Homœopathy : its nature and relative value / by Archibald Reith ; with an appendix by D. Dyce Brown.

  • Reith, Archibald.
Date:
1868
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    of Homoeopathy ; indeed Homoeopathy did for many of the patients what Allopathy was powerless to do. I have never found as yet that Homoeopathy had any power to arrest the progress of consumption when that disease had fairly been established ; but in removing the dyspeptic symptoms which so often precedes the develop¬ ment of tubercle in the lungs, it is certainly invaluable. In relieving and palliating some of the most troublesome accompaniments of confirmed phthisis, it is of signal service. There are two classes of disease in which it is scarcely possible to over-estimate the value of Homoeopathy. I allude to the diseases of females and children. In these I have used it extensively, and I only state the truth when I say that this large portion of suffering humanity have much reason to be thankful to the Giver of all good for so simple and effectual a system of treatment as Homoeopathy. There are those who suffer many things of many physicians, and are nothing bettered; ” and in some of these I have seen Homoeo]Dathy effect more or less good. And for children, when we consider the fearful struggles in the vain efforts to force nauseous drugs into their mouths, and the conse¬ quent injury to mind and body, we wonder that parents could have put up with the old system so long, apart from everything else. Homoeopathy is in all respects a blessing to the nursery. Having, then, put the system to so long and constant a trial, I must in honour, and from experience of its truth, declare myself a warm supporter of Homoeopathy in so far as it is applicable to the treatment of disease. To do otherwise, from a servile fear of consequences, such as loss of caste, &c., would be meanness and cowardice in the highest degree. But while thus avowing my honest con¬ viction, I must state also that I am not, and never shall be, bound to one system of treatment more than another. The object of physicians is to cure their patients by any means in their power, and not to support special doctrines. While,