Allopathy and Homeopathy Before the Judgement of Common Sense. ...Bruce's Job Printing House, 1872 - 32 pages Hiller argued that homeopathic methods gave results superior to those of allopathic methods and was the new medicine. Biography of Samuel Hahnemann and his development of homeopathic medicine. Hiller compared the mortality rates of allopathic methods and homeopathic methods in the cholera epidemic in St. Louis and of medical problems in other cities. Homeopathic practice had lower mortality rates. |
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Page 13 - No candid observer of his actions, or candid reader of his writings, can hesitate for a moment to admit that he was a very extraordinary man, — one whose name will descend to posterity as the exclusive excogitator and founder of an original system of medicine, as ingenious as many that preceded it, and destined, probably, to be the remote, if not the immediate, cause of more important fundamental changes in the practice of the healing art than have resulted from any promulgated since the days of...
Page 10 - The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder.
Page 10 - That in a lesser, but still not a small proportion, the disease is cured by nature in spite of them ; in other words, their interference opposing, instead of assisting the cure.
Page 10 - That, consequently, 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 practised, if all remedies, at least all active remedies, especially drugs, were abandoned.
Page 32 - ... should exist between professional equals? Invite them to their rights in our county medical societies ; when called by their patrons, attend with them in consultation ; when wished b'y our patients, ask them to attend in consultation with us. If they have any superior knowledge in the management of disease or the protection of health, our duty to our patrons requires us to avail ourselves of that knowledge. If we possess the greater professional ability, they and their patrons will find it out....
Page 11 - ... the pains of the Inquisition, minds as imbecile as the puling babe, a grievous burden to themselves and a disgusting spectacle to others, you would exclaim as I have often done, ' O! the lamentable want of science that dictates the abuse of that noxious drug calomel...
Page 19 - ... a sure and trustworthy method of treatment, as certainly as God is the wisest and most beneficent of beings, I shall seek it no longer in the thorny thicket of ontological explanations, in arbitrary opinions, though these might be capable of being arranged into a splendid system, nor in the authoritative declarations of celebrated men ; — no, let me seek it where it lies nearest at hand, and where it has hitherto been passed over by all, because it did not seem sufficiently recondite nor sufficiently...
Page 9 - If we compare the good which half a dozen true disciples of Esculapius have done since their art began, with the evil which the immense number of doctors have inflicted upon mankind, we must be satisfied that it would have been infinitely better for mankind if medical men had never existed.
Page 9 - Hence the vagueness and uncertainty our science presents at this day. An incoherent assemblage of incoherent opinion.*, it is, perhaps. of all the physiological sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What do I say ? It is not a science for a methodical mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of inaccurate ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive remedies, and of formulae as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged.
Page 9 - ... hesitate not to declare, no matter how sorely I shall wound our vanity, that so gross is our Ignorance of the real nature of the physiological disorders called diseases, that It would perhaps be better to do nothing, and resign the complaint we are called upon to treat to the resources of Nature...