A practical appeal to the public, through a series of letters, in defence of the new system of physic by ... Hahnemann ... : Letter the first / [John Borthwick Gilchrist].

  • John Gilchrist
Date:
1833
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Credit: A practical appeal to the public, through a series of letters, in defence of the new system of physic by ... Hahnemann ... : Letter the first / [John Borthwick Gilchrist]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wuena plain old man, like the writer of the present Appeal to the Public, attempts to make his appearance before that awful tribunal, he should at least endeavour to put his best foot foremost; and in this spirit of deference to the judgment of his readers, they will readily perceive he is ushered into their presence by a liberal-minded Clergyman of the Church of England, | who may so far be considered as the Law and the Go- spel testimony to the truth of the following desultory narrative and remarks. TO J. BORTHWICK GILCHRIST, ESQ. MY DEAR SIR, It is a trite remark, that the genius of our English nation is not generally inventive. We are rather a plodding, imitative race, who nicely scan the actions and schemes of others, and adopt them as our own with advantage and im- provement. A Genoese discovered another Hemisphere; and Great Britain has derived more benefit than his employers from the adventure. The art of Spinning was contrived in Italy ; and England, stealing the secret, has surpassed and almost supplanted her mistress in the manufacture of silk and cotton. We have spirit, enterprise, and perseverance, but not originality ; for, with the exception of the Bacons, Harvey, Napier, Newton, and Wart, I am not aware of any British philoso- phers who have contributed to supply grand primitive ideas or heretofore-unexplored helps to the commonwealth of European knowledge. These six names are, doubtless, a host, as far as so small a number goes; though they cannot detract from the
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