Warning to the public. Alarming state of the medical profession. M** D**s abroad. Three colleges and a whole host of editors and members already bitten.

Date:
1851
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    homoeopathic action of remedies was as distinctly admitted by the profession at large as it was by them. “ I write to you, of course, in your official capacity, and therefore have the honour to be, “ Your very obedient servant, “ William Hendeksox,” After having put the public so fully in possession of the nature of the disease which their medical brethren are labouring under, it may appear super- flous to add anything of an admonitory character. I may, however, be allowed to say a few words. To homoeopathists I would say, be not dismayed, it is the fate of every truth, when it is new, to be assailed by misrepresentation and prejudice; and it is not, perhaps, going beyond historical exactness to assert, that the value and importance of a great discovery may be in some degree esti- mated by the amount of opposition it encounters on its first promulgation. We have but to look back a few years for proofs to convince us that such was the case in medicine. Dr. Jenner, for his discovery of vaccination, was all but sent to prison by his fellow-practitioners in medicine. The populace, incited by the doctors, were scarcely less violent; yet we now see vaccination practised by all, and looked upon as the greatest blessing that ever befel mankind; while the memory of the man is cherished by his country, and grateful posterity are erecting monuments to perpetuate his fame. The various changes that were introduced E