Homoeopathy and its principles explained / [John Epps].

  • John Epps
Date:
1850
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    putants about the merits of their own and the quackery of SECT. V. others’ theories of physic. Less ready to inquire and observe than to gather pelf, they hunt after fees and neglect know- ledge. They see no other way to reach eminence and wealth than to press down a rival. Science gets crushed or distorted between their personal quarrels, and the healing art, founded on ill-understood principles, divested of truth and beauty, neither deserves nor commands the confidence of mankind. Considering the complex nature of the animal functions, the merely empirical and conjectural knowledge which the most enlightened physicians have of the expected operations of medicines on any given patient, and considering the im- portance to all of the preservation of life and health, there is no science which ought to be prosecuted with more care than therapeutics. It is, therefore, offensive to the public, and disgraceful to medical men, to impede investigation by hard names, and rabidly attack individuals instead of coolly ex- amining the discoveries they allege they have made. We are no advocates of homoeopathy ; but we can safely say, that allopathy has been in many cases so little successful, that it ought to welcome instruction and assistance, from whatever quarter it may come. Chapter IX.—Evidences that would have been brought at the Trial. The English Homoeopathic Association did its duty by its member, Mr. C. T. Pearce. A defence was prepared which would have placed his medical conduct, in the treatment of his brother, on the highest basis, namely, the scientific. The subjoined gives a brief rksumk of the witnesses who would have been examined, and of the points which would have been established. Mr. Simmons is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, resides at 156, Tooley-street, will state that he is not a homoeopathic practitioner: That he has known Dr. Kelsall (who is a homoeopathic practitioner) about two months: that their acquaintance commenced when witness was un- well himself, and hearing of the Dr.’s successful treatment of cholera, Q Q