Homopathy fairly represented : a reply to Professor Simpson's "Homopathy" misrepresented / by William Henderson.

  • Henderson, William, 1810-1872.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Homopathy fairly represented : a reply to Professor Simpson's "Homopathy" misrepresented / by William Henderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The only event which has happened since the publication of the first edition, that calls for particular notice, is the ap- pearance of a paper, to which the following observations re- fer:— In a late number of an allopathic journal,* a passage oc- curs that would have demanded some notice from me, (ac- quainted as I am with the particulars of the case to which it refers,) even though I had no personal concern with it. And it is not in the very least degree because I am the homceo- pathist referred to in that passage, it is not even on ac- count of the manner in which the reference is made to my- self and the practice I prefer, that I think it both expedient and proper to comment upon it in this place. Personal re- sponsibility for the way in which I discharge my professional duties? I am of course prepared to incur; and with the sup- port of my deliberate convictions of what is true in medical science, and right in professional conduct, it is a very insig- nificant matter to me by whom that truth is condemned, or that conduct aspersed. It is by no personal motive regard- ing either myself or the author of the article to which I have referred, that I am actuated in my present purpose. The narrative I am about to quote suggests %r more impor- tant reflections than are merely personal to either of us, and it is to these that I wish to direct the attention of the reader. In considering the deaths from dysentery and diarrhoea, the author of the Investigation, after stating that eleven such deaths had occurred in the quinquennial period, from 1845 to 1850, to which his labours were confined, observes,— A scrutiny of the certificates shows that five of the eleven * An investigation of the Deaths in the Standard Assurance Company. By Robert Christison, M. D., V. P. R. S. E., Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh, and Ordinary Physician to the Queen in Scotland. Monthly Journal of Medical Science, August 1853.