Xll INTRODUCTION. 



the name of the drug or drugs used, has been handed down to 

 future generations of practitioners; the patient recovered, hence 

 when other cases of Pneumonia crop up the allopathist falls back 

 upon the S3^stem of treatment which he finds recorded as above; 

 and so the thing has gone on for ages; but not one of those who 

 have acted on this line could give any scientific reason for the use 

 of the drug or drugs referred to, and more often than not disap- 

 pointment has resulted and the patient has died. An effort has 

 been made to give loud-sounding names, based on the science 

 known as pathology, to every form of disease, and in each of the 

 many diseases recognized the same course of procedure has been 

 adopted; one man has tried one thing for a given disease and suc- 

 ceeded; another has experimented on some other drug with equally 

 good results, and so on ad infinitum, and each in their turn pub- 

 lished their experience in some book or journal until the medical 

 professions have become fairly bewildered with the numerous pre- 

 scriptions for various diseases; but this very fact should convince 

 that some other method than an experience based on the uncertain 

 foundation of guess work is called for; you may give names to 

 such as Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Pleurisy and the like, and for pro- 

 fessional descriptive purposes these names may serve a useful 

 purpose; but there never were two cases of Pneumonia, or Bron- 

 chitis, or Pleurisy, or any other form of disease, recognized by 

 name, that were exactly alike; some symptoms occur in one case 

 that do not present themselves in another, and the presence of one 

 or more symptoms in one case that are absent in another are quite 

 sufficient to account for the failure of a certain line of treatment 

 that was perhaps marvellously successful in another that had pre- 

 ceded it; the allopathic practitioner places no value upon the 

 totality of the symptoms; in other words, he generalizes, but is 

 not sufficiently precise. 



This is where Homoeopathy steps in and furnishes a definite 

 mode of procedure; it does not ignore any symptoms; nay more, it 

 not only includes the aggregate or totality of the symptoms pre- 

 sented at the time by the patient, but takes into consideration any 

 symptoms experienced or that may have been observed in the 

 previous history of the case; and comparing all these as a whole, 

 with the symptoms that drugs are capable of producing in the 

 healthy body as a whole, a correct selection of a drug for a given 



