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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    which can encourage such a portentous and prodigious mis- chief. If the art of healing had improved as it ought to have done, men would soon have had the wit to find it out; if it approached any thing like^certainty in its results, if people could get cured of their complaints completely, and surely, and easily, by the honourable and honest members of the profession, they would never defile their fingers even with the outside of those dark atrocities quack remedies. It is sheer despair — mere catching at straws. If ever the day shall dawn when the art of healing becomes what it ought to be, — an art whose results are not dubious, — that day will witness the expiring struggles of the worst Hydra that ever devastated a country. The uncertainty of cure is the parent of all these desperate expedients. Amidst that uncertainty, however, there are-a few instances wherein medicine is eminently successful. A few diseases which invariably appear attended with the same symptoms, are completely in the power of the medical attendant, who, employing the medicines which experience has taught him to be proper, triumphs over the disorder with ease and certainty. There is no doubting, no guessing, no hesitation, no compound- ing of drugs: the symptoms are declared, and the remedy is known at once. These cases are, as I mentioned, those only in which the symptoms are invariable: these remedies are called Specifics. It does seem somewhat singular that the attention of the profession has been so little directed to these invaluable reme- dies. In almost every other branch of human knowledge the registration of facts has only led to the deduction and estab- lishment of the laws by which those phenomena are regulated. Why should the phenomena of healing be the only exception] Why has it not been sought when and under what limitations medicines have the power of removing maladies 1 If nature acts invariably by certain fixed laws, why are not the laws of specificity discovered, as well as those of gravitation or of
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