A letter addressed to the medical practitioners of Great Britain, on the subject of homoeopathy / by the Rev. Thomas Everest.

  • Everest, Thomas Roupell, -1855.
Date:
1834
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Credit: A letter addressed to the medical practitioners of Great Britain, on the subject of homoeopathy / by the Rev. Thomas Everest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    triturated for some time ? If he knew this, why did he not state it? If he did not know it, why did he write the article? “ If,” says he again, “ we were asked our opinion as to the truth of this curious and ingenious theory, we should say that we have no doubt people get well after these infinitely small doses, though we very much doubt if they get well by means of them ; and we think the great value of homoeopathy to consist in its demonstrating that diseases may be cured by regimen and repose, which not merely the opinion of the vulgar, but the common run of practitioners would condemn to long courses of medicine.” Luckily for itself, homoeopathy does not ask any one’s opinions; it appeals to facts alone, and until those facts are disputed, no magisterial “ we think” can quell it. It cannot be “ snuffed out by an article.” The writer will I am sure pardon me for asking him, if he ever tried homoeopathy, if he ever saw it tried on others, if he ever read the truly extraordinary cases which are contained in foreign works—in a word, if he knows any more of the system than he has learnt from the Organon ? He talks of the value of regimen and repose; he should know that in 99 out of every 100 cases related (such as syphilis, &c.) they could not possibly have had any thing to do with the cure. Let us hope that the conductors of the Penny Magazine, at least, will never be found among those who would endea- vour to employ ridicule as an argument against facts. From them we look for better things. We did expect, and we hop>e still to find them ranged on the side of those who would neither accept without strong reason, nor reject without thorough inquiry. For many, too many, years Homoeopathy has borne every species of obloquy. It is time that such should have an end. The conductors of the Penny Magazine have great power lodged in their hands,—let them use it, (and I am sure that they will use it), not to smother enquiry with ridicule, but to force examination. A trial is all that Homoeopthy asks. Let those who are united to spread knowledge compel thb medical men to make a fair trial of it; if then it fails, let it be spurned from the earth without delay.
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