Electro-Homoeopathic Medicine: A New Medical System (Being A Popular and Domestic Guide Founded of Experience)

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"Electrohomoeopathy (or System Mattei) is a form of Spagyric Medicine invented in the 18th century by Count Cesare Mattei. Mattei had written this book in 1874 in Italian language, which was then published in other languages. He applied himself in his lifetime to the discovery of Materia Medica capable of modifying, not only the manifestation or symptoms of disease, but also their principle, or even their first cause. It is by means of a simple theory with curative agents which he called Electricity in the remedies (Electro-Homoeopathy); being so elementary that everyone may cure themselves. This medicine is certainly the medicine of the future.

Mattei is credited as the founder of Electrohomeopathy. This discipline deals more with an electric "fluid" which is called Electricity (and is more connected with the use of a plant's bio- electric current in treatment). There appear to be many recipes in the text for various aliments, and they include the use of red, blue and green "electricity" as part of some of the formulas.

HAVING been accustomed now for nine years to the very frequent use of the Electro-Homeopathic remedies introduced by Count Mattoi, it has appeared desirable that the principles, aims, methods, and professions of this system should be represented in a more complete and authoritative manner than that of the small handbooks of treatment, which are all that have been hitherto accessible to the British public. The following pages contain Count Mattei's latest and most matured exposition of Electro-Homeopathy, and as such I commend it to the candid examination of both professional and lay readers.

Those who have carefully experimented with Electro-Homœopathic remedies know that they are capable of exercising extraordinary therapeutio action in many cases which are not amenable to any other known treatment. So far as the relation of these remedies to ordinary Homœopathy is concerned, I regard them myself as homeopathic remedies of very large range of action, the most polychræstion of the polychreasts; so much so, that they may be applied to constitutional types, according to the indications specified by the dis coverer. Neither the Count nor any of his genuino disciples are disposed to undervalue the trans- condent morit of Hahnemann, as the greatest medical explorer and the profoundest medical philosopher that the world has yet seen. Electro- Homeopathy is an extension and simplification of Hahnemannian homeopathy. Those who have endeavoured faithfully to apply ordinary homœo- pathy according to the directions of Hahnemann, know how prodigiously difficult it is to find a clue to the perplexities of the Materia Medica, so as to bring its resources within the grasp of persons endowed with an ordinary measure of working capacity, and a limited time for attention to individual cases.

THE human body is composed of blood and lymph, two substances to which is entrusted the constant nutrition and preservation of the different parts of the organism, which, though different in them- selves, both in form and in the functions they are called upon to discharge, are, notwithstanding, essentially similar, since they are all primarily composed of blood and lymph, and perpetually receive their nutrition from these two elements.

Any change in one or the other of these liquids must necessarily lead to a change in the normal state of the individual, and produce an abnormal or pathologic state. In accepting this fundamental theory, as simple as it is true, it is easy to under- stand that the composition of my remedies, called electro-homœopathic on account of their instant and efficacious action, must embrace a number of simple medicinal principles, which, in virtue of their nature and their mode of action on the whole body and on the different parts of which it is composed, must respond to the combined requirements of the various morbid elements, which, by changing the normal state of the blood and the lymph, create all varieties of disease-that is to say, all those hostile elements which oppose them- selves to the free exercise of our organic functions.

We are indebted to the great Hahnemann for the discovery of the specific nature of remedies.

Still, Hahnemann's doctrine, being founded on the use of single remedies, limits itself to fighting against symptoms; in following his system, only one medicine is given at a time, and it is on this important point that I part company with him.

If I allow with him that a single remedy is capable of a simple action bearing only on one point, yet I do not admit that this action can antidote the cause of most diseases which are generally complicated. On the other hand, I can affirm that the complex remedies which constitute the electro-homoeopathic materia medica, combat and destroy disease in its primary origin, so that, treated according to this specific method, no relapse need be feared, no return in altered form is possible.

The real difficulty with homeopathy is not in the theory-which is as well demonstrated as any other ascertained law of nature-but in the practico. It seems almost beyond the reach of human faculties to wield such a mighty mass of isolated facts, and bring them into actual application. It is too ideal: its administration requires a corps of heaven-born illuminati, endowed with an insight or an inspiration not granted to ordinary mortals. It is too esoterio; it postulates a higher order of faculties than that of normal human development. That it will be simplified, as it is more diligently worked, I have not the shadow of a doubt; themethod of "key-notes" is a great advance in this direction. Meanwhile, Electro-Homœopathy presents itself as a system in which the rigid individualization of homeopathy is not required; the most important requisites being a careful study of the few constitutional types which characterize the individuals of the human family.

My first experiment with Count Mattei's reme- dies was many years ago, in the case of a young lady, reduced to the last extremity of exhaustion and emaciation by marasmus or wasting disease of the intestines. Ordinary homeopathic treatment by myself and those who studied the case in con- sultation with me produced only unimportant mitigation of symptoms; and in sheer despair I fell back upon Electro-Homœopathy. Under the use of Scrofoloso and other remedies she rapidly recovered; she regained her lost plumpness; she is now married, and the healthy, happy mother of a family. Other cases, not less striking, have repeatedly occurred. The magical and marvellous operation of these remedies is a perpetual surprise even to those who have long used them. And the simplicity of their administration brings the healing art within reach of all who care to devote to it a moderate amount of thought, study, and observation.