Conference, International Red Cross Degree. Honorary, American Hospital Association Pennsylvania Notes, Bernstein. 43. 80, 121, 164, 206, 252, 292, 333. Resolutions, Union, Favoring N. L. M. F. .79, 80, 116, 161, 203, 287, 332, 371 Resolutions by Denver and Colorado Homoeopathic Societies. ... 162. 458 Principle, Homoeopathic, and Bacterial Toxines, Bolles. 51 .175 Remedies in Obstetrical Practice, Phillips.. 44 Remedies Found Friendly in Management of Labor, Mastin. 48 Statistics, Some Diptheria, Dewey.. Things, A Few, Homoeopathic Students Should Know, Butman. William F. Burg OBITUARY.. Poliomyelitis, Infantile Paralysis, P. C. Journal of Homoeopathy. Sample, A, of Homoeopathic Enthusiasm System, of Medicine, Which Select?.. 441 225 .233 SPECIAL FIGHTING THE BATTLE OVER AGAIN. By J. C. HOLLOWAY, M. D., GALESBURG, ILL. WING TO THE SENTIMENTAL AND EFFER- almost conclude that the allopathic ranks are now clothed in homeopathic uniform and ready to march according to the orders of the great homeopathic commander, Samuel Hahnemann. But regarding this let me disabuse the minds of younger homeopaths. Old ones know better; they know that the most recent developments in the allopathic school have not even the semblance of homeopathy. Their materialistic minds have never yet prescribed any but material doses, based on a conception of material diseases, originating from material causes; and so long as they stand on a platform of this character, they are not even in sight of homeopathy. In all instances where the practice of homeopaths and allopaths seem to converge, a closer investigation will reveal the fact that those so-called homeopaths who never did imitate Hahnemann have deserted their colors and taken their places in allopathic ranks. By their practice the people do not know the difference. I now submit three propositions for your consideration: I. That the principles of allopathy are the same today as they were a thousand years ago. 2. That the large majority of practitioners in so-called homeopathic practice are mere pretenders, allopathic imitators and deceivers; and the large majority of so-called homeopathic teachers and authors leave their impress of materiality on their pages and student minds, and never were representatives of the true healing art. 3. That all the fundamental principles of homeopathy as taught by its founder, are scientific, practical and effective; that these principles never have and never can be overthrown, but are heaven-born, irrefutable and eternal. Therefore, the battle in which the master gave himself a sacrifice to ridicule, slander, misrepresentation and even per securing banishment from his native country, that the truth respecting the new system might be handed down to posterity, must be fought over again by the few. Homeopathy, to be appreciated, must be taught and practiced in its purity. The counterfeit article, the spurious and adulterated teaching and practice which the majority who think they have tried homeopathy have sampled, has hindered and retarded the progress of pure homeopathy beyond all calculation. And, the willful divergence is inexcusable. The fifth edition of the Crganon contains the true principles of matured homeopathy as developed and tested by the most mature thought and the ripest years of its founder; and the whole gist of this incomparable volume of wealth shows homeopathy to be a medical system composed of immaterial forces: remedial agents disease cause, and disease itself, all of a spiritual or dynamic nature. What per cent of those who have embraced homeopathy, or at least labor under that delusion, have been taught this essential feature of the system, and believe it and practice accordingly? When the roll is called on this phase alone, the reader will see the evident necessity of fighting the battle over again. The Organon further combats and denounces the practice of the generalizing allopath in attempting to formulate conceptions of diseases in individual cases before hand, and laying down a fixed method of treatment for all diseases according to their arbitrary names; and in lieu thereof sets up the claim for, and scientific advantages of, the most minute individualization in the treatment of every disease, and each and every patient in the same disease. Now what is the attitude of allopaths and the rank and file of so-called homeopaths respecting these undeniable tenets of pure homeopathy? We shall see: I. Disease Cause. Soon after Hippocrates, when allopathy sprang up simultaneously with many other medical theories and vagaries, she claimed for herself alone the title of "rational medicine," because she strove to remove the cause of disease by "casual treatment," adopting nature's method, which it was thought would make practice easy, namely, instituting an evacuation from the stomach, bowels, skin, urinary organs, salivary glands, trachial and bronchial glands, thus producing exhausting sweats, vomiting, purging, salivation, expectoration and diuresis, under the delusion that the material cause that produced the disease, namely a material, morbific matter which was supposed to be in the blood-vessels and lymphatics, might be expelled from the |