Homoeopathy, and its kindred delusions; two lectures. Delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge / By Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Date:
- 1842
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Homoeopathy, and its kindred delusions; two lectures. Delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge / By Oliver Wendell Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![_ trines, and that I am represented as one of the warmest par- tisans of Homeopathy in France. | I am vastly surprised at the reputation manufactured for me upon the new continent, but I am obliged, in deference to truth, to reject it with my whole energy. I spurn far from me, every thing which relates to that charlatanism called Ho- meopathy, for these pretended doctrines cannot endure the scrutiny of wise and enlightened persons, who are guided by _ honorable sentiments in the practice of the noblest of arts. I am, etc. etc. G. Brescuet, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Member of the Institute, Surgeon of Hotel Dieu, and consulting Surgeon 4 of the King, etc, ne - Paris: 3d Nov ember, 184]. 7 “ey Fe, ee eee Ns ee ee ee ee i Concerning Amussat, my correspondent writes, that he was informed by Madame Hahnemann, who converses in French more readily than her husband, and therefore often speaks for him, that ‘‘ he was not a physician, neither Home- opathist nor Allopathist, but that he was the surgeon of their - own establishment, that is, performed as a surgeon all the operations they had occasion for in their practice.” I regret not having made any inquiries as to Marjolin, who, I doubt not, would strike his ponderous snuff-box until it re- sounded like the Grecian horse, at hearing such a doctrine associated with his respectablename. Iwas not aware, when writing to Paris, that this worthy Professor, whose lectures I long attended, was included in these audacious claims; but after the specimens I have given of the accuracy of the for- _ eign correspondence of the Homeopathic Examiner, any fur- _ ther information I might obtain, would seem so superfluous as hardly to be worth the postage. a eee tie pe id Homeopathy may be said, then, to be in a sufficiently mis- _ erable condition in Paris. Yet, there lives, and there has lived for years, the illustrious Samuel Hahnemann, who him- ‘ self assured my correspondent that no place offered the ad= _ vantages of Paris im its investigation, by reason of the atten. a _tion there paid to it. ___ In England, it appears by the statement of Dr. Curie in _ October, 1839, about eight years after its introduction into. — the country, that there ce eighteen Homeopathic physi-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29306589_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
