Philadelphia journal of homoeopathy Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CHARACTER OF HAHNEMANN. BY Mi. 3. F. JCSU X, 01 HEW YOXK. In regard to those qualities and achievements which most excite general admiration, the physi... more »cian is surpassed by the surgeon and the warrior. The mere mechanic of our profession may extirpate a malignant tumor, or amputate a limb on which it is situated, leaving the patient in the last case mutilated, and the entire real disease in both cases remaining, latent in his body. Without undue disparagement to the skill which may be thus evinced, and which, manifesting itself directly to the senses, is appreciated by the unlearned and non-professional observer, we should award greater admiration to him who, in similar cases, effects a cure, real, deep and permanent, leaving the man in his pristine integrity, beauty and usefulness. How much greater glory still has been achieved by that medical philosopher, who has discovered and demonstrated a principle fruitful in such beneficent results, not merely in the circle of his own practice or his own century, but for mankind throughout the world, and for all future ages. In the century which has elapsed since the birth of Hahnemann, there has not been born another human being whose sauces have equally promoted the welfare of man. In a biographical sketch of Hahnemann, written by himself, he has described the character of his father, and the impressions it made on his own mind. These statements evince an appreciation of unostentatious goodness, of candor and truthfulness, and of the superiority of actions to professions, and of the practical value of religious faith and hope. He says, " My father had the soundest original ideas in regard to what is good and worthy of man. These ideas he implanted in me. His leading principle was, that a man should be, and act out that ...« less