On the sources and benefits of professional earnestness : being an address delivered before the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association.

  • Ludlam, R. (Reuben), 1831-1899.
Date:
1859
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Credit: On the sources and benefits of professional earnestness : being an address delivered before the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the value and applicability of Ilomeopathy to what Hahne- mann, or any hundred of his disciples have been able to ac- complish thus far, and are ready to content themselves with his or their ipse dixit alone; to be bound down to the devel- opments of Pathology and Therapeutics, as these latter were expounded and set forth half a century ago; are not the men for the age. Like Columbus' crew at the Sarghasso Sea— the supposed centre of the whirl, they imagine themselves at the limit of navigable waters, and fancy that beyond them lies only chaos and confusion. And this stereotype opinion suits them exactly ;—it is so much easier to .tack about and to sail again on the smooth sea toward Spain, than to breast the waves of trial and adventure, even to the shwes of a New World! One of the main springs of Professional Earnestness lies within the sphere of individual influence and accountability. Let us illustrate: A most interesting feature of animal physiology, BS ap- plied to man, consists in what are styled the compensating relations of his organism. This arrangement familiar to the student whose researches lead him more especially to contemplate life, both in its aggregate and individual func- tions, provides that, when certain organs are overtasked, or when because of disease they are rendered incompetent to acquit them of accustomed and necessary labor, another and a different organ may assume the liability, and take upon itself the double duty of performing its own function, and likewise of aiding its neighbor out of present embarass- m<Thus, it is remarked by physicians that between the skin and the kidneys there exists a most intimate relation. It the function of the former be impaired to any censurable degree, the latter will have a double duty to perform and Z versa. The same may be said of the liver and the ITgs, and also of other organ, whose aggregate presence and capacity make up the machinery of lite within us. A-- in we shall End that nature, ever wise and beneficent in her operations, has so provided against the contingency