Letter to the physicians of France on homoeopathy / by Count Des Guidi ; translated from the French, by William Channing.

  • Sébastien Des Guidi
Date:
1834
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    thy; for, to what else could a cure so long unlooked for, be at- tributed] The power of imagination, to which so many persons ascribe every thing which they have no other mode of account- ing for, was easily satisfied. Climate] but climate had for a long time done no good, and the patient was even tormented, in a slight degree, with Nostalgia during the treatment. Regimen] its resources had long since been exhausted. Nature] I prayed for nothing better ; but nothing had indicated to me the period of her awakening, nothing taught me why nature had delayed for twenty years to come to my aid until the precise day and hour when the homoeopathic treatment was commenced. From ex- clusion to exclusion, I always fell back into homoeopathy. But atoms! Nothing!—The elixir of LeRoy, Spider's Web, any of the Arcana, the celebrated nostrums of the day, would have put me greatly at my ease; all are something; almost all have great energy, producing some striking results which explain their tran- sient credit; but millionths of a grain—what can they do ] Yet how get rid of the facts ] I unavoidably concluded with the ad- mission that a new fact, though incredible to me, was neverthe- less a fact, and that the measure of my ideas was a little short of the powers of nature and the discoveries of genius. I made experiments upon myself and upon others, and my conviction soon became immoveable. I attached myself for two successive years, to the clinical course, opened in the mean time at Naples, by Doctors Romani and Horatiis ; that interesting course, the re- sults of which have been recorded in so many journals. In fine, I studied unremittingly and with some profit, thanks to the writ- ings, the luminous lectures and unlimited kindness of Dr. Ro- mani, towards whom my gratitude should have no bounds. A year afterwards, circumstances led me to Crest, wheie my homoeopathic cases were replete with interest, and sanctioned the treatment by its incontestable success. The same thing has occurred at Lyons, where a proper sense of gratitude made it a duty on my part to kindle the first fire of Homoeopathy in France, and where during the last twenty months, numerous cures, and many among persons the most distinguished by their intelligence and rank, have daily attested in a striking manner the value of this doctrine. Such facts could not escape the attention of a faculty so judi- cious and so well informed as that of Lyons. Many physicians of the city and its environs, after a rigid examination of some of the cures effected, have devoted themselves with increasing inte- rest to the study of the new doctrine, and many among them ex- ercise it with honorable success. I have always made it an es- pecial duty to put at the disposal of these gentlemen, books, ma- nuscripts, medicines and all that my feeble counsels could offer