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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    flowers culled from the smiling Eden of the Seven Dials, and knock down the writer of these pages 1 The only natural re- sult of getting rid of King Log, is to get King Stork in his place; and some will not scruple to say, that if the medical men had made any experiments, they would surely put down gain say ers by publishing them, rather than by any other means. The persecuting druggists of Leipzig who awakened against Hahnemann an old slumbering law which guaranteed to them the monopoly of drugs, forgot, like other druggists, the reac- tion of the organism. They had ill read history, these blun- derers ! and still worse had they studied the mind of men. They knew not that there is a moral elasticity — a power of resistance that is only the more roused into action by these royal reasons. They knew not that error can never grow until it is thickly manured with the rotted fdth of abuse. Whose blood so chilled with frosty indifference, that it does not boil at the attempts made to smother in dirt him whom reason could not confute 1 Whose eye does not kindle, whose heart does not knock against its cage, when the indomitable old man is sent forth to bare his white head before a foreign throne, and beg an asylum against those whose wretched gains would have been shorn if truth were permitted to stand? Who can see Hornburg refused his doctor's degree, and, worn out with relentless virulence, sink into an early tomb, in hopes of finding there that rest denied him here, without feeling himself choked. Avith thick-coming indignation] I do thank God most heartily for this one pure flame, which, like a lamp in a sepulchre , burns ever brightly amidst the corruption of human nature for this one gallant and chivalrous feeling which prompts even the bedridden to side with the oppressed. In Albion, at least, there is not a stone that would not cry out.of the wall, or a beam in the timber that would hold its peace, at an instance of oppression. If Homoeopathy be an error, they of Brunswick and they
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