CHAPTER IX.
HOMŒOPATHY CONTINUED. NO UNIFORMITY IN HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE—LIBRARIES—INFLUENCE OF HOMŒOPATHY UPON MEDICAL PRACTICE.
The homœopathic axiom, similia similibus curantur, never was, and never could be acted upon to any extent, because there are no articles employed as medicines which really produce effects similar to any diseases, except such diseases as they themselves produce; nor do homœopathic practitioners attempt to comply with this absurd aphorism. Practically it would be like attempting to quench fire with turpentine, or allay the thirst of a Dives with burning sand. But it is apparent that there is now no uniformity in the homœopathic practice—every man of that class does just what he thinks proper, so long as he does it all under the cloak of Homœopathy. If we turn our attention to this class of practitioners, we shall find that a portion of them have once been regularly educated, and have
