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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Record, 1881-09-23, Page 9• sUPPI'ENt'Z'- '1 1O Minton Recon d FRID.A.Y SEPTEMBER 23rd, 1881;. ABOUT HOMEOPATHY. " Re.td not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for, grant` ed ; nor to find , talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider." BAcox. Huuteopathy is a rand law of nature—an ascertained fact to gnide us in selecting an appropriate remedy for any disease. This law is expres led in. the words, " similia aimiIibus curantur, like cures like. Mark the words, " like cures like ; " not the same oures the same. Here is where so' many btu oder, and the say, "Then if I am fatigued by a long walk, I must take , a short one to cure me." This is not like curing like; it is the same curing the same. Let us nut it thus • the drug or medicine which produces iu a he.,lthy person symliptoma similar to scarlet fever (not scarlet Lever, observe, but symptoms similar to scarlet fever), will, if given in a case of scarlet fever, cure that fever. It has often happened that children have been poisoned by eating the berries of Belladonna, the deadly nightshade, which they have met with in the woods. They suffered from fever, affections of the brain and throat, and scarlet eruption of the skin—all of which occur in aearlet fever. Now Belladonna is notorious as a remedy in scarlet fever. Again, everybody knows that the Spanish. Fly (Cantharides), even if only applied to the skin in the form of a blister, will often produce injurious effects upon the bladder, causing strangury and other painful symptoms; these, in turn, when produced by other causes, are readily cured by,Can- tharides. Homeopathy then is an unerring guide in the choice of the , medicines. Homeopathy is to the true• science of medicine what the law of gravita- tion is to astronomy—the basis on which it is founded. The law of gravita- tion was discovered by Newton. All bodies attract each other directly as the mase and inversely as the square of the distance. Homeopathy does net ineun a Build' dose. This is a popular error.. Should the Allopath use drops and grains instead of scruples and drachms, he would be an allopath still ; and were the Homeopath to prescribe ounces, he would still be a homeopath. Why ? Because homeopathy refers to the principle of selection, not of quan- tity. But if drops are found to cure, why give ounces I We are told "small doses cannot effect great cures." To this we answer, power does not always depend on size ; a tiny wood -worm will eat- up a maul-of.war quicker than_ a whale would. See yonder tall tower, the work of years ; it is destroyed in a moment—a vivid flash and a peal of thunder, and it is laid in the dust. What an irresistible force 1 and yet the most del- icate balance of the chemist cannot perceive its weight. There is a mass of iron, weighing one thousand pounds, moving rapidly upwards, notwithstand- roti the attraction of the earth, with no visible propelling power, towards • another entail bent piece of the shine'methl; -day foot Wog; enc'ircled'withhe- galvanic current ; the current is arrested, and instantly it fallsto the ground. i lere is a very visible effect from au invisible, impalpable imponderableagent. The quantity of medicine in a homeopathic globule maybe infinitesimal,' iudced it is so small that the finest chemical test fails to detect e4en a tract ; 'of the medicine; but shall we say that the remedy ceases to exist in the 3rd, 4th or 30th potency, simply because we cannot detect it? The most search - in ctu•mic.il [tualy:us would fail to detect a solution of one part of salt in a million totos a million parts of water; yet we find that a solution containing only •000,W0,000,000,000,455 of its weight of salt (chloride of sodium) indicate its presence by the characteristic line whirr tested by the spectrum l There are sounds which we cannot hear, odors which we fail to .detect; yet the bare eau hoar and -the hound smell, what we cannot. Houioeopathy gaiue by comparison. It is .more successful than the old. method; it is gentle and agreeable, quick, pleasant, safe, and leaves no ill effects. Iu conclusion, we respectfully in'vxte you to give Wait's Homeopathic Specifics a fair trial. VACCINATION. The question whether vaccination does 'or does not protect from emall- liox is still regarded in some quarters as an open one. Among certain classes in England, and among our french Canadians in Quebec, there is cousidor- able.o1 po.ition to vaccination, and strange protests against its being made compulsory, The Local Government Board of London, England, have, however, been trying to answer the question by collecting the statistics of: deaths from small -pox among those vaccinated and those not, and the re- sults to be accepted as a satisfactory proof of the benefits of vaccina - ten). Tile figures are thus summarized b? the Saturday ltoview : "It a million unvaccinated persons were living on one side of the Thames trod a iu Ilion vaccinated porsone oil the other, the number of deaths froth. email -lox during the last fifty-two weeks would have been in the former mi Woe, 3,35J and in the latter 90. If .the selected millions were made up on . persons under 20, the deaths from small -pox in the unvaccinated million would have boon 4,520 and in the unvaccinated 61, Limiting the comparison to children under 5, the deaths would have bden 5,95'1, per million among • the unvaccinated and between 40 and 41 per million among the vaocioitted.- To put the facts iu a different shape, there are 37 chances that you will. die, of small -p x if you have not been vaccinated to one chance if you have been vaccinated. NLf you are under 20 the chances are 74 to 1, while with children under 5 they are 146 to 1." THE TALE OF A DOG. Philosophy Is all very well And ethical teachings, are good,: Morality's sound as a bell— I'd praotiae it toe if I could. But how can I do it? Just lint Till I tell you the tale of a dos," And if after that yon insist, Why then I'll be dumb as a log,. My master's a bit of i sport And often be gets on. the spree. And then I'm compelled to go short, Or de things repulsive to pose. He says to me, "Come along, Ben "— • And oh, sirs, what lessons I learn I see some intelligent men Like fools 'spend the money they earn. And I, why of course:rya forgot, At lead .I have oft sodpined, My master gets full ash sot, And I Bet as empty as wind, In winter all haggard and cold, •.I.pleadingly look in his face, Fiemutters, ." Old Ben, boy, you're sold, You can't get a snack in this place." a 'Tis easy for some dogs to think How awful it for to steal, But when you'reon starvation's brink, How strangely unhinged you do•feel.. When thee I am down in my luck, I keep my eyes skinned for a bone; Or if I. can steal a sheep's pluck, I skulk off to eat alone. When spring anfl the;dog-catehers come, -And I, of i;ourse, have not a "tag,". , --"I''ve•got"to"lay-round-• tease xomer."--*7 •^- -Or else I'd get into their bag. But this' only lasts fors while, .. Tiil change throws a • '';check" in.' in w,113' ; At'least in -'my toaster's. You'smile'; Tour reasons are good, I'dare say. One'dayin September, last -year,.. , A' gentleman,•p'at'tingg my neck,,. . Called out to hts'frjend, t' Dick, Look here, -This' dog's got'my collarand eliecic." 1 felt.most indignant, but heard 'Him road moat. distinctly his name. I suffered but said not a word, But crouched 011ie feet in my shank • Fie took off .his collarand said, . '4Poor dog, 'tis not you that's to blame, But•gave• Me a -Blow on the head, . And a kick in' the ribs, all the aamo So you need net wonder,, I say, • Of ethics'I'd rather keep free, Besides,, half the inert of, to day • Are nota whit, better than me. • ov. 'Pete 0 4 If you boast of 'contempt for the world, avoid getting into debt, It is bio ng to guilts the fangs of vipers. • s. . 1 - s. In a mixed train of luggage and-passengeis from :Glasgow' wvere a lady • and her son, a youth of good dimensions, the latter travelling on'a "half- ticket." After innumerable stoppages and delays, by which the patience,of. the passengers was exhausted long before they reached their destination, the collector made his appearance for the tickets. Glancing at the paste- - board'received from the 'boy, he look first at him, then at life. mother; then at the ticket, and remarked that he was a large boy tO be ridingat hall fare." "'I' know he is, air," said the lady ; " but he's grown a good heal sintleswe started." • When last seen Sandy was on .hieway to speak to the conductor about it.