A practical appeal to the public through a series of letters, in defence of the new system of physic by the illustrious Hahnemann ... : Letter the first / by John Borthwick Gilchrist.

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1833
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    until this shall supplant that, both may run their race of mutual forbearance, till the touchstone of expe- rience shall amicably decide the contest between them, and clearly shew which should have the preference. 4. Surgery, in its various ramifications, can readily be taken up, when the pestles and mortars are, to a certain extent, put down by the homoeopathists, won- der-working hands. The surgeons, as manualists, have little if any thing to fear, except the supposed efficacy of homoeopathic remedies, even against cancers and such distempers as have heretofore been extirpated by the knife, liga- ture, or actual cautery. I fondly trust the guardians of and keepers in mad- houses will so far preserve their own senses there, as to treat their hapless inmates morally, on the allo- pathic plan, by conciliation and mildness, in return for ferocity or outrage on the part of the lunatics; but, physically, the reverse should be followed by the homoeopathic mode, namely, to prescribe the minutest possible doses of those deleterious drugs which are known to produce upon sane persons some, many, or all the symptoms of lunacy. Veterinary , urine-, horse-, cow-, cattle-, dog-, bird- and other domestic animals' doctors now compose a large class of society, whose general utility cannot well be disputed; though their respective rank in life is rather problematical, the first or veterinarian ex- cepted, which has deservedly, within the last century, acquired no small share of credit and estimation, and will, I presume, have adequate discrimination to hail