investigate Homeopathy, so they condemn it without. knowing anything about it, and cover up their ignorance by using ridicule and hard names for scarcity of argument. It has stood the test of time and ridicule for a century, until now he who is stupid enough to assert that Homœopathy does not cure, or that the Natural law upon which it is based does not exist, is classed with the benighted fellow who declares that the earth does not move. Such exposure of one's ignorance is not worthy of a reply, for what is the use to keep asserting as true something that proves itself every day.

3. How do its practical results compare with those of the Old School?

Statistics cannot be obtained in private practice, but the records of hospitals and other public institutions furnish. them, and they show, not in single instances, but in every case the unmistakable advantages of Homœopathic treatment. The state of Michigan has two insane asylums, one under Allopathic and the other under Homœopathic management. The one in charge of Homœopaths reports a percentage of cures three times as great as the other. Of the two penitentiaries in Illinois, the one having Homœopathic medical treatment reports the loss of time on account of sickness of prisoners as only two-thirds that in the other. Institutions in New York, Colorado and other parts of the country have made simi

lar showings. When compared with the results of the so-called "regular" treatment, Homoeopathy materially lessens mortality, shortens sickness and reduces its expenses.

4. Is Homœopathy able to cope with serious diseases, or is it, as some say, only applicable to slight ailments of children and delicate women?

Its most unmistakable triumphs have been made in the treatment of cholera and yellow fever. The last time Cholera visited this country the mortality of those receiving Homœopathic treatment was only one-half that of those receiving other treatment.

In the yellow fever epidemic of 1878, the general mortality in New Orleans, where records were accurately kept, was 19 per cent., while that of persons receiving Homœopathic treatment was only 6 per cent.; less than one-third as great. The records in this instance have been sifted until it is certain there was no error nor misrepresentation in the reports made.

The official returns of the boards of health of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Newark and Brooklyn, covering a period of four years, show that 4,071 Allopathic doctors report 72,802 deaths, and that 810 Homœopathic doctors report 8,116 deaths. The average to each Allopath is over 17 to each Homœopath 10.

In 64 Allopathic hospitals the mortality in all diseases was 10 per cent. In 24 Homœopathic hospitals the mortality in all diseases was 5 per cent.

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Here we had just half as many funerals as they. two Allopathic hospitals the mortality in typhoid fever was 24 per cent. In two Homœopathic hospitals the mortality in typhoid fever was 8 per cent. Here they dug three graves to our one. In four Allopathic hospitals the death rate in Pneumonia was 22 per cent.; in three Homœopathic hospitals the death rate in Pneumonia was 6 per cent. Here they lost more than three to our one. This is what Homœopathy does in the worst forms of disease.

The Allopaths don't believe in statistics. They are not to be blamed for that. Statistics never come out right for their side.

5. How popular is Homœopathy?

Homœopathy has been most popular in the most intelligent and cultivated communities. It is the medical practice of thinking and progressive people. Threefourths of our ministers and professional men employ Homœopathy.

It is the leading practice in all our large cities. Fifty years age there were but a few Homœopathic physicians in this country; to-day there are fully 14,000 graduated and registered Homœopathic physicians. There are 20

Homœopathic Medical Colleges, and, according to the report of the bureau of education, the medical college having the highest standard of requirements of any in the United States is Homoeopathic.

There are more than 35 Homœopathic medical journals, 55 Homœopathic dispensaries, 97 Homœopathic hospitals, and over ten million people of the United States patronize the New system. These figures, indicating the real standing of Homœopathy, have doubled every 12 or 15 years since its first introduction into this country. Yet Allopaths would have you believe the system is "dying out." We may excuse the old school doctor for not knowing these facts, since he never reads a Homœopathic book or journal, never converses on professional subjects with a Homœopathic physician, and will generally admit (when cornered) that he knows nothing at all about it.

6. How can such small doses as are generally given do any good? It does not seem reasonable.

It may not seem reasonable, but what matters that? those who use the medicine are satisfied that it cures promptly, pleasantly and permanently.

The Homœopathic law gives us a remedy which acts directly upon the diseased organ. Everybody knows the susceptibility of a diseased part is more or less exalted.

A sound eye can bear the full light of the noon-day sun; but a single ray is painful to an inflamed eye, likewise a diseased organ is much more susceptible to drug action than it would be in a state of health, so it does not take much medicine to act on a diseased organ.

All drugs are poison. Poisons are inimical to the human body if given in doses large enough to produce. their physiological or poisonous effects. This is the effect desired by the Allopath and his large doses of drugs.

The Homœopaths do not want this physiological effect; we prepare our drugs so as to avoid it. We wish nothing but the secondary or curative effect of the drug, and this is found in any dose short of the physiological or poisonous dose.

Large doses of medicine prescribed according to the Homœopathic law of similars would not give curative support, because the symptoms produced by the drug, being similar to the symptoms in the disease, it would add to, overdo and aggravate the trouble; but use the same drug in Homœopathic doses, which cannot possibly produce the poisonous effect, and a cure results.

In the foregoing lies the reply to the idiotic argument advanced by men with professional dignity upon their shoulders, that they can swallow a two-dram bottle of the drug without the least physiological effect. It's the same old story, so often told, of a child swallowing the contents