An address to Lord R. Grosvenor, on the fallacies and fatalities of homoeopathy / by Charles Evans Reeves.

  • Reeves, C. E. (Charles Evans), 1828-1880.
Date:
[1854?]
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Credit: An address to Lord R. Grosvenor, on the fallacies and fatalities of homoeopathy / by Charles Evans Reeves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Street, placed himself under the care of one of these men Diarrhoea consequent on the treatment set in ; to check which he wa dosed so largely with wine, that he died from the effects, for no othe cause could be discovered at the after death examination. Not satisfies with thus summarily dismissing the poor man to his last home, h attempted to perform some operations on the dead body, anxious t make up for some deficiencies in his education, and mangled it in th most horrible manner. There are some men, I do not doubt, who practice homoeopathy full convinced of its efficacy, or at least if not, they guard the secret c their disbelief so closely, that the most observant have not an opportu nity of doubting their orthodoxy. The men who do this are what th world calls religious,—or rather what the Germans term pious; a muc' better term as it signifies a person who has only the outward or visibl signs of sanctity. I may cite the name of Dr. Jennings as an example : thi gentleman wrote a book on^the “ advantages of homoeopathy,” in whic he says;—“ Providence seems to work specially for homoeopathy and men of the most philosophical and practical minds are thunder struck with the powerful results obtained from it. He was a piou man, or in Exeter Hall language, one of Christian principles ! ! an made a considerable sum ; but the money having come, conscience cam also ;—a most troublesome poking thing, always popping in just a3 man is made comfortable for life,—and he felt uneasy, for instead c giving homoeopathic medicines, he had treated his patients with nothin] but coloured water. He therefore called his friends together, and mad a kind of general confession, and as none of those whom he had a. lowed to die happened to be present, he, of course, obtained generc forgiveness, and thus having struck a balance between his pocket an conscience, opened a new account. Turning to the founder of homoeopathy, Hahnemann, with whose pr vate character, which, unless his disciples belie him, was not of th best description, I have nothing to do. Still when we see those wh