Homoeopathy : What is it? : A statement and review of its doctrines and practices / A. B. Palmer.

  • Palmer, Alonzo Benjamin, 1815-1887.
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[1881], ©1881
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    pathic physicians, colleges, societies, dispensaries, books, etc., in this country than in any other; and this greater success of the American so-called Homoeopathic physicians, is attributed to their departing more from Homoeopathy, and adopting more from the Regular School here than anywhere else. It is not mere Homoeopathy that is successful, but the adoption of much of the science and treatment of the Regular School, of the so- called Eclectics and Hydropathists. Very few, says Dr. Peters [and the fact is perfectly well known to all who have observed their practice] of the American Homoeopathic physicians confine themselves exclu- sively to the homoeopathic remedies or homoeopathic doses. The principle of similia similibus is not followed. In the Ncis.' York Medical Gazette, vol. i, p. 328, it is stated: Hahnemann taught that one grain of sulphur well rubbed up with 100 grains of sugar of milk, could be developed into a medicine of tremendous power and energy. But Dr. Barlow, of New York, who ranks as a Homoeopathic physician of excellent standing, advises that 2 grs. of very pure sulphur be mixed with 126 grs. of conium, quinine and morphine. A favorite prescription is; Take Sulphur pura 2 grs. Ext. conium mac 90 grs. Sulph. quinia 30 grs. Sulph. morphine 3 %'^^- Podophyllin 3 grs. M. ft. pill. No. xx.K. Dose: One or two several times a day. Each pill contains one-fifteenth of a grain of sulphur, three grains of the conium, one grain quinia, one-tenth grain each of the morphine and podophyllin. In the Chicago Medical Exai/iiiier, an article on Modern Homoeopathy shows similar prescriptions and practices in the London Homoeopathic hospital, and in the daily doings of various pretended Homoepaths in New York and elsewhere. In the Neiv York Medical Gazette, vol 2, p. 95, is a description of a medicine prescribed by Dr. Freligh to a rheu- matic patient, consisting of a large quantity of Nit. of Potash,