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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    reverently with bated breath and whispering humbleness until these great men shall graciously condescend to vouchsafe their attention spontaneously] Quousque tandem — How much longer is our patience to be abused ] With all deference to their better judgment, we beg to say, that we claim a right to protect our own interests, if our na- tural guardians neglect them. Yes, and moreover we will exercise that right, let who will forbid it. If blame does rest somewhere, it is surely not on those who have so long and so anxiously awaited the decision of men of science on a sub- ject of such vital importance, and awaited it in silence. But, after all, this objection is moonshine of the purest water. If the present writer had stepped forth to assert or to teach—to pull down or to set up—to judge and to decide, the objection might have had some force. But it is not so. He asks, and asks respectfully, of those who alone have power to answer the question, whether Homoeopathy be what he learns in foreign journals that it is, and he gets abundant ab- use by way of reply. He asks for bread and gets a stone, not given him, but thrown at his head. Now abuse is a species of argument which always implies a consciousness of weak- ness in him who uses it; and he is of course more convinced than ever of the truth of Homoeopathy, and more desirous than ever that the question should be settled. Once more, therefore, he appears before the public, beseeching them to enforce and obtain inquiry. Homoeopathy is either false or true. If false, let them not suffer it to spread; if true, let them not allow it to be swamped. Nothing but experiment can de- cide. If the members of the medical Profession have made those experiments, we have a right to call for them; if they have not, the more burning shame for them all, from tho leader of the Profession to the lowest pupil in the hospital The best recompense they can offer us for such neglect, is to institute them at once. We ask for no opinions—we want facts. We will not be satisfied with hearing Hahnemann and
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