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Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2463, 6 November 1876, Page 3

The r s,s. „• Jforo' .took, away a couple of boxes of gold, value £7,514. The Baift'of Australasia shipped received from at tii«.?liaiaeii.;. and the other was shipped by tbeNationat Bank of New Zealand, containing 9290z3i,'.fc0m Gtonfahdel. "A Homoeopathifit" writes as follows ill tho I Wanganui Herald:— VPerhaps„manj of your reader* may-not cure for diphtheria is a rerypld iiomeeopathic remedy for diphtheric sore throat, and is, to be. found iußuddocks Yade'Mecuip/ ( a;wbrk published long before the/Gre'afed 1 sb'-cafied 'specifid; The law 1 of Similia ebaMe'd'Homoeopatfaiata to discover the virtues of sulphurous acid, which they prefer to sulphuficjat a : very early period, but they have never relied upon it'in'ijeVere case&of audionly to cover syinptomi to which it is homeopathic.. Diphtheria goes thrcugh several st3g'e3, 'ea'ih having its own class of isymptoms,- but' to ;th> mind of a-Homoj )• pathist jt is quackery in its worst form to.',' exhibit 1 ' ihe same remedy right through the pro. gress of the disease •' Belladonni is a renowned remedy for Scarlet Fever; but every disciple of Hahnemann' would know better than to continue it'after the scarlet rash and certain throat'symtomi hid disappeared. Bveo in higher places, Sir, than Mr Greathead's laboratory, britlant discoveries aw being made of some of the old well-tried remedies familiar to every homceo' pathist. Pr. Eingety Professor pf Medicine 'in the University of Londou,' made the announce" ment during the present l year that phosphorus was the best remedy far inflammation if the lungs. "Hahnemenn. announced the same fact seventy years ago, : and every'homcebpathic manual repeats it. Professor Bioger is thus giving his pupils a lesson from 1 Hak'ubmaW 'who' Arrived at his fact from theliiv of Sirifiliijtfpaoaphorus in poisonous doses setting .up symptoms similiar to pneumonia; 'Experience in thousands of casos has demonstrated the soundness of tho law. I may be permitted, in conclusion, to expreYs'the opmibhthaV if- the old • yibblTwo'uld but make themselveß familiar. with the system of''therapeutics' pra'cticdd by 'homoj'ipathuts, they would recoilfrom!the scepticism,whi<h,has taken hold of fern, and'come to realize what they have for' some time been in'clioei' to' doubt, —that there U a science of medicine fouuded on a general law, and that their so called •" experience "is only another name for empiricism. As for Mr .Qreathead, we know the exacfcvalue and limitations of his discovery the moment we are told the name of the drug."