[Printed letter addressed to an unnamed Manager of the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, relating to the homœopathy controversy] / Arch. Reith.

  • Reith, Archibald.
Date:
[1868]
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Credit: [Printed letter addressed to an unnamed Manager of the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, relating to the homœopathy controversy] / Arch. Reith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tained even by the Reporters, had they communicated with me, as ' they might have done, before pronouncing an abstract condemna¬ tion of Homoeopathy. My iherapeutic views were read before the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society on three different occasions; and for the papers I received the thanks of the Society, one of my protesting colleagues being present, and acquiescing therein. The same papers were subsequently published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, one of the recognised organs of medical opinion, and they have now been for a considerable time in the hands of the Profession, without one word off challenge on. the ground of heterodoxy. On the contrary, they have elicited letters of com¬ mendation from several Allopathic physicians of no mean stand¬ ing, and with whom I had no previous personal acquaintance. To these published views I adhere. They are evidently acknow¬ ledged as equivalent to the Homoeopathic law of similars ; but, seeing that the Profession has not protested against them, my colleagues need not have considered themselves compelled to bring them forward as they have done, with a view to their con¬ demnation, without having, at any rate, first challenged them through the Medical Press—the legitimate channel for discussing such a subject. Leaving the matter with confidence in the hands of the Managers, I am, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, ARCH. REITH.