A popular view of homoeopathy / by the Rev. Th. Everest.

  • Everest, Thomas R. (Thomas Roupell), -1855
Date:
1835
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Credit: A popular view of homoeopathy / by the Rev. Th. Everest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been crushed, if power could crush him;—whose followers have met with war to the knife wherever they showed themselves; and whose very humblest abettors would prob- ably have found the heaven that is over their heads to be brass, and the earth that is under them iron, if human passions could have availed to bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades. England is of course not included in these remarks; yet, even here, if ever he dreamed of courtesy, he has been somewhat rudely awakened. Be that as it may, his only object is to call attention to the subject of Homoeopathy, and to endeavour to force on those who, by their previous studies and habits of observation and long experience, are alone qualified to decide the question, an examination of a system which, if true, ought to be at once and universally adopted; if false, ought to be instantly (not said, but) proved to be so. Be Homoeopathy right or wrong, it is, in either case, equally cruel not to settle the question for us by some decisive experiments. He has been told, however, and that by some whose opin- ions he is bound to respect, that this is a purely medical question, in which no person not belonging to the Profession has any right to interfere. The last and greatest exception, as saith old Burton, is, that I, being a divine, have meddled with physicke. Tantum ne est ab re tua otii tibi Aliena ut cures, eaque nihil qua? ad te attinent. Have the public, then, really no interest in the question ? Is there no other party but the Medicine-givers concerned in the success of medicine-taking] We have heard it said, Q,uidquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi; or, in plain English, if the doctor mistakes, the patient suffers. — Lit erf ere? What when the question has been left to the Pro- fession for thirty years, and remains still undecided, unexam- ined, unthought of, have we no right to interfere1? Are another score or so of years to be wasted, and are we to wait
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