Homeopathic medicine

My daughter, I come to give a medical teaching to the Spiritists. Here Astronomy and Philosophy have eloquent interpreters; morality counts as many writers as there are mediums. Why should Medicine, in its practical and physiological side, be neglected? I was the creator of the medical renewal, which today penetrates even into the ranks of the sectarians of the old medicine. Banded together against homeopathy, however many dikes without number they created against it, however they cried out to it: “You shall go no farther!”, the young triumphant medicine surmounted all the obstacles. Spiritism will be a powerful auxiliary to it; thanks to it, it will abandon the materialist tradition that, for so long, retarded its development. Medical study is entirely bound to the research of spiritualist causes and effects; it dissects bodies and must, also, analyze the soul. Allow, then, an old physician to justify the ends and the aim of the doctrine he propagated, and which he sees strangely disfigured in this world by the practitioners, and in the Beyond by ignorant Spirits who usurp his name. I would like that my word, heard, had the power to correct the abuses that alter homeopathy, thus preventing it from being as useful as it ought to be. If I were speaking in a practical center, where the counsels could be heard with profit, I would rise against the negligence of my earthly colleagues, who are unaware of the primordial laws of the Organon, exaggerating the doses and, above all, not giving to the trituration, so important, of the medicaments, the care that I indicated. Many forget that a hundred, and sometimes two hundred, blows are absolutely necessary to the liberation of the medical principle appropriate to each of the plants or poisons that form our healing arsenal. No remedy is indifferent, no medicament is innocuous; when a poorly observed diagnosis causes it to be given out of place, it develops the germs of the disease it was called to combat.

But I let myself be carried away by my subject and here I am inclined to give a course in homeopathy to an audience that ought not to take interest in this question. Nevertheless, I do not believe it useless to initiate the Spiritists into the fundamental principles of the science, in order to forearm them against the deceptions they may suffer, whether on the part of men, or even on that of Spirits.

Samuel Hahnemann. n Observation. – This observation was motivated by the presence at the session of a foreign homeopathic physician, who desired Hahnemann's opinion on the present state of the science. We will point out that it was given through a young lady who had made no medical studies, and to whom many special terms are, necessarily, foreign.

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[see Samuel Hahnemann.]