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Credit: Mr. Liston on the respiration of sulphuric ether. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The wrong plan has been adopted for the opposition of homoeopathy. Denunciations have i:)een forged, and hurled with thundering sound, but no effect, at the credulity which enshrouds mens' iiiculties, and leaves them blind and willing victims to the doctrine of infinitesimal doses. The system has been handled with rough ceremony, and the monstrous faith in less-than-nothing doses assailed vvidi the fury and indignation so easily excited by a threatened invasion of pecuniary interest; but the gaping crowd still swallow the little powders, and Herr Homceopath laughs in his sleeve as he pockejts the fat fees so easily fished from the pockets of credulous hypochondiiacs and hysterical women. You are wrong, gentlemen ! Cease your opposition ; admit the truth of Hahnemajia's nonsense ; nay, outstrip him in fertility of invention and deception.,^ if a' homoeopath tells you that a globule of sugar, moistened /■^ith the 30th dilution of a given remedy, and applied to the nostrils of a / patient in eKtrernis, will relieve him ; reply to him, and shout to the world that we have a remedy, so exquisitely powerful in its influence upon the I animal nrachine, and only known to allopathic physicians, that the same ] globule moistened with the 300th dilution (!!!) and applied to the nether I end of a dead man, will biing him to hfe ! / You must learn the game of T»<wg, -and ahva\''s go better. 'Try your d—st (excuse Kentucky vernacular) to persuade people that there is really nothing strange in honiceopatliy, compared with some half-hatched system with which you are about to astound the world. Catch the pig by the tail, and two to one the '• Dutch doctors will soon be found upon some other hobby, denouncing their quondam favorite as the most insignificant, irrational, and transparent hoax that was ever devised and attempted. So with hydropathy. If Priessnitz swears that he cures his patients by pouiiiii; cold water by the gallon down their throats, turn up your noses at him, and tell the world that you are much more successful by squirting buckets-full of hot water up the backway. He assails the enemy in front, you behind—he carries the citadel by storm, yovi by surprise; and I appeal to all authority to decide which manoeuvre is the safest and best. If he publishes tables of cases that show a success amounting to 75 per cent., do you publish larger tables, and claim 95 per cent. I Admitting that you do not adhere to veracity, and that you are charged with it ; you may be thankful that it is so, raise the cry of persecution, and your fortunes are sure. A good while since, after Harvey had enlightened us concerning the circulation, it was announced to the v/orld that life might be preserved, ad infinittim, by tlie process of transfusion. Old people pricked up their ears, and eagerly stretched out their emaciated arms to receive anew the vital cun-enl from a sheep ! What a captivating idea ! The o-rand secret of earthly imiuortulity resting upon the piston of a pewter squirt! How the sublime blends down into beautiful harmony with the ridicu- lous ! For a time syringes looked up. But it was soon discovered that this great idea was as the ijaseless fabric of a vision. And yet this was the wisdom of Solomon, compared with some notions fashionable ill our day of new lights.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21015648_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
