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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    and anxious to conciliate the Profession, (!) drew atten¬ tion to himself by denouncing the King’s Physicians, and publicly called upon them to justify themselves for having had recourse to blood-letting.t Thus he made himself notorious. Again, we find him, imagining that he had discovered a specific and preventive for Scarlet-Fever. Did this benefactor of his species make it public ? On the con¬ trary, it IS recorded of him, that he kept it secret ; though, after Jany and Sulzer had thrown doubts upon Its efficacy, it was disclosed. “ Reflect for a moment,” says Moore, (speaking of like conduct in others,) “ what kind of man that must be, who is base enough to conceal a medicine, endowed with a power of curing any of the deplorable distempers that afflict mankind. If such a discovery were actually made and kept secret, the discoverer must be a villain for concealing what would save thousands from misery and death.”;]: But enough of Hahnemann. Let us now turn to our British Homoeopathists; and we need not go farther than our own city. In 1842, “ A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy,” was published by Dr. Black, and though ostensibly of a professional cha¬ racter, was widely circulated among the public. This was soon after followed by a Pamphlet, entitled, “ Re- 1790. Neither he nor Dr. Black inform us when he first announced it ; but his second paper was not published until 1796, four years af¬ ter the death of Leopold. + Sprengel, Etat de la Med. en 1792. X Reply to Anti-Vaccinists.
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