The aim of this somewhat rambling paper is to show (1) that these digestive disorders are frequently avoidable; (2) that the unguided patient almost invariably goes the wrong way to get rid of them; (3) that it is our duty to educate our patients and to show them that the use of artificial aids, be they indigestion tablets, purgatives, belts, arch-supports, etc., etc., are only palliatives and therefore almost always painful, and that the road to health may be arduous but is infinitely worth while.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.
We use the term science as distinct from that of art, in its relation to homoeopathy, because art is human, arbitrary, capricious, fitful, fleeting, and depends solely upon the personal creative genius of the artist, while science is based on fixed, undeviating and eternal principles in nature. Man, in developing science, does not originate, but merely discovers, works out and adapts what has always existed behind the veil of human ignorance. Discoveries in science are but occasional glimpses at the methods of the great Creator. Science is inflexible and omnipotent; it is the economy of the Supreme Intelligence. Science does not spring suddenly into full maturity, like Minerva from the brain of Jove, for it extends to the infinite, and demands the arduous, patient, persevering labor of lives. We advance in its light just in proportion to our opportunity and ability to seek out, grasp and retain truth.- -A. R. MORGAN, M. D., 1866.
