Homœopathy : explained and illustrated / by T. Battye.

  • Battye, Thomas
Date:
1854
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Credit: Homœopathy : explained and illustrated / by T. Battye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in which they have hailed all the greatest discoveries that ever were made in their science i—e. g. vaccination; (I cannot here repeat all the objections made to it): and the circulation of the blood, for the discovery of which, Harvey, sneeringly called the Circulator, was nearly losing all his practice; and which, though plainly shown, to demonstration, was pronounced 60 years after, by the Academy of Paris, to be an impossibility. If a body of Professors will dare to make such a declaration with regard to a discovery shewn to demonstration, a man may well expect his cures to be represented as cures of diseases which were not what he pleased to call them; or he may even expect to hear the discussion settled by a wise decision that such a cure never was made; and that more,—it never would be:—this has often been my consolation, after thinking, “ what can the Profession say after this !’’ (see note B) and yet, all this time, it must be remembered, these cures were allowed by all to be the grand Desideratum. Whenever a thing is acknowledged as a grand Desideratum, no doubt there will be many pretenders to the discovery; but is that a reason why it should cease to be expected; so that men, of education as liberal as their own, should, without in¬ vestigation into their professions, be classed among the rest ? As I have spoken of the Antagonistic Practice of the Old School, 1 will now make good my words by quoting an exam¬ ple from a letter to Professor Simpson, similar to those of which I have seen not a few: for, although it is well known to the Profession^ and acknowledged by them all, that they are groping without law, insomuch that a Student who sees this, has sometimes to be encouraged to study, by being told that at any rate Surgery is upon a sure foundation (and even that is only when unconnected with bleeding, &c., and medi¬ cal treatment),—yet the Public can hardly be sufficiently aware of the dreadful consequences of the want of a settled Principle of action as displayed by every-day Medical Prac¬ tice; even the present President of the Royal College of Physicians contends that the old mode of Practice “ is incapable of receiving oneT “ Formerly, there were several fever wards in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, of
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