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Homeopathy (from Gk., "like disease"). Founded by Samuel C. F. Hahnemann, a Leipzig physician, in 1796. His main work was The Organon of Rational Healing, which embodies the four main principles of the homeopathic creed: 1) The "proving" or testing of all medicines on healthy persons before their use in treatment. 2) The law of "similars''-often epitomized in a Latin maxim, Similia similibus curantur. The theory is that specific drugs produce in the healthy, symptoms of the diseases they are adapted to cure. The selection and administration of the proper drug for each disease is the heart...
...diagnosing disease, osteopaths search for structural abnormalities of any kind, and seek by mechanical adjustments to remove these obstacles to proper natural functioning. Osteopathy employs good diet, hygiene and nursing as adjuncts. It does not ignore the microbic theory of disease, grants some value to surgery, but believes the main cause of disease to lie in maladjustment. The practice is legalized in the U. S. and Canada, and there are about 7,000 practitioners...
Goldfield, Nev., was made of gold dust in a mining boom of 1904. Last week, catching fire, it flashed a tiny epitaph across the sporting pages. It was famous-Shelbylike-for the Gans-Wilson fight in 1906. Previous to the fire, the inhabitants pointed with pride to a certain Main Street corner where stood the saloon in which Tex Rickard "made his start...
...Diplomatic Corps in Peking held a conference. The object was to ask the Chinese Foreign Office to provide a police force for the railways. The conferring diplomats held such widely divergent views that no representations are to be made to the Chinese Government. The main difficulty was that of finance-which was bound up in the creation of a police force. It appears that the Chinese were willing to form such a body, providing the necessary funds were taken out of the railway revenues. As the railway companies have already defaulted on foreign debts, this scheme was not acceptable...
Electrification of railways in the South is progressing rapidly. It is expected that the entire main line of the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranéen Railway stretching from Paris to Ventimiglia on the Italian frontier will be electrified next year. It is said that France will have, in fifteen years, the finest railway system in Europe...