ahnemann, which may be considered as the basis of practical
Homoeopathy. In the Manual of Jahr, which is the common guide, so far as
I know, of those who practise Homoeopathy in these regions, two hundred
remedies are enumerated, many of which, however, have never been
employed in practice. In at least one edition there were no means of
distinguishing those which had been tried upon the sick from the others.
It is true that marks have been added in the edition employed here,
which serve to distinguish them; but what are we to think of a standard
practical author on Materia Medica, who at one time omits to designate
the proper doses of his remedies, and at another to let us have any
means of knowing whether a remedy has ever been tried or not, while
he is recommending its employment in the most critical and threatening
diseases?

I think that, from what I have shown of the character of Hahnemann's
experiments, it would be a satisfaction to any candid inquirer to
know whether other persons, to whose assertions he could look
with confidence, confirm these pretended facts. Now there are many
individuals, long and well known to the scientific world, who have tried
these experiments upon healthy subjects, and utterly deny that their
effects have at all corresponded to Hahnemann's assertions.

I will take, for instance, the statements of Andral (and I am not
referring to his well-known public experiments in his hospital) as to
the result of his own trials. This distinguished physician is Professor
of Medicine in the School of Paris, and one of the most widely known and
valued authors upon practical and theoretical subjects the profession
can claim in any country. He is a man of great kindness of character,
a most liberal eclectic by nature and habit, of unquestioned integrity,
and is called, in the leading article of the first number of the
"Homoepathic Examiner," "an eminent and very enlightened allopathist."
Assisted by a number of other persons in good health, he experimented
on the effects of cinchona, aconite, sulphur, arnica, and the other most
highly extolled remedies. His experiments lasted a year, and he stated
publicly to the Academy of Medicine that they never produced the
slightest appearance of the symptoms attributed to them. The results of
a man like this, so extensively known as one of the most philosophical
and candid, as well as brilliant of instructors, and whose admirable
abilities and signal liberality ar