The influence of homœopathy on general medicine since the death of Hahnemann / by R.E. Dudgeon.

  • Dudgeon, R. E. (Robert Ellis), 1820-1904.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The influence of homœopathy on general medicine since the death of Hahnemann / by R.E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    about his singular merit in hayll>V^°[^®fiouSVerarch in the purulent process after pan f thic Materia “ fe rtras thPe Count- of CincLia gave her Medica . , r o-ntifpVtrile renown which she first F ^,rs“ r 1 wWbv the name of Wilksia, to commemorate his *e Ttul discovery of its anti-inflammatory properties, by the obscure practitioners of what he Pleased^ term “ an eminently quack system . _ , , „reat posterity will treat Wilks’s pretensions to be the great medicaf authority on the antiphlogistic powers of acomt by quoting this line of Juvenal “ Nulla aconita bibuntur fictilibus,” which, I need hardly tell my colleagues of 3. fession that writes its prescriptions m Latin, means » iye don’t drink our aconite out of a Wilksian mug. Whilst the practice of the dominant school consisted mainly of those perturbing operations which had been the ordinary rule of practice for centuries—and again, when tau/ht by the experience of the homoeopathic school, they had lost all faith in heroic treatment, and had drifted into expectancy and alcoholic stimulation, °mre pathy spread with wonderful rapidity throug j and 'made numerous converts among both doctors a patients, who had acquired a wholesome horror of violent treatment, and who had not lost fait l m p j • , f days any practitioner who declared himself a follower ot Hahnemann was sure of getting rapidly into a large prac¬ tice. The mere material inducements to avow ones < homceopathist were of the most tempting character, a homoeopathy was so utterly unlike the treatment of the old school that one could not practise it and remain a nominal adherent of the dominant sect. . Hence ere was every inducement, and indeed a necessity, ioi t lose w were convinced of the truth of homoeopathy to range themselves in the ranks of the professed followers of Hall- But since the partisans of established medicine have abandoned both heroic measures and expectancy, and