A letter to Professor J.Y. Simpson, President of the Royal College of Physicians ... concerning the resolutions recently passed by that body in reference to the therapeutic practice commonly called homoeopathy / by William MacLeod.

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1851
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Credit: A letter to Professor J.Y. Simpson, President of the Royal College of Physicians ... concerning the resolutions recently passed by that body in reference to the therapeutic practice commonly called homoeopathy / by William MacLeod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bjjn-Rhydding, Otley, Yorkshire, Ju)te 20, 1851. Sir,—When I receircd tlie recent resolutions of the Royal College of Physicians of Eclinhiirgh, condemn- ing practitioners of Homoeopathy, I did not at first con- sider it incumbent on mo to take public notice of them, ]3oubtful whether they could fairly be applied to one holding the principles in accordance with which I haye rcgulatod my professional course, and, at the same time, prepared to disregard their denunciation, and deny the authority of their requisitions, in case of their being so applied, I discerned no pressing practical necessity to take upon myself the office of remonstrant, or to act otherwise than as if the resolutions had never existed. Rut circumstances have in so far changed. The period which has elapsed since the promulgation of the decree of the College is a brief one; yet enough lias transpired to convince me, that, on the ground of the contents of that decree, an attempt is being made to misrepresent A