Homoeopathy : its nature and relative value / by Archibald Reith ; with an appendix by D. Dyce Brown.
- Date:
- 1868
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Credit: Homoeopathy : its nature and relative value / by Archibald Reith ; with an appendix by D. Dyce Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![3S joiimab ! Volume afterivekme might 1 be thrown aside as worthless, wore ib not that the luope of finding a little gold secures a caroful poojiLsal. ■ 180. it ouglit .t<i> he with Ho)najO'- p^ntli}!. . Theiie. 1 is/ igold,. muoki fine gnAil, iiv it, notwithstand- ing: ithe: 4i'osa. i lErom / u careful, pei'usalj of Homccopathie Miritii\gs, I caa>,testify that ;the pure, icnligiitened system of tl^p.;present idayiiis 18/.,y^ry, diffjereilt tiling from -what its detractors. b^Meve..;. 1, iifii^-i ^Some of the advooates of iiHomreopathy, chiefly uon- prq^fie3SiLQnal,.have done much to deter itei advance by their e.xtjiavagant: laudations ofJtj -ii5':n0t ito be;wondered at th^ilj,those, and there ore manyisuch, who haAre been rescued fromi,death!si 1 dooi? iby^ Homa^-opathy should be > l&ivX ■ iu. it^- p];.ai^. ,; It) is-both natural and proper. But 1 it \% as untrue ascitis, injudicious to.hold it up, as nid^y of themi do, as an unfailing remedy, iin all diseases^ This-is ai vital mistake. For not:only doeS'it throw ridicule upon; the sy/stem, but it give? rise to,the prevalent impression that its practitioners iijva>i?iably/ treat every idisease Homoeopathically. It cannot l^e;itooi.mtiGh insisted on that those who practise Homceo- pfjitliy.. are physieians seeking, .io cure their patients, and' aaot ^^etariansstandiiflig up 'for-ia> system. - They m?e not eom- mitt(?d,, to; one 1 .methodi iof tueatment-1 moiie' than another. Tliere .aii?eimanyiGases in which. Horaoeapathy is quite inap- plicable,,.audi ■, they would i never think of: treating these in sijCqordance with the law of similars. They .are. no more entitled to the, sectarian namCi iof Homoeopath; than laife ojtJjuers to those <>f Bleeder, Blistererj Purger, or Mercurialist, liecause they ■5owi«f«Jic«i bleed, sowie^m^ blister, or purge, or giViC mercury^ ., They are physicians endeavouring to cure or, relieve disease by the bast means at their command, butj.believing that Horaceopathy a;flfords them this means in a certain proportion of cases., Again, Homoeopathy will not; cure all diseases^oertainly not organic disease—but it i& for even from curing, all .curable diseases. Death is a more , universal law than Homoeopathy. But where a cure](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21911101_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
