Homoeopathy : reasons for adopting the rational system of medicine : being a letter to the Governors of the Hull General Infirmary.

  • Horner, Fewster Robert, 1803-1862.
Date:
1857
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    serious, that lightly or intentionally to mislead would be a crime against humanity itself; while, on on the other hand, to withhold knowledge and testi- mony which may hasten that period when sickness and disease shall be administered to by the gentler, safer, and more potent hand of Homoeopathy, would be scarcely less criminal. I shall now proceed to lay before you the testi- mony of others, and the witness of statistics. I do so to give the more solidity to my own evidence, and doubly to assure your minds. I regret much that the limits of a Letter compel me, in this case also, to be brief as possible. The evidence of individuals cited shall be that of the old school, and I first notice the admission of a confessed opponent—the author of the fallacies of Homoeopathy”—(whose work my friend Dr. Sharp has shown to be one huge fallacy itself). This author could not deny the evidence of his own senses to the extraordinary power of the Homoeopathic system in acute inflammation of vital organs. I myself stated, in a former part of this Letter, that it was in the most severe cases of inflammation that the efidcacy of Homoeopathic remedies was so unde- niable and self-evident. So plain, indeed, that this boldest opponent confesses that it is indeed so; and he wisely adopts in his own practice the Homoeo- pathic cure for inflammation of the lungs; and urgently recommends it to the rest of the old school, telling them, happy truth, that he has not used the lancet since! rnio, disce omnes^^—that is, from one sample judge the rest.