E-text prepared by Bryan Ness, Alison Hadwin, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/allopathyhomoeop00hilliala Transcriber's note: Hyphenation and spelling have been retained as in the original. Both "household" and "house-hold" were used in the original; unusually spelled words include: practitoners, peurile, unwaranted, brigther and recieved. The oe-ligature is represented by the letters oe enclosed in brackets ([oe]). ALLOPATHY AND HOMOEOPATHY Before the Judgment of Common Sense! by F. HILLER, M.D. San Francisco: Bruce's Job Printing House, 535 Sacramento Street, 1872 _It is difficult to carry the Torch-Light of Truth through the masses, without stepping occasionally upon a toe or burning a wig or a head-dress._ To WILLIAM SHARON, Esq., ISAAC L. REQUA, Esq., A. K. P. HARMON, Esq., SAMUEL G. THELLER, Esq. GENTLEMEN: I have taken the liberty to dedicate this offering to you, as a token of respect and esteem. This, together with a grateful remembrance of the courtesies extended to me, and the support which I have derived from your friendship, will be, I hope, a sufficient excuse for the liberty I have taken. Very truly, yours, etc. F. HILLER, M.D. San Francisco, 1872. TO THE MEMORY OF SAMUEL HAHNEMANN THE DISCOVERER OF THE TRUE LAW OF CURE Born April 10th, 1775;--Died June 4th, 1843. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It is a remarkable and at the same time a terrible and most lamentable fact, that the practice of medicine--an art of daily necessity and application, most nearly affecting the dearest interests and well being of mankind, and to the improvement of which we are encouraged and impelled by the strongest motives of interest and humanity, of love for our neighbor and emulous zeal for professional skill and superiority therein--should, after a probation of so long a period, and recorded experience of at least two thousand years, still remain, as it confessedly does in most respects, so little understood and generally of such doubtful and uncertain application.