A popular view of homoeopathy : exhibiting the present state of the science / by The Rev. Thomas R. Everest.

  • Everest, Thomas Roupell, -1855.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A popular view of homoeopathy : exhibiting the present state of the science / by The Rev. Thomas R. Everest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bought six pills of a quack, which were to enable him to recover his lost ass. The pills beginning to operate on his road home, obliged him to retire into a wood, where he found his ass; in con- sequence of which the clown soon spread a report of the wonderful success of the empiric, &c. For my part, I can well believe that the taker of six purging pills might now and then discover an ass without retiring into a wood for that purpose. But although I am aware that the profession, nobly disdaining to be outdone by the Lion of the North, Morrison, employ them upon all occa- sions, this is the first time I ever heard of their being used instead of arguments. All kinds of diseases I knew were to be sent to the right about by them, but I did not know that medical men carried their fondness for them so far as to dose an opponent with them. Omne nefas omnemque mali Purgamina causam Credebant nostri tollere posse senes ! Mr. Pereira is a mirthful gentleman, and it is not without regret that I leave him and his story ; but although it seems judiciously chosen for the latitude of Aldersgate street, it smells rather too strongly of the shop for me to dwell on longer without apologizing to my readers. Should angry Fate, however, at some future time compel me to