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Plugging the Teeth, 123
teeth, in a few moments, without the least pain, and thereby
preserving them through life," illustrates the importance of
of the substance or drug in question, however small, will always operate
absolutely and unconditionally as an effectual remedy in its appropriate
disease, by its specific power properly developed, which power or virtue,
however, increases ad infinitum, in the direct ratio of the mechanical
processes mentioned, and in the inverse ratio of the quantity of the sub-
stance." Lee-Wolf on Homaeopathia, page 61.
The following observations on homceopathia, which we transcribe from
the Evening Star, July, 1335, are bo apropos, that we beg to present
them to the reader.
"Of all the stupendous humbugs that ever flourished and fattened up-
on the credulity of mankind, not excep.ing the mountebanks of the dark
ages of alchemy and necromancy—not excepting the more modern im-
postors of Mesmer and his magnetism, Perkins and his tractors, and
Hoiienloe arid his incantations,— the greatest by far is the famous Samuel
Hahnemann, author of Homceopathia. For more than twenty years
this indefatigable clamorous impostor under the imposing disguise of a
more than ordinary share of erudition, for persons of his stamp, has
been struggling to make proselytes to the sublimated nonsense which he
has from time to time published under the pedantic title of Homceopa-
thia, and the still more audacious assumption of the sacred name of Ba-
can's immortal Organon. He has, the more effectually to dupe the
unsuspecting, usurped this latter title to his crude and mystified dogmas,
under the pretext that his discoveries and doctrines will effect an entire
revolution in medical philosophy, and totally annihilate the "learned
lumber" which has been accumulating from the pens of physicians since
the first dawn of the science.
"Hahnemann, by a process of reasoning peculiar to himself, relies on
the extreme minuteness of his doses,— infinitesimal quantities procured
by excessive dilution and laborious trituration, or comminution of his
medicaments into their ultimate atoms— the greater the subdivision, the
greater the efficacy ! A grain of tartar emetic dissolved in Lake Superi-
or, would be infinitely more efficient than in 4 oz. of water, &e. So
puerile a proposition strikes the plainest understanding as the very cli-
max of stupidity, and its only good moral effect would be in eradicating
the vile habit cf eating medicine, practiced by old women and hypo-
chondriacs, and in causing mankind to rely more on a proper regimen of
diet, dress and exercise, rather thaa on dangerous mineral or vegeta-
ble poisons, placed in the hands of inexperienced adventurers. We shall
not stop, however, to refute so ridiculous an hypothesis, nor enter into
metaphysical disquisitions, as to the support it might obtain by deducing
analogies from atomic affinities, as established by the late discoveries in
chemical science.' We do not wish to throw a veil or gloss over a sys-
tem of incomprehensible and irreconcilable contradictions, the object of
which, on the part of the author, has clearly been to mystify and dupe the
understanding, and to plunder the pockets of his fellow creatures. We
leave him to the remorse of his own conscience and the patronage of
Queen Adehade, and the other meddling and imbecile personages of royal
and noble blood. But for a detailed and most profound and elaborate dis-
section of this preposterous humbug, we refer our readers triumphantly
Plugging the Teeth, 123
teeth, in a few moments, without the least pain, and thereby
preserving them through life," illustrates the importance of
of the substance or drug in question, however small, will always operate
absolutely and unconditionally as an effectual remedy in its appropriate
disease, by its specific power properly developed, which power or virtue,
however, increases ad infinitum, in the direct ratio of the mechanical
processes mentioned, and in the inverse ratio of the quantity of the sub-
stance." Lee-Wolf on Homaeopathia, page 61.
The following observations on homceopathia, which we transcribe from
the Evening Star, July, 1335, are bo apropos, that we beg to present
them to the reader.
"Of all the stupendous humbugs that ever flourished and fattened up-
on the credulity of mankind, not excep.ing the mountebanks of the dark
ages of alchemy and necromancy—not excepting the more modern im-
postors of Mesmer and his magnetism, Perkins and his tractors, and
Hoiienloe arid his incantations,— the greatest by far is the famous Samuel
Hahnemann, author of Homceopathia. For more than twenty years
this indefatigable clamorous impostor under the imposing disguise of a
more than ordinary share of erudition, for persons of his stamp, has
been struggling to make proselytes to the sublimated nonsense which he
has from time to time published under the pedantic title of Homceopa-
thia, and the still more audacious assumption of the sacred name of Ba-
can's immortal Organon. He has, the more effectually to dupe the
unsuspecting, usurped this latter title to his crude and mystified dogmas,
under the pretext that his discoveries and doctrines will effect an entire
revolution in medical philosophy, and totally annihilate the "learned
lumber" which has been accumulating from the pens of physicians since
the first dawn of the science.
"Hahnemann, by a process of reasoning peculiar to himself, relies on
the extreme minuteness of his doses,— infinitesimal quantities procured
by excessive dilution and laborious trituration, or comminution of his
medicaments into their ultimate atoms— the greater the subdivision, the
greater the efficacy ! A grain of tartar emetic dissolved in Lake Superi-
or, would be infinitely more efficient than in 4 oz. of water, &e. So
puerile a proposition strikes the plainest understanding as the very cli-
max of stupidity, and its only good moral effect would be in eradicating
the vile habit cf eating medicine, practiced by old women and hypo-
chondriacs, and in causing mankind to rely more on a proper regimen of
diet, dress and exercise, rather thaa on dangerous mineral or vegeta-
ble poisons, placed in the hands of inexperienced adventurers. We shall
not stop, however, to refute so ridiculous an hypothesis, nor enter into
metaphysical disquisitions, as to the support it might obtain by deducing
analogies from atomic affinities, as established by the late discoveries in
chemical science.' We do not wish to throw a veil or gloss over a sys-
tem of incomprehensible and irreconcilable contradictions, the object of
which, on the part of the author, has clearly been to mystify and dupe the
understanding, and to plunder the pockets of his fellow creatures. We
leave him to the remorse of his own conscience and the patronage of
Queen Adehade, and the other meddling and imbecile personages of royal
and noble blood. But for a detailed and most profound and elaborate dis-
section of this preposterous humbug, we refer our readers triumphantly
