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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    in swallowing. On this effect, from difficulty of swallowing ex- isting in, hydrophobia, it has been put forth as a specific in this disease ; but we might with equal reasons assume, that a hair sticking in ,the throat, because, it prevents a person from swallowing would act as one. I have the history of twelve cases of this disease, where belladonna was fairly tried, and failed, Homceopathists remind one strongly of the philosophical tailors of Laputa, who worked only on abstract principles, holding the humble craftsmen, who wrought by measuring their customers, in extreme contempt. Their constitutional tailoring being equally as bad fitting as the suit which those philosophical schneiders made for Mr. Samuel Gulliver. But with this difference that their misfits unfortu- nately are not found out until too late; perhaps only at the mo- ment, when death enters and encircles the confiding person’s waist with his iron ice-like arm, and dances him off to eternity. Trusting that your lordship will overlook many inaccuracies, both of style and expression, from the hasty manner in which the matter has been thrown together. I beg to subscribe myself Your lordship’s most humble servant, CHARLES EVANS REEVES, M.D* London, May the First, 1854. Note, A friend has suggested that I have done wrong in not publishing] names. This most excellent advice I should have been most happy*! to follow if I had been a rich man ; but as I do not happen to possesd any of that material in which most people think the summum bonum ol human happiness consists; I should feel under a deep and lasting ob- ligation to any of the homoeopathic gentlemen who have made fortunes! who would step forward and guarantee the law expenses, whidj