good strength. In an hour and a half it had fallen to "68." Here is a fall of more than one half. Now I ask Dr. F., was 144 the natural puW; of the terrier .> Thi» «ould hardly be 20 minutes after taking the poison, when the symptoms of death were on the dog. Dr. M. Hall's terrier had a pulse of 120 befcyre the fml hhvdin^. If tho pulse of Dr. F.'s was about the sanWjbefore it took the Acon- itine, it is clear the pulse roust have risen in 20 minutes about 24 beats. Dr. F,. therefore, contradicts what must be the real meaning of his own record, when he tells us, that the direct action of Aconite, reduces the pulse. The direct action on the terrier, must have raised the pulse. The same fact seems to be implied still more strikingly, in the case of the colly dog ; p. 103. Hero the pulse is iirst 200 ; this could not be the natural pulse. We are told, the 200 fell to 134 in 22 minutes. 15 minutes, however, and 6 more, are noted as stages after taking the poison. I in- fer then, that the 200 must refer to what came up 15 or 30 minutes after the drug was injected. Dr. F.'s dogs, there- fore, are as fatal to his medical philosophy as Dr. M. Hail's, to the curative effect of Bleeding. It is demcAStrated then, that the primary effect of Acon- ite, is preeisoly the opposite of the primary effect of Bleed- ing. The Af an. .e ^'aises the pulse first, and then the vital force brinfe a J- 'n; vAAle Bleeding brings dawn ihe pulse first -ySind t.h*-n tiie vital force raises it. It is, therefore, a downright absurdity to say that the one may be a substi- tute for the other, Dr. F,'s book then is a pompous perplex- ity. When he uses Aconite to bring down a pulse, he is merely a Homoeopathist in the dark. There is, besides, neither sense nor science in Dr. F.'s r • ri 91 dosf of Aconite. " As an antiplilogisllc," tays he, " 5 mi- nims (drops) ought to be given at " first and repeated in 4 hours." Why Jive? "Why a/ imi/s iivc? Why rriimted ia fi)nrhout>\? Istliere any infallible virtue in these numbers to maks them suitable for all Inflammatory states ? If I have found a single drop, or the quarter of it, producing audi results on myself, and other healthy persons, may not a nmch smaller dose be suitable, for one in disease .'' If Dr. F. never tried, what rigiit has he to contradict those who have ? Is he not aware, that the susceptibilities of sicknesn to the action of a drug, analogous in its eflijcts to the symp- toms of the disease, are far greater than in health ? If he does not know this, Dr. Christon has taught him to little purpose, and he would need to lake a course of drug provings under Professor Joerg, of Leipsic. " Medicines operate most powerfully ," says this emi- *' nent Allopath, " upon the sick, when the symptoms cor- *' respond with those of the disease. A very small dose of *' medicinal Arnica, will produce a violent etlect upon per- *' sons who have an irritable condition of the oesophagus «« and stomach.*" Tliis is the grand reason, why it was absolutely necessary for Hahnemann to reduce his dose, unless he intended to kill his patients, it being the pole star of his course, to give no remedy, whose proved action on the liealthy subject, did not correspond with the symp- toms of the case. The unreflecting abuse ofdrngs, or poisons (for all drugs are poison) in crude doses, has been the bane of medicine, and human hopes, and family joy, for thousands of years. What has turned Arsenic more than once out of the Phar- macopceia, but the odium arising from the poisonings pro- duced by the absurd, blind bungling of men calling thera- S • Vid. Dr. W, HeMd«rMn'< Rep. P. 235. > ! 4 ts selves physicians, who with all their learning, never could learn the 'necessity of dividing a grain of Arsenic into 100, still less 1000, ?nd least of all, 1,000,000 parts? The conse- quence was, that last century Sir George Baker absolutely refused to touch Arsenic in ague, because forsooth, Sir George had found no ague so dangerous as Arsenic. This was only because somehow he could not learn the necessi- ty of dividing a grain into 100 parts. Had he found the hundredth still dangerous, was it a very hard thing to find out, that a thousandth might possibly be safer ? But the idea of diminishing tlie dose, however simple, was hid from his eyes, as it is this day from the eyes of 99 out of every 100 doctors in the world. So far as we know, Hahnemann was the first man that ever thought of thai simple thing. What has been paralyzing the progress of Aconite in Allo- pathic practice, in spite of the attention drawn to it by Hahnemann and Homoeophathy, and Fleming's blind ex- periments ? The deaths that, no doubt, have followed the abuse of it in crude drops. Wliat killed Dr. Male of Bir- mingham a few years since, but his own fingers dealing out for himself drops of Aconite ? How did Mr.Brown of Glas- gow, 3 years ago, find a grave ? By Whitley, the medical student, counting out 25 drops at a druggist's counter ? How has Dr. Fleming gained his gold medal? In the midst of the bodies of God's poor whom his Aconite has slain. Do I bear false witness? Dr. A. Fleming is him- self the witness. At p. 25 of his book, I find these words, «' Fourth degree of operation. On the administration of a " fourth dose of five minims, two hours after the third, the "symptoms assume a more alarming character. The coun- "tenance becomes pale and sunken, froth issues from " the mouth and, the prostration increases. Some, thus «♦ affecteJ, have stated, that they felt as if dying from ex- " cessive loss of blood. (So your Aconite, Dr. F., v^'ll do ' \ 2$ ' » the work of a lancet.) " Consciousness usually remains ; «« or there may be slight wandering delirium; as occurs also « after profuse hferaorrhage. The voice is whispering or is *' altogetlier lost. The pulse becomes still smaller, weaker, *<■ and more irregular ; and the breathing more imperfect. *' The surface is colder than before, and is covered with a ** clamrny sweat." ••' I have seen patients recover from this state." Have you seen them recover ? Then it is faif to believe, you have seen them not "recover from this state.'' Now Dr. who put them into » this state" from which they did not « recover." Was it not you with your drops of Aconite .' You dropped them out of the world. Go on, Sir, with your testimony. » When the action of the drug is carried to a fatal extent, "the individual becomes entirely blind, deaf, and speech- " less. He either retains his consciousness to tlie last, or *' isa.Tected with slight wandering delirium ; the pupils are *•■ dilated, general muscular tremors, or even slight convul- *' sions supervene, the pulse becomes imperceptible, both *' at the wrist and heart ; the temperature of the surface sinks *' still lower than before, and at length after a few hurried «' gasps, deatli by syncope takes place." Indeed. And where did you make these striking experiments, Dr } In Charlotte Square in the dwellings of the opulent? Oh no. It was in Edinburgh Infimary, on the bodies of the poor^ who went there for healing, and found in your hands agony and death. It is a lasting infamy to the Physicians of the Infimary that they allowed you to make such experiments, and it is not for the honour of the Medical Faculty, that they crowned them with their medal. It is impossible to imagine a stronger proof of folly m professional men, than the prejudice against Homceopathy en account of the smallness of the dose, as if any thing but » M t'l ■*1| i 24 experience could determine it ? A« to the action, or the no. action, of Hahnemann's decillionths, the Allopath is abso- lutely without experience. How then can he reasonably say any thing about it ? One of the most leaned of the Phy- sicians of Germany, (if Hufeland may be believed,) comes forth, and solemnly declares, he has ascertained the extra- ordinary curative action of doses unprecedentedly small. How do his brethren receive him ? Do they put his strange assertions to the test of experiment (no murderous experi- mjents like these of the Edinburgh Infirmary)? No ! They abuse him as a mad-man, or an impostor, liound the apo- thecaries on him,and hunt him from place to place,as if he had been a mad dog. This was their legitimate practice. The only logical reply to Hahnemann, was : Experience is against you ; but that reply was never given. It has not been given to this hour. F^or though Andral did, at last, pretend to test the matter, — in such a man, it was pretending of the most singular kind ; since he was absolute- ly ignorant of the science; not knowing even the meaning of the word Homeopathy. How then could he try the thing ? Though experience alone can decide on any question in Medicine, and especially on the quantity in which drugs should be administered, still it is a fact that all legitimate analogy would suggest the likelihood, that a remedy for fever, should not be given in a gross dose. The reason is, fever in i*s essence, is a derangement of the nervous ■ system. We found the eloquent Frank illustrating " the empire of the nerves,"by referring to "miasms derang- ing the circulation." He accordingly, calls fever the " sha- dow of the disease," rather than the disease itself; and if so, then the body of the disease must be found in the nervous system. This has been a favorite idea with medical phil- osophers, from the time of Frederick Hoflman at least. 35 Dr. M. Hall says, p. 119 " fever appears to consist in an *' affection of the nervous system, and the heart " The af- fection of the nervous system, tiien, \s primary. Syme, in his Principles of Surgery, states p. 9, " being *' thus obliged to admit as the essence of inflammation, the " disturbance of nervous energy in the part, we may em- " ploy this also to account for the changes observed in the " in the circulation, which have never satisfactorily been " explained otherwise. " The eminent Dr. Alison m his " Outlines of Physiology and Pathology " gives five reasons for believing fever to de- pend on nervous derangement. He refers, p. 443, to other reasons for this view, and concludes thus : " We judge the " immediate cause of the alteration in the vascular system " to be,therefore, an impression on the nervous system, con- *' sequent on the local inHammation,and acting on the organs " of circulation, in a manner somewhat analogous to a con- " cussion, or a violent sensation, or emotion. " Now I argue thus ; if fever depend on some shock of the nervous system, — if violent anger will give a man Inflamma- tion of the liver, we ought by all means, if we would act rationally, to bring our remedies to bear on the immediate source of the disease. We must direct our attention to ac- ting on the nervous system. To pierce a vein, is a very round about way of reaching a nerve. It is trifling about the effect, while the caxise continues. It is chasing Frank's " shadow, " instead of laying hold of the body, and thus arresting the shadow in a moment. It is a gallop in the direction of death, and if death is not the invariable result, it is just because something breaks off the hunt, it may be Calomel, or Tartar Emetic, or Blistering, or terror paraly- zing the physician, and thus the lancet is not plied to its final consummation, as on the poor doomed dogs of Dr. M. Hall. f\'' A I 3 § V^ i SI '. ii n Now if wc must deal with the nervous system in fever, how shall we go about the operation ? By doses of an ounce, or a scruple, or even a grain ? If a miasm, which no man ever saw, or tasted, or smelled, may light up a fever by means of the nervous system, why may not a decillionth of Aconite, which no man ever saw, or tasted, or smelled, extinguish the fever by acting on the nervous system ? True,''a decillionth is very little, very light ; it baffles even the imagination. But who will say it is less, or lighter than a viiasm ? Who ever guaged or weighed a miasm ? Do these cavillers at decillionths not know, that a disgustmg recollection, a mere thought, may excite such loathing as to empty the stomach ? Will they tell us what is the weight of the thought, or what may be its dimensions ? Did they never read of the idiosyncratic effect of Shylock's bag-pipe « singing i' the nose, ^' a dose of which Scottish melody ta- ken by the ear, produced such singular effects on the well known Rousseau.* If these views of the principles of Homeopathy and Allo- pathy are well founded, we need not be surprised, if expe- rience' at the bed side confirms them. Let us then examine a few practical resuUs of the two methods of treating dis- ease. The points to be contrasted are Scarlet fever, Chol- era, and Inflammation of the lungs. Scarlet fever, in its severer form especially, has long been a scourge to families. Allopathy has differed with itself as much about the proper treatment of this disease, as of most others. Bleeding, as usual, has its strong advocates, and its doubtful, or decided opponents. Mason Good, re- gardinc^the complaint as one of debility, trembles to bleed, and hesitates to abstain. Frank taught bleeding, but in- sists strongly on the necessity of caution. Elliotson prefers ' ^ • Vid. Prof. Headtrsons Hj ..n; -pathy, if. ' ^ 27 leeches, If he must bleed, though he allows the lancet may be wanted. Plenciz and Armstrong are strenuous for gen- eral bleedmg. Withering is as earnest against bleeding, as he is in favor of vomiting. Many are enthusiastic about opium. Some cry up Ammonia ; but EUiotson laughs at them, denies the cases to have been generally Scarlatina, and says a bit of sugar every day, would have done just as well. Currie, of Liverpool, used cold water. How is it possible that science should produce such discordances ? His generally true, that while Allopathic faith is a Babel of all conceivable contradictions,and its practice a correspon- ding chaos of bewildering expedients. Homoeopathy glories in the precision of its principle, and the harmony of its prac- tical applications. Thus there is not a Homoeopathist in the world, who does not treat pure Inflammatory fever by Aco- nite, and true Scarlatina by Belladonna. Not only has Hahnemann presented the world with the true specific in Scarlatina, he has also fully demonstrated the protecting -poM^er of the remedy, wlien suitably employed, in preventing the disease altogether. Prevention is better than cure; andifjenner is immortal by his improvement in innoculation, a similar glory awaits Hahnemann for his triumph in Scarlet Fever. The fact of the preventive ac- tion of Belladonna has been fully demonstrated on the con- tinent of Europe, especially in Germany, while it has been too much neglected every w^here else. The matter has re- ceived some attention in Edinburgh. Mr. Bell tried it in Watson's Hospital ; but began with the fifth of a grain of the extract; morning and evening. He found this injured the boys' health. He diminished the dose, but not suffici- ently to avoid evil consequences, and on the whole doubts the expediency of using Belladonna. Now there ought to be no doubt about tlie inexpediency of using such a poison, in such doses, in such a case. Bell's pretended trials of i i I ^i i.'i 28 Hahnemann's discovery, fully demonstrate this ; and they also imply the sagacity of Hahnemann, in diminishing the dose, in order to attain tl>e good without the evil. If we will meddle with a man's discovery, we are bound to fol- low his directions, in making his experiments If we can improve on his plan, so much the better. But, if by our conceited officiousness, we injure truth, the health of those intrusted to us, as well as the reputation of a great benefactor of humanity, we are deeply criminal. In regard to the Allopathic treatment of cholera, I will quote the very candid, honest, and no doubt, correct state- ment of Dr. EUiotson : — " As respects this country" says he " I cannot but think *' if all the patients had been left alone, the mortality would *' have been the same as it has been. If all the persons at- *' tacked with cholera had been put into warm beds, made *' comfortable, and left alone, although many would have *' died, who have been saved, — yet on the whole, I think, *' the mortality would not have been greater,tl)an after all that *' has been done : for we are not in the least more informed re- " garding the proper remedies, than we were when the first *' case of cholera occurred ; we liave not been instructed *' in the least, by those who have had the disease to treat. *' Some say they have cured the disease by bleeding ; oth- *' ers, by calomel ; others by opium ; and others again say *•• that opium does harm. No doubt many poor creatures *' died uncomfortably, who would have died trancpiilly, if " nothing had been done for them. Some were placed in " hot water, or in hot air, and had opium and calomel, and " other stimulants, which altogether were more than their " system could bear, and more than would have been " borne, if they had been so treated in perfect health. " I am sorry to say, that of the cases I had to treat, the *' patients nearly all died. I tried two or three sorts of 29 " treatment. Some had calomel and opium in large and « full dosses : but they died. Hot air was applied exter- " nally, and I got two to breathe hot air. I had a tube " passed through boiling water, so that they might inhale " hot air. It was found vain, to attempt to warm people «by hot air applied externally, they were nearly as cold « as before, we could not raise their temperature ; and " therefore thought of making them breathe hot air ; but « both patients died about the time that death usually " takes place. It was said that saline treatment was likely ♦' to be of use ; and I accordingly tried it on some patients. « At first I exhibited half a drachm of Sesqui-Carbonate " of Soda every hour : and thinking that might not be quite "enough, I exhibited a drachm: in one patient at St. « Thomas Hospital I ordered an injection containing an « ounce of the same remedy : but the greater part of it " came away, and the patient died. Hot air was used in « this case, as well as in the others." One or two words on this plain passage. 1st. I agree with the Dr. tliat too many of these patients were killed, and that they were before death, more or less tortured, but I maintain, there is not an atom of proof, that one of the few who got well, was cured. 2d. The Dr. seems surprised at the obstinacy of the cold of cholera, resisting not only external heat, but even inter- nal. " It was found vain to attempt to warm people," thus,— I wonder a man so intelligent as Elliotson ever made so absurd an attempt. Had he been dealing with cold sticks, or stones, no doubt they would have become warm. Nay if after his patients were dead, he had put the bodie? into warm water, they too would have become warm. But to pursue the same method with a living body,that is found ef fectual with a dead one, is to ignore the fundamental fact in Physiology, Pathology, and Therapeutics, viz., the all-pei- . fl / f' :(/ U w 30 vading, all-controlling energy of the vital force. Were El- liotson to treat a frozen limb, as he did his lialf-frozen chol- era patients, he would put it in hot water, and of course kill ii, after torturing it. Such practice is pure Allopathy, precisely analogous to palliating constipation by castor oil, diarrhoea by opium, fever by bleeding. Immediate ease is purchased at the expense of permanent mischief. It is like trying to cure poverty by usury. 3d. I agree with the Dr. tliat he and his Allopathic breth- ren were just as ignorant, when he made hisconfession,of a real remedy for cholera, as they were when the lirst patient was treated in England. But] maintain that this confessed helplessness of Allopathy, after years of study and practice, demonstrated the inability of Allopatliy to Jind a remedy. And the reason is, it is without one principle to guide it in the search. Accordingly this day Allopathy is as igno- rant of a remedy for cholera, as Elliotson confessed it was when he lectured. Now contrast with this, the facts on the other side. Before Halmemann ever saw a cholera case, he pro- claimed Camphor as a leading remedy, from merely read- ing an account of the symjjtoms of cholera. These he per- ceived were a picture of his provings of camplior. He was sure, therefore, that camphor must cure cholera. He had not even to try first, before advising. Accordingly, thousands of hands throughout the civilized world are busy, whenever cholera comes, in demonstrating the truth of Ilahmenann's prediction. He declares that " at Berlin and Magdeburg alone, thousands of families having followed his instruc- tions respecting the treatment by camphor restoring those of this number who were attacked by the epidemic, restor- ed them often in less than a quarter of an hour." (Joslin on Choi.) The Genius of Hahnemann shines forth on cholera, as *i lb> • ., 3( well as scarlet fever, in having discovered a prcservativo treatment. This most generons and self-donying of all achievements of medical science, (for as prevention of dis- ease prevails, fees must fail ;) belongs to Hahnemann more than to any other name in history. The alternation of decillionth doses of copjjer and veratrum, at regular in- tervals, has been thoroughly tested, and its elFicacy es- tablished. Let us now contrast for a moment the two methods, in the statistical records on cholera. In the Allopathic Hos- pitals of France and Italy, the mortality is given at 63 per cent. In 1823, in the city of New York, the mortality in Hospitals, including Bcllcvue, was nearly 50. In Vienna the two systems were brought into close comparison ; 4,500 were treated in the old way, of whom 1,3C0 died, i. e. 31 per CPiit; 581 were treated Hotmeopathically, of whom eir'.it per cent died i c. about one fourth of Austrian, one * " of American, and one eighth of Parisian Allopathy. , jso results are genuine, is demonstrated by the fat! Acr the Austrian Government ascertained them, it dt . tne right of the Homccopathic physicians to prac- tice and dispense medecines in Austria. Dr. Balfour of Edinburgh, an Allopath, thus writes from Vienna, 1o Dr. Forbes, of the Medical Chirurgical Review, " During the first " appearance of cholera here, the practice of Homeopathy « was first introduced ; and cholera when it came again « renewed the favorable impulse previously given, as it was " through Dr. Fleishman's successful treatment of this di- t' sease, that the restrictive laws were removed, and homoeo- " pathists obtained leave to practice and dispense medicines " in Austria. Since that time their number has increased " more than hree fold in Vienna and its provinces." We see, then, that the very disease which Dr. Elliotson allows he could not treat at all, is declared, by Dr. Balfour, i I" "* i / i 39 to have been successfully treated by Dr. FIcischinunn of Vio2ina. Surely Elliotson is a sulTieient witness of his own failures, ami Balfour of Fleischmann's success. A very rapid contrast of the two systems in their treat- ment of Inflammation of the lungs. Here we find the same confusion and disastrous results, as in other departmonts of Allopathic practice. With most, bleeding is ostensibly the grand remedy, though, as usual, there is no counting the shades and varieties among its advocates ; some being loud and heroic, others timid and ambiguous, from Bouil- laud with his coup sur coup, Anglice, cut and come againy to Mason Good, who is much afraid of Typhus setting in, and would fain get along with leeches, and a bold exhi- bition of emetics, though he is singular in his admiration of bold vomiting. The distinguished Louis of Paris lost nearly one-third of his first list of cases, tliough they had been selected to en- sure favorable results. The treatment was bleeding exclu- sively. In his second set he drew more blood at once, though less on the whole, combining Tartar Emetic and Blisters. The cases were again selected. The deaths were 14 percent, Bouillaud lost 14§ per cent. Taylor, Walshe, and Peacock lost 30 per cent; or, on the most fa- vorable allowance, 26. Along with these results let us compare the never-to-be- forgotten experiments of Dr. Dietl, of Vienna. " To try conclusions " this original inquirer divided his Pneumonia patients into three bands, resolving to treat one set by bleed- ing, another by Tartar Emetic, and the last by nature. The happy imagination which suggested the plan, being still strong in Dietl, he fortunately made the third band nearly as large as the other two : 85 were bled, and 20| per cent. died. 106 had full doses of Tartar Emetic, and 20| per cent died. 189 were left to kind nature, and only 7| per cent died. It I 3S in clear, thorfforc, lliat nearly throe times a» many died nn- der tlu; lancet, and the drug, respectively, as under the kindly hand of nature. It is undeniable then by the testi- mony of Allopaths tliemselves, that in Inflammation of the lungs no treatment at all is three or four times better than theirs. It adbrds a curious glimpse of medical human nature, to contemplate the result of this famous trial on its distin- guished author. One would think ihatDietl would henceforth forswear lancet and Tartar Emetic,— at least in pneumonia. But no ! Dietl's practice is lieroic and doubtless he is a hero. The eleven wliom bleeding has slain, are lying on the one hand, and the fifteen whom Tartar Emetic has poisoned, are lying on the otli(-'r, but he is not alarmed. Instead of turning Honupopathist, he detests the modern system more than ever and clings more fondly than before to his darling Allopathy. Still this constancy may be more professional than absolute. I have heard of doctors who were readier to give drugs dian to take them, and possibly were Dietl himself taken with Pneumonia, he might prefer doing nothing to trying either the sharp steel, or the cruel emetic. If not, it is clear, his chance of becoming a martyr to Allopathy would be three to one. We are deficient in Ilomreopathlc statistics on Pneumo- nia- Dr. Henderson, of Edinburgh University, to whom I am indebted for these details, reports eleven cases in the British Journal of Ilomtcopathy. They were all promptly cured. To the same author, I am indebted for an account of Tessier's fifty cases. He is, I believe, the only Hospital Phy- sician in Paris who is a Homoeopath. His rases were, on the whole, decidedly more unfavorable than Louis's or Bouil- laud's, yet he only lost 3, i. e. 6 per cent, while Louis lost more than 14 per cent, in his more successful attempt ; and his result is the best that exists in the records of Allopathy. A- / 34 The honlthoftlicbody sfnnds socoiul in importanco, only tothchoaltli ofils^^Tcal inhiihilant, lliti soul. Called ns I was to (liscourso in a nci«lil)orini< t:ily on tlit! former subject, I (lid not foci at liberty to decline llie invilnlion ^yhich was addressed to me, to repeat the diseourst! in this ])\i\cc. I have spoken as unto wise men, and it remains for you to meditate, and to decide, on what I say. nil I I rROCEEDINOS. ITamiltom, February dlh, 1854. A mrotliifr of tho ITom.rM.piithic Phymoiaus, coiivcne-l ut U.o Rurlinffton ITotVl TiSo,., (", W., imJuu.t t., noli.'o. Dr. A. T. WM of Lo>.. on a 1 t " 1 ' Tt of th. nur.i,.,, wl.,.r..upon Dr. J. J. Lun-'uster wu« culled ?o the Ul.air, .....1 Dr. W. A. (iro..,.l..f a|.i.eH„UHl Socrutury. 'n,o follosviu- nM..luliou wa. then moved l.y Dr. J. C. Peterson, sccond- 1 1 : ^^'(''li'-i'- ; Censors, A. 'r Bull, M. D of London, rC Pete son, M. D., of Hamilton, and (I. W. Campoe 1 M. ., ot b.d- diesville ; toriespondin;,^ Secretary, Dr. Wm. Springer, of Hamilton. Who were unanimously elected. Dr. Fielils ollcrcd the following resolution : ^i • + Rcsolved,-Thiit a Committee of three be appointed by the CJ^air to report an address to be read at the annual meeUng. aud for pubUcaUon. .•3fr S6 The motiou .a, carrW. »d D^ Bull, Wo.veHo., ..d Oree„.e.f ap- pointed. Dr. Bull offered the fo""^'"^/^^;;;!"" ^^real be invited to deliver an R.,.i..rf,-That Dr. J^^^f ^,^f ^..t'JrSng i!" May, and that t.he The following was offered ^y ^r- lMe^.o^= ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^ J?«oZ.erf.-That each ^^^"^^^^^^feJ^^^j^Sy ^^^ rimedy.-Carried. the annual meeting, at leastone ^^^^^ ?;*;;';^3^,i,,f,reatment of St. Mary's OrpKsT:; KStoT£ Slnrrri853 to January, 1855. .cln- sire, which was placed on file. treatment and other matters ouSe third Tuesday of May next ensumg. '^ 1^/ n^ ANNUAL MEETING. IIamu.to.v, l^th May, 1855. * * ♦>,« FTftll of the Mechanics' Institute, in the city of The Society met at ^^^^^ .^a o^ne ^^^ ^^^.^^^^ ^^^^^^,„g Hamilton, in accordance with the ad our. ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ A considerable n-nber beuig prej^nt t,^e_^--;; ^iee-F resident, in the at, half-past eleven o clock, a. m., xji. ''■^'''^^!,::i:SiXo°'^'^^'-'''^ "Oo^'Sned the Oonsutu. S°Jft„T.Sse.«i.th«Co„.e.t,o. „„a, „„„„«„„, The Treasurer ptesenKd hk report which »» re", ■^the' C0.,.i.tee o. prMng pre-nted a repc. which «, acccptol, and the Committee discharged. n.i.irpqs reoortcd. That in con- The C.,aa,itt^ appomted to^P^P^' » ^"3^^^ Sp;aTre;t7.°c^p?X:i;'^.t.'P"'.'««"- Accep.cd.nd Committee discharged. , „r at Marv''? A«viura, Dr. Peterson, ,h^r^;^^"rSS°o t JlSd'it Ihe Arehi,e.»r .h. Society. of ler he air. An lOf itu- ion, and con- been [ and 37 The following- resolutiou was offered by Dr. Greenleaf : litS" That all reports of Cooimittee. be made m wntuig.-Car- %n motion, the.Chair appointed D.^ Wolverton. Ureeuleaf and Peter- paragraph 1st, of the Constitution. Adopted after a short discussion. ^^^.^ ""'m^,* 7,*i;"l .»'■ AJn„„, time, .»ISo.mch, be a fomnultee to pro* mittec to procure a seal lor the hocie y. ^^^^t of intermittents, and seminal weakness, ^\'^ r\^^'r^""sSciety a-ljaurned to meet at seven EVEXINO SESSION. At the appointed hour, the Society assembled with a large and intelli- gent^uLrat the Uall of the Mechanics' I"^;tute. Thel>resident Ur ^ish.^c. ed^^^^ ,^„,,,, iSoli::! r Sn^Siirwho prSce^led to deliver his address. On motion it was requested for publica- .on^ia:tr;^ti:.3s!^-p-^^ The Society then adjourned to meet at Toronto m May, 18o6. W. A. GREENLEAF, Secretary. i irson, r the / : t-5*'**'"- CONSTITUTION. We, the unclcrsignc<] physicians rcsiiling ia the province of Canada, be- lieving the law propounded by Hahnemann: " Similia 1, be- BY-LAWS ation ciety ;e of ;now- 'thia witli jy a 'resi- 1 and I act ority third iDual time ' 't< Article I.— OF ELECTIONS. I I The officers elected at any annual mectinpr shall hold office until the adjournment of the annual meeting next after that at which they were elected and until their successors are chosen. _ I II. All elections shall be by ballot. No Candidate for nj^.mber^,i> shall be ballotted for, unless proposed by a monjbcr «' ^ « .^^"f J' J £ seconded by two other menibers, nor un ess he shall ^uve rocentd a certih cate of qualification from two at least of the Censors ot this botiety. Articlk II.— of members. ? I. No person shall be entitled to the privileges of,,'"eiribership until he shall have signed the Constitution, and paid to the iieasurer an initia- tion fee of one pound currency. .,i • i,+ + 3 II Inceptive men^bers to be entitled to membership with right to speak, but not to vote, on payment of five shillings currency. \ III. Expenses incurred shall be equally assessed upon the members. Article III.— OF ORDER. \ I. Seven members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. \ II. The usual order of business shall be as follows :— 1. Calling of the Roll. 2. Reading minutes of last meeting and approval. 3. Proposition and election of members. 4. Reports of Committees. 5. Reading Communications. 6. Miscellaneous business. 7. Election of officei-s. 8. Adjournment. \ III. Communications read before the Society become its property, to be deposited in its Archives ; hut no paper shall be published as a part of the transactions without an express resolution to that eueci. ,->■ ^ >f>^ f ■1^ I 40 Artici,k IV-OF officers. a I The Frcsidcnt shnll prc?i.lo at all nieclin.ts of the Society. In his absence the Vice-rrcsideMts shall preside in Iheir order. Jt shal be the du V ofthe President to deliver an ad.iress at the Annual and henn- Annual Meetings of the Society, or to make some other provision lor that purpose. a II The Secretary shall have charfie of Ihe Archives of the Society, keep a record of its proceediiiss an,l a list of its nienil.ers anc p,.ve notice of iU meetings. Ilesha'l also make au annual report ot the state of the funds of the Society. a III There shall be elected at each annual meeting, throe Censors who shall examine applicants for m.^mhership and give certificates, which shall entitle the applicant to a certificate ot; membership on compliai.ce ^ 1 1. the foregoing provisions of the Constitution and Ky-I.uvs, signed by the Pre- St and Secretary of this Society, and for which he shall pay the sum of five shillings currency. Articlk v.— of AMENI)Mh:NTS. ? I. The By-Laws may be amended by a majority ofthe members pre- sent at any amiual meeting. ■ ri.l.NIEI) AT niE GLOBE OKFICE, 22, KINO STKEET WEST, T0K0»IO. ^ <%:, J.''- (t k V .at « ♦