TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
AND
ARRANGED ACCORDING TO
HAHNEMANN’S METHOD,
BY
CHARLES J. HEMPEL, M.D.
FELLOW AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HOMŒOPATHIC
COLLEGE; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE HAHNEMANN SOCIETY OF
LONDON, &C., &C.
NEW-YORK:
WILLIAM RADDE, No. 322 BROADWAY,
Philadelphia: Rademacher & Sheek.—Boston: Otis Clapp.—St.
Louis: J. G. Wesselhoeft.—London: James Epps,
112 Great Russell-Street, Bloomsbury.—Manchester:
H. Turner, 41 Piccadilly.
1854.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
WILLIAM RADDE,
In the Clerk’s Office, of the District Court, for the Southern District of
New-York.
Henry Ludwig, Printer,
45 Vesey-street.
Though the precious metals hidden in the Brazilian soil,may be never so abundant; though the splendor of itsprecious stones, may be never so brilliant; though the cropswhich the soil yields to the farmer, may be never so rich:yet there are, in the Brazilian empire, treasures of a far,greater importance, and infinitely more necessary to humanhappiness. They are the powerful means which this vastcountry furnishes for the cure of disease.
Previous to Hahnemann’s discovery, we were ignorantof a positive method of determining the use of drugs. Weknew that they existed, but we did not know how to usethem; and popular experience, more successful than thewisdom of the School, had alone picked up a few strayfragments from the rich harvest which had been abandonedfor want of the proper means of gathering. Providenceat last permitted Hahnemann and his disciples to discoverthe method of applying remedies to diseases in a positiveand efficacious manner. The dominion of mere palliativesis at an end.—Homœopathy, by attacking the cause of disease,destroys the chronic miasms, which are transmittedfrom generation to generation; dries up the fountain-headsof epidemic and contagious diseases; enables the infant-body,by a positive hygiene, to resist the deleterious influencesto which it might be exposed in the course of itsexistence; and, by preserving human life, which is themost precious capital of nations and the first element oftheir greatness, Homœopathy will insure their prosperity,provided they adopt it without reserve.
We admire the bold hunter who skims the sharp pointsof the rocks, for the purpose of snatching the down fromthe little ones of the eider; the indefatigable diver, who, bydint of patient toil, succeeds in bringing up the diamondfrom the sands of the river, or the pearl from the bosomof the sea. Should not the people of Brazil sympathisewith the patient and courageous experimenters, who, underthe auspices of Hahnemann, discover a world of wonderfuluses in the neglec