Essays on medicine : being an investigation of homœopathy and other medical systems / by William Sharp.

  • William Sharp
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[1874]
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Credit: Essays on medicine : being an investigation of homœopathy and other medical systems / by William Sharp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY? ** True philosophers, who are only eager for truth and knowledge, never regard themselves as already so thoroughly informed, but that they welcome further information from whomsoever and from whencesoever it may come ; nor are they so narrow-minded as to imagine that any of the arts or sciences, transmitted to us by the ancients, are in such a state of forwardness and completeness, that nothing is left for the ingenuity and industry of others. William Harvey. Among the many important topics of the day, none having reference to this life only can possess higher claims to calm inquiry and earnest attention than the various resources which are available to mankind when suffering from bodily disease. In the present age of discovery and invention, it would be remarkable if, while every branch of science and art is rapidly improving, the resources of medicine remained stationary. Would it not be surprising if, while all around are sailing forward, we saw the phy- sician alone becalmed ? But this has not happened ; the onward wave has reached the healer's barque, the breeze has caught his sail, and he also is gallantly in motion upon the mighty waters of natural science. There are, indeed, many who would stoutly stand upon the old paths; but here we have no inspired prophets and apostles, as happily we have in an affair 1 This Essay was first published in 1852.