Homœopathy : report of the speeches on irregular practice delivered at the nineteenth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Brighton, August 13 & 14, 1851.

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1851
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    called forth from the brute mass in which it lay slumbering, and, if well chosen, will, by its unfailing elective attraction, restore to life at the very spot, by the very nerve wherein it labours, the very force in which it is deficient—you commence the moral and religious training of the child. Plain, simple, easy, and charming, is THE GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY.” [pp. 48, 49.] So much for “ the medicine of love”: now let us hear one or two of his sentences regarding our system:—e< There was once a marriage made in Heaven ; but you put asunder those whom God joined together in heaven when you separated the healing of the sick from the preaching of the gospel, and made two professions out of that which Jesus made one ; and therefore it is that the art of cure separated from the holy principles of love has lost its way, and fallen into foul company, and consorted with all unloveable things—cathartics, moxa, the lancet, emetics and blisters. [Laugh¬ ter.] And therefore, too, the Gospel parted from its earthly yoke¬ fellow, and preached by those who share in the sickness and leprosy of the race, has succeeded so partially, and brought forth the har¬ vest of contradictions that you see in the Christian world.” [p. 35.] Now, Sir, you have perhaps had more than enough of homoeo¬ pathic divinity, but I was anxious to let the preacher speak for himself. Remember that Mr. Everest is Vice-President of the Hahnemann Hospital—that the sermon was preached in aid of that establishment, which is under the immediate patronage of much of the wealth and aristocracy of this country. Advertised upon this sermon we find, as Hospital office bearers, (along with the name of the preacher,) His Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Robt. Grosvenor,M.P., and many others, prominent in society, both for rank and riches. To such lists we are generally referred triumphantly : and I admit that it would not be difficult to add to them the names of several members of Parliament, noblemen, bishops, and, at least, one archbishop—Dr. Whately: but alas! has not the train of St. John Long, and many other noisome London quacks, been swelled by a similar throng of noble and reverend personages ? Might not the same authorities be cited on behalf of the flimsy impostures of the present idol of fashionable fools. Mademoiselle Julie ? Medicine cannot be acquired in leisure hours ; it must be learned by patient and painful study at the bed¬ side and in the closet; and I have therefore yet to learn that states-