The influence of homœopathy on general medicine since the death of Hahnemann / by R.E. Dudgeon.

  • Robert Ellis Dudgeon
Date:
1874
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Credit: The influence of homœopathy on general medicine since the death of Hahnemann / by R.E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or rather, I should say, by that of his son anddeputy recorded against a practitioner whose awn brother died of Asiatic cholera while nominally under 1 hut not really so—for, when the case took an untavour able turn the unfortunate practitioner was himself pros- Si:...ok of cholera. I. i» .■«* » g triumph of orthodox physic when the culprit was con \ . _ _pii Tsfewo’ate to await his trial tor his life16nominally for hilling his brother, but actually 01 his’therapeutic heresies. To relieve the mm sot oseo you who do not remember the facts ,of th®f f mention that on this occasion the majesty of cio\ Quest law ” was not vindicated by the culprit’s ignomi¬ nious death on the scalfold, but that he was speedily released by a grand jury, which thus showed itself devoid of all proper feeling for the maintenance of orthodoxy m have recalled these circumstances to your recollection in order to show you that a conviction of die efficacy of a certain therapeutic method was stigmatized and punished as though it had been a felony, and this, not because this method was proved to be disadvantageous to the sick, bu^ simply because it differed m some important features fr the methods generally professed. The only evidences a - able showed that it was much more successful m its lesu t than the ordinary treatment. . f I may remind you of an incident illustrative ot my assertion that the hostility of the old school was not owing to the fie, buT apparently rather to the uncommon success of the homoeopathic treatment, it made a pro¬ found impression at the time, and gave occasion to he writing of one of the wittiest and most humorously satiri¬ cal articles ever penned against the attitude of the old school towards homoeopathy, by that most Prof°“u modern mathematicians, the late Augustus de Moigan, which you will find in the 13th vol. of the BnUsh Journal of Homoeopathy. When, after the cholera epidemic of 1855, the House of Commons ordered a return of a cases of cholera treated in the London Hospitals, the College of Physicians, to whom was assigned the task ot collecting these statistics, deliberately refused to admit the returns from the London Homoeopathic Hospital then in Golden Square—into their report, on the ground that these returns “would compromise the value and
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