Hydropathy and homoeopathy impartially appreciated : with an appendix of notes illustrative of the influence of the mind on the body / by Edwin Lee.
- Date:
- 1847
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Credit: Hydropathy and homoeopathy impartially appreciated : with an appendix of notes illustrative of the influence of the mind on the body / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![room, even though they may not have seen it.* These, however, are exceptions, from which no genera] conclusions can he drawn, and these exceptions have been adduced in proof of the general action of homoeopathic doses, to which, as I have shown, not only reason but experience from trials conducted on a large scale is op- posed. The only physician whose opinion is entitled to consideration, from his not being interested in supporting the practice of homoeo- pathy, who appears to have been convinced from some trials that he made of the special action of liomoeopathic doses, is Dr, Miilingen, who, in his Curiosities of Medical Experi- ence, has adduced half a dozen cases, which he conceives go to prove the fact. These cases, however, with one exception, merely corrobo- rate, in my opinion, what has been advanced, viz., that because some slight ailments and symptoms subside after an homoeopathic dose, which the patients for the most part know to be something unusual, it is not to be inferred that it is in consequence of a particular virtue in the drop or globule which has been administered * Indeed, the action of homoeopathic remedies may be considered in a certain sense as idiosyncratic.—Madden, Op. Cit.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21912087_0110.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
