What is homoeopathy? : a new exposition of a great truth / by Wm. H. Holcombe.

  • Holcombe, William H. (William Henry), 1825-1893.
Date:
1864
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Credit: What is homoeopathy? : a new exposition of a great truth / by Wm. H. Holcombe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOMffiOPATHY: WHAT IS IT ? Who has not heard of Homoeopathy? From the German centre in which it originated, this strange med- ical doctrine, with its stranger practice, has diffused itself, in sixty years, throughout the civilized world. In the United States alone, it has between two and three thousand educated practitioners. It is a vast and grow- ing power in the scientific sphere of thought, demanding earnestly the attention of every intelligent man. Its real merit may be partially measured by the strength of the obstacles it has overcome. In the beginning every thing was against it. The doctors ridiculed it; the people dis- trusted it. It was assailed alike by professional jokes and by doggerel poetry. The novelty of its principle, the smallness of its dose, the extravagance of its claims, the dogmatism of its founder, the eccentricities of its adher- ents and the exactions of its practice, all conspired to retard its reception. It then had no colleges to teach—no hospitals to verify—no journals to disseminate its discov- eries. How changed is all this at the present day! It had also to contend against the weight of authority, the prestige of great names, the power of prejudice, the influence of fashion, an immense commercial and corpora- tion interest in the old order of things, and the pre-occu- pation of the whole ground by a powerful, learned and