A review of Professor C.B. Coventry's introductory lecture : delivered before the class of medical students of Geneva College, session of 1843-4 / by C.D. Williams.

  • Williams, C. D. (Charles Draper), 1812-1882.
Date:
1844
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Credit: A review of Professor C.B. Coventry's introductory lecture : delivered before the class of medical students of Geneva College, session of 1843-4 / by C.D. Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their very ignorance [forsooth !] of the fundamental principles, of the profession, [and he might have added from the success of Homoeopathy in curing themselves and families,] they have too often given their countenance and support to this sublimated humbug. And so. although, after having been treated in disease by both Allopath and Homoeopath, and finding cures effected, uniformly, with more certainty, quick- ness and ease, by the latter, they are called upon by Dr. Cov- entry, because they do not understand the fundamental prin- ciples of the profession, to pause ere they lend their influence and support to that which reason and experience demonstrate to them to be truth. Truly, I fear they will not hear him, or if hearing, will not heed him. Then again, he makes the Homoeopaths give what he calls Allopathic doses and med- icines ; as though Allopathy or Homoeopathy consisted either in the doses or medicines made use of, instead of the principles on which these doses are given. And for giving these Allopathic doses, (or, as we suppose he means, large ones,) even though in accordance with the very principles on which Homoeopathy sets out, he (Dr. Coventry) considers him morally as guilty as the man who obtains money under false pretences, a crime which the laws of this country pun- ish with imprisonment in the state-prison : though, in the very next sentence, he declares the law prescribes no partic- ular mode of practice : a physician has a right to give infini- tesimal doses, or no medicine, if he pleases. Then, after having consigned every Homoeopath to a state- prison, though confessedly without a.cause, he thinks that ev- ery physician, if truly honest, will trust to his success for his reputation, without publishing to the world that he has some new and more successful mode of practice than his professional brethren, even though by publishing the principles and suc- cess of his practice, he might seek to avoid the imputation of quackery that is attempted to be fastened upon him by Dr. Coventry ; and if he does so, he considers him resorting