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HOMOEOPATHY V. ALLOPATHY. 
That cinchona “ does not cause, in the great majority of cases, 
any symptoms at all analogous to fever, and never produces 
the intermittent fever which characterises ague.” That 
“lemon juice cures, but does not produce scurvy.” That 
“ iodine removes glandular enlargements, but does not cause 
anything at all analogous to them.” That “ aconite, when 
given in allopathic doses, reduces the pulse, and counteracts 
inflammation, but fails entirely to cause plethora or inflam- 
mation in healthy individuals.” 
Such are the statements put forth by my opponent in the 
first instance, while in the Veterinarian for June, he there not 
exactly reiterates them, but they are sent forth in a some- 
what modified state ; he says, p. 324, that the above-named 
medicine “ with many others, certainly do not induce any 
affections at all analogous to those in which they are admi- 
nistered.” 
Ere I proceed, however, to adduce facts in support of my 
position, or to prove that such medicines as I have enume- 
rated do produce affections when taken within the healthy 
organism, in every respect clearly analogous to those diseases 
in which they are administered, I must in one or two respects, 
beg to coincide with my opponent, viz., that neither arsenic, 
iodine, nor belladonna, will, that I am aware of, produce thick 
wind ; nor aurum, arsenicum, nor bromine, glanders, farcy, or 
consumption ; nor sulphur, lice ; nor turpentine, worms ; but, 
when I thus express my concurrence, I must, at the same 
time, again remind him that they are statements entirely of 
his own fabrication, and that if ever he wrote them under the 
serious impression that homceopathists believed them as facts, 
that he was deluding himself most egregiously : they do not 
believe any such thing, — they nowhere state such a belief, and 
I challenge my opponent to the proof. The Hahnemannic 
law is not that the same thing cures the same thing , but it is not 
that similars cure similars. The difference between the 
word similar and the word same , I have elsewhere explained 
in the sense in which homceopathists understand it, so that I 
trust the matter is now sufficiently clear to enable me to 
proceed with perfect ease. 
The facts I am about to adduce in aid of the doctrine 
which I advocate, I shall, for the most part, select from 
allopathic authority, so that, if my opponent thinks proper to 
challenge their truth, he and they must settle the matter 
between them : he cannot hold me responsible for what may 
be written by his own party. 
Oil of Turpentine we are told “destroys lumbrici, and 
other intestinal worms, but no one will assert that it is 
