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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    I think I have the power, to explain to you what Homoe- opathy is; what it really professes to be and to do ; its essential nature and necessary limitations—without a particle of theorizing—in a plain, practical and convinc- ing manner. What if it be not Hahnemannism, the Homoeopathy of the past ? Reflect candidly on my views and ask yourself as you read, Is not this the Homoeo- pathy of nature, of reason, of common sense—the Homoeopathy of the future ? DEPARTMENTS OF PRACTICE NOT HOMCEOPATHIC In the first place: Homoeopathy is not a new and perfect Science of Medicine. It is no new gospel, no new revelation to the medical world. All such claims are preposterous. It is not Science, but a part of it. It is not Medicine, but a grand reform in one of its depart- ments. It has no new Anatomy or Chemistry or Physi- ology or Pathology. It has no new Surgery or Obstet- rics, although it has made great improvements in the medical treatment of surgical and obstetrical cases. It does not reject the accumulated experience of ages. It is not the grave of scientific medicine, but its cradle. It holds fast to all that is good in the storehouses of the past. Every fact is of use to it. Every truth is in sympathy with it. It repudiates nothing but error. The whole cycle of sciences, physical and psychological, is necessary to its full and final development. Secondly: There are many measures (not medicines) valuable or indispensible in the treatment of disease. Such for instance as relate to the proper and scientific regulation of temperature, light, air, water, food, exercise, habits and the various influences which modify our mental and moral life. There, too, is the vast realm of Hydro-