the immediate organ the perversion of whose functions is most obviously pointed out by the prominent symptom, is to disregard the clearest indications of PAthology. We must analyze these obvious symptoms and must include their remotest elements in our indications. Nay, these remotest elements-the constitutional disturbances, for instance, of which Carpenter speaks-are even more important indications for treatment than the more obvious and objective symptoms. But how can we analyze these more obvious symptoms, and ascertain those “constitutional disturbances” in which they have their origin? In no other way than by study of the functions of the entire organism-in what way and to what extent they are performed in an abnormal manner. But this bring us at once to that rule on which Hahnemann so strongly insisted, that the entire organism of the patient should be examined in every possible way, and that the “totality of the symptoms” should be made the basis of the prescription; nay, that the constitutional, general symptoms are often more conclusive as to the proper treatment than the more obvious local symptom. The grand old master reached at a single bound the same conclusions to which the labors of a half century of able Pathologists have at length, with infinite research, brought the medical professions.
And those of our school who insist upon Pathology as a basis of Therapeutics, who look upon the single objective symptoms and its nearest organic origin as the subject for treatment, and who deride the notion of prescribing upon the totality of the symptoms, and claim to be more than mere symptom-coverers, in that they discover and aim to remove the cause of the disease-these colleagues are as false in their Pathology, according to the highest Old-School authority, as they are faithless to the doctrine and impotent as to the successes of the founder of the Homoeopathic School.
Dr. Dunham graduated from Columbia University with Honours in 1847. In 1850 he received M.D. degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. While in Dublin, he received a dissecting wound that nearly killed him, but with the aid of homoeopathy he cured himself with Lachesis. He visited various homoeopathic hospitals in Europe and then went to Munster where he stayed with Dr. Boenninghausen and studied the methods of that great master. His works include 'Lectures on Materia Medica' and 'Homoeopathy - Science of Therapeutics'.