HOMOEOPATHY. 879 



The genius of man walks willingly with positive knowledge, but 

 there come times and eases, when he falls back upon the unknown 

 chaos, and trusts for instinctive revelations there. We would not 

 therefore cut connection with allopathy; because there will be a 

 certain number of instances where there is no knowledge, and where 

 chaos is a resource. When these arise, it is a comfort that they can 

 be committed to that respectable body, the old medical profession, 

 which to do it justice, has its own stars in its own night. We think 

 however that it is a mistake to call its art, allopathy ; it should be 

 termed chaopatliy, because it is without a formula, and welters down 

 time by that set of falls which are vulgarly known as good and bad 

 luck. 



Homoeopathy requires many changes, and new brains of the Hah- 

 nemannian order, before it will do itself justice according to the 

 conception of its founder. I know no set of problems which would 

 better repay severe thought founded upon observation, than the pro- 

 perties of the drugs quoad the human body. It is not routine 

 practice, but penetrating investigation, which will introduce the next 

 highly necessary improvements. New views of the human frame 

 are requisite before the science of pathogenesy can attain to any 

 degree of perfection. Among the first of these, we reckon that 

 natural pathogenesis which the powers intrinsic to the body daily 

 exercise upon it: viz., the powers of the mind, soul, and the inner 

 man. By eliciting this, we shall get at the leading idea of patho- 

 genesis, and also obtain rules for the succession of symptoms and 

 states as welling from a single fountain head. Otherwise, unless 

 our eyes be thus armed by these greater knowledges, the various 

 symptoms that drugs evoke in different parts of the frame, will seem 

 to have no connection with each other, and the memory will be 

 unable to retain them, at the same time that they will lie as so much 

 incoherent dust in the way of the intellectual powers. The subject 

 is so important that we must take leave to illustrate our remarks in 

 a few words. 



If the effects of medicines should be decided upon the healthy 

 body, it will be conceded, that the knowledge of the healthy body 

 itself is the canvas upon which our medicinal science must be drawn. 

 But the body is tenanted by various lives, each of which pervades 



