Excerpt from Ophthalmic Therapeutics
When the New York Ophthalmic Hospital was placed under the care of surgeons who prescribed drugs in accordance with the hom?opathic law of cure, there was but little precedent for them to follow. The whole of our literature was searched for cases of eye complaints cured hom?opathically, with meagre results; either the alleged cure was doubtful, or the diagnosis obscure, and the symptoms so vague that no opinion could be formed as to the real nature of the malady. The surgeons were compelled to begin de novo, and build up a clinical record; and we may be permitted to say that most satisfactory cures were made. The patient was examined with two distinct objects in view, first, to make a thorough diagnosis, second, to obtain symptoms, local and general, which should indicate a remedy. We were handicapped with no prejudice in favor of or against any drug, because of a diagnosis, and were perfectly ready to prescribe any drug in the Materia Medica, from A to Z, for any form of disease. The writer, not unfrequently, devoted the larger part of an afternoon to a single case, and, often a part of a night, poring over our imperfect symptomatology; he compiled a large work in manuscript, arranged in sections (of the eye and its appendages) for ready reference; and gradually there grew a system of approved indications which will always endure. This method and its results (the brilliant cure of supposed incurables, and the wonderfully rapid growth of the Hospital as a consequence) became widely known, and for years we were importuned to publish our observations; finally, our manuscript was turned over to Dr. Norton, who had become associated with us in the work, and he put into form for the press, what we had collected; which, with his own additions, was published as Allen and Norton"s Ophthalmic Therapeutics.
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