The rejected cases; with a letter to Thomas Wakley on the scientific character of homepathy / by John Epps.

  • Epps, John, 1805-1869.
Date:
1845
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Credit: The rejected cases; with a letter to Thomas Wakley on the scientific character of homepathy / by John Epps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    caused you to be overwhelmed with an avalanche of letters [what a blessing is the penny postage!] from all parts of the country/^ demonstrates, that that case by itself had so much interest connected with it as to make itself a mark for others to strike at. Having thus detailed the grounds, on which a journalist is justified in refusing the insertion of medical statements, and having shown that these grounds do not apply to the facts forwarded to you by me, I shall now detail one reason, which appears to me imperatively to have called for your insertion of them. It unfortunately has happened, that you, as Editor of the Lancet, have denominated homceopathists as quacks, and have denounced homoeopathy as quackery.* As you have thus cast a stigma on homceopathists and a slur on homoeopathy, does it not seem just, that I, as a homoe- opathist, should seek, and, that you, as an anti-homoe- opathist, should give, a field, in which truth and error could be put in opposition; that you should allow the homoeopathist to show in the journal, carrying the * You have done worse than this : you have designated it as a fraud; thus attaching moral turpitude to the advocacy. After referring to HYDROPATHY, you add, But it has a fellow fraud, and that imposture comes as a proper pendant to the other. We allude to homoeopathy.—