G.H.G. Jahr's Manual of homoeopathic medicine / translated from the German by authority of the North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art ; with an introduction and some additions by C. Hering.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1838
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    Homceopathia in the United States is comparatively in its Infancy. That a science so singular and so new, should be mistaken, or misrepresented, or even opposed, is not to be wondered at. Yet, it is highly creditable to the medical pro- fession in this country, that hitherto, none of its members have declared them- selves as its opponents. This is the more remarkable, as in every part of Europe, where the science has spread as rapidly and extensively, as it has here, the most virulent opposition has appeared. Should the conduct of the American Faculty arise from a reluctance to attack a system, which they have not investigated, this work will enable them, in some good degree, to ascertain what that system is, which some Physicians at least, affect to despise. The results of the multiplied trials made on healthy individuals, have, through the zeal of the Homceopathists, already filled more than 15 octavo volumes. Whether such observations made on the healthy, have any value or not, may safely be referred to those, best acquainted with the old materia medica. Of the number of cases successfully treated homceopathically, but few comparatively could meet the public eye, yet sufficient have been published, to show the strik- ing resemblance existing, between the artificial symptoms in the one case, and the morbid symptoms in the other. Every cure, and for the most part, the symptoms produced on healthy per- sons, have been effected, by what are called the little doses. On this pecu- liarity, we do not expect to hear one syllable by way of objection, from any man of experimental science, until he have made repeated and accurate investigations. Suppose electricity had at its first disclosure been sneeringly called the little tempest, how ridiculous might it have appeared to those persons who were in- capable of comprehending either its minuteness or its might — more especially so, when they were told, that by these small flashes from the little tempest the laws of the prodigious power of the atmosphere, could be ascertained and mathe- matically determined; and that a new view of the world would proceed from the correctness of these calculations. As it is in the one instance, so will it certainly be in the other, the principle of the new medical discovery will lead on, to the entire transformation of both physical and medical science. The unenviable feelings of the scoffer, and the pitiable position of the man of mere indifference, may easily been conceived, should Homceopatliia, like electricity be in accordance with nature and truth!! The following work must not be taken as a standard of Homoeopathic science, but rather as the desultory observations, contributed by a number of different medical men. It is necessary to urge on every one, who would give this manual a fair trial, strictly and invariably to follow its directions: this advice which is tho