Homoeopathy unmasked: being an exposure of its principal absurdities and contradictions. With an estimate of its recorded cures / [Alexander Wood].

  • Wood, Alexander, 1817-1884.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Homoeopathy unmasked: being an exposure of its principal absurdities and contradictions. With an estimate of its recorded cures / [Alexander Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. THE medical profession has been blamed for declining to test, experimentally, the curative powers of Homoeopathy, and the adherents of that system, following the example which Empi- rics have always set, have not hesitated to account for this, by imputing to the profession the most unworthy motives. Those who know any thing about medicine, must be well aware, that it is neither because Homoeopathy is novel, nor be- cause, if true, it must overturn received opinions in medical practice, that it has experienced the treatment at the hands of the profession, against which its advocates have so loudly remonstrated. There is no new discovery which promises to be beneficial—no new science which promises, how- ever remotely, to advance the healing art, that we do not eagerly investigate, and practically submit to the most calm and searching enquiry ; and if Homoeopathy be not -so treated, it is because its statements can be disproved by their opposition to facts already known, and by their contradiction of one another; and, therefore, they do not require the test of experiments to prove their absurdity. The child does not re- quire to discover, experimentally, that two and two are not five, after he has learned that they