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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    Such is Homoeopathy. * Whatever may be thought of the arguments here used, it should be recollected that it owes its discovery to no a priori reasoning — it was not arrived at by first rearing an hypothesis, and then hunting for arguments to support it and twisting facts to establish it. It was the simple result of an investigation, of a painful, slow, laborious investigation into the causes and law of specificity. Hahne- mann found that law to be a very simple one, and having established it by repeated and decisive experiments, he pro- claimed the great truth, that there is a specific for every disor- der in the medicament capable of exciting in the healthy symp- toms analogous to those of that disorder. The arguments by which it has been attempted to shew that that law is reason- able and probable may or may not be correct. The fact re- mains, entirely independent of all reasoning upon it, that Ho- moeopathy does furnish a complete and radical specific for diseases, chronic ones especially, which ordinary medicine cannot touch; diseases which are to the quack a fortune, but to the honourable and upright practitioner a source of deep and heartfelt sorrow. For what noble mind but must mourn to see youth languish- ing, beauty fading, art exhausted, and amendment not even to be hoped ] When ripe corn falls in its due season — when the sear leaves of autumn drop softly from the branches they no longer adorn; or when venerable age, called by his master and full of wisdom and of piety as of years, with duties done and destinies fulfilled, sets out on the journey which all man- kind have to go; why this is nothing. Let him pass — he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. * The tlieory of chronic diseases, beautiful as it is, must be omitted. But, is it not remarkable that when it has been so long known how one class of chronic diseases orginated (secondary symptoms of syphilis driven in), ana- logy should never have led them to search for the origin of all chronic dis- eases in the repulsion of some similar miasm ? He who would acquire a clear conception of the reasons for the severe laws against those afflicted with leprosy, contained in the book of Leviticus, end of the real mercy of that severity, must read Hahnemann's Theory of
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