Some remarks on Dr. O.W. Holmes's lectures on homoeopathy and its kindred delusions : communicated to a friend / by Robert Wesselhoeft.
- Robert Wesselhoeft
- Date:
- 1842
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Credit: Some remarks on Dr. O.W. Holmes's lectures on homoeopathy and its kindred delusions : communicated to a friend / by Robert Wesselhoeft. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![drugs mixed up together. It is an easy thing to use the lancet to extirpate a scirrhus, or a fungus, or a gland, evqp the tonsils, &c., without asking what the consequence! maybe: it is far more difficult to treat the whole of tho symptoms together, and l>v this means remove the causes of the disease, which can very seldom be cut away with a lancet. This requires study, it is true, but there is a great pleasure in seeing proofs, thai homoeopathic diligence is so often successful in its efforts to improve and r< genera] health. Always yours. LETTER XVI. It has not been my intention, sir, to obtrude on you my knowledge as useful knowledge. 1 have always been afraid of ridiculing science before the public. I have never sympathized with gentlemen, who censure all scientific tasks and learned men whom they cannot or will not under- stand. 1 have only tried to show that Dr. Holmes has not, and will not till doomsday, manifest learning enough to entitle him to censure the Organon of Hahnemann, and I have only appealed to some of the facts which he mentioned, showing that he misrepresented them — not from want of honesty, but from want of learning and study. And so I have been able to show that there is scarcely one fact alluded to, that has been rightly represented by Dr. Holmes in the Lectures by which he has endeavored to annihilate homoeopathy. Let me open his pages as often as I will I find new misrepresentations. Look at (p. 54,) for example, sir, where he speaks of jaundice and its homoeopathic treat- ment. Is it possible that he never saw a jaundice of that kind which is called in Europe, and even in France icterus apyretos (vulgaris, chronicus) —and that he mistakes it for the Icterus acutus, (febrilis, spasticus,) the former lasting from six to eight weeks to as many months, the latter from a week to a fortnight.; Is he ignorant that the treatment of the former is always regarded as difficult by allopathy ' I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21163455_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
