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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    has never been tried by those who abuse it. Ex- cepting the abortive and ludicrous experiences of Andral, not one human being has come forward and said here are the experiments I have made, and you see how Homoeopathy failed. We call for Justice, Justice, Justice:—we say, study it and try it. We lift up our voices against all judgment, excepting that which is the result of ex- amination. We deny the right, for we deny the power, of any man or men to pronounce upon such a system until it has been investigated. We see no reason to believe that the Apothecaries Com- pany possesses a chartered right to intuition, or even a monopoly of knowledge; and therefore we will never rest till Homoeopathy receives that circumspect and candid investigation which alone can or ought to decide the question. Why should they be able to pronounce upon a subject of which they know nothing, they whose lives have been passed in learning and teaching another system ? The very fact that they are medical men renders them even less fit to judge hastily than others, for they must of necessity enter on the enquiry with certain prejudices against the new system. And the more successful has been their practice on the old plan, the more jealous must they be of the new one. The seamen were the chief opponents of steam-boats. The coach proprietors alone object