Homeopathy vs. the Expositor.

  • Latta, S. A. (Samuel Arminius), 1804-1852.
Date:
[1850]
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    HOMEOPATHY vs. THE EXPOSITOR. detail, and of the motives which prompted the editor of the Ex- positor to enter the arena of controversy with the Homeopathists. In May, 1849, soon after the appearance of the Epidemic Cholera, in this city, the Homeopathic, Eclectic, Indian, and Negro Doc- tors, with other irregular practitioners, put forth, through the sec- ular press, reports so extravagant, of success in the cure of cholera, that the regular profession were completely disgusted, and as a consequence, few, if any, could be found willing to report as de- sired by the board of health. They readily perceived that it would be impossible to retain a reputation for truthfulness, what- ever might be their success in practice, and keep pace with the mongrel tribes of irregulars, who, indeed, were then already too far in advance to be overtaken, even though the dictates of con- science had been disregarded. The strictly scrupulous in the reg- ular profession were deterred by the first consideration ; while others, if any there were, whose conscience did not interpose a bar, were, doubtless, deterred by the second, that of utter despair of ever overtaking the gentlemen above alluded to, who had al- ready astonished the world with their reported success. In unob- trusive silence, the members of the regular profession pursued the even tenor of their way, contending by day and night with the angel of death, as he silently struck among the masses in the street, or in the family circle of the mansion, the cottage, the gar- ret, or the cellar. Two months of alarm and terror the most ap- palling had come and gone, and still no voice was heard through the public journals, from all the ranks of the regulars. Mean- while the irregulars of every grade and complexion were aston- ishing the community with new and startling reports of success. The editor of the Expositor had seen, with disgust, the move- ments of these brave knights, and heard the successive blasts of INTRODUCTION.