Excerpt from Maternity: A Popular Treatise for Young Wives and Mothers Homoeopathic physicians need not decry specifics; for Homoeopathy is a system of specifics par excellence. Quinine, for instance, is a specific. How it acts, what is the pathological or physiological process by which it breaks up a malarious intermittent fever, has been dis cussed ably by able men, without makmg their pupils much wiser than they were before. Still, quinine continues its healthful action in spite of this learned ignorance. Allopathic physicians may claim it as their own, and accuse a Homoeopath of Inconsistency when he makes use of it. Homoeopathic physicians, on the other hand, may fear to use it, lest the dose acknowledged to cure be an acknowledgment of the defeat of their pet potencies. Still, as long as the former have no better claim to it than the dose, and as long as the latter have no remedies, which, in smaller doses, will replace that drug, I shall claim the privilege of using and advising it whenever I deem it needful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.