Homopathy and allopathy : reply to An examination of the doctrines and evidences of homopathy, by Worthington Hooker, M.D. / by E.E. Marcy.

  • Marcy, E. E. (Erastus Edgerton), 1815-1900.
Date:
1852
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    his l Organon,' a work which is universally regarded, by homceopathists, as the great text-book of medi- cine (page 15). The writer here gives a summary of Hahnemann's conclusions, and then observes that, in this summary, or analysis of the homoeopathic method, (as he calls it) the reader will notice that there is nothing said about infinitesimal doses. And it is remarkable that there is not the slightest hint upon this subject in the Organon, till we reach the 204:th page, though the whole book contains but 300 pages, and then it is alluded to only in a note, and that merely incidentally. Almost all he does say about it, from begining to end, is said in notes. In the text, it is not treated of at all in any explicit and circumstantial manner, but is barely hinted at (page 20). Why, then, in the name of reason, with these facts staring you in the face, have you taxed your calcu- lating powers so enormously upon this incidental and unimportant point? Why have you not taken the great text-book of the homoeopath as you found it, and criticized it honestly and fairly, instead of selecting a proposition which is only barely hinted at in the Organon, to vent upon it your hatred against a rival school ? We take the liberty of calling into requisition once more the mathematical genius, the irresistible logic, and the wonderful acumen, of this shining light of Allopathy, who presents himself so confidently as its champion. We desire him to take into considera- tion the following substances, which homoeopaths, scientific men, clergymen, etc., really believe to