An answer to the homoeopathic delusions of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes / by Charles Neidhard.

  • Neidhard, C. (Charles), 1809-1895.
Date:
1842
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Credit: An answer to the homoeopathic delusions of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes / by Charles Neidhard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This prohibition only serves to excite their curiosity, and many of them come to my clinical course, to see the monster who frightens all their professors. Thus Providence always permits some small good to come out of the greatest evil. You will doubtless be glad to learn that our venerable master enjoys excellent health, notwithstanding his great age. His body and mind preserve all the activity and energy of middle age. He is going to publish the sixth edition of his Organon, revised, in French, and written entirely by his own hand, in the intervals taken from his occupations with the immense circle of patients by whom he is continually sur- rounded. The 10th of August, we celebrated at his own house, the 62d anniversary of his doctorate. The guests were nu- merous and animated with pleasure in seeing this man thus recompensed in his old age, for his immense labours in the cause of humanity. The illustrious host, also visibly rejoiced in seeing himself surrounded by his attached friends, his nu- merous patients and disciples; for his heart is open like a child's to every mark of friendship and affection. Drs. Ca- landra of Palermo, and Sommers of Berlin, read, each of them, a copy of verses in their mother tongue, on a subject of great interest to the company; for these reunions have a peculiar character of cosmopolitanism, which is met with no where else. The language of the country is the one least spoken, and I had the pleasure of conversing in Spanish, Ita. han, English, and German. This is a centre, where all na- tions unite in brotherhood, in sentiments of veneration for the illustrious founder of homoeopathy, and in reciprocal tes- timonies to the superiority of this doctrine to all others which have preceded it, being, for the most part, living proofs of that power to which they owe their health, and, many of them, their lives. Italy also advances in the adoption of the new truths. We have excellent news from Turin, and particularly from Milan, where the Austrian General-in-chief, Conte de Ra- dosky, has been lately cured by homoeopathy, of a sarcoma