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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    whom the spirits of the wise as they sit in the clouds might condescend to gaze without mocking us, must follow the Man of Healing on his daily rounds. Glitter and gilding, satin dra- peries, and intertissued robes of gold and pearl—pride, span- ieled to the heels by servile insolence or lackeyed by knee- crooking slaves, who would rather feed in the dust on scraps and orts than wrap themselves in virtue and stand upright — how should kindly dews fall on such nothingness as this? But the stars in their courses might well rain doubly sacred influence on him whose business it is to restore health—whose dayly bread is won by dispensing happiness. March on in proud humility, Vicegerent of Blessing, for sure an approv- ing smile must gild the onward path of him whose brother was sick and he visited him. If a grateful nation garlanded with oak the brows of him who saved a citizen, of what civic erown should he be thought worthy whose life is a career of such actions] But never be it forgotten that if the charge of the health of his fellow creature be thus noble, it is at the same time one of the most solemn, with one only exception, the most solemn duty that man can undertake. Before it most of the ordinary duties and offices of life fade into insignificance. The Vicar of the All-powerful to create anew to a certain extent the existence of his fellow-creature destroyed by disease, or if we shrink from the energy of Hahnemann's language; charged by his Maker with the superintendence and right use of those means which he has provided to alter, modify and amend the jarring movements of the human frame, it is no ordinary re- sponsibility that rests on the shoulders of the physician. On the accuracy of his knowledge and on the correctness of his principles depend perhaps a father's happiness, a mother's hopes, the support of infants, the enjoyment of a wide circle, the prosperity of a neighbourhood, the liberties of a people perhaps, perhaps the peace of the world; yea, haply the op- portunity of repentance. If such a man so loaded with oner-
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