58 FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 
What I say applies not only to Coste and Willemet, the same 
reproaches are due to all our common observers. Mutato 
nomine, de te fabula narratur. In their view, almost all medi- 
cinal substances produce no other effect than to evacuate by 
perspiration, etc., etc., because they are always preoccupied 
with the idea of removing morbid matters, which very seldom 
exist, but which they fancy could not be cured otherwise. 
“By connecting what Coste and Willemet have stated, with 
regard to the porter (an insignificant fact, because the unfor- 
tunate man did not die on the spot), with what we find written 
subsequently, it seems highly probable that in doses large 
enough to produce that upward evacuation which the partisans 
of saburres are so fond of, the root of Asarum places men in 
manifest danger of dying, and sometimes really kills them, as 
Wedel has seen. That is truly an admirable method, that can 
only expel these supposed saburres from the stomach by endan- 
gering the life of the patient. Are we permitted to act so 
barbarous a part towards our sick brethren? No, the Sove- 
reign Preserver of life has bestowed this plant 
design. To puta stop to natural and morbid vomiting, accom- 
panied by important symptoms analogous to those it produces, 
by means of the minutest dose of the tincture highly diluted ; 
such is the true use to be made of this root, a 
opposed to its mischievous abuse by those 
in a large dose as an emetic, 
with a far nobler 
use diametrically 
who recommend it 
to the physician capable of reflection, without naming ex- 
Pressly the diseases that may be cured by their aid. 
“The homeopathic physician who acts exact] 
what the common school has hitherto done, 
advantage of this 
y contrary to 
