A practical appeal to the public through a series of letters, in defence of the new system of physic by the illustrious Hahnemann ... : Letter the first / by John Borthwick Gilchrist.
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- 1833
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Credit: A practical appeal to the public through a series of letters, in defence of the new system of physic by the illustrious Hahnemann ... : Letter the first / by John Borthwick Gilchrist. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![(;'(] cruel fangs of lingering disease, immature death, and heartless despotism, with the additional stigma of bear- ing patiently the degrading epithets of abject objects of compassion on sick beds, and treated as the servile slaves or priest-ridden subjects of a Church and State in which they have no interest whatever. As to my belief in futurity, and all its consequences, being a loyal citizen, it must be that of the Christian religion; which, as the very word implies, binds us all fast, in soul and body, to the latest edition of the faith of our progenitors, as by law established; which certainly was intended to teach us to do all the good in our power to our brother mortals, with the least possible evil to the meanest among them, on the score of country, colour, confes- sion, condition, or caste, in the true spirit of heavenly charity, which inclines me to live in peaceful concord with every one: and I sincerely pray them to cultivate similar dispositions with me, whatever may be our sen- timents or tenets on all the themes discussed in this lengthy Epistle, which has insensibly attained an extent that was not contemplated: it has, of course, thus far encroached upon the Second, and contains many re- marks out of their intended place. My convalescence having been protracted above six weeks, by the administration of the white-mustard seed, and the rapid changes of weather at tins season of the year, is the main-spring of some apparent inconsistencies, now too late to rectify as I could wish. For some weeks after having abstained from that pernicious remedy, I was annoyed with a constant secretion in the mouth, of an oily, rancid, acrimonious saliva, at the same time thin I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21962674_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
