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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    interests which we have a riglit to expect, and which we have been led to believe was the case. If we should ever discover that you have delayed to investigate, or have summarily rejected without due circumspection any single fact'connected with the art of healing, which might be valuable to us, our resentment will have no more bounds than had our confidence. But if, instead of one fact, we should discover that you have rejected, with- out enquiry, a whole system—the whole art of healing, surely, rapidly, and perfectly, almost all the diseases incident to our nature—what measure of indignation would be commensurate with such a violation of our confidence? Your children’s children would seek in vain to recover that place in the nation’s esteem to which we have elevated you. Entertaining, no doubt, that you and every sensible person will agree in these conclusions, I will proceed to request your attention to the following statement—a statement which I will endeavour to keep as free from error as possible— in which, however, any error would be of less consequence, as liable or rather certain to meet instantaneous detection. Some years ago a sect arose in that land so fruitful in startling paradoxes—Germany, one of whose leading tenets it is, that the present sys-