Homoeopathy : its tenets and tendencies, theoretical, theological, and therapeutical / by James Y. Simpson.

  • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870.
Date:
1853
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    via merely because the reason of their omission might possibly nave been misinteri^reted. As I have no fear now of such misinterpretation of my motives, I have omitted the parts alluded to from the pre- sent Edition; and the more so, as I was anxious that the following chapters should contain a full exposition of the tenets of homoeopathy, without unnecessarily mixing up any personal disputations with that exposition. For the same reason, I have not answered here any of the different homoeopathic attacks upon my former observa- tions. It is said that in a hopeless and hollow law-suit, an English barrister had his brief at the day of trial handed to him with this note—No case; but take a chance of deci- sion in our favour by personal abuse of the opposite counsel. The homoeopathic author of the principal reply to my pre- vious pamplilet seems to have taken up the same tactics as the best or the only line of defence for his system. And I have no wish to disturb him in it; more particularly as, like an unhappy lawyer pleading a bad cause, he has himself, in my opinion, evidently no faith whatever in his own irrele- vant arguments and diversified mis-statements. The calculations in the Appendix?, relative to the actual amount of the infinitesimal doses used by homoeopathists, bring out such almost incredible results, that I deem it right to state that these calculations have been kindly and carefully looked over by four or five of the most distin- guished Mathematicians in this country. I mention this as the best pledge for the accuracy of these computations. Since the first chapter was jmnted, it has been publicly intimated on the part of the University of St Andrews, and of King's College, Aberdeen, that these Institutions intend to refuse their Medical Degree to practitioners of homoeo- pathy.