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

  • William Sharp
Date:
[1874]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    22/838 (page 6)
    Hahnemann further observes that later physicians have also felt and expressed the truth of the homoeo- pathic method of cure. As for instance, Boulduc, Detharding, Bertholon, Thoury, Von Storck, and especially Stahl,—all these during the eighteenth century. But their observations were slightly made, and produced no permanent impression either on their own minds or on those of others. We are in- debted to Hahnemann for a fuller discovery and development of the law, and for forcing it with suffi- cient perseverance upon the attention of the world. It has been asked if Shakspeare makes any allusion to this method of cure. We have one in the following passage :— ** In poison there is physick Henry IV, Part II, Act i, Scene i. 2. Homoeopathy is not qtcackery. The essence of quackery is secrecy. The individual practising it pretends to the possession of some valuable remedy— a nostrum—which he sells for his own private gain, but which he will not disclose for the public good. Homoeopathy has no secrets—no nostrum—it courts inquiry, it entreats medical men to investigate it. This is not quackery. Homoeopathy, in its present form, was discovered by a regular physician (Hahnemann), and was first published in the leading medical journal of Europe (Hufeland's), in 1796. It has been studied and adopted by several thousands of regularly educated and qualified practitioners, some of them professors in universities, and others leading men in their pro- fession, who urgently call upon their colleagues to fo low iheir exan?ple. They offer every facihty in the wav of instruction, by hospitals and dispensaries, and by private information which it is in their power to give. ^'^/^oro^S'hf ^no field for the St. John Longs and Morisons-the patent-medicine vendors. Ihe unsettled, unsatisfactory, and unsuccessful course of