Principles of homoeopathy : in a series of lectures / by B.F. Joslin.

  • Joslin, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1796-1861.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Principles of homoeopathy : in a series of lectures / by B.F. Joslin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTUKE I. OBSTACLES TO HOMOEOPATHIC INVESTIGATION AND BELIEF. Educated physicians who embrace Homoeopa- thy in the present early stage of the reformation, are under the necessity of sacrificing not only their preconceived opinions, but a portion of that respect which they previously enjoyed in the profession and the community. In order to make these sacrifices, they must generally be men pos- sessed of sound minds and actuated by pure and lofty motives — men who prefer facts to hypo- theses, and the interests of truth and humanity to their own temporary advancement. Though the Homoeopathic physician, before he can be re- cognised as such, is required to possess as thorough knowledge of every branch of medical science as the most respectable portion of his Allceopathic brethren, and although he has actually gone through a regular course of Allceopathic study, under Allceopathic professors, and has been by Alloeopathic boards of examiners, declared duly qualified to practise medicine, he is now proscribed