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treated b\ the same remedy. Gunther mentions eighteen reme¬ 
dies useful in paralysis and indicates that there are many more. 
Haycock uses arsenic in abont fifty diseases of the lower animals ; 
aconite in over thirty diseases. Do all these dissimilar diseases 
have a totality of symptoms to correspond to the totality of the 
symptoms produced in an animal by a single drug ? But it oc¬ 
curs that the symptoms of a disease may be removed in an ani¬ 
mal and the morbid condition remain. Again drugs do not pro¬ 
duce the same or similar symptoms in healthy animals that are 
produced by some maladies which are treated by these drugs. 
Strychnine does not produce symptoms like paralysis, but it is 
used in paralysis by homeopaths. If the therapeutic law of 
Hahnemann were true most maladies would be incurable. 
Homeopathy is not based on nature, but upon nature’s most 
superficial and variable phenomena—symptoms. No system 
can become scientific on such a basis. A few years ago I joined 
a class in Christian Science. In this system patients were cured 
of their maladies of whatsoever nature ; ruptures were declared 
healed , tumors were dissipated ; rheumatics threw away their 
crutches, and bed-ridden subjects walked again. It looked like 
an era of miracles revived. 
The founder of Christian Science in America, Mrs. Mary B. 
G. Eddy, was a homeopathic physician. In her work, “ Science 
and Health,” she says, speaking of fevers, such as scarlet, ty¬ 
phoid, etc., that the higher the dilutions given the better success. 
She says it is not medicine but mind that heals. From this 
experience Mrs. Eddy thought she had discovered another proof 
of the power of mind to heal. But Dr. Robert Bartholow, in 
his work on “Materia Medica,” says, speaking of the same sub¬ 
ject : “ Since we have learned the natural history of certain 
fevers, such as scarlet and typhoid, we find they can be most 
successfully treated with little or no medicine.” Here was 
.he secret and the truth. Christian Science condescended also 
o treat animals. We tried it. It was “ weighed in the balance 
md found wanting.” Were it not for human ignorance and 
sedulity Christian Science would have no following. But side 
