Homoeopathy examined, or, Homoeopathy in theory, allopathy in practice / by Robert Verity.

  • Verity, Robert.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Homoeopathy examined, or, Homoeopathy in theory, allopathy in practice / by Robert Verity. 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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    indiscriminately. With the liberty oi adducing such authorities, there would be no conceit of the imagination that might not be verified in illustration. It must be confessed, that they have done this part of their task with unwearied Ger- man industry and research. There remains still another accusation against the homoeopathic writers—of disingenuousness, or of ignorance (it is difficult to decide which), in bringing forward many of the obsolete or most reprobated errors and abuses of medicine, and charging them, sometimes directly, at other times, by implication, as a true expression of the modern practice. These have they marshalled out osten- tatiously and placed in juxta-position with their own system, and then with admirable impudence and complacency, they sound the trumpet, and challenge the world to decide on which side re- mains the superiority. The truth is, this new doctrine has arisen from ignorance and misappre- hension of medical science—not at all from a con- viction of its falsity; and the endeavour of its fol-