Homoeopathy : its tenets and tendencies, theoretical, theological, and therapeutical / by James Y. Simpson.

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1853
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    it is the volume to which, tliroughout the present essay, I have principally referred when citing the standard opinions of Hahne- mann. Dr Dudgeon, of London, in publishing in 1849 an English translation of the last edition of it, prefaces the book by announcing it as, The immortal work that contains the full exposition of that glorious and beneficent system of medicine—homoeopathy.” “ Every page of it,” he states, “ abounds in profound and original thought; ” and the last or fifth German edition, the one which, as I have said, he ti’anslated, from which we have always quoted in this essay, “ contains the principles of his doctrine in their most 'perfect and matured stated’ In this work, Hahnemann, amongst other numerous matters and tenets, explains some of the foundations upon which he bases his unemng law of homoeopathy similia similibus curixntur. One of these foundations, if it may be called so, consists of analogical evi- dence from phenomena in the physical and moral world. A second, and far more important foundation, consists in the allega- tion, that homoeopathy is the mode of cure which Nature herself follows in the successful treatment of diseases. Let us consider briefly the statements which he makes under each of these heads : 1. Analogical evidence in favour of Homceopatliy from the study of Physical Phenomena, ^ A weaker dynamic affection is (says Hahnemann) permanently extinguished in the hving organism by a stronger one, if the latter, w lilst differing in kind, is similar to the former in its manifestations.” us (Hahnemann adds) are cured both physical affections and moral maladies. h n f vanishes from the gaze of Whtnp'l f ^ a stronger, very similar, power acting on his optic nerve-the is ifusual tn situations replete with foetid odours, wherewith the sense of sTell offended olfactory nerves? With snuff', that affects whieh^ stronger, manner ! No music, no sugared cake, uL the « “■r the piteous cries'of himlho ofthefiff ■ , ”^t^®‘=t>mpas8ionate bystanders? By the shrill notes eLmyfr„“? -- oTtS drum . For nStherth^’'' ‘^’tder of the big of uni orm nor a r/n T “I ® distribution of a brilliant piece soZ^i be efflcedT 'II , mourning and Tare J orrow h? «°ther and still greater ZoIserencZ^^ be a mere fiction. The injuri- a 00 great joy will be removed by drinking coffee, which produces