Homoeopathy. Speech at the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society; notes on the peculiar theological opinions of some of Hahnemann's disciples; and remarks on the alleged law, "similia similibus curantur" etc., etc / by James Y. Simpson.

  • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Homoeopathy. Speech at the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society; notes on the peculiar theological opinions of some of Hahnemann's disciples; and remarks on the alleged law, "similia similibus curantur" etc., etc / by James Y. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTKODUCTOEY NOTE. During the course of the present year various concurrent circum- stances, which it is unnecessary to detail liere, have tended to direct the particular attention of the Medical Corporations and Societies of Great Britain to the anomalous position and status of practitioners of Homoeopathy. In consequence, the Eoyal College of Physicians and the Eoyal College of Surgeons, of Edinburgh, the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the Provincial Medical Asso- ciation of England, and the Medical Society of London, have all severally passed resolutions prohibitory of their Fellows and Mem- bers meeting professionally with those who affect to cure the diseases of their patients with infinitesimal doses. At their first meeting for the winter Session, on the 19th November last, the Medico-Chirur- gical Society of Edinburgh unanimously passed a resolution of a similar character. Professor Syme moved the resolution, and argued the propriety of its adoption, in a speech of considerable length. In seconding Mr Syme's motion, I took occasion to allude to one or two points—and these, perhaps, after all, not the most frail and foolish points—in the so-called system of Homoeopathy. An account of the proceedings of this meeting of the Society was published in the last Number of the Monthly Journal of Medical Science; and in this account Mr Syme's observations and my own are reported. The portion of this report referring to my observations to the So- ciety is reprinted in the following pages ; partly in consequence of the publication of a Letter by Dr Henderson, relative to the discussion;