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hollow hypotheses banished, and the enormous injury would 
have been avoided which has been done in consequence of the 
ignorance of medicaments and the wholesale waste of them. 
Had Camphor always been administered in suitably small doses, 
there would have been no reason for complaining so manifoldly 
of aggravations of diseases, especially since it was had recourse 
to so surprisingly often in such phases of disease as had been 
seen to be produced by itself. Horn mentions (1. c., p. 224) 
that there is no medicament having so many and so frequent 
idiosyncratic obstacles throwing themselves in its way as 
Camphor, and he signifies thereby nothing other than homeo- 
pathic aggravations, which could only have been avoided by 
suitable small doses. 
The foregoing comparison leads to the following conclusions : 
1. The 2000 years-old science of medicine has no ground for 
being proud of its foundation in pharmacology, when it exhibits 
such a Babylonish confusion, such absolute contradictions, — 
such partial, perverse notions and abstractions as have been 
evidenced, where the best observers are accused by others of 
deception and distortions of facts. 
2. Camphor is a medicine which does all honour to homeo- 
pathy, since it has acquired the most reputation in those very 
diseases which it is of itself capable of producing in the greatest 
similarity, as the poisonings, dissecting reports, experiments on 
healthy and diseased organisms, and the cures and — or 
observed therein entirely prove. 
3. It is the homeopathic physician alone who can possess the 
sufficient indication for the employment of medicaments, when 
the experiences made at the sick-bed and the positive symptoms 
coincide in so surprising a degree (as in Camphor), “ where it 
is Nature that speaks, and not — or the vagaries of 
hypotheses.” ee 
Description.—The Dryobalanops Camphora is a stately 
height. The Camphor - is = 
forest tree, growing to an immensé 
found in masses in ceavities of the wood of the seen am ae ; 
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