On homoeopathic medicine : illustrating its superiority over the other medical doctrines, with an account of the regimen to be followed during the treatment of diseases / by Croserio ; translated from the French, with notes, containing the opinions of Brera, Broussais, &c., on homoeopathia by C. Neidhard.

  • Croserio, C. (Camille), 1786-1855.
Date:
1837
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    the subscriptions of its adherents ; when three-fourths of the inhabi- tants of the North of Germany, will not be treated otherwise than by this method, when the councils of Darmstadt have unanimously adopted the resolution of founding a chair of Homceopathia in the medical schools of the Dutchy, and not hereafter to permit the prac- tice of physic to any physician, who has not been also examined on Homceopathia, when 500 inhabitants of Hanover petitioned the government for the erection of a Homoeopathic chair at the UnWer- sity of Goettingen ; when 18 journals, which are exclusively de- voted to it,, disseminate it in every quarter of the globe, it had surely acquired sufficient importance, to merit an examination*. * * * * The celebrated Brcra, in the Anthologia medica of 183'4, after having mentioned the great progress of Homceopathia, pronounced the following opinion of it: Homceopathia is decried by some as useless and by oth- ers as strange, and though it appears to the great majority as ridiculous and extraordinary, it can nevertheless not be denied, that it has taken its stand in the scientific world ; like every other doctrine, it has its books, its journals, its chairs, its hospitals, clinical lectures, professors, and a public, forming a most respectable auditory. Nolens volens even its enemies must receive it in the history of medicine, for its present situa- tion requires it. Having attained this rank, it deserves by no means contempt, but on the contrary a cool and impartial investigation, like all other systems of modern date : Homceopathia is the more to be respected, as it propagates no directly noxious errors. If Homceopathia proclaims facts and theories, which cannot be recon- ciled with our present knowledge, this is no sufficient cause as yet, to - despise it and to rank it among absolute falsities. Woe to the physician, who believes, that he cannot learn to-morrow, what he does not know to-day. Do we not hear daily complaints of the insufficiency of the healing art] And are not those physicians, who honestly suspect the solidity of their knowledge the most learned, and in their practice the most successful ? Such sentiments have undoubtedly induced most of the German physicians to study Homceopathia and to conquer their aversiou to the new doctrine. Let us always recollect, that the greatest discove- ries have given origin to the most violent controversies. Witness the examples of Harvey, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, &c.