Trial of Dr. Pelleteer, in the county of pukedom : charged with practising homoeopathy, and condemned to be expelled from the ranks of the "regular" profession.

Date:
[1846?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Trial of Dr. Pelleteer, in the county of pukedom : charged with practising homoeopathy, and condemned to be expelled from the ranks of the "regular" profession. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    1/4
    V HOMCEOPATHIC TRACT TRIAL OF DE. PELLET IN THE COUNTY OF PUKEDOM. CHARGED WITH PRACTISING HOMOEOPATHY, AND CONDEMNED TO BE EXPELLED FROM THE RANKS OF THE REGULAR PROFESSION. It may seem incredible to men who live under our glorious institutions of exalted freedom, that an honest man should, at any place or time, be persecuted for his opinions in political, religious, or scientific matters; but alas! the age of persecution has not yet passed away from this earth, and the advocates of a new doctrine must expect to meet the bitterest enmity from their conservative opponents. Would that that opposition were at all times based upon honest zeal! It is not, however: it is too often the fruit of selfish interests and pas- sions. A trial has lately come off in the county of Pukedom' which shows that even in that remote and scarcely known corner of the world, all the evil passions which the human heart is heir to, have been let loose against that redeeming daughter of heaven—Homoeopathy. Doctor Pelleteer, an honest and inquiring practitioner, had heard of the wide- spread fame of Hahnemann, and of the increasing persecutions which that devo- ted martyr to the cause of truth had suffered; and, being naturally inclined to side with the oppressed, he determined to investigate Hahnemann's doctrines, and not to condemn the man until a careful knowledge of his doctrines should have been obtained. He read the Organon, the Chronic Diseases; he examined the statistical tables exhibiting the results of Homoeopathic treatment; he read the journals where Hahnemann's doctrine and its application to the treatment of disease is expounded; he compared the elegance, simplicity and precision of the homoeopathic treatment of disease to the filthiness and uncertainty of the old-school practice; and the result of his investigation was not a condemnation, but an unqualified adoption of Hahnemann's doctrines. Although despised at first for his defection from the sound doctrines and his allegiance to the absurd importation from the land of mysticism and transcendental vagaries, and even left by some of his best families, yet nothing daunted he unfurled the banner of the holy cause of truth and progress in medicine, and openly avowed himself an adherent of the New System. Not content with practising it for his own gain, he endeavored to serve the cause of truth by making converts, and succeeded so well in his laudable efforts, that his opposing brethren soon began to feel the effects of his teaching upon their pockets. It is scarcely necessary to say that the vengeance and hatred of the alloeopa- thic physicians increased proportionally to the reduction of their bills, and that thev unanimously determined to annihilate their homoeopathic brother.