The homoeopathic petition examined: and the fallacies of the faculty exposed: in a letter to the Very Reverend the Principal of the University of Edinburgh / by Ascriptor.

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1852
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    10 intentions of the University in this matter, and to know whether or not this unprecedented Test Act is to be enforced against any stu- dents disposed to study or to practise Homoeopathy; and we cannot for a moment entertain the thought that the rulers of the highest educational institution in the kingdom will hide their purposes in ambiguous phraseology. To you, then, my Lord, and the Town Council, we look for a de- finite reply. We are prepared for either alternative; and according to the response shall be our future line of conduct.—I have the honour to be, my Lord, your most obedient servant, J. Rutherfurd Russell. To the Right lion, the Lord Provost. The following extract from a letter recently received from Dr Trinks of Dresden may be interesting, as indicating the view taken on the Continent of the recent proceedings here :— “ The resolution of the English Universities to require of every candidate in medicine a promise not to study and practise Homoeo- pathy in the future, here excites unusual surprise. We have, indeed, also had persecution to stand; but it never went so far in any German University as to wish to subjugate freedom of study, judgment, and treatment; and even during the twenty years Homoeopathy was for- ' bidden in Austria, through the influence of Dr Stift, physician to the Emperor Francis—even then it was held by all the world, friends as well as foes, that this was irrational, and a mockery of all science. Despite of the state prohibition in Austria, Homoeopathy grew in Vienna, under the emperor’s eyes, more and more from day to day, and now there are there two state-supported hospitals, and in the University lectures on Homoeopathy are given. Kreisig, the most bitter enemy of Hahnemann and Homoeopathy, announced, at a full government meeting in 1826, which was very unfriendly to Homceo-