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I eruvian Bark. He discontinued the experiment and recovered 
jiii-3 health, and then tried it again, with the same results. He 
then induced some of his friends to try the experiment, with 
similar results. It then dawned upon him that this was the 
secret of the curative action of drugs, that they cured symptoms 
similar to those they produced when taken by the healthy. He 
tkei: tried othei remedies, and found that each drug produced 
symptoms peculiar to itself. He then carefully administered the 
remedies he had proven on the healthy, in cases with similar 
symptoms, first to his own family, and then to other patients, 
with very gratifying results. 
After fifteen years, in which he had proved sixty drugs on 
himself and had prescribed them in his practice, he then offered 
his discovery to the profession, saying: “ I believe I have dis- 
covei ed a system which will render the practice of medicine 
certain and its success brilliant. I have labored fifteen years to 
test my discovery. My own experiments, and the testimony 
furnished by the records of medicine, convince me of its truth. 
I id\ it and them before you, my colleagues, and I conjure you, 
m the name of truth, by the interests of humanity, to investigate 
it candidly and without prejudice.” 
This discovery was claimed by Hahnemann to be a natural 
law of cure, and the experience of thousands corroborate his 
conclusions. 
That there was no law or regular mode of practice previous 
to this, or at the present time, is a well-known fact. Many of 
tne leading allopathic physicians doubt the efficacy of their 
treatment. Sir John Forbes says, in 1846 : “ In a considerable 
proportion of diseases it would fare as well, or better, with 
patients in the actual condition of the medical art as more 
generally practiced, if all remedies, especially drugs, were 
abandoned.” Things (in medicine) have arrived at such a pitch 
that they cannot be worse ; they must mend or end.” 
Di. Adams, the learned translator ol Hippocrates, says, in 
I o 49 : “ One cannot think of the changes in professional opin¬ 
ion, since the days of John Hunter (at the close of the last 
