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Page 49 - You are aware that I went to your hospital prepossessed against the homoeopathic system ; that you had in me, in your camp, an enemy rather than a friend, and that I must therefore have seen some...
Page 49 - I went, to come away so favourably disposed as to advise a friend to send a subscription to your charitable fund, and I need not tell you that I have taken some pains to make myself acquainted with the rise, progress, and medical treatment of cholera, and that I claim for myself some right to be able to recognise the disease, and to know something of what the...
Page 50 - That there may therefore be no misapprehension about the cases I saw in your hospital, I will add, that all I saw were true cases of cholera, in the various stages of the disease ; and that I saw several cases which did well under your treatment, which I have no hesitation in saying would have sunk under any other.
Page 140 - Calculating the general mortality over all civilized countries, from an immense number of statistics collected by Allopathic writers, the ratio of deaths is just one-half. According to their own statements, it seems to make very little difference what remedies were used — the general average of deaths, under their treatment, remained the same. Under...
Page 139 - Tessier, but by allopathists, gives for his wards a mortality from cholera of 34 ^ per cent., while in the other wards and hospitals the mortality was 57 per cent. In 1854, in Great Britain, Government established a Medical Council to gather returns of the treatment and mortality of cholera under every method, and to report to Parliament. When the report was submitted to the House of Commons, it was noticed that the returns of the homoeopathic practitioners and of the London Homoeopathic Hospital...
Page 164 - Medica, but mainly the result of a want of sufficient knowledge, on the part of the physician, of those remedies already possessed by our school, and not an insufficiency of the homoeopathic law.
Page 93 - Society regards with intense interest the continuance and prosperity of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the oldest national medical association in...
Page 129 - Each of these packages requires half a fluid ounce of the sulphuric acid mixture, and yields about 57 cubic inches of chlorine. This quantity, when thus liberated gradually in a space containing about 20,000 times its volume of air, is borne without .inconvenience by persons generally, and is not injurious even in pulmonary diseases. As very much depends upon the ventilation of apartments wherein it is to be used, no absolute rules of application can be laid down, except that it should never be used...
Page 29 - Chicago, 111. ; alternate, HB Clarke, MD, of New Bedford, Mass. On motion of Dr. IT Talbot, it was voted, that a committee of five be appointed to prepare a complete code of Medical Ethics, and to report at the next session of the American Institute. The President appointed for this committee, Carroll Dunham, MD, of New- York City ; Walter Williamson, MD, of Philadelphia, Pa. ; EM Kellogg, MD, of New- York City; AS Ball, MD, of New- York City; GW. Barnes, MD, of Cleveland, Ohio. On motion of Dr.
Page 160 - Homoeopathic Organization, Registration, and Statistics, which shall keep a register of all homoeopathic physicians, or those who claim to be such, in the United States, distinguishing those who are members of the Institute, and also members of State societies, prepare a list of all State and local societies, colleges, hospitals, dispensaries, and journals, with their organization ; and collect any statistics regarding homoeopathy, its status, and progress.