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-{{anchor:s2}}New Remedies: <span grade2>Their Pathogenic Effects and Therapeutical Applications in Homoeopathic Practice.</span> {{anchor:s3}}By E. M. Hale, M.D., Etc., Etc. 8 vo., pp.447. {{anchor:s4}}Detroit, Mich., E.A. Lodge. 1864
-{{anchor:s5}}This work of Dr. Hale, which has been looked for with no little impatience, will be welcomed by our colleagues. {{anchor:s6}}Many Homoeopathicians hear much talk about a variety of remedies in more or less common use in this country, and particularly in the Western States, but respecting which they have little or no knowledge and no means of acquiring any. {{anchor:s7}}Dr. Hale has undertaken to collect into one volume all that has been published and all that his own investigations and those of his immediate associates have yielded respecting a number of those "indigenous" vegetable drugs. {{anchor:s8}}Much of what he offers us is sifted from the publications of the Eclectic School, by which chiefly these drugs have hitherto been used. {{anchor:s9}}To what he has gathered from this source, Dr. Hale has added a number provings by himself and his colleagues, and a host of more or less interesting clinical records and observations from Homoeopathic, Eclectic and Allopathic sources.
-{{anchor:s10}}The work hardly deserves the title which the outside of its cover bears - "New Homoeopathic Provings" - since in the sense in which we have been accustomed to use the word "proving," most of these are nothing of the kind. {{anchor:s11}}But, as collections of all that is known, in an empirical and clinical way, of substances that must prove to be valuable drugs and richly deserving of a thorough homoeopathic proving, these essays are certainly valuable and highly suggestive. {{anchor:s12}}That this view is taken of them by the author himself is evident from a portion of his preface: "I do not claim that this work is <span grade2>complete</span>. {{anchor:s13}}Indeed I shall be satisfied if it is only pronounced by the profession as eminently <span grade2>Suggestive.</span> {{anchor:s14}}Many of the provings are very imperfect, and some of the clinical remarks are open to criticism. {{anchor:s15}}Let the wheat be separated from the chaff by the inorexable test of honest trial."
-{{anchor:s16}}If the volume prove really so "<span grade2>suggestive</span>" as to induce exhaustive provings, especially on women, of such remedies as Caulophyllum and Cimicifuga and Phytolacca seem likely to prove, it will have accomplished a great good The scope of this volume and the animus in which its preparation was undertaken may be gathered from the following sentences of the preface:
-{{anchor:s17}}"The causes which led me to investigate the properties and virtues of the remedies mentioned in the following pages, will he patent to every progressive mind. {{anchor:s18}}After using for many years those invaluable remedies found in our standard Materia Medica, most of which were handed down to us by Hahnemann and his colleagues, I found that although their curative scope was very wide, it did not apparently include many symptoms and diseases. {{anchor:s19}}"We believe that the careless construction" of a sentence or, more probably, an error of the printer, has made Dr. Hale say what he could hardly ban intended to say. {{anchor:s20}}- For, assuredly, the curative scope of the remedies in Hahnemann's Materia Medica does "include "<span grade2>very</span> "many symptoms and disease?{{anchor:s21}}" We suppose he meant to say, "although their curative scope was very wide there were never-the less many symptoms and diseases which, apparently, it did not include.{{anchor:s22}}" He proceeds: "I was led to investigate the field of indigenous remedies for these reasons: First, the suggestion of Teste that plants are adapted to cure the diseases which infest the same localities; and, second, the many cures which had come under my observation made by these remedies in the hands of eclectic and domestic practitioners."
-{{anchor:s23}}Reason first, is rather fanciful. {{anchor:s24}}The same Providence which created plants to serve as remedies for diseases, gave to man the intellectual faculties necessary for the discovery and application of remedies for sicknesses, and also inventive genius which supplies him with the means of traversing the globe in search of whatever may minister to his needs. {{anchor:s25}}It would be a very narrow viewer Divine Providence to suppose, for an instant, that the Creator meant the enterprising inhabitants of Michigan to sit down upon that peninsula in close communion, their every want supplied, and every craving satisfied by the productions of its bountiful soil or its stores of subterranean wealth. {{anchor:s26}}While he caused Phytolacca to grow in their fence rows, a ready cure for their diphtherias, and Baptisia for their fevers, he also designed them to rely on their wide-searching and adventurous energy to seek out and procure the Mercury of Idria or of Nevada for their dysenteries, the Aloes of Socotra for their hemorrhoids, and the Croton tiglium of Ceylon for the camp diarrhea which is decimating their brave regiments in Virginia.
-{{anchor:s27}}The second reason is as good as could possibly be given. {{anchor:s28}}Dr. Hale continues, "After several years spent in the investigation and study of the new remedies, publishing, from time to time, items from my experience with them, I was induced to attempt the work of collecting all that had been published concerning the indigenous plants of this country, and to add to such all the knowledge, clinical and theoretical, which could be gleaned from my colleagues, together with my own.{{anchor:s29}}" For this much desired knowledge, so acceptably offered, we present hearty thanks to our colleague and we shall best show our appreciation of the service he has rendered us all, by laboring diligently to make more complete and exact the provings he has given us. {{anchor:s30}}In hastily looking over Dr. Hale's book, we are surprised to observe that, under Arum triphyllum he has omitted all notice of the great use made of this remedy in scarlatina, by Drs. Hering and Lippe, and of which Dr. Lippe published a brief account in the American Homoeopathic Review, Vol. 3., pp. 28, <span grade2>et seq</span>. {{anchor:s31}}Dr. Lippe says, "This very valuable medicine wall first introduced as a remedy in scarlet fever by Dr. C. Hering, and the attention of the profession was first called to it in number nine of <span grade2>The Homoeopathic News</span>. {{anchor:s32}}Since then many cases of malignant scarlet fever have been successfully treated by this new remedy, and some indication for the administration of this medicine can now be given. {{anchor:s33}}The most indicative symptoms for Arum are the great sore feeling of the mouth, the redness of the tongue, the elevated papillae, the cracked corners of the mouth and lips and the stoppage of the nose without much coryza. {{anchor:s34}}Urine very abundant and pale, the submaxillary glands swollen. {{anchor:s35}}The eruption all over the body, much itching and restlessness. {{anchor:s36}}Arum very often caused a great hoarseness and while other symptoms will improve, the hoarseness will become much worse it the medicine is continued too long.{{anchor:s37}}" Dr. Hering, who is quite Hahnemannian in his views and practice, has been regarded as altogether an "old fogy" by some of our "progressive" colleagues, especially those in the West, who, little knowing the wide range of his observations and his untiring labors, represent him as quite ignorant of, and indisposed to employ the more recently discovered remedies and which they suppose him to contemptuously designate "new" fangled remedies."
-{{anchor:s38}}In view of his fact it gives us pleasure to point out that Dr. Hering, the "old fogy," was the first to introduce to the homoeopathic school, fourteen years ago, a remedy now again introduced as a "new" one, by a Homoemopathicia who seem to have overlooked the fact that <span grade2>this</span> very <span grade2>new fangled remedy</span>, has to the "old fogy" been an "old story" for many a day.
-{{anchor:s39}}We should have expected also to see in this work the proving of Lachnanthes tinctoria by Dr. Lippe, recently published in this Review.
-{{anchor:s40}}In typographical execution the book bears evidence that, in Detroit no less than in New York, the pressure of the war is severely felt, deranging every form of industrial labor. {{anchor:s41}}Errors of the compositor and lapses of the proofreader are very numerous, though not very often likely to lead the reader astray. {{anchor:s42}}We could have wished, however, that the proof-reader had not perverted Walter Scott's famous line,
-{{anchor:s43}}"Oh! woman in our <span grade2>hours</span> of ease "-Scott's Marmion.
-{{anchor:s44}}into " Oh! woman in our <span grade2>bowers</span> of ease" ascribing it to Milton! D.
-{{anchor:s45}}Meeting of the Homoeopathic Publication Society. {{anchor:s46}}- A Meeting of the Homoeopathic Publication Society will be held in Philadelphia, October 10th, 1864. {{anchor:s47}}At this meeting a permanent organization of the society will be Effected. {{anchor:s48}}Members of the society and the profession generally are invited to attend. {{anchor:s49}}By order of the Executive Committee, Carroll Dunham, M.D. <span grade2>Secretary for the East</span>
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-====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
-^ Source: | The American Homoeopathic Review Vol. 05 No. 03, 1864, pages 190-192 |
-^ Description: | Book Notice; New Remedies: Their Pathogenic Effects and Therapeutical Applications in Homoeopathic Practice, by E. M. Hale |
-^ Author: | Ahomeo05 |
-^ Year: | 1864 |
-^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
-^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |

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