HOMOEOPATHY. 



of reputation on Materia Medica, and in that 

 thoroughly scientific work, the Organon of medi- 

 cine, published in Dresden in 1810, under the title 

 of " Organon of the -Rational Art of Healing,/ he 

 gives from page 57 to 108, the statements of Allo- 

 pathic authors, where patients have been cured 

 solely, although without the knowledge of the 

 physician, by means of a homoeopathic medicine 

 which possessed the power of producing a similar 

 morbid state. " To affect/' says Hahneman, " a 

 mild, rapid, certain and permanent cure, choose 

 in every case of disease, a medicine which can 

 itself produce an affection similar to that sought 

 to be cured " 



When Hahnemann first made known to the 

 world his therapeutical views, physicians were 

 induced to represent him as mad, and his ideas as 

 the offspring of a disordered imagination, so diffi- 

 cult was it for them to conceive that acute mala- 

 dies could be cured without bleeding, emetics, 

 cathartics, sudorifics, counter-irritants, &c., &c.; 

 thus homoeopathy has been kept back, not by ar- 

 guments, but by impudent sneers or selfish ridi- 

 cule. In like manner, Fulton, when he first 

 announced to his countrymen the power of steam, 

 was declared by his nearest friends, insane. Har- 

 vey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, 

 was bitterly attacked, pronounced a reckless inno- 

 vator, and unworthy of public confidence as a 

 practitioner. Columbus, Newton, Locke, and 

 their doctrines were ridiculed, misrepresented, 

 and condemned, till time placed the names of 

 these eminent persons on the roll of fame ; their 

 discoveries have been allowed by kind Providence 

 to remain to benefit the world, and the public are 

 fast rendering the same justice to Hahnemann, 

 the founder of this grand system. 



