S given, and the improvement was permitted to progre

Itions, gradually lead to the complete derangement of the reproductive
process. In spite of all this, long
habit has secured to these pernicious customs a sort of prescriptive
right. The distress consequent upon them,
increases in proportion as the reactive powers of the organism
decrease, which is more particularly

the case in
the present generation. The suppression of these abuses has never been
more necessary than in our age. Indeed,

the old proverb is again verified: "Where need is greatest, there help
is
nearest." The world is not only indebted to Hahnemann for a knowledge,
but also for a natural corrective of this serious abuse. His provings
on healthy persons show this beyond a doubt. Few men, if their
attention has once been directed to this abuse, will feel disposed to
deny its extent. Nor has a favorable change in this respect been looked
for in vain, since hom[oe]opathy has now, for half a century at least,
shown the uselessness of all regular methods of purgation, and the
superiority of the means with which this new system accomplishes most
effectually all that those pernicious methods promised to do. It should
be considered a duty by every
physician, to be acquainted with the new means of cure. The continued
use of purgatives should
be considered a crime against health. They will soon cease to exist as
regular means of treatment, and
their pernicious consequences will no longer have to be relieved by
remedial means. But until their use is
abolished, we shall have
to counteract them by adequate means of cure, more particularly the
abnormal irritation and the paralytic debility, which