Chaos & order, or The orthodox practice of medicine unveiled, versus the medical heresy! / by Dr. Th. Berigny.

  • Berigny, Th.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Chaos & order, or The orthodox practice of medicine unveiled, versus the medical heresy! / by Dr. Th. Berigny. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The General Board of Health, Whiteha]], 26, April, 1855. Sir, I am directed by the President of the General Board of Health to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th instaut. I am to forward copies of the correspondence which has passed between this office and the Committee of the Medical Council, to whom the preparation of the report on the treatment of cholera has been entrusted. I am, &c., (Signed) J. F. Campbell, C. Buchan, Esq., Assistant Secretary. Homoeopathic Hospitah Enclosure, No. 1. The General Board of Health, Whitehall, Sir, 11 [qu. 21 ? ] April 1855. I am directed by the President of the General Board of Health to inform you that inquiries have been made with regard to the course pur- sued by the Treatment Committee of the Medical Council, in dealing with the cholera returns sent in by homoeopathic practitioners. It appears that the Medical Directory was followed in circulating the forms of return from this office, and that this directory does not distinguish homoeopathic from other practitioners. As the president finds on inquiry, that forms of return were sent to homoeopathic practitioners, and as these forms appear in several cases to have been filled up and returned to this office, and as a return was also made from the Homoeopathic Hospital, I am to inqaire why no notice has been taken of these returns by the Treatment Committee, their report containing no reference to them. I have, &c., (Signed} J. F. Campbell, John A. Paris, Esq., M.D., Secretary. Chairman of the Treatment Committee of the Medical Council, 27, Dover Street. Enclosure, Ko. 2. Sir, Dover Street, 21st April 1855. For the information of Sir Benjamin Hall, I beg to enclose a resolution unanimously passed by the Treatment Committee of the Medical Council of the General Board of Health, which I trust will be a satisfactory answer to the enquiry addressed to me regarding the reasons which induced the Committee to pass over without notice the homoeopathic returns of their treatment of cholera. Resolved, That by introducing the returns of homoeopathic practi- tioners, they would not only compromise the value and utility of their averages of cure, as deduced from the operation of known remedies; but they would give an unjustifiable sanction to an empirical practice alike opposed to the maintenance of truth, and to the progress of science. I have, &c., (Signed) John Ayrton Paris, T. Taylor, Esq., President. Secretary to the Board of Health.