The effects of modern therapeutic researches on the position of homeopathy / by Byres Moir.

  • Moir, Byres.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The effects of modern therapeutic researches on the position of homeopathy / by Byres Moir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IB it too openly lest their names should be associated with homoeopathy. So far no mention has been made of the department where activity has been greatest in the last few years, and which has added so largely to our knowledge of disease, viz., Bacteriology and Serum-therapy, and from which, strange though it may at first appear, more light is being thrown upon Hahnemann’s teaching than from any other source. Dr. James Johnstone, in his able paper “ On Serum- therapy and its Delations to Homoeopathy,” read at the Annual Homoeopathic Congress held at Bristol in 1897, was among the first to emphasise this. His paper was published in the Monthly Homoeopathic Review for November, 1897, and in the same number Dr. Hervey Bodman has a most interesting letter upon the address given by Dr. Leech, at Montreal, in the capacity of President of the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, “ On the Mode of Action of Medicines,” and shows that if Dr. Leech’s views on the action of drugs are carried to their legitimate conclusion, “ he has established the reasonableness of belief in the law of similars; we might go farther and say that if his arguments are right, that he has demonstrated the truth of the law of similars.” Dr. Proctor, in his brilliant presidential address at Clifton, said, “ It looks as if our nominal opponents had a boding sense that at any moment the veil that hides the operation of the small dose may be lifted, and homoeopathy be seen to stand forth a self-evident scientific truth.” Striking evidence of this is given in a work on the Principles of Bacteriology, by Dr. Ferdinand Hueppe, professor of hygiene in the University of Prague, which has just been translated by Dr. E, 0. Jordan, assistant professor of bacteriology in the University of Chicago. Before quoting any extracts from this work let us consider what we know about the action of a drug in curing a disease.