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I KESPKCTFUM,Y DEDK'ATRn TO tiiosl; gentlemen who asked the question— " is H(JM(EOPATHY AN ESTALHSHED vSCIENCE, Oil A GERMAN SCHEME TO CATCH THE CREDULOUS - AM) TO XiIE rATKONS or HOMU^orATnv IN ST. JOHN. FREI-ACE, No one asked ua to write this pami)hlct. Wc do it on our o\\. individual responsibility, lloma-opathy has been traduced and grossly misrepresented. We appear to defend it. "We have had a hard task. Satire and ridicule giv.- but few points of argument, and but Plightly injure the system. In .'ict, wo may state that the •' Evidences" have been doing a good work, for we speak the truth when wc state that since it was issued we hrvc been consulted by nice patients who have been induced to test IIomelu.,.,.<.. or Ilomceopathy." He ,i.e. the h1° opa,h.c ,a,- cr..Si,„iIia ,i„i|ibu, curantur," and saTi .n.pl.0. t athke, are cured by likes, and illnitrate. ,t7y U exatnpi. that, " Itch U cured by remedies „hich excite the ».n,at.on of itching and th, deaire of scratching "He d he ttch and we would naturally expect some ar.ulnen ^..ns the Hon,„.„pathic law, this ■•aphorism of Hahn self on the second page, by giving us a long article on Mesmertsm We have nothing ,„ do with MeLer, or any we can po.nt out an Allopathic Physician of this ci y_ The Doctor make, extensive extracts from Prof. Simpson's Hom^opatny, „s tenets and tendencies," and assumes all the w,ld statements found therein, as evidential truths all he abuse and slander as sparkling wit, and all the di^^^:,. f.o.s for plan, and naked truth. Prof Henderson attended I l pa^fM » I;VE^K8•i^s SKUMON. to the tenets in Edinburpjh with such success that we will refer to him in replying to the Siinpsoni.in extracts. While alluding to Professor Simpson's work we may as well relate n peculiar circumstance in connection with it. An Allopathic Physician of tins city gave a copy of it to an intelligent lady, one of his patrons, to read. She attentively perused its pages and, like unto its grandchild, " The Evi- dences," she could find nothing but sarcasm and sneers, and, therefore, concluded that there must be something in the system which was so traduced, and having no particular love for Allopathy, she determined to test Homoeopathy whenever the opportunity occurred, which she did to her satisfaction ; so much so, that Allopathy has crossed the threshold of her house for the last time. She now places all confidence in " infinitesimal spiritualities arid globnleism." Now to the wonderful sermon of the Rev. Thomas Everest, upon Homteopathy That individual sermon should, by this time, be worn out. All Allopathy, from Professors Simpson and Ilolloway down to Dr. Biyard, have copied and re- copied, until it is decidedly nauseating — and to prove what ? Nothing more than that the Rev. Gentleman was an ass. Suppose he was; how in the name of common sense is this fact to affect the Ilomceopathic law of cure ? How is this to prove, as our author wishes it, the system a delusion? But let us see if Allopathy cannot manufacture a religion pecu- liar to itself. " The great organ, interpreter and lav-giver of all Allopa- thic physic, the British and Foreign Medical Review, not content with, the apotheosis of any single individual, puts all the members of all the Colleges of Physicians, and all the graduates of the Universities (invidiously omitting the Sur- geons) into the supernal calender. ' The physician,' quotes the oiacle, ' cannot but be impressed with the dignity of his pursuits; he cannot conceal from himself that his mission is to ameliorate the primal curse ; that he is the special messen- ger of Providence to sufferin-g man.' But this is not all — Sjf. 1^ ALLOPATHIC FI'.TiIINE89. 3 the lofty estimate which Hippocrates entertained of Allo- pathic doctors is complacently appropriated thus : • It is impossible to penise the ethical portions of the Ilippocratic writings mihont feclwir their mo^al grandeur. In the book De Medico it is asserted that the truly philosophic physician IS Godlike, using the identical term applied by Horner to Machaon, and adding «that, indeed, he differs little from the gods.'"* No. XXXVII, 1815, p. 122. So much for the sermon which emanated from a man who " loved not wisely, but too well." If the teachings of HoracB. opathy have a religious tendency we would adrise the author of the Delusions, in his old age, to embrace the theolocrical portion of the system. " Our author grows eloquent on page 14, in reference to his discovery, and enlarges to some extent on a small subject He learns from Dr. Mure that "lice tea" is good for the itch. Dr. Mure certainly causes the blush of shame to rise on the fall of HomcEopathy with his unclean accompaniment, yet if we but glance at Allopathy we will find that it has established a precedent for such abominable things, and it has made no scruples as to the cleanliness of its remedial agents. "Privately she tried to ascertain what mush and castor were, and in what doses Dr. Simpson and his friends gave them to their dainty feminine patients. She remembered Virgil's allusion to the one-" Virosaque Pontus Castorea'— and did not think it by any means a propor substance for physic ; and she bethought herself also of the celebrated Hoffmann's edition of the other, as a second-hand som. >ung (bad enough when fresh and original) that was not lo be thought of in civilized society, and never to be expressed but, n a dead language,-* Attentione dignum curiosumque est, says he, 'quodmoschus odore suo privatus, in latrina si suspcndatur, suavem suum odorem iterum acquirat;'f and * Henderson, page 195. wi!''^f '"'?,'',''°^'' toPharm. Spagyric^, p. 166. by P. Poteru., whose Materia Medica he adopts by his notes and commendations. 4 Ar.I.Ol'ATHIC F1LTHIN„38, being thun refrcshei' is a particularly tine medicine. Beside !i scruple or a drachm of either, the billionth of a groin of the Patagonian pcdiculus riscH into a bonncboucha for the mo3t fastidious taste. * •' Castor and musk perfume and adorn the annamcntarium of modern Allopathy, and, therefore, miglit amply sxcuse hor liomreopathic rival for adopting the pediculus, oven though it had no personal recommendations. But Allopathy is so incessantly pluming her:clf upon her antiquity and her noble antecedents, thai her opponent was very willing to inquire if the family history, so full of all imaginable glories, would r Jt be a still better authority for her closing vith Dr. Mure and his offspring. Hoffmann seemed a communica- tive personage, and though all but a contemporary of Hahne- mann, and therefore not likely to be no exquisite in physical matters as some of the more immediate descendants of Apollo, his modern renown gave a certain weight to his authoruy that made him appeur at once a auitable person to apply to. " The first specimen I shall give of Hoffmann and Allo- pathy (that wonde»-ful system which, like a Chinese stripling, always presents itself so venerable with traditionary associa- tionsj that the ' vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual') is the remarkable cure of an itchy Dominican friar. A contumacioua psora had tormented the reverend father for rix years, in spite of many physicians, till at last Poterus set hin to eat vipers with a little salt ; snd the doctor tells us that, du;ing tiiS summer, above 150 of them having descended inlo the friar. ' his skin being renovated, he became quite another man, and he who before looked a particularly old person, was made youn^^r again, stronger than before, and fitter for everything'* At p. 151 of the same ingenious volume, he gives directions for preparing the aqua or water of crabs, earth-worms, frogs, and frog-spawn ; which, I may mention — in order to let people into the secret of that invaluable experience of so many * Supplementum, p. 126. ' I I I AM.OPATIIIC ULTUINEHS. 5 centuries, which'our allopathic friends nlwnys thrust into our upstart frees— were respectively found by ihe 'capacious mind' which med'lled with • things, the real meaning of which is undemtood, to be admirable* in inflammaticiis. (like the lancet and tartar emetic,) bites of m«d-dogs, stone in the kidneys, consumption, worms cf children, (the earth- worn^3 did Mcir businesj— a kindof Isopathy, therefore, like bug.s for bug-bites,) hemorrhages, erysipelas, geut and burns, not to mention others that are not mentionable. "At p. 152, we arc introduced to something sti'l more phi- losophical, and mor'! conclusive of the soundness of the an- cient foundations. But here I : n a great disadvantage, and feel almost as if I must shut the ,..ok, and leare Dr. Simpson to crow by himself. For while he, wiin little violence to de- cency, can give in plain English the worit therapeutic ravings of th most harebrained homojopathist (so-called,) I dare not do the sam? with the allopathic bill of fare, without sending my imaginative readers to their .^"-ent-boxes and snuff-mills What can I make in English of the Aqua stercoris animaliuTi, or Deoho excrementorum, or Fa cult as stercoris humani? I can't venture to translate. Suffic* it to say of these things ' the Cleaning of which,' as Leibnitz says, • is understood,' that they are so offensive as to b» better left in their classical dress. But I may translate some notices of their indubifabl- ▼irtuec, in order to do homage to the foundations and ante- cedents of that modern experience which has grown so naturally out of the good old stock, and preserve so striking- ly the family features.! I shail give the unmentionable their dues, each in succession under the signs of No. 1, No. 3, and No. 3. " Under No. 1 it is mentioned generally, that bo and sp ' possess wonderful and excellent Tirtues ;' the stercus gallin- * •• Radically cure," and '■* wonderfully benefit," are the judicioue phrases expressive of their action. t An allopathic physician of •minence, net a hundred miles from this, uses '< cow-tea" (which is neither milk nor beef-tea) in diabetes. A rude attempt at homeopathic practice ! y. m-iiiii«*a.«!a^^»s*fci4 <6 MATERIA MEDIOA. ^ arum being capital in the colic, that of swallows having anti- epileptic energies, especially when flavored with anodyne flower- , that of the peacock, with a little spirit of wine, (to keep it down,) always manifests (semper exstiiit) 'specific •virtues against diseases of the head, giddiness and epilepsy.' ' Under No. 2 it is said, 'in many secrets are hidden, as is proved by a multiplied experience/ and special mention is made of its power over the jaundice, malignant as well as benign tumors, and pestilential buboes. These external dis- eases are overpowered by poultices ex stercore humano vel vaccino ; for he, the considerate Hoffmann, naively admits, that the'oil from the former is so abominable that Ae «0Mfd no< easily get it given internally. " Under No, 3 there is an opening sentence which I rauet submit to the learned:—' In animalium excrementis, mirura dictu quam rara et perfecta remedia reperiantur ; et ut ab homine omnium principe exordiar, in humano stercore mira vis latet, in viacerum obstructionibus aperiendis.' This is what may be termed the solid foundation ©f Allopathy. It has a fluid foundation, too, by virtue of which it claims rula by seii as well as land ; but I cannot trust the account of it, in somewhat too transparent Latin, to my page. However, the meaning ' is understood.' " After all this there is a positive insipidity in the Extract of mummies, Preripitate of human blood, and of the human skull, of frogs, vipers, worms, gems, and jjear/s, and the oil of human fatsW of which are duly celebrated in the same fun- damental volume, between pages 159 and 173. It is needless to say that the cures they worked were wonderful, and the allo- pathic experience they imparted as sound as any from that day to this -Dr. Dietl, Dr. Forbes, Sir Benjamin Brodie, and 'philosophical physicians' in general, being witnesses to the fact." On page 15, the Doctor says, "Upon the 'Organon' prin- ciple that ' Likes are cured hy Likes,' the matter expector- ated from the lungs of a dying consumptive patient nasbeen ^^^^i^^i^^^^"i>wm<''^F^^^rww*vj^w^''^^'s^^f MATERIA MEDICA. 7 given for the cure of consumption in others." But, by whom, Doctor ? Not by any Homoeopathic physician, but by those noble "special messengers," the members of the self-assumed LEGITIMATE profession. The Doctor is aware that it is not at all on the principle of similia similibua curantur, yet he has in this instance, as in many others, allowed his enraitv to overcome his good sense ; and the gentlemen who asked the question " Is Homceopathy an established science?" must be well satisfied by such " authenticated" statements that it is a "German scheme." The Doctor then proceeds to give ex- tracts from the provings of Natrum Moriaticum and Ca'carea CarbonirL,m ; but as no inference is drawn we cannot con- ceive for what purpose he quoted from Jahr. Calc. carb. has and does now enjoy considerable confidence from the " God- like" profession. Hooper says, "chalk is absorbent, and possesses anti-acid qualities, it is exhibited in form of elec- tuary, mixture or bolus, in pyrosis, cardialgia, diarrhoea, acid, ities of the stomach, the prima) via?, rachitis, lactea), &c., &c., and it is said by some to be an antidote against white arsenic." Munro prescribed it for scald head. Bell, for soft and suppurating worts. Boerhaave used chalk as an antisep- tic, a dissolvent, an astringent, and as a disicalive. Mongi- not says it was of great use to hir.i in whooping-cough. Later authors praise it in rheumatic and arthritic affections, in worm and intermittent fevers. Bretonneau uses it in chronic diarrhoea. Thus we see Allopathy uses simple chalk in no less than sixteen diseases. So much for its inertness in its crude state. As to its actio., when given in small doses, we will speak of that hereafter. Now for the Doctors L^iapegoat, Natrum Muriaticum- or common table salt. Of course he endeavors to throw ridi- cule upon Homoeopathy by selecting remedial agents which are in common use, and at the same time he is quite careful not to explain to " those gentlemen" what use Allopathy has made of the same drugs. Hooper says, table salt "possesses antiseptic, diuretic, and resolvent qualities, and is frequently employed in form ir/ It is by the force of grav.;- tation ; but what is gravity 1 and how does it act ? Can Dr. Bayard explain ? A lucifer match is rubbed on a rough surface and it inflames. Ilotv friction produces such a result we know not. If it be said that friction evolves heat, and that heat inflames the match, the question returns : hoio does friction evolve heat? and hovj does heat inflame the match? Can Dr. Bayard tell ? If we threw a piece of metal potassium upon ice, it in- stantly inflames, burns itself into the ice and disappears. Part of the ice has been melted, the water decomposed, its hydrogen burnt, and its oxygen has united with the metal and formed a portion of caustic potash, which is all that remains in the cavity of the ice. These extraordinary phenomena are the elfect of chemical affinity, but what is that? and how does it act? Can Dr. Bayard inform us? If we collect in a strong vessel two volumes of hydrogen and one of oxygen, it is well known that the contact of flame, or an electric spark will cause an explosion, the gases disappear and a drop of water is prod—'ed. Will Dr. Bayard be so kind as to explain that chemical phenomena ? We can surround a seed with suitable proportions of air, warmth and moisture, and can observe the gradual develop- 14 <<(;IKNVI I'lO IN VlvSriOATlONK. i |}:' ment of the germ of the entire plant and of the ripening seed. Jlow have all these wonderful changes been effected? They are attributed to the vital force, but we know not in the least what that is, nor how it acts. Dr. Bayard will please inform us ! We take food and are nourished, we take poison and die ; but how is all this ? Another answer is expected. Although it is impossible for the Doctor to explain ar^y of the foregoing phenomena, he will not deny their truth, yet he will deny the efficacy of the infinitesimal dose, because they are like the other operations of nature, beyond his compre- hension. We are not entitled to reject anything which professes to be ixfact, if supported by a sufficient amount of evidence, merely because it is inconsistent with our expectation, does not coincide with our previous opinions, or is not within the limits of our former experience. We are not justified in concluding against a statement of fact by a priori reasoning, or theoretical consideration. Analogies may render an as- sertion probable; or the contrary, but no reasoning is conclu- sive against a matter of fact. The truth or falsehood of the announcement of a fact cannot be settled by reasoning or argumentation. It must be decided by evidence. We quote the following from Professor Henderson's " Hom-cepathy Fairly Represented," page 265 : " M. Boudin, as we have seen, cured agues, which had resisted quinine, with a single dose of the hundredth of a grain of arsenic* ; now the hundredth of a grain is to the weight of a man of fifteen stone, as one is to one hundred and fifty millions. What an infinitesiir.al quantity of medi- cine to affect so powerfully so vast and disproportionate a quantity of matter ! But Allopathy affords a still more remarkable fact,— a fact, indeed, which deprives her of all right to quarrel with any system on the score of its minute *If he used the arsenite of potass, his lo4e of white arsenic must Jiave been the two hundredth of a grain .:!£:. SCILXIII IC INVKSTICA I KW.-, l.l must doses. Mr. Hunt, an allopathic physician, apparently of Inn.r standing and much experience, published in 1847 an intcr" esting little volume on the treatment of certain intractable chronic skin diseases. At p. M of that work he says,—' A fourth part of a mimm of Fowler's solution, taken tliricc- a-day, has, in a few week.s effected the pcrftinnent cure of psoriasis guttata, in a female of delicate habit, intolerant alike m a high degree of all mineral substances.' Fowler's solution is a solution of arsenite of potass, m which the arsenicus acid and the potass are present in abo«t equal quantities. The great Allopathic Review— the Britis'- and Foreign- in 1847, accepts Mr. Hunt's case as genu in. . id true, and remarks that each of his doses contained only the four hundred and eightieth pert of a grain of the white arsenic, or arsenious acid. Now, as susceptibility to arsenic, or to any other medicine, does not depend on, and has no' connexion with the weight of the individual, there is no rea- son whatever why our already selected fifteen-stoiio patient should not be sensitive to the same dose. The 480th part of a grain is to fifteen stone as one is to seven hundred and fire millions six hundred thousand ; or as a mile to a line that might pass above seven times between the earth and sun ; or that might pass twenty-eight thousand two hundred times round the earth ! In short, nearlv as one pound is to the whole national debt,— or as one man to all the inhabit- ants of the world. Since doses of medicine do not require ♦o be increased in proportion to the weight of the person who takes them, and if in the proportion of one to about seven hundred millions they are unquestionably effectual as rem- edies, why may they not when in proportion of one to seven thousand millions, or seven hundred thousand millions t Mr Hunt does not tell us that he found smaller doses of arsenic than the four hundred and eightieth of a grain ineffectual. He appears to have tried none more minute. But physi- cians, in every respect as much entitled to credit, have main- tamed that doses a very great deal smaller have proved eHectual in theii^ experience, aiwl the experience of homfr- it< .-.( IKNTII II INVKSTKiAilON'J. I h I I'fi opatliic pljysiciiiii3 is now so great in all (luaitefs of llie globe, tl):)t it can no longer be ignored, or explained away. AlKipatliic controversialists, and others who have a deep per- sonal interest in resisting and endeavoring to quash Homa> opathy, may remain as blind as they please by wilfnlly closing their eyes, but their blindness will not prevent other men i'rom seeing. And no man of calm and ordinary jndgmcnt can fail to see, when the question between us and our oppo- nents is not one of ounces or pounds of drugs against frac- tions of grains, but really and truly one of fractions of grains against fractions of grains, that the dispute lies within a very narrow compass, and that the opposing parties do not difier so very much as some cithnr ignorant or designing persons have endeavored to make the public believe. Allopathy has committed herself to the infinitesimal doses in the instances I have mentioned. Doses of t!ie hundredth and oi the four hun- dred and eightieth of a grain are as inconceivable aa remedies as doses of the millionth or dcciliontli of a grain. Nothing but experience could render the former doses credible as efficient doses ; there is no process of reasoning, no a priori prob; - bility apart from experience to suggest the expectation that doses so minute could be effectMal in curing diseases : ond the same experience which is adequate to prove their effi- ciency is adequate to prove liic efficiency of the still more minute doses ; in point of fact, there is an experience and a testimony immensely greater on the side of Homffiopathv in favour of its usual doses, than there is on the side of Aijo- pathy in favour of the doses I have adduced from its authen- ticated records. IIow absurd is the notion that there can be no testimi/ny or experience on the subject of the usual homn^- opathic doses, but such as are presented by allopatkic authorities. A pretty mode of settling the dispute indeed ! If this original method be introduced into universal prac- tice, and the adherents of any prevalent doctrine are to utter the final judgment that must settle the character of every ([uestion that arises in opposition to the common beliefs, — Prc'^Jtantisin is eus^ily proved to bo false in Roman Catholic MAMMON. 17 countries; Christianity itself is at once proved to be a delu- sion among the Chinese, as well as the religion of that ancient people to be a miserable idolatory among the enlight- ened citizens of Great Britain." . Strange to say, the unbelievers in the small dose are to be found only in the allopathic ranks-among men who never tested the,r effects, and the un."deluded" allopathic patrons While Its advocates arc those who have for years administer- cd small doses, and those who have iu the hour of trial and suffering, tested their curative action ; therefore, we can now afford to dismiss the subject without further explanation. On page 24, the Doctor places "mammon and credulity" as the basis of the homoeopathic system. We utterly deny his right to come tc such conclusions from any of the wonderful arguments he has as yet adduced ; but, thank heaven, those slanderous expressions avail but little as e\ idence against an established science. Men of enquiring minds ask something more tangible than Dr. Bayard's impressions, which were obtained from his master. Professor Simpson. Th' Doctor was not wise when he smuggled mammon into the Evidences. If he will ask himself how miny patrons he has lost during his day by excessive charges, he will be astonished at the number when he receives the answer. Hence as Komqjop- athy is Charlatanism because it has an eye to the fee, Dr Bayard is a Charlatan. But it would be rudeness to' pro' nounce such a disgraceful verdict upon him ; he was only over anxious to manufacture evidences, and he orerstenped the mark. ^ At pag^ 25 we find another sample of premeditated mis- representation of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica. As regards Belladonna, Dr. Bayard quotes thus : " That he is an ox, that he gives the word of command, that his head is transparent, that his nose is transparent, that he is pretead- mg to count money." We will look into this " absurdity" and try to make Dr. Bayard's unfairness as " transparent" as the above mentioned nose. IH DU. I'ARII'S BULL ' \ 1 n Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade) is clasaed by old school authority as a narcotica acrid. Dr. Guy, in his work on Fo- rensic Medicine, p. 695, remarks " that delcrium is the most characteristic symptom of the above mentioned drug; .... the dclerium is co':imon!y of the yiolent kind, and is often attended with incoherence." That b( ing the fact, is it ex- traordinary that a j^erson laboring under the effects of a largs dose of Belladonna should fancy himself an ox, or any other animal? By visiting the Provincial Insane Asylum many stranger mental delusions will be seen in persons who have not taken drugs to produce them. Yet Dr. Waddell prescribes remedies to those patients ; but, according to Dr. Bayard, it is an " absurd delusion" to suppose that medicine can act upon a mind diseased. Verily, the Doctor, when he vrote those quotations, must have been laboring under an immense dose of conium, until a sensation became a fact, if he supposed that transcribing the syrnptom.s of mania found in different Homoeopathic writings were " evidences" that globuleism was a delusion. His dishonesty, like the patient's T.ose, is very transparent. In like manner could we proceed with the sixteen other remedies, but our space will not permit. Dr. Bayard should at least possess a general knowledge of the subject he traduces. From page 25 to 33 we find such an infinitesimal amount of good sense, such an antire absence of any argument, that we pass it by, and let it go for all tho weight of " evidence" it will make. The next evidence offered is the Bull of Tr. Paris, Presi- dent of the Royal College of Physicians, as follows : — "Sir,— Tiit ^ .i/^ition of the Royal College of Physi- cians was for (bo purp'.se of gu • anteeing to the public skil- ful and safe piaciitioners. The College of Physicians regards the so-called homa3opathists as neither skilful nor safe prac- titioners. Therefore, the College cannot, without betraying a sacred trust, give its License to persons whom ti.cy regard as wholly unworthy their confidence, and with whom it is not possible hey can hold any communion. " I remain, &c., John Avrton Paris." %.' :,'>^ I)U. PABIS'S BULL. 19 A ask any caadi*' man if that is " evidence" against IIonKEopathy ? Does it in the least demonstrate that the system is a delusion. Jt was but a short time ago that a British Physician was thought unworthy to have a place in the French Academy of Medicine, yet it does not prove that English Physicians are less clever than the French. The Bible has been excluded from different countries, tat who, in a civilized land, wouM argue from that fact that the Bible is an injurious publication with improper tendencies ? Politi- cal liberty is banished from Austria and France, and what Briton loves his on a opinions and freedom of speech the less on thai account. Dr. Bayard must brin^ a.ore substan- tial evidence than the harmless epistle of Dr. Paris, before ho can upset Homaopathy. This same institution persecuted Jenner for his discovery of vaccination and refuscnl him their license; and they committed Grccnevelt to Newgate for prescribing canthu' is internally. Hence that testimony is no dis'ionor. The Royal College of Surgeons when re- quested to join in putting down Homccoputhy gave the fol- lowing decisive answer, on several occasions : "T%e Council of ilie Royal College of Surgeons of Eng- land have cUentivehj and rcpeatcdhj considered the various communijatiens which theij have received on the subject of Homoeopathy; and after mature deliberation have resolved THAT IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT FOR THE CoLLEGE TO INTERFERE IN THE MATTER." A few years ago the UDiversity of Edinburgh refused to grant its degrees to any student if he was known to hold views favorable to Ilomrcopathy : they have intimated since, through the Lord Provost, that, in future, Homoeopathy would not prove an impediment to any student taking his degrees. (See Sharp's Controversy, p. 9.) In the United Stages tiie system was put down by the high hand of the hw, and per- sons practicing the system were persecute 1 by Allopathic men without mercy. Now every State in the Union recog- nises it as a legitimitc system, and supposes that an intellrr- i r iJ n 20 HAHNEWANi^J'S TNOEUM. tual community can hat judge tshich system is worth/ of confidence. Therefore, we cinnot but conclude that the thundering Bull of the Royal College of Physicians is no evidence. Now, as to the dismissal of Dr. Reed from the service, by Lieutenant General Vivian, for the one-sided statement of which see Dr. Bayard's work, page 34. He was a believer in Homoeopathy, and practised as his conscience dictated ; and, because Staff Surgeon Kalazdy, General Smith, and Lieut. Geri. Vivian did not believe in the system, he must be " broke.'' Why, in the name of common sense, does not Dr. Bayard bring better arguments than garbled nonsense and the opinions of the Editor of the London Lancet, who, by the way, has good reasons for hating Homoeopathy, The Lancet's opinions are worth as much as Dr. Bayard's, and neither will be admitted by reflecting individuals as evi- dences, except as evidence that the author of the" Delusions" is hard pushed for material, and is willing to admit all ques- tionable statements into his pamphlet to quash '* a waning delusion." " Homoeopathy does not appear to stand well with the present Emperor of Russia, as he has prohibited quacks and quacking throughout all the Russias," quotes Dr. Bayard. A sample of original reasoning that ! Because the Emperor has prohibited quacking, Homoeopathy is prohibited ! That cloes not follow. Doctor, unless you prove Homoeopathy a a system of quackery. At least the Russian court physician is not expelled, and he is a Homoeopath. The Doctor's logic will not, this time, make evidence. Ln several places Dr. Bayard has alluded to a nostrum sold by Hahnemann, under the name of Pnoeum, which con- sisted of nothing but Borax, and concludes that, as he deceived the world by the sale of it, ai a high price, he has deceived the world with Homoeopathy. Not a ^afe conclu- sion, but the Doctor borrowed it, and is not, therefore, accountable for its tendencies. Why cannot AHopathic 1 Y s F I t c a P80KA. 21 scribblers write with common honesty ? Why relate a por- tion of a sorry tale, and omit its redeeming parf Dr Bayard, when he quoted the slander, must have known the whole story, why keep it from his readers? " A witness in a court of law is required to tell the truth, the tohole truth, and nothmg but the truth," exclaims Dr. Bayard, He is, It seems, better at giving than taking advice. ^ Hahnemann, like many other great chemists, made a sad blunder, and mistook Corax for anew alkali, which he sold at a high price, but he iijmsdiately discovered his error, AND AT ONCE REFUNDED THE MONEY. Again, it mUSt be remembered that, at the time of selling the nostrum, he was an Allopathic physici-.n, and, therefore, excusable for com- mitting a little quackery. However, it amounted to nothing more than a chemical blunder, yet our opponents will resort to such miserable arguments in their endeavors to traduce Homoeop-thy. How many "legitimate" and "scientific" physicians of the present day are proprietors and puffers of nostrums? Sir James Clark and Dr. Ayer are familiar ex- amples. That wonderful and mighty evidence is ruined. We now come to the great bug-bear Psora. One would suppose, from reading the " Evidences," that it was some- thing first promulgated by Hahnemann, and exclusively adopted by his disciples, but we will proceed to prove that the idea is admitted by every sensible physician of the pre- sent day, Dr. Bayard ercepted, and at the same time it will be a a striking example of Allopathic unfairness. Even if we grant the Doctor's argument that it is a homccopathic idea. It amounts to nothing more than a clever pathological hypothesis, which does not materially affect the homoeopathic system. As this is neither the time nor place to discuss the psoric doctrine, let us assume it correct, inasmuch as both Homoeopathic and Allopathic writers adopt the theory as true. " In 1828, Hahnemann published one of his most celebrated works, ' Chronic Diseases, their peculiar nature, and homcEopathic treatment.' In this publication he gave % I 22 PSORA. w forth his opinions on the ancient doctrine of psora as a con- stitutional unt, to which a vast variety of the most important, chiefly chronic, diseases owed their existence. So far was he from claiming credit of being the originator of this pothological uoctrine, that he adduces, in support of his deci- sion in its favor, nearly a hundred allopathic authorities, his predecessors, as having more or less explicitly declared their conviction of its truth, or given examples in illustration of it. It is ignorantly sneered at by Dr. Simpson, and the many who take up the cuckoo-cry of derision against every thing that Hahnemann taught, as the Itch doctrine of the Homocopa- thists, whereas it is neither an itch doctrine, in a candid and inteliigent sense, nor is it apeculiarlyhomceopathic doctrine. ' I call it Psora,' says Hahnemann, * v/ith the vie*" of giving it a general designation,' and that he did not regard it as synonymous with, or limited in its meaning to the itch, every one knows who has perused his treatises upon the subject One sentence of his is sufficient to seitl. this point, and to leave those who have so industriously misrepresented his opinions, utterly without excuse : ' I am persuaded that not only are the majority of the innumerable skin diseases which have been described and distinguished by Willan, but also almost all the pseudo-organizations, etc., etc., with few ex- ceptions, merely the products of fhe multiform psora.' " * Frederick Hoffmann, who is recognized as a standard author on pathology, says as follows : " We have known atrocious pains of the joints suddenly removed on the occur- rence of itch having the character of white lepra. For, whilst shiftmg of the morbid matter from internal to external parts, is very beneficial, on the contrary, what turns from the external to internal parts is most pernicious The true, proximate, and immediate cause of these evils, because almost all the most serious and deadly diseases, both chronic and acute, and these the most firmly rooted in the system of * Henderson, p. 115. I ., rsoiiA. 23 nerrous parts, may be relieved by the matter being expelled according to the habit of body; and, on the contrary, the matter being repelled to the interior parts, the same disease may be excited Experience itself teaches this truth, for innumerable observations of the most credible authors exist, which record that spasmodic asthma, inflammation of the joints, gout, and many other diseases, have been removed on the appearance of itch, and, on the other hand, have arisen on the itch being suppressed." Dr. K. Wenzel, in 1825, published a book entitled " The true Itch with special regard to its improper treatment as a source of innumerable and frightful secondary diseases " This was three years before Hahnemann wrote his c'lronic diseases. Anteurieth, an allopathic writer of great distinction, has views analagous to Hahnemann in regard to Psora. He says that, " a great many diseases are dependant upon itch," and he cites many examples from the Tubingen Hospital to prove the truth of his assertion. He ascribes the occurrence of these serious chronic diseases to the repulsion of itch by ointments and salves. Ho says, " it is sad and disgusting to entertain the notion, as so many do, that itch cannot be driven too rapidly of the skin." He does not agree with Dr. Bayard's " three day cures with a shillings worth of grease and sulphur." The celebrated Professor Scholein of Berlin, publi ^ed a work on General and Special Pathology and Therapeutics, and on page 87 he gives a description of a disease which he terms asthma psoricum, " It is," says he "alway preceeded by itch that has been rudely suppressed by ointments." Another contradiction of Dr. Bayard's itch cure. Dr. Wertenweber, in a series of papers published in the Austrian Medical Journal, enumerates twenty-seven diseases as the result of repelled itch, from his own and others' observation. " I may remark that primary itch is positively a local affection and may be immediately cured by external applications, without incurring any danger" says Dr. Bayard in his preface. ^r^i'jui'.si'yj'+'i--' 5^"*;s ^? , I 24 P30KA. Ji, t fil I I I ^l!L i \\l Professor Scholein says this : *'lt was remarkably impu- dent in Hahnemann to pretend that he was the Jirst to point out the consequence of the itch.'' '' Scholein claims it for Allopathy, and, with the ignor- ance which is universal among allopathic writers who would depreciate Hahnemann, accuses the discoverer jf Homoeop- athy of arrogatiug to himself the discovery also of the itch doctrine though he expressly refers to nearly a hundred pro- ceeding authors in confirmation of his own views regarding it."* As regards the existence of the acarus in itch, ne one dis- putes, but it will trouble the author of the " Delusions" to demonstrate wheth.^- it is the cause or consequence of the disease. Hence we see that Psora, if it is a dishonor Lo Homoeopa- thy, which has only adopted it from its parent Allopathy, must be a sad disgrace to those who would very unwisely disown their offspring. And, as regards the truth of the theory, we have read too many learned authors, both Allo- pathic and Homoeepathic, upon the subject, to credit Dr. Bayard'5 disbelief. Homoeopathy makes no particular claim to origin ity in its < .achings, or speculations. It is a system which hL arisen from the old school — arisen from the ac- cumulated knowledge of thousands of years, a consequence of that knowledge, and it has selected all the gems from the rubbish, cleansed them of surrounding imparities, fitting each in its proper place, until there has been a system of medi- cine given to the world, which claims for itself superiority over the self-assumed " legitimate" practice. * Henderson, p, 170. TABLE-TURNING. «(' Dr. Bayard has much to say about " Spirit Rapping" .and Table Turning," he classes them with HonKEopathy. Now, we will try our hand at this wonderful art, and practice upon his ingeniously carved statistical tables, and perhaps v/c may get them to " turn" over to our side of the house, and be the means of saving Homceopathy in St. John from deep dis- grace. One fact is very striking in regard to Dr. Bayard's garbled statistics, which is, that inflammation of the bowels, peri- tonites, pleurisy, and kindred diseases are all passed by with- out being honored with a word. The reason of tliis is quite apparent, the contrast would not appear well in a pamphlet against Homoeopathy. lie, however, enlarges on the subject of Pneumonia, (intlamation of the lungs,) and takes these grounds to substantiate his assertions: — 1st. The official returns from the homoeopathic men arc to be disbelieved. 2nd. The cases of Pneumonia are selected for the purpose of presenting a clean report. JJrd. The success is in a measure attributed to the gentle- ness of the Sisters of Charitv. 4th. That Fleischman is not competent to diagnose in- flammation of the lungs, and the Doctor is fearful that he may have confounded it with common cold or, heaven save the mark, flatulency ! 5th. The official honicuopathic returns arc not so favour- able by many per cent, as the allopathic. Now most of the b;igi^' ideas which appear on Dr. Bay, ard's pages emanated either from Dr. Routh or Professor Simpson, and have been rel\iteJ and proved to be !'alj;e Si;''eral times, yet Allopatl.y clin^^a tu ili£i"a as its only hope. Pro- It 1 '■, 1 I i I if f 26 TNLUMONIA. fessor Henderson has, to a great length, alluded to all the above points and proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the superiority of the homoeopathic system. We will quote from him again, to some e::tent, as it will be only Henderson vs. Simpson. In discussing the merits of the two systems in Pneumonia, he says : " I have indeed been at pains to discover accou' i of allopathic cures that were universally favorable for the happy issue of the treatment, and J. have been successful in my search, having found them iu treatises by Louis and Bouillaud These, with the examples from the practice of Dietl of Vienna, are all ihave taken from allopathic authori- ties. The HomcBopathic side gives rne no latitude for selection, for I know of no groups of cases published by homoeopathic authorities, with the exception of the 41 by Tessier in his Recherches Cliniques, 1850, and the 11 by myself in ^the British Journal of Homoeopathy for 1850, which proves the condition which I regard as indispensable, on our side at least, of being a complete series of cases, from which none have been excluded or withheld from publication, that had occurred to the narrator between the commence- ment of his observations for the time, and the preparation of his treaties for the press." * First point of Dr. Bayard, "the returns of the homoeopa- thic men are not to be credited." It so occurs that Drs. Henderson and Tessier occupy a position in the profession which places their statements of fact beyond question ; one a Professoi- of Edinburgh, the other a French physician, connected with a hospital in Paris, men who would not pub- lish falsities, and in whose statements we may place all con- fidence. Second, " Homoeopathic cases are ^elected." We will prove that unselectcd homoeopathic cases are not so fatal as selected allopathic cases of Pneumonia. Age .• — Of the 50 cases above the age of puberty, 25, or * Ilcuderson, p. 69. I'NEUMOXIA. 27 just one half were above 40 years of age, and of these 10 were above 50 years old, and the average of all the cases was 41 years. Complication and Constitution : — There were exclusive of jaundice and pleurisy, 14 with complications or about 1 in 3J. The complications consisted of diseases of the heart, chronic, bronchitis, delirium tremens, pericarditis, acute bronchitis, and meningitis; besides those 14 in which local complications are specified, there were 8 others in which local complications is noted as enfeebled and deteriorated health, so that we have 20 cases of complications, or 1 in 2i, a largev .proportion than the worst of the allopathic groups present. Mortality: — Of the 50 cases, 3 terminated fatally, the proportion of deaths to recoveries being one to 17, or inst per cent. Of the 26 cases that were aged 43 years, and under, only one died, and at the age of 43; none died of the 25 that were under 40, The others were aged respectively 58 and GO ; here, then, are three deaths in 35 cases, aged between 40 and 70 years, a period of life, when, according to Grisolle's extensive data, the mortality is at the rate of 23 per cent, in allopathic practice. We have now two groups of cases (allopntli'c) furnished by Louis. The first group consisting of 78 cases, which were sklecteo, us Louis states that 40 other cases occur- red along with the 78, but he had excluded them because the pneumonia in them occurred in unfavorable circmnstanccSf such as previous bad health, while, of the 78 cases, he says : " all were in a state of perfect health at the moment when ' the first symptoms began." "SVe might justly decline admit- ting such cases to a comparison with the unselected hoince- opathic group — in which many, about a third, were in bad health at the commencement of the pneumonia. This ad- vantage will tell, however, all the more to the credit of Homa'opathy, when it is knowii that of Louis's 78 cases, :2"', p'" nearly on? third, dii'-d ! Vriiut ;n:il;es tlio (lillerencc, in 28 VXKT'MONIA. m :ii .^1 t ihn ;-:uccoss of the two systems still moro roniarkablp is, that Louis's cases were, in a large proportion, ot an early age, and even the- average age of the '28 fatal cases was only ,'19. That of the 50 that recovered was i.bout 35. Louis, writing at another period, states that, in the course of four preceding years, 150 cases of pneumonia had passed under his notice, but he limits himself again to a selection of cases, 29 in all, who were, like the former group, " in excel- lent health at the moment when the first symptoms of pneu- monia occurred." Tn the smaller selection he was more ibrtunate, four only of the twenty-nine having d:ed, or one in seven, about fourteen per cent. ; but, still, iie^rly two and and a-half times greater than the mortality of the unselected homoeopathic cases. Bouillaud has published an account of 75 cases of pneu- monia, Tlie following are the particulars of his cases : Affc : — Three-fifths were below 37 years of age, while, of the honioDopathic cases, 25 were below 37, just one-half. He had but five cases above 57 years old, while, of cures, there were 14 above 57. This fact is important, inasmuch as Grisolle, in his statistics of pneumonia, states that the loss between 50 and GO, is not less than 27 per cent. Coihjjitcations : — Bouilinud hiul one case of chronic com- pliealion — clironic liroiichitis ; tlio other co?nplications, amouiitin'T fo trn, wore routs diseases of various kinds. MortaUty : — Ten deaths occurred among the 75 cases, or one in seven and a half, being at the rate of fourteen and two- thirus per cent. Tlierefore, v.-e have, from the preceding groups, the fol- l()win;j conclusion : Iloma'opatliic group, loss - - - 6 in 100 Louis, group No. 1, " - - 34 in ICO Louis, 1^ roup No. 2, " - -14 in 100 IJouilluud's cases, " - - I4§ in 100 Now there is no backing out of these statements, and any person w!u> vil! lake the tr,)iibie to r hitrn.«t ;l.e historv of >ii^m PNEIMONIA. on tlioso discs and tlio statomonts in flic " Delu^jions" must be aatisfied that these are better substantiated, and more worthy of confidence. Dr. B, cites ofiicial returns from the Army and Navy. We cannot by any means accept these as true. Wlio is to vouch that the gentlemen of the sword and lancet are sufficiently bound to distinguish between pneumonia and flatulence. According to allopathic writings it hi difficult, and it is well known that the medical gentlemen of the ser- vice a; e good surgeons, but indifferent physicians, when we consider them en masse. Again, the percentage r tOo great to be believed, after reading the result of pneumonia treated by Louis and Bouillaud. Therefore, we are quite safe in concluding that Homoeopatliy has saved its reputation in inflammation of the lungs. We will propose to Dr. Bayard, after he gets his hospital built, to allow us to treat a few cases of non-organic disease, and let him have occular demonstration of the power or inert- ness of HomcDopathy. In that proceeding the Doctor would be made a convert to the faith, or would issue another edition of the " Delusions," more stocked with wonderful failures than the ftrst. Ihe Editor of the Britis/i and Foreign Medical Rctncv, peaking of Fleischman, remarks as follows — after giving him the character of being a " well-educated physician," of " honor and respectability" — " we cannot, therefore, refuse to admit the accuracy of Ms vStatements as to matters of fact." Therefore, we have the highest, allopathic proof that Fleisch- man's statistics are true and correct. As regards the fever reports of Fleischman, Dr. Forbes affirms, "The amount of deaths in the fever and eruptive diseases is certainly 6c/ow tho ordinary proportion." This fact he attempts to explain a>iay on the ground that Ilomceopathy merely does no harm, while, very often, Allopathy does much harm. We deny the correctness of his conclusion a!5 far as IIoma}opathy is con- cerned ; but, no doubt, he is correct in regard to Allopathv — at least ht night to know. Wo are satisfied with the ad mission of superior success. :J;> IlOSriTAl. RKrUBXS. IP! •22 in 100 died 3 in 100 died. 9- in 100 died. 2 in 100 died. IMciirisy is known to be a very violent' disease, and one- wliiclidoniands prompt remedial nienns. The following are the comparative results of the homceopothic and allopathic treatment : Allopathic Hospitals, - - 13 \n 100 died. Homoeopathic " - , 3 in' 100 died. In dysentery the results are still more favorable for IIomu!opathy, being thus ; — Allopath'c Hospitals, - Homoeopathic Hospitals, - Fever, excluding Typhus : Allopathic Hospitals, - ■ Homoeopathic Hospitals, - Thus statistics are given by Fleischman, and according to Dr. Forbes they arc cori-cct. They serve to illustrate the important fact that Homoeopathy is more successful than Allopathy in the moat violent diseases. Now, to Dr. Bayard's comparison of incurable diseases in Homccopalhic and Allopathic hospitals. We admit that, ruch is the case, as he states, and we take great pleasure .ri being able to agree with him upon one point. " The far greater proportion of incurable organic diseases that find their way into the large, old, allopathic hospitals, as into medical poor-houses for the incurable, places them at a disadvantage as to the class of cases subjected to treatment, When their mortality is brought into compe- ., with that of HomcEopathic hospitals. This much is due to fairness ; but, at the same time I strongly suspect that, although our mortality would be greater than it is, if our hospitals had the same proportion of organic disease : s the allopathic had, the difference between the results of the two methods would bo quite as great, if not greater, if the allopathic hospitals had acute inflammation substituted in place of their excess of or- ganic diseases; for it is only a proportion of the latter that die u.inually, though all of them must die within a few yearr." * ^ Iloiidevsoii, 1^ lOG. mmmm. Mpap •AtLOPATIlV i»vi> IJOKKiJY?. '31 It .8 no use tfor Dr. Bayard to endeavor ^.^rgue tromu^o- pathy into a greater mortality, the ti.mg cannot be done- at least H. a manner that it will stay th ,a-^Dr. Bnyard and other allopathrc gentlemen may as w-,in admit the fact, that they knowliomo^opa^hy is better fnan thfc ancient system as much so a^nravelling in a rail c,;^;, L>,tt«rthan the an- c.ent method or r.dmg a donkey, Wtthoy like the^d way the best, and feel mclined to stic'^ to it. Dr. Bayard, hoi «ver, should, hke his kinsman in Kew York, (Dr. E. fiLrd), embrace the true system of medicine and be the meana of domg much good in the world before he dies Dr. Bayard has, much to hb own satisfaciion, found an- •example of homoeopathic failure in cholera. After attentively' searchmg ti.e world over, ho- finds, in. Marseilles, that the homa.eopa'.h,c mortality was 21 out of 26 patients, while the allopattnc wa« II out of 25 cases, making the loss stand HomoBopathic ... 84 per cent. Allopathic - . . . 4^ , <( «( Difference of - . 49 « We will say nothing more about M. Charge as we are not informed as to the partioulars of his loss, but we might con- c ude. from reasoning, that . .mething was wrong, as HomcBo- pathy no where else ever lost the large amount of 44 per cent m cholera. We will take the allopathic loss 44 per c.nt. in cholera as a standard and contrast it < the Homceopathic loss m different parts of the world. The following extract will be read with interest by Dr Bayard, as ,t emanates from a clergyman. It is from a letter wrmen by the Rev. W. Pryse, dated April 7, 1856, Sylhet, East Indies : '. The cholera has again visited ou; town, and has been very fatal in the villages round about us, during the last month. We use the homoeopathic system of medicine. I do not speak in its favor from prejudice, but from, onmctton of its superiority From ignor- ance upon these matters, I cannot speak of its success in I I :lr2 A.VDHAl \.M' I'.AII-I.li;. i- ■ ■ n i lOiiyliitid, l)iit Mltliis 1 ;iiii luippy to s'iy Ma/ - 5iO per cent. Homoeopathic loss, - - - - 7 per cent. Homcuopathic superiority, 23 " " Here are facts and figures, 'iTthe legitimate men' ven- lure to deny the statements" it will not at all improve their per centage. Dr. Bayard has, like many we have soon before him, en- deavored to make capital out of the reputed failure of Homfflopathy, in the hands of Andral and Baillie, of Pans, two eminent allopathic men. Suppose that Dr. Bayard had hii^ hospital built, and he should determine to quash Homccopathy, by one grand sys- tem of experimentation with infinites;mal spiritualities, with a desire, premeditated, to convince the w rid that the twin brother of Mesmcriiini was arrant (luackcfy, would he find .■^gmwmf^^m^Hm DIl. BAYAUD-a AUrrilMETIC. '311 the ask d.nicull? No ! Or, n.nin. could ue cxpocl at h.s hands a fair and impariial trial ? By no means. He ha* pinned his life and reputation to the skirts of hia old an.J ancient mother. Allopathy, and if she sinks, down goes all h.s glory and renovrn. Therefore, it is a principle of nature -one of the "directions" before alluded to-that ho should sustain Allopathy, right or wrong, and-he would do it I Andral and Baillie were in the same position, and hence their verdict. It woulu be taxing these grey heads with too much humiliation to ask them to acknowledge that they have been doing wrong all their lives, and have just found it out Oh, no! they will still declare they are correct, and fi.ht it out, until they go to that land where physic is unknown. Now, for the Doctor's second sample of arithmetic, and the preparations of the Homoeopathic remedies. ,Vc should think that the Dr.'s pharmaceutical knowledge was not very deep, or he could have at least given us a true statement of the manner of preparing potencies. We admit that Hahne- mann used one drop to a hundred, but no pharmacy of the present day uses other than than the decimal scale, or ten to ninety. Dr. Bajard states that in order to mrke the thirtietli atten- uation, ,t would require " an ocean of fourteen sepiillion cubic miles of alcohol; or in a quantity suflicient to make one hunt red and forty billion spherical masses, extending from limit to limit of Neptune's orbit; or in a quantity equal to many hundred spheres, each with a semi-diameter or radius, exteading from the earth to the nearest fixed star." Now, we will give our statement of the case. First we will take ton drops of Aconite, for instance. In order to m'ake the 1st poto-cy we require a small vial and ninety drops of alcohol, mingle ihe two together and shake the bottle until tho medicine and alcohol become intimately mixed. For the '2nd potency, ten drops of the 1st, and ninety other drops of alcohol in another clean vial, prepared in the same ma.,ner Thus going on until wc have the JJOth. About one hour''. ^^^ ?^WT^25.^^^|jV"--^--->"" u QUACKS. ;l time will be consumed, thirty vials will be used, ten drops of aconite, and an ocean of alcohol of the following dimensions —TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND T aops ! wliich would be equal to a tea-cupful of alcohol ! ! An ocean of sufficient size to drown all the allopathic candor in the world ! So much for the oceans. . At page G7 the Doctor quotes a peculiar oath, as though it was a pan and parcel of the homccopathic system. We will admit, with Dr. B., that it is ridiculous and profane, besides being quite unfair to pin a student down to any s ct of medical rules. Yet, Hippocrates administered a solemn oath to his students ; and, to come back to modern times, we have an example Ut us at Edinburgh. The medical facultij there imposed upon the candidate for graduation, the pledge that he would not adopt the HonMopaV.iic system, recognize its advo- cates, or, in short, to have anything to do with the " German scheme," under pain of having their diplomas taken from them, and their names excommunicated from the list of regular:! People who live in glass-houses, etc. One would judge, from reading the " Delusions," that it waa not at all important for homccopathic physicians to pos- sess any knowledge of Anatomy, Piiysiology, Pathology, etc. —that the Organon was the only text book used. If the " EvUlcnces" should establish such an impression in the mind of the render, we trust that he will soon abandon it as false. Our Colleges are as perfect in the collateral branches as those cf the old school, and all our societies - use the candidates for membership to pass a rigid exami- ■ '>,.rorp they can b6 received as members. Of course I- quACKS in the homeopathic ranks as well as among tae " lc.:!itiujate" class. We have known run-away Clerics to swell i.nincnsdy under the self-assumed title of Doctor, when all they knew of diseases or the action of medicine, was, what they could pick up from a pocket domestic work on practice. Such things are to be expectr-l. They arc a species of parasites that attach themselves to tjie body of a SJT. JUIIK DISPENSAKY. 35 ten drops of dimensions Id be equal lent 8Jze to 3o much for as though it (1. We will ane, besides ct of medical I oath to his we have an acuity there ledge that he tizc its advo- hc " German taken frovi t of regular:! jns," that it jians to pos- ithology, etc. 1. impression in soon abandon he collateral our societies risid exami- . Of course well as among loay Clerks to Doctor, when edicine, was, 3tic work on They arc a jiie body of a healthy system, and suck out its very life. But they are merely an unconscious set of miserable pukes, who will receive their reward in the next world if not in this — no matter whether they have the audacity to call themselves HcmoDopathic or Allopathic. If the reader will take the trouble to glance at Dr. Bayard's work, on pages 5, 54 and 60, he will lind the word " Dispen- sary" in small capitals or in italics, as though the venerable a'lthor had a peculiar hatred to the word in general, and to the " St. John Public Dispensai^" in particular. Perhaps the immortal remains of the " ftimilies" defunct hospital scheme has disturbed the ordinary repose of the Doctor's mind. If they failed in their grand ten thousand pound institution, and government patronage, they should not be jealous of their neighbors who have done a good work for the relief of the poor of this city, at u cost of only some ■i'90per annum. Four hundred poor people have been v re- lieved since the opening of the rooms on the 11th of March last. Their thanks and grateful prayers will avail much more than all the abuse that certain physicians can manufac- ture. Wo are positive that our allopathic associate and ourselves have not been guilty of any very henious crime by devoting one hour each day to those unfortunate persons who are unable to fee a physician. Those capitals betoken no very good feeling, and they seem to say that it has nearly broken the Doctor's heart, to behold Homoeopathy recognised in St. John, as a system of medicine worthy of confidence, by a President and Board of Directors who are as capable of distingaishing between ri