Truths and their reception, considered in relation to the doctrine of homoeopathy / [By M.B. Sampson] ; to which are added various essays on the principles and statistics of homoeopathic practice.

  • British Homoeopathic Association
Date:
1849
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Credit: Truths and their reception, considered in relation to the doctrine of homoeopathy / [By M.B. Sampson] ; to which are added various essays on the principles and statistics of homoeopathic practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recognize the doctrine, and I shall then think there is something in it,” is the common remark that is considered sufficient by the ordinary public to justify a dismissal of Homoeopathy. Unfortunately, how- ever, this remark amounts to saying, “ Let me see that happen in regard to Homoeopathy, which never yet happened under any analogous circumstances, and I shall then feel disposed to give it my attention.” It will be conceded as an axiom, that no discovery involving the subjugation of long entertained errors, was ever yet introduced to the world, without having to struggle, step by step, through obstinate oppo- sition; and it is not too much to assert, that this opposition—this never failing roughness, necessary to stimulate infant truth in its growth to an ultimate unassailable vigour—has, in every recorded case^ pro- ceeded directly from those very parties whose prompt advocacy is, in the instance of Homoeopathy, de- manded by the public, as a first inducement to their conversion, namely, the orthodox and established professors and ministers of the system to which the new discovery may have applied. There are two ways of proving this assertion ; first, by the ordinary course of reason, which will show that with human nature in its present state it would he out of the question to look for anything else; and next, by selecting at random practical illustrations of its truth, from the history of the various reforms up to which the clamberers from the stagnant fens of finality have toiled in every age,