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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    the claims and injure the practice of Homoeopathy, not by controverting or even examining its doctrines, but through means of disreputable imputations regarding every one avIio has embraced it; and it is not consistent with my feelings, or sense of duty to my friends and my- self, to evade my share of the responsibility by preserving an ambiguous silence, or to pass unnoticed questionings from whatever source—anonymous or official—as to my honesty and honour. I regret only that I must mix up so much that is personal with the discussion of a subject rightly belonging to abstract dispassionate science; but in the present peculiar position of affairs, I deem it necessary to state without scruple to the profession, and to explain to the public, the rights which I claim as a Physician, and the grounds of the independence 1 shall continue to exercise. ]. There are still many in Edinburgh not unacquainted with the history of my early medical career. I began it an ardent student, and during nine months each year, and for years together, 1 w^as an occupant of the dissect- ing-room, on an average, six hours a-day. I laboured with 7>eal in the pathological department of the Royal Infirmary for up\vards of three years. I performed nearly all the weights and measurements made there during that period. I devoted much of my time to