Cholera : its cause and infallible cure and epidemics in general : second pamphlet / by J.M. Honigberger.

  • Honigberger, John Martin, 1795-1869.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Cholera : its cause and infallible cure and epidemics in general : second pamphlet / by J.M. Honigberger. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cures. But there is no other way of meeting the claims of the Doctor and of disposing of the solici- tude of the public than that they should have a trial. There is a precedent in the permission some time since accorded to Dr. Esdaile to prosecute his mes- meric experiments at an hospital purposely institut- ed and maintained by the Government ; and it will be in the recollection of our readers that the medical men who were entrusted with the supervi- sion of Dr. Esdaile’s proceedings, although convinced that no other than his peculiar agency has been employed, failed to support him as they might have done either with the Government or the public. We may therefore infer that whatever impression the results of Dr. Honigberger’s treatment of cho- lera at the native hospital may have upon the lay public, he must not look too much for congratulation from the body of his scientific brethren. Should it indeed appear that he has found the true secret of assailing the greatest foe that ever afflicted the human race, he may entitle himself to the gratitude, after he shall become insensible to all gratitude, of their generations for ever ; but on no account must he expect during his life-time his own profession to acknowledge his worth in any manner agreeable to himself. Who, after practising an art for 20 or 30 years, would like to be told that he had been all the while nothing but a quack and humbug ] “Who would confess, after he had spent a great deal of time and trouble in attempting to guess at what was in other people’s stomach and bones, that for B