On the sources and benefits of professional earnestness : being an address delivered before the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association.

  • Ludlam, R. (Reuben), 1831-1899.
Date:
1859
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Credit: On the sources and benefits of professional earnestness : being an address delivered before the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    worthless. And bo is it wfth . medical and moral. The most rigid sectarian is he, who, endeavoring to look for the truth and through an opaqw doctrii >nly the dogma of some fellow mortal, and mistakes it for the mandate ol Superior Wisdom. Science is a word of one, and yel of many meanings—often taking it- color from the refles of the i who use it. Bomeopathy represents thai department of medical science, which we believe to be mosl promising of beneficial results t the sick and the afflicted. If our estimate 1 true one, and he is a hypocrite win. practices Bomeopathy withoul indorsing its superior utility, then, in just Buch measure a- its duties are fruitful of good results, and method more safeand excellent than others,are inds upon us for the most indefatiguable labor and cur.' to de- velop them to the best of cur ability. It may, in a certain and selfish ppear against our interests that we use such exertion, for the bungler will have enough to «1«. to patch op his broken vases, while by conscientious application and assiduity, employing his means I,, good and never to unfortunate consequences, the Bome- opathisl may actually run himself out of business; hut the reward will be certain to follow. A professional friend as- sures us that he has healed the families of his diocese, em- bracing one of the most aourishing of Western villages,not an hundred miles from Chicago, so effectually i Obliged to look him another location! And we have BOme- times questioned whether, if people should cease journeying, and the -old BVStem were to BUSpend operation- for a twelve-month, sealing up every avenue to her abominable wares regular and irregular, a large proportion oi her busiest BOnS, ami some of US also, might not he spired to other and verv different pursuits* There is no mistaking the signs of the times. It Homeo- pathy has no other merit than the Bimple am] tega- Ji'N e one of checking the tide of drugs which men have taken for centuries, to the detriment of their physical and mental aelves and o( which they still seem so pertinaciously fond,