Homoeopathy unveiled : or, Observations on Hahnemann, his doctrines and treatment of disease / by William Perrin Brodribb.

  • Brodribb, William Perrin.
Date:
1851
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    writings of the late Dr. Abercrombie on the Intellectual Faculties, especially those parts on “ the application of the rules of philosophical investigation to medical science,” and “ on tracing the relation of cause and effect.” They might there learn the difficulty of tracing effects to their true causes, and the various sources of error in conduct- ing medical inquiries; together with the evils arising from unsound deductions. The influence of the passions upon disorders of the body has been excellently illustrated by physicians of superior understanding, as Sir George Baker, Dr. Fal- coner, and others. The late Dr. Hay garth of Bath says, —“ I have long been aware of the great importance of “ medical faith. Daily experience has constantly con- “ firmed and increased my opinion of its efficacy. On “ numerous occasions I have declared that I never wished “ to have a patient who did not possess a sufficient por- “ tion of it. These trials * place its efficacy in a very “ conspicuous point of view, and must even astonish “ persons who have particularly attended to this subject. “ They clearly prove what wonderful effects the passions “ of hope and faith, excited by mere imagination, can “ produce upon diseases. “ On this principle we may account for the marvellous “ recoveries frequently ascribed to empirical remedies, “ which are commonly inert drugs, and generally ap- “ plied by the ignorant patient in disorders totally dif- * Dr. Haygarth here refers to trials made by him and other phy- sicians and surgeons with fictitious tractors, by which they detected and exposed that gross imposture which prevailed so extensively half a century ago, under the name of metallic tractors, or Perkinism.