A letter addressed to the medical practitioners of Great Britain, on the subject of homoeopathy / by the Rev. Thomas Everest.

  • Everest, Thomas Roupell, -1855.
Date:
1834
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Credit: A letter addressed to the medical practitioners of Great Britain, on the subject of homoeopathy / by the Rev. Thomas Everest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    are attracting so much attention, are of course well known to you, gentlemen ; to suppose you ignorant of them would be to do you injustice. My object in taking the liberty of addressing you, is to ask you why Homoeopathy has hitherto made so little progress in England. You will probably reply that it is a foolish theory, a ridiculous system, a paradox, a dream, a delusion, to which no man of sense can give credit for an instant. It is certainly possible that it may be so: I have neither abilities to establish, nor inclination to assert the contrary ; but shall I be pardoned, if I presume to ask on what evidence you ground your rejection of it ? The British people who, as I have mentioned, repose, and very justly no doubt, the greatest confidence in your talents and your scientific attainments, have, it seems to me, a right to require at your hands a thorough examination of a system which promises, and is said to have performed so much. We have, you will be the first to admit that we have, a right to ask you for your experiments on the subject. It is possible that Homoeopathy is nothing more than a vague and dreamy German theory unsupported by facts, but methinks it has now so many devoted ad- herents in other countries as to demand a trial in this. Twenty-four years ago, indeed, when the