Defence of Hahnemann and His Doctrines

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEFENCE, ETC. The attention of the medical profession, and of the public, is so obviously turning to Homoeopathy; prejudices'are so rapidly declining, and a spirit of inquiry, characterised by something very different from mere curiosity, is so manifest on every side; that some of those among the adherents...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEFENCE, ETC. The attention of the medical profession, and of the public, is so obviously turning to Homoeopathy; prejudices'are so rapidly declining, and a spirit of inquiry, characterised by something very different from mere curiosity, is so manifest on every side; that some of those among the adherents of that system, who may have seen or heard of the little work that has given occasion to this pamphlet, may think the task of our replying to it one which might well have been spared, without injury to the cause. In one view of the case, we allow them to be in the right; that is, supposing that we contemplated nothing more than the exposure of the silly sophistries which compose the argument of the adventure, and the correction of the misstate- ments which make up all the rest, ?misstatements so palpable as scarcely to be dishonest. These objects, however, form but a small part of our inducement to notice the book. We feel indebted to the author for having afforded us an opportunity, of the most favourable kind, of getting those professional persons who are still opposed to any inquiry into the claims of the Homoeopathic System to listen to a few very significant details, in which they will probably find matter for more dispassionate reflection than they have yet exercised on the subject, and of putting the community at large in possession of facts with which they are deeply concerned. The title which the taste, modesty, and judgment of the author have induced him to select for his performance, has attracted, we doubt not, the attention of his professional brethren, and of others, to a degree and extent otherwise unattainable; and thus our observations are likely to have the benefit of a publicity, which the respect we have for the conventional decencies of society would c...