SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR. 23184 THE AMERICAN OBSERVER MEDICAL MONTHLY: DEVOTED TO HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA, SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS, OTOLOGY, OPHTHALMOLOGY, PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, PADONOSOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, POSOLOGY, TOXICOLOGY BOTANY AND HYGIENE. "IN CERTIS UNITAS, IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS, IN OMNIBUS CHARITAS." NEW SERIES VOLUME IX. FROM BEGINNING, VOLUME XIX. DETROIT, MICHIGAN: PUBLISHED By E. a. lodge, sen'r, m. d., GENERAL EDITOR. 1882. Introductory. In entering upon the nineteenth year of its existence the OBSERVER takes a survey of the present position of Homœopathy in the United States, and thankfully records its gratitude for the promise of the prospect. Our colleges were never more liberally patronized, and our authors were never so prolific. Some weighty questions have arisen within the School, have been discussed within the School, and are being adjudicated within the school fairly and with safety. If there has been any schism it has been of absolute benefit to the majority, and a decennial sloughing-off of extremists is a desideratum. The golden mean between the extremes has the vantage ground, and we reiterate the statement made in our Introductory of two years ago: "The OBSERVER finds its Homeopathy in the middle ground, between materialism and mysticism—the territory wherein it has had its grandest triumphs, and wherein a ripe experience will forever find it." The union of the Schools, so much desired by some, is as far off as ever. Instances of individual liberality of thought there have. been in the past year, but they are of no special significance. Such there always have been, and always will be; but of evidence of change of heart on the part of the Old Physic none can be discovcovered by even the most sanguine. They who affect to be "regulars” will not affiliate with us, and it is to be hoped that "hope deferred" will not make any of our self-appointed olive-branch-bearers heart sick. Meanwhile all can see that our truths are finding ready though unacknowledged acceptance at an even increasing rate. Homœopathy is leading the progressive therapeutics of the age. Deny it |