A sermon, preached in the church of St. Augustine, Old Change, Cheapside, on Wednesday, April 19, 1851, in aid of The Hahnemann Hospital / by Rev. Thomas R. Everest.

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1851
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Credit: A sermon, preached in the church of St. Augustine, Old Change, Cheapside, on Wednesday, April 19, 1851, in aid of The Hahnemann Hospital / by Rev. Thomas R. Everest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the moral disorder—we shall then find that the present practice of Homoeopathy is utterly insufficient. It will, in fact, end in nothing but disappointment. All the knowledge of medicines in the world would be un- availing to cure chronic disorder, if those medicines are to be given as they are given at present, on no better principles, with no more precautions. Whosoever doesn’t know “his own thunder,”—whosoever excites a storm of symptoms in a chronic case, and then treats his own storm, may just as well lock up his box and go out for a walk, for he will never succeed in doing much good to man. What then, you ask, is to be done ? Well! you and I have solemn duties to perform. I have done mine. I call out “ Breakers ahead ! ” Engaged in duties which ought by rights to occupy the whole of my time, I have already stolen more hours than I ought to have done. Mine is “ Mere bookish theoric Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as me: mere prattle without practice.” But I recollect a few of the lessons of my be- loved Master. And I leave, as my “last words” to the public this warning. Medicines are those agents which applied on right principles, in proper quantities, to the human organism, cure disorder; on wrong principles, or in too great quantity, they excite disorder. Do not fancy they are inert. That they never are, or they would cease to be medicines. Therefore if you take what the constitution does not require, or what it does require in larger doses than it requires, you will surely suffer in consequence either in mind or body ; it will cause some impulse, action, or sensation which is not normal. You c 2