The Homoeopathic Principle Applied to Insanity: A Proposal to Treat Lunacy by Spiritualism

Excerpt from The Homoeopathic Principle Applied to Insanity: A Proposal to Treat Lunacy by Spiritualism Schools of Healing agree in the remedy; but With one it is a law, with the other, an isolated fact. That law is true, and so far forth, universal. Rising from the broadest basis of facts that ever yet confirmed a medi cal principle, it can have a sweep of deductive power such as the human mind never before conceded to any remedial law. We may think from it, and have it along with us, wherever the incurable stands; sure that it is the way, or rather one way, of a certainly approaching relief. This law Will be one of our angels in disintegrating the fetters by which the safe have too much confined the limbs of the insane. Let me digress for a moment to say, that this is not the only law, or the best law. Our Lord has given the two; laws of medicine; and in so doing, has shown us that this, of Homeopathy is only one. He and his given ministers cast out devils by Divine Power of Love, and then the. Kingdom of God comes upon you, if you are emancipated from Ill in this wise. We of the medical guild set evil against evil; poison against disease Satan against Satan. And our Lord tells us that in this way, also, Ill comes to its end. There are then two modes of the extinction of dis ease the redemptive or Divine, and the Homeopathic kpr human. And numberless sub-modes branch out from these main stems or trunks. The Homeopathic mode is such a stem because it has a universal principle, which no other mode of medicine pretends to. Now, then, the lunatics are before us; the very matter and bloodshed of the pity of mankind; the p'risoners for whom prayer should be unceasing; for their minds are dungeons and noisome cells, from which no lapse of ages has hitherto brought escape. And the pertinent inquiry is, What agent is Homeopathic or curative to Lunacy?