Reply to Dr. Simpson's pamphlet on homœopathy, and, Second edition of the letter to the President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society : with a postscript / by William Henderson.

  • William Henderson
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1852
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Credit: Reply to Dr. Simpson's pamphlet on homœopathy, and, Second edition of the letter to the President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society : with a postscript / by William Henderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBUEGH. 61, Nokthuj^berland Stfeet, Edinburgh, lsi( December 1851. ^ sliould not have troubled you, or the Society over wliich you preside, with any comments on the proceedings of your last meeting, did I not observe in the Report of the speeches made by Mr. Syme and Dr. Simpson, published rniliQ Monthly Journal for December, statements which I cannot allow to pass unnoticed without appearing by my sdence to admit their substantial accuracy. In the Resolu¬ tion which called forth these speeches I feel no interest, for I had long ceased to expect from the Society a calm, candid, and unbiassed judgment on the important Therajieutic law to which that Resolution refers, and had for several years absented myself from its meetings, as being those of a sectarian body with whose limited views I could not sympathize. I need scarcely add, that the Resolution in question amply justifies the estimate I had formed of the Society. - In my Letter to the Patrons of the University, I allege that Mr. Syme on two occasions acted in the face of the motion which he had himself proposed in the College of Surgeons; that he twice met in consultation with one who “practises Homoeopathy,'' while the motion referred to * See Appendix.
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