On the fallacies of homœopathy and the imperfect statistical inquiries on which the results of that practice are estimated / by C.H.F. Routh.

  • Routh, C. H. F. (Charles Henry Felix), 1822-1909.
Date:
[1852?]
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Credit: On the fallacies of homœopathy and the imperfect statistical inquiries on which the results of that practice are estimated / by C.H.F. Routh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE FALLACIES OF HOMCEOPATHY, AND THE IMPERFECT STATISTICAL INQUIRIES ON WHICH THE RESULTS OF THAT PRACTICE ARE ESTIMATED. At the request of several distinguished friends, both in and out of the profession, I have been induced to publish in a separate form my researches on the subject of Homoeopathy If I have hesitated to do so before, it has been because I felt that the question had been treated of already by many and abler men. Still there have been those who have thought and informed me that there were several points which I had brouo-ht out m the course of this investigation not before noticed, and that as such they should not be withheld. Whether this has been said out of compliment to me, or out of a kindly feeling for me, I know not; yet it is always pleasing to find some have so estimated my intentions; and this must be my excuse for mtruding myself upon the public. One thing I have endeavoured to do. It is to treat the subject as fairly and as honestly as I can—to show that I do not only assert the delusion of Homoeopathy to be based on shallow foundations, but to prove it to be so. For this system has unfortunately lately made, and continues to make, such progi-css m this countiy, and the metropolis in particular, and 13 dai y extending its influence, even amongst tlie most learned, and those whose high position in society gives them no little moral power over the opinions of the multitude, that our pro- tession is, I think, bound to make it the subject of inquiry and investigation. Colleges of pliysicians and medical societies lay, and justly do, condemn it; but their influence is confined to the moral power of the executive over their own members or B