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.

Date:
1833
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The bloom of beauty and the rust of steel Are merely various forms of animals, Who live alike on toys and mighty, folks, As on the lowly vitals of a clown. Here's food for pride of birth and worldly state; Yes! long before they shrink within the tomb, At Death's command: that potent leveller Proclaims this fearful fact round regal thrones, That atoms decomposing teem with breath, Or, finely ground, assume another mien: With life indeed, and full of motive powers, Quite unperceived they play their several parts On that grand stage where Nature's all in all.— Draw back, my soul! for this is hallowed ground, Where few are fitted yet to scan thy flight. That day may come, &c. &c. &c. Hahnemann's radical reform, or regeneration of the practice of physic has been hid under bushels of mono- polizing persecutions and prosecutions in his native land, pending the best portion of an octogenerian exlStence; yet he truly may now say, in the sunset of his most brilliant days, Luceo discedens aucto splendors resurgi; as the glorious republic of letters is starting from its procrastinated slumbers, to blow the trumpet of heahng salvation, through the medium of the British press, to the four corners of the earth. On this noble fulcrum the organic lever of homeopathy may be efficaciously placed, to raise £ J J verse of learning in its behalf, and with pro p ^ more genera than the Svracusan sage evei'conte n- Plated, in Ins vain desire to lift up the globe. Halme — aim has, from the first, .m«.»T£