Homoeopathy and its principles explained / [John Epps].

  • John Epps
Date:
1850
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    SECT. V. no remark upon these extraordinary circumstances, but he gives full reports of the trial and inquest, leaving these to do their work, which they certainly perform most effectually. We trust it will be some time before we again behold a judi- cial station converted into a medium for giving publicity to professional spite or personal prejudice. Nothing tends more to lower the medical character than those outbursts of vulgar intemperance which certain of our coroners are too apt to in- dulge in. A profession suffers in general estimation when the persons who are supposed to have been chosen from its ranks on the ground of their superior merit display an incapa- city to observe the customary decencies of behaviour. Mr. Pearce has been subjected to considerable hardship. A case of so much cruelty ought not to be allowed to remain where it now stands, and we hope to see it hereafter taken up in a proper spirit. Homceopatlusts are not to be persecuted for their opinions. They may be wrong in much of their doctrine ; but, if they are, there exist a very large number who, for such a reason, should rather look on them with sympathy than with indignation. Plomoeopathy, however, is not all wrong ; for it has, on a few points at all events, taught those who presume to judge it. We are indebted to it for the introduction of Arnica and Aconite into general practice; and the profession which has been instructed by its teaching ought not to be so very severe in condemnation of its practice. Willingly would we see the feuds which now distract medicine and retard its operative utility merged in one common effort to ascertain the truth. Exposure such as results from the trial of Mr. Pearce injures the respectability of the whole body of practitioners, and the moral lesson which the inci- dents convey should not be overlooked.” Medical Science and Coroners’ Law.—From the “ Economist,” Dec. 15, 1849. The case of Mr. C. T. Pearce, committed in October last, by the warrant of the Coroner for Middlesex, to Newgate, on a charge of manslaughter, because his brother died from cholera after he had been a few days under Mr. C. T. Pearce’s