An address to Lord R. Grosvenor, on the fallacies and fatalities of homoeopathy / by Charles Evans Reeves.

  • Reeves, C. E. (Charles Evans), 1828-1880.
Date:
[1854?]
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Credit: An address to Lord R. Grosvenor, on the fallacies and fatalities of homoeopathy / by Charles Evans Reeves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    similars :—“ That when your horse-shies, if you strike him, the last fright cures the first.” This may be and no doubt is a good illustration. Yet, I cannot but think, it would have been more appropriate, had the mind of the writer carried him back to his infantile days, when naughty nurse to cure his naughtiness, whipt him, and thus, by giving him something to cry for, cured him quite by the law, “ what will pro- duce a disease, will cure it.” The outburst following the application being nothing but the aggravation which always follows homoeopa- thic remedies, when acting beneficially. The same gentleman, a few years before, wrote a book in which he termed St. John Long, a man- slayer—>yet in the same work, he countenances pouring a kettle of boiling water over any person’s legs who may have chanced to wallow an over dose of narcotic. My study of homoeopathy has thrown me somewhat amongst its ffactitioners, and much behind the scenes, and it has taught me— “ Qu’ un medicin bien ignorant, Puis fare un Homoeopath tres savant,” I have further learnt, that these men will, with the greatest coolness, al- ow their patients tolinger on month after month, while they give globule fter globule, and when the sufferer gets well under nature’s kind care, ry out:—“ there is an instance of the triumph of homoeopathy, dad this case been under an allopath, it would have certainly proved ital; when in fact had remedial agents capable of assisting nature in he efforts which she establishes to effect the cure of disease been esorted to, the person would have been as well in a few days, as it lad taken weeks, or perhaps months to effect. ; r - I have known people consult a homoeopathic practitioner, with the thctest regularity for twenty and, in one case, even twenty-four months or very slight affections, of which they have been subsequently cured in ■ few days under rational treatment. I am acquainted with a lady vho was treated for fourteen months, for an ulcer of the tongue, she was globulised, and placed on a diet, by which she was reduced to