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| {{anchor:s107}}This brings us to the third part of our bird's-eye-view, the shortest part in an Introductory, the longest in your life. | {{anchor:s107}}This brings us to the third part of our bird's-eye-view, the shortest part in an Introductory, the longest in your life. | ||
| - | {{anchor:s108}}Suppose you have prepared yourself to know the means of healing, suppose you are properly informed in all the knowledge indispensable for the examination of the sick; suppose you are artistically skilled in it, by what rule must we apply the means we are master of, to the cases before us? {{anchor:s109}}We all know Hahnemann's answer in three words or even two words. {{anchor:s110}}It is our sole rule, it is the great law of nature. {{anchor:s111}}It will be the object of more than one lecture, to show you how such a plain, briefly expressed rule can be applied. {{anchor:s112}}In some cases it is easy enough, in others very difficult, and we must know how to meet all such apparent and real difficulties. {{anchor:s113}}You will find that it requires the skill almost of a general, of a good tactician. {{anchor:s114}}One little thing you ought to keep in mind from the beginning, from the very first hour. {{anchor:s115}}In the national meeting of the so-called allopathic physicians of the United States, a by-law was passed unanimously. {{anchor:s116}}All students of medicine, all physicians, whether they have studied medicine in all its branches for months or for years or not at all, are declared to be, if they follow a simple rule, or if they make a general law of nature their keystone, they are without exception declared to be quacks. {{anchor:s117}}Webster's dictionary must be altered and must give this "improved" definition, or else the whole body of physicians will reject it as imperfect. {{anchor:s118}}So they say. {{anchor:s119}}And you will have to make up your minds, in spite of all your learning, in spite of all your cures-to be <span grade2>quacks</span>. {{anchor:s120}}They exclude us, because they would like to get rid of us, but there are two sides to the question. {{anchor:s121}}They did not ask us whether we wished to get rid of them. | + | {{anchor:s108}}Suppose you have prepared yourself to know the means of healing, suppose you are properly informed in all the knowledge indispensable for the examination of the sick; suppose you are artistically skilled in it, by what rule must we apply the means we are master of, to the cases before us? {{anchor:s109}}We all know Hahnemann's answer in three words or even two words. {{anchor:s110}}It is our sole rule, it is the great law of nature. {{anchor:s111}}It will be the object of more than one lecture, to show you how such a plain, briefly expressed rule can be applied. {{anchor:s112}}In some cases it is easy enough, in others very difficult, and we must know how to meet all such apparent and real difficulties. {{anchor:s113}}You will find that it requires the skill almost of a general, of a good tactician. {{anchor:s114}}One little thing you ought to keep in mind from the beginning, from the very first hour. {{anchor:s115}}In the national meeting of the so-called allopathic physicians of the United States, a by-law was passed unanimously. {{anchor:s116}}All students of medicine, all physicians, whether they have studied medicine in all its branches for months or for years or not at all, are declared to be, if they follow a simple rule, or if they make a general law of nature their keystone, they are without exception declared to be quacks. {{anchor:s117}}Webster's dictionary must be altered and must give this "improved" definition, or else the whole body of physicians will reject it as imperfect. {{anchor:s118}}So they say. {{anchor:s119}}And you will have to make up your minds, in spite of all your learning, in spite of all your cures -- to be <span grade2>quacks</span>. {{anchor:s120}}They exclude us, because they would like to get rid of us, but there are two sides to the question. {{anchor:s121}}They did not ask us whether we wished to get rid of them. |
| {{anchor:s122}}Again, the case is exactly parallel with the southern states wishing to get rid of the Yankees and expel the six Yankee states, the main obstacle in their way, because they think they can easily rule the rest afterwards. | {{anchor:s122}}Again, the case is exactly parallel with the southern states wishing to get rid of the Yankees and expel the six Yankee states, the main obstacle in their way, because they think they can easily rule the rest afterwards. | ||
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