Last of gross popular delusions--quackery in diseases / [Repr. from North. F. Med., vol. i, 1844].

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[1844.]
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    1112 s/p EXTRACTED FROM THE NORTHERN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE FOR OCTOBER 1844. SOLD BY OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH ; AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON. 1. Homoeopathy Unmasked^ heiny an Exposure of its Principal Absurdities and Contradictions: with an Estimate of its Recorded Cures, By Alexander Wood, M.D., F.R.C.P., &c. &c. 2. Defence of Hahnemann and his Doctrines: including an Exposure of Dv Alexander Wood’s ^^Homoeopathy Unmasked.^'* 3. Sequel to Homoeopathy Unmasked; being a farther Exposure of Hahne¬ mann and his Doctrines^ in a Reply to recent Anonymous Pamphleteers. By Alexander Wood, M.D., &c. &c. 4. A Medical Visit to Grdfenberg in April and May 1843, for the Purpose of Investigating the Merits of the Water-Cure Treatment. By Sir Charles Scudamore, M.D., F.R.S., &c. The subjects on which the popular mind is exposed to delusion become, with the spread of knowledge, progressively circumscribed. The time was when the best informed of an age found it easy to believe that the incidents of a man’s life or the events in the chronicles of a people were determined by the course of the stars ; nay even, though not probably without an occa¬ sional struggle of doubt, that the future is prefigured in the direction of a thunder-clap, in a shower of stones from the air, in the flight of a bird, or in some trivial peculiarity of an animal’s entrails. And not only by such observations that the future could be anticipated, but even subjected to the will of man, by means which, in comparison with the alleged effects, show a A