A letter to Professor J.Y. Simpson, President of the Royal College of Physicians ... concerning the resolutions recently passed by that body in reference to the therapeutic practice commonly called homoeopathy / by William MacLeod.

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1851
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Credit: A letter to Professor J.Y. Simpson, President of the Royal College of Physicians ... concerning the resolutions recently passed by that body in reference to the therapeutic practice commonly called homoeopathy / by William MacLeod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. I have been forced into these statements, Sir, simplj because I will not have it said or suspected, that any opinion of mine has been formed without due considera- tion, or before I had exhausted every opportunity within my reach, to obtain that information which alone could enable me to judge. Such proof, indeed, would not, in or- dinary circumstances, have been either offered or required. But it is not to be overlooked, that by those writers in the professional press, who have chosen to take part in this controversy, insinuations of the most unworthy description have been, and still are being, lavishly scat- tered, with a view to damage at all hazards the repute and authority of the objects of their displeasure ; and I have thought it a duty to truth to place on record, such undeniable facts, as seem sufficient to meet a course of remark, to which no member of a liberal profession ought ever to have stooped, and which, but for the public con- siderations involved in the discussion, I would certainly have treated with scorn. Let me pass to a more welcome and important task. 1 mean to explain now, without reserve, and as dis- tinctly and briefly as I can, the nature of my position and opinions regarding the points in dispute. The Col- lege has thought fit to send forth one challenge, which, for reasons I shall soon give, I do not mean to accept: at least I shall accept it in my own way; I shall lay bare