Homoeopathy vindicated : a reply to Dr. Joseph Kidd's Laws of therapeutics / by E.W. Berridge.

  • Berridge, Edward William.
Date:
1879
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    should ever be a characteristic of a work of such claims, without which even one far less shallow must inevitably incur the charge of mediocrity. Viewed as a scientific production for the instruction and guidance of professional men, its demerits are still more patent. As an Organon of a new system of the healing-art, it is a failure, and as an exposition of the Laws of Therapeutics it is quite valueless. The author does not fairly settle the question in favour of the law of Similars, and his illustra- tions of the law of Contraries are either negative, proving nothing, or are antagonistic to his own thesis. We find nothing definite; similars, we are told, cure some cases, contraries cure others, while a tertium quid, under the names of “inspiration,” “genius,” and “ insight,” is to cure a few more; but when each is to be resorted to we have no clear intimation. Very different from the teachings of the Master ! The philosophic pretensions of the title-page are utterly misleading; some raw material of medical philosophy (borrowed mostly from others) may be found here, but the philosophic fabric is wanting; and we can only say of this book, as we said of the Text-book of another hybrid monstrosity— Organopathy—that it will be accepted and valued by the profession —when Hahnemann is forgotten ! We would also suggest to Dr. Kidd himself the propriety of considering whether he, while hold- ing the views therein enunciated, does not place himself in a false position by allowing his name to be publicly connected with the London School of Homoeopathy and enrolled in the Homoeopathic Directory. Non tali auxilio, nec defentoribus istis Tempus eget.