A new and comprehensive system of materia medica and therapeutics, arranged upon a physiologico-pathological basis: for the use of practitioners and students of medicine (Volume 1).

  • Hempel, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1811-1879.
Date:
1864-1865
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    LECTURE I. INTRODUCTORY. Gentlemen:—In these halls which are consecrated to the solemn business of teaching the life-giving truths of Homoeopathy, we again welcome you as the future champions of this God-created science. Forty years ago her illustrious discoverer had to flee before her ruthless enemies, until he found a refuge within the boundaries of the humblest principality of Germany. Since then we have achieved a triumph which promises still more brilliant success. We have our own pharmacies; our numbers have swelled to many thousands; we are honored with the confidence and respect of the.most intel- ligent and influential members of every civilized community; we boast of chartered institutions, dispensaries, hospitals, colleges. In our own glorious and imperishable Eepublic, Homoeopathy, like an infant Hercules, is advancing towards the period when strong, ma- jestic, radiant with the sun-light splendor of a divine truth, she will go forth in the irresistible might of her manhood to do battle for the great good of humanity, and to combat the mischievous practices of the destructive therapeutics which the infatuated professors of antiquated systems have been permitted for centuries to proclaim ex cathedra as the orthodox tenets of medical science. Ours is a noble and sacred position. We are not simply teachers and students of medicine; we are the professed advocates and pro- mulgators of a medical doctrine which is to revolutionize to its very foundations a time-honored system of therapeutics. The old land- marks of medicine are to be forever removed by the new dispenser of healing powers; the horrible tortures which the deceitful genius of man has contrived for the relief of the sick, and to which the votaries at the shrine of an unregenerate iEsculapius still adhere, with all the unfeeling tenacity of incarnate fiends, are to be buried in the abyss of eternal oblivion; a whole empire of medical Pride, Superstition, Prejudice and Interest is to be overturned, and a new