[Printed letter addressed to an unnamed Manager of the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, relating to the homœopathy controversy] / Arch. Reith.

  • Reith, Archibald.
Date:
[1868]
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Credit: [Printed letter addressed to an unnamed Manager of the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, relating to the homœopathy controversy] / Arch. Reith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    39, Union Place, Aberdeen, 7th November, 1868. Sir, You will have received, as a Manager of the Royal Infirmary, a copy of the correspondence which has passed oetween me and my colleagues, Drs. Harvey and Smith, relative -jO my having introduced into that Institution some Homoeo- Dathic medicines, and used them in the treatment of patients under my care ; also Report by Drs. Dyce and Kilgour on remit from the Monthlv Committee of the Managers on the subject of the correspondence. As a Gfeneral Meeting of the Managers has been called for Tuesday first, the 10th instant, to dispose of the matter; and as 11 have no other opportunity of observation on the Report j which so seriously affects me, I take the liberty of sending you a copy of a pamphlet, which I have just prepared, containing my views of Plomoeopathy, and the opinions entertained by many eminent physicians who do not entirely approve of it, that you may have an opportunity of judging how far it is consistent with the interests of the Institution to exclude from it the use of ! Homoeopathic medicines, or to condemn the practice of Homoeo¬ pathy by the medical officers when they shall consider it for the benefit of their patients to employ it. Referring to the accompanying pamphlet, and its appendix by Dr. David Dyce Brown, I am warranted in making the following observations :— 1. The principle of Homoeopathy is accepted by the Medical Profession as sound and rational treatment, as is more parti¬ cularly shown by Dr. Dyce Brown’s portion of the accompanying pamphlet. The vague statement, therefore, of Dr. Dyce and Dr. Kilgour, to the opposite effect, unaccompanied as it is by any definition of what they understand by the term Homoeopathy