Sequel to homoeopathy unmasked : being a farther exposure of Hahnemann and his doctrines, in reply to recent anonymous pamphleteers / by Alexander Wood.

  • Wood, Alexander
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1844
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Credit: Sequel to homoeopathy unmasked : being a farther exposure of Hahnemann and his doctrines, in reply to recent anonymous pamphleteers / by Alexander Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *> but it is surely due to the professional public to show some plausible grounds, before exacting from them such Herculean labours. So far from this, the Homoeo- pathists place themselves in a very peculiar position ,•— they demand our belief, and they, singularly enough^ exclude the most common means of proof. They assert that it is “ an error of theorists to pretend that the power of substances is diminished by dilutionand, when, as a matter of course, our minds turn to wine and ardent spirits, we find that these are carefully excluded from this ‘‘ general law.’’ “ These, the most simple of all the ex¬ citants, are the only ones of which the heating and irri¬ tating properties diminish when much diluted.”* Let them say then, whether porter, strong ale, tea, cofiee, &c. &c., are also exceptions to this general law.” Wc have found them so, and so has every one else. What do the Homoeopathists say ? Have they not ? Does adding water increase their heating or stimulating pro¬ perties ? Here, then, we are prevented from testing their assertions, even with the “ most simple of ail the excitants,” and therefore, the best calculated to educe the real truth. In like manner, they prevent our experimenting with their globules.^ the medicines they themselves employ. These are said to have no action on the healthy body, and we will not commit disease to their care. They cast us back upon the experiments of Hahnemann and his friends with large doses, from which they derive their confidence. But a loop-hole is here also left for escape ; for the quantity of each substance alleged to have been taken, in these most minutely recorded experiments, is never stated. So that when others repeat them, without obtaining the same result, they can be told, that they * Hahnemann’s Organon, p, 294.
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