HOMEOPATHY 



HOMER 



have the very earliest products or must pur- 

 chase an article because it is popular. Never 

 purchase a thing because it is the latest "craze." 

 Purchase only those things that are adapted to 

 the needs and comforts of the family, and not 

 out of season. 



Economy demands constructive thinking and 

 constructive planning in order to avoid the 

 purchase of useless things, thereby incurring 

 waste. Have a definite idea and purpose; buy 

 for the health, comfort and progress of the 

 family and not for the purpose of keeping up 

 appearances. 



It is extravagant to purchase articles of wear 

 or for the home that are not in any way re- 

 lated to those already in use. Such things add 

 to the expense without bringing adequate re- 

 turns in comfort and happiness. T.V.M. 



Consult Richards' s The Art of Right Living; 

 Bevier and Usher's The Home Economics Move- 

 ment ; also the current issues of the Journal of 

 the American Home Economics Association. 



Related Subjects. These volumes contain 

 many articles which will be helpful in a study of 

 home economics, and the following are especially 

 recommended. Many of them have extensive lists 

 of related subjects, so that the range of reading 

 is a wide one. 

 Adulteration of Food- Food Products, 



stuffs and Clothing Preservation of 



Baby Furnace 



Canning Clubs ' Furniture 



Child Heating and Ventilation 



Child Study Household Arts in 



Cookery Education 



Domestic Art Industrial Art 



Domestic Service Interior Decoration 



Education Physical Culture 



Electricity Pure Food Laws 



Embroidery Sanitary Science 



Fireless Cooker Sewing 



Food 



HOMEOPATHY, homeop'athi, a system of 

 internal medicine, the fundamental principle 

 of which is based on the law, Similia similibus 

 curantur (Like cured by like). Though referred 

 to by several physicians before the eighteenth 

 century, it was first given practical application 

 by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann of Leipzig, about 

 the beginning of the nineteenth century. He 

 applied the name homeopathic to this system 

 to distinguish it from the old school, which 

 was called allopathic (see ALLOPATHY). The 

 last two syllables of these words come from the 

 Greek word for feeling, or disease; homeo is 

 from the word for similar, and allo, from the 

 word for other. 



Hahnemann's theory was that a drug which 

 will produce certain disease symptoms in a 

 healthy person will cure a sick person present- 



ing the same group of symptoms. To deter- 

 mine the curative properties of various drugs 

 he "proved'.' them in the following way: A 

 dose of the medicinal preparation chosen for 

 the test was given to a healthy person at cer- 

 tain intervals until deviations from normal 

 health were produced, and during the process 

 his symptoms were carefully noted. These 

 symptoms were recorded and compared with 

 those noted in various diseases, and the drug 

 producing them was selected as the remedy 

 for the disease having the given or similar 

 symptoms. More than ninety drugs were 

 proved by Hahnemann in experiments upon 

 himself and others. 



The homeopathist believes that for curative 

 purposes the poisonous principles in powerful 

 drugs, such as belladonna and aconite, should be 

 reduced until the remedy is incapable of pro- 

 ducing drug effects; therefore a physician of 

 this school would not prescribe strong, bitter- 

 tasting medicine for curative purposes in cura- 

 ble diseases. Since the time of Hahnemann 

 the tendency in all medical practice has been to 

 administer simpler forms of medicine and these 

 in sinaller doses. 



Homeopathy has never met with the same 

 favor in Europe as in the United States; in the 

 American Union there are at present about 15,- 

 000 homeopathic physicians and ten medical 

 schools in which Hahnemann's theories are 

 taught. In Canada, where the different prov- 

 inces control the licensing of physicians, Quebec 

 is the only province having a separate homeo- 

 pathic board of examiners. This is known as 

 the College of Homeopathic Physicians and 

 Surgeons of Montreal. In Montreal there is in 

 active operation a homeopathic hospital. In 

 the province of Ontario the homeopathic and 

 allopathic schools are united for examining pur- 

 poses into one board called the medical council. 



The principle, "Like cured by like," is the 

 foundation of the treatment of disease by 

 blood serum. See SERUM THERAPY; also, 

 HAHNEMANN, SAMUEL CHRISTIAN. J.P.C. 



HO'MER, one of the greatest names in all 

 literary history, and the oldest in the literary 

 history of Europe. Scholars have written long 

 and learned books to prove that such a person 

 never existed that the poems ascribed to him 

 were the product of generations of minstrels; 

 but despite these his name will stand to all 

 time as that of the author of two of the world's 

 supreme epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. 



The Greek Idea of Homer. The ancient 

 Greeks, who regarded his works as classics and 



