Homopathy and allopathy : reply to An examination of the doctrines and evidences of homopathy, by Worthington Hooker, M.D. / by E.E. Marcy.

  • E. E. Marcy
Date:
1852
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Credit: Homopathy and allopathy : reply to An examination of the doctrines and evidences of homopathy, by Worthington Hooker, M.D. / by E.E. Marcy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]STow, although we deny emphatically, that the sub- ject of doses has any thing to do with the great ho- moeopathic principle of cure, and while we assert that the selection of doses always has been and always will be subject to the judgment of the practitioner, who, whether he chooses a tincture or a dilution, may still be a consistent homoeopath, we shall, however, take this close reasoning gentleman, Worthington Hooker, M. D., of Connecticut, as we find him, and show him that imponderable substances, yea, impon- derable quantities of vegetable, animal, and mineral substances, are not so entirely inefficient in impress- ing the human body as he pretends to believe, but that they do possess powers, so wonderful and efficient in their character, that even his own comprehensive intellect can scarcely have a conception of their ex- tent, much less of their mathematical, chemical, or physical properties. Before proceeding with this sub- ject, we make the following quotations from the writer, to show that he was perfectly aware of the fact that even Hahnemann himself considered the ques- tion of infinitesimal doses a matter totally distinct from his great principle of cure, similia similibus cu- rantur* Indeed, it is known by every student of me- dicine, that Hahnemann made use of medicines in the usual forms and doses for a considerable period after the announcement of his chief discovery, and it was only from experience and repeated experiments that he discovered the powers of small doses during disease. But to the quotation : I now invite the attention of the reader to an ex- position of the system of Hahnemann, as developed in