Homoeopathy : reasons for adopting the rational system of medicine : being a letter to the Governors of the Hull General Infirmary.

  • Horner, Fewster Robert, 1803-1862.
Date:
1857
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    in such cases at least, be the curative agent; this would be doing Homoeopathy too much honour, though certainly its cures are often iharvellous enough. As to diet, the subject was never referred to in my treatment; for, in the first place, my patients were chiefiy the poor, too many of whom had no choice of viands, and it would often have been mere mockery to talk of their taking a little of this, and not a little of that. Further, it was the special object of my inquiry to discover if Homoeopathic medicines—not if diet—had the curative efficacy claimed. In some cases of severe irritation of the lining of the bowels, and also in acute inflammation of the vital organs, I did, necessarily, give the usual and common directions as to the avoidance of wine, spirits, animal food, and heavy pastry, as every physician must do; but in these exceptional cases only was the diet alluded to at all. Sir John Forbes and the old school of physic will now see that these their objections are but like the fabric of a vision, baseless; and baseless also are all other objections which they must now conjure up and substitute; for I have shown to you that Homoeopathy rests on the broad basis of truth,—not of the conjectural or imaginative truth of theories and probability, like the old system, but on truth as arrived at, seen, demonstrated by experimental observation, by proof, and by facts. I will take this opportunity of stating that, in my own practice, I have never yet found it necessary to