Homoeopathy explained and objections answered, with additional articles, viz: 1. The effects of mercury. 2. Physics and purging. 3. Laudanum and paregoric. 4. Coffee, tea, liquors, and tobacco.

  • Wigand, H. (Henry)
Date:
1847
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Credit: Homoeopathy explained and objections answered, with additional articles, viz: 1. The effects of mercury. 2. Physics and purging. 3. Laudanum and paregoric. 4. Coffee, tea, liquors, and tobacco. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. At this time, when great improvements are made in every de- partment of human economy, it is somewhat extraordinary that practical medicine should not have kept pace with all other branch- es; a circumstance wholly attributable to the lamentable fact, that this department has not hitherto been based upon any fixed princi- ple. The homoeopathic system, however, founded upon the immu- table laws of nature, and scientific and harmonious in all its parts, has happily been established in this country. It now stands firm and triumphant, despite of the numerous attempts made and daily mak- ing' by the gentlemen of the old school, to put down and crush to atoms, both Homoeopathy and its followers. They dislike Homce- opathy, because this new science divulges and lays bare to all sound and unprejudiced minds the incompetency of their doctrines, and the fatal verrality under the sway of which they have, for ages past, .scourged poor humanity by their eternal bleeding, salivating, vomiting, purging, blistering, starving, and tortures of all kinds which the new science rejects in toto and highly condemns. In the following pages an attempt has been made to point out the most striking features which distinguish Homoeopathy from the old practice, and at the same time briefly exposing the fallacy of the objections usually made use of against it. Homoeopathy claims nothing but a fair field and no favors; it appeals to facts alone; and supported by these, we may rest assured that the period is not far distant when she will be acknowledged to stand at the head of the sciences, diffusing health and happiness around. This) little work is put forth with no other view than a sincere desire to propagate an important truth—to spread information on a subject most valuable to all mankind, and to stimulate the intelli- gent portion of the public to put to the test the most enlightened Joctrinea on medicine ever given to the world.