y all medical men
who have no faith in homoeopathy, and the treatment that its followers
prescribe.

[DEEP RIVERS FLOW WITH SILENT MAJESTY.]

928. Comparison.

Allopathic treatment is said to be experimental, while Homeopathic
treatment is based on certainty, resulting from experience. The
allopathist tries various drugs, and if one medicine or one
combination of drugs fails, tries another; but the homoeopathist
administers only such medicaments as may be indicated by the symptoms
of the patient. If two drugs are given, as is frequently, and perhaps
generally, the case, it is because the symptoms exhibited are of such
a character that they cannot be produced in a healthy person by the
action of one and the same drug, and, consequently cannot be
counteracted or neutralized by the action of a single drug.

929. Homoeopathic Medicines

Homoeopathic medicines are given in the form of globules or tinctures,
the latter being generally preferred by homeopathic practitioners.
When contrasted with the doses of drugs given by allopathists, the
small doses administered by homoeopathists must at first sight appear
wholly in adequate to the purpose for which they are given; but
homoeopathists, whose dilution and trituration diffuse the drug given
throughout the vehicle in which it is administered, argue that by this
_extension of its surface_ the active power of the drug is greatly
increased; and that there is reason in this argument is shown by the
fact that large doses of certain drugs administered for certain
purposes will pass through the system without in any way affecting
those organs, which will be acted on most powerfully by the very same
drugs when administered in much smaller doses. Thus a small dose of
sweet spirit of nitre will act on the skin and promote perspiration,
but a large dose will act as a diuretic only, and exert no influence
on the skin.

930. Treatment of Ailments by Homoeopathy.

Great stress is laid by homeopathists on attention to diet, but not
so much so in the present day as when the system was first introduced.
The reader will find a list of articles of food that may and may not
be taken in _par_. 961. For complete direction on this point, and on
diseases and their treatment and remedies, he must be referred to
works on this subject by Dr. Richard Epps and others. All that can be
done h