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

  • Everest, Thomas R. (Thomas Roupell), -1855
Date:
1835
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    it reaches the stomach, and proceed forthwith to execute the duty it was ordered to do] And if the effect of the compound should be beneficial, how is science benefited? Who can tell in any particular case of cure, to which of the medicaments the cure is to be attributed] Who can tell in that shower of grape which struck the disease] Strange it is that such mere guesswork, such blending and beating together of unknown individuals into an unknown mass should still be permitted by the many eminent men who adorn the noble profession of medicine. De tout cet amas, said Montaigne, ayant fait une mixture de breuvage, n'est-ce pas quelque espt ce de re- verie d'espirer que ces vertus s'aillent divisant et triant de cette confusion et melange pour courir a changes si diverges 1 Je craindrais infiniment qu'elles perdissent ou echangeassent leurs etiquettes et troublassent leurs quartiers.* This was written two centuries ago. But it is nothing new for wisdom to cry in the streets unheard. CHAPTER V. The illustrious founder of Homoeopathy was too deep a thinker not to perceive very early in his career the nature of the sources from whence the- knowledge of the properties of medicaments was derived, and too severe a reasoner to let the errors of the system founded on that knowledge escape him. Wild conjectures and still wilder assertions had usurped the place which ought to have been occupied by strict and rigor- ous experiments; the disputing school of Thessalus, the em- pirical school of Serapion, alike found followers; theory follow- ed theory, and system replaced system, with as much facil- ity as if the question had been about the colour of a coat or the fashion of a shoe-tie, instead of the health and life of man; century after century beheld new methods born and pass * Archives de la Medicine Homeeop. No. I. p. 57.
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