“One of the first symptoms of madness, he says is that which appears, before there is the least mental derangement, is the perversion or the disappearance of the moral sense. There is not more any distinction between good and evil, neither any repentance. Thus the modests become presumptuous and exacting, the chastes, debauches, and obscene; honest men, thieves, the sincere, liars. There comes at lest a degradation of the sense of refinement. These different symptoms of an intellectual derangement which may arrive up to the complete extinction of the intelligence”.
“These facts seem to prove the connection which exists between the moral sense and physical constitution. The moral sense is potential (in the latent state) or hereditary in many persons, although they do not seem to have them while born; it develops by culture, decreases by disuse and may be deranged or destroyed by disease. The quality acquired in the progress of evolution of human being is the first to suffer, when disease disturbs the functions of the psychic order.
“An attack of epilepsy may cause the same effect, affecting the moral sense as it effaces sometimes the memory; and we are familiar with the changes marked in the moral character of the epileptics, changes that precede and forebode an attack. A fever or a wound on the head may, in the same manner, entirely change the moral character of a man. I here are also the opium eaters and the addicts to wine” (Revue des course scientifiques, No. 5 of 5 Oct., p. 231).
When one sees men of talent like Villemain and Neuton, the first losing his reason for one year, though he was the Minister of Public Education during the reign of Louis-Philippe and the second who passed the last years of his life in demense, usually called of infants, who would have the presumption to affirm that his intelligence, will never become weak, not completely destroyed in the course of his life and particularly in his old age.. since after the observation, the preceding weakness of character, announces the weakness of the intelligence one should fight for dissipating the first in order to prevent the development of the second. It is the means to preserve the integrity of one’s intelligence up to the end of his and avoid thus that moral decrepitude of many old men which makes people around him sorry. From this fact one understand well, how necessary it is and often indispensable the Homoeopathic treatment of the defects of character and intelligence, which I wish to popularise amongst the doctors.
Even, since fifty years, the homoeopaths have been jeered at as regards their apparently paradoxal medication like all novelties. They will not be less jeered at as regard their strange pretentions to cure man of his moral and intellection imperfections. But they will frequently find consolation in their successes and sometimes in pleasurable compensations as it was the case of Dr. Crepu of old. This homoeopathic practitioner, who because of his special knowledge was appointed professor of Botany of Grenoble, was endowed with a very keen and critical mind. Naturally it was replied to him in the same tone by his adversaries, the allopathic doctors of that town, although he was alone against all their jeerings, had the advantage of attracting the attention on him and on his new medication, about the new medicine even the wives of allopathic doctors were curiously interested because having not been cured of their sufferings by the treatment of their husbands, they were tempted to try the new treatment as much as it was decried. The yielded themselves in so great number that after the death of Dr. Crepu, it was found in his register patients by the side of the name of numerous women, wives of allopaths, this annotation “Note to send at the house of Mme X.. to receive my fees, she will herself bring it”.
Among the homoeopathic doctors, in course of their professional occupations where it is the question of ameliorating moral or intellectual conditions of man, there will be still others probably who will have sometimes still more pleasure compensations than the mockings of their adversaries. The latter are not all of perfect character. Some of them may be of still more displeasing character as regards persons of their entourage. The latter will be often tempted to consult the homoeopathic doctor who is capable to make better the dangerous character, and many times, like these women of Grenoble, they will succumb to their temptation. The jeerers the, treated without their knowledge, will play, always, without knowing the comedy “patient inspite of himself” (of Moliere). There will come often a time when will no more think of mocking at, when they will see in the lips of persons of their entourage a half slightly mocking and who hear their whispering.
Gallavardin set up a homeopathic Dispensary for the cure of alcoholics, often working in conjunction with priests, and he wrote several books on this subject.
Jean Pierre Gallavardin wrote Psychism and Homeopathy, The Homoeopathic Treatment of Alcoholism, How to Cure Alcoholism the Non-toxic Homoeopathic Way, Repertory of Psychic Medicines with Materia Medica, Plastic Medicine, and articles for The British Journal of Homeopathy, On Phosphoric Paralysis, and he collated the statistics on pneumonia and other cases for the United States Journal of Homeopathy, and he contributed widely to homeopathic publications.