On the fallacies of homoeopathy : and the imperfect statistical inquiries on which the results of that practice are estimated / by C.H.F. Routh.

  • Routh, C. H. F. (Charles Henry Felix), 1822-1909.
Date:
1852
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    ON THE F.iLLxVCIES OF HOMffiOPATHY, AXD THE IMPERFECT STATISTICAL INQUIRIES ON WHICH THE RESULTS OF THAT PRACTICE ARE ESTIMATED. At the request of several distinguished friends, botli in and out of the profession, I have been induced to publish in a separate form my researches on the subject of Homoeopathy. If I have hesitated to do so before, it has been because I felt tliat the question had been treated of already by many and abler men. Still there have been those who have thought and informed me that there were several points which I had brought out in the course of this investigation not before noticed, and that as such they should not be withheld. Whether this has been said out of compliment to me, or out of a kindly feeling for me, I know not; yet it is always pleasing to find some have so estimated my intentions; and this must be my excuse for intruding myself upon the j>ublic. One thing I have endeavoured to do. It is to treat the subject as fiiirly and as honestly as I can—to show that I do not only assert the delusion of Homoeopathy to be based on shallow foundations, but to prove it to be so. For this system has unfortunately lately made, and continues to make, such progress in this country, and tlic metropolis in particular, and is daily extending its influence, even amongst the most learned, and those whose high position in society gives them no little moral power over the opinions of tlie multitude, that our pro- fession is, I think, bound to make it the subject of inquiry and investigation. Colleges of physicians and medical societies may, and justly do, condemn it; but their influence is confined to the moral power of the executive over their own members or B