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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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| {{anchor:s125}}So it is with us. {{anchor:s126}}The Allopathists try their best to get rid of us, but we will not get rid of them. {{anchor:s127}}We will study all the sciences, all natural sciences, all medical sciences, every discovery they make, every invention, if it is really useful, we intend, as well as themselves, to master all they master, and our own art besides. | {{anchor:s125}}So it is with us. {{anchor:s126}}The Allopathists try their best to get rid of us, but we will not get rid of them. {{anchor:s127}}We will study all the sciences, all natural sciences, all medical sciences, every discovery they make, every invention, if it is really useful, we intend, as well as themselves, to master all they master, and our own art besides. | ||
| - | {{anchor:s128}}May our College be one of the means to increase the number of such as are really able to heal the sick. {{anchor:s129}}Let the fashionable schools try to exclude us in civil life, they cannot exclude us from the free empire of science, nor can they prevent our healing the sick. {{anchor:s130}}The time will come, when we will have "men and money" to rush down like an avalanche from our mountains and reconquer our domain - the whole continent of the healing art. | + | {{anchor:s128}}May our College be one of the means to increase the number of such as are really able to heal the sick. {{anchor:s129}}Let the fashionable schools try to exclude us in civil life, they cannot exclude us from the free empire of science, nor can they prevent our healing the sick. {{anchor:s130}}The time will come, when we will have "men and money" to rush down like an avalanche from our mountains and reconquer our domain -- the whole continent of the healing art. |
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