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
- Date:
- 1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
5/48 page 5
![0 adding, ^^alas, can it be doubted, any more, that there are such, and many sucli, among the professors of orthodox physic?'' His knowledge of men, and bis love of truth and justice, forbade him to question the parity of the contending systems in the character and attainments of their respective disciples, and led him nobly to affirm that we have no more right to reject the evidence supplied in favour of Homoeopathy by its professors, than we have of rejecting any other evidence in favour of any otiier medical doctrine, theoretical or practical. The contrast presented by the work of Dr. Simpson, in every particular, literary, moral, and scientific, to the trea¬ tise of Dr, Forbes, is so offensive as to have excited general surprise that he should have ventured to publish anything so disgraceful to himself. So common is this feeling, that if I had desired to avoid any further collision with this Pre¬ sident of the College of Physicians, on the subject he has so unwisely chosen to misrepresent, my silence would have been ascribed to a commendable self-respect. But as the position occupied by the author of the pamphlet in the esti¬ mation of a portion of the public, accidental as it is and temporary as it must be, may possibly give some little weight to his assertions in the opinion of some of I]is readers, I feel it incumbent on me to disabuse them at whatever sacrifice to myself It will not be expected that I should notice every little¬ ness, misstatement, and rudeness in the “ Speech, and its appendages ; for characteristics of that kind are so inter¬ woven with the whole ffibric of the publication, as to give their stamp to every page, and to form almost the sum and substance of the whole work. It may be enough to caution the reader to bear in mind, as he reads it, the story with which.I began ; and as no quotation bearing on Homoeopathy is taken from any work superior to the ‘‘Speech in char-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30561103_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
