Transactions of the Hom Opathic Medical Society of the State of New York Volume 38 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF MATERIA MEDICA. " An Examination into the Evidence upon Which the Action of Similars was Predicted as a Law," ... Alfred Wanstall. "Why we Should Know our Remedies and how we can Know them," A. Eugene Austin. " Comparison of the Physiological and Semiological Methods of Studying Drug Action," George F. Laidlaw Remarks By F. Park Lewis, Chairman. Mr. President, .Ladies and Gentlemen?The pivot upon which the homoeopathic school revolves is distinctive therapeutics. Thirty or forty years ago it was quite customary for the best students in our profession to make analytical studies of the measures which we employed and the reasons for the employment of those measures, but it is a curious fact that although a hundred years and more have elapsed since the method which we employ was given to us, to-day, with the advance in scientific methods, with the multitude of new side lights that have been thrown upon progressive therapeutics, with our knowledge of bacteria, with the new chemistry, with the change in the scientific attitude of mind which characterizes the student of to-day as compared with the student of a hundred years ago, we still lack a clear presentation of the governing principles which direct our system of practice, adjusted to the science of to-day. In other words, we lack a statement of homoeopathic procedures interpreted in the language of modern science. We haven't it. The student of the old school comes to us, as many of them have to me, and says, "Can you give me a clear, explicit statement descriptive of your practice, written in language which, as a scientist of to-day, I can understand?" We unfortunately have not such a statement to place in his hand; and it occurred to me when I was asked by the President of the Soci...