Homopathy : an examination of its doctrines and evidences / By Worthington Hooker.

  • Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Homopathy : an examination of its doctrines and evidences / By Worthington Hooker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cholera may be cited as examples. Accordingly a loose observation of these diseases in different locali- ties and at different times has given to us a vast variety of remedies and modes of treatment, each demonstrated, as it is claimed, by experience to be pre- eminently successful. The application of these principles is well illus- trated in the cure and prevention of that dreadful disease, hydrophobia. So strong is the tendency of this malady to end in death, that but a small number of cases would be required to establish the value of any true remedy. But, on the other hand, a very large number of well-observed facts would be needed to prove any article to be a real preventive, because so few of those who are bitten by dogs supposed to be mad have the disease, whatever be the treatment. It is from a disregard of the principles which I have indicated that so many preventives of this malady have been successively adopted and discarded by the public. If there really be any preventive, there has as yet been no observation of such a character as could establish its claims. Let the believer in Homoeopathy apply these plain principles in his observation of disease, and he will find that much doubt will at once be thrown over the results which are claimed to be effected by the infini- tesimal globules ; and he will be convinced that an accurate sifting of evidence is necessary to determine whether any, and if any how many, of the apparent cures of Homoeopathy are anything more than apparent.