Homoeopathy unveiled : or, Observations on Hahnemann, his doctrines and treatment of disease / by William Perrin Brodribb.

  • Brodribb, William Perrin.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Homoeopathy unveiled : or, Observations on Hahnemann, his doctrines and treatment of disease / by William Perrin Brodribb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    two or three of these are to be given for a dose, accord- ing to the judgment of the physician. As fifty or more of these globules, previous to their being moistened, do not exceed a grain in weight, and as I cannot find any appreciable difference of weight in the medicated ones, it is difficult, if not impossible, to calculate what fractional portion of a primitive drop of any dilution each globule may contain. Such a series of infinitesimal division may fairly lead us to doubt, or rather to deny, the possibility of such doses possessing any power whatever. But here the believers in Homoeopathy, like the poets, have a supernatural world to range in. While the latter have gods, and fairies, and witches at their command, the Homoeopaths have their dynamizations, and succus- sions, and spiritual agents at their service. “ 0 ! who can tell The hidden powre of herbes, and might of magic spell ? ” “ Faery Queene,” Book I. c. 2. As in the poet’s world, all is marvellous and extra- ordinary, so with Homoeopathy,—it appeals neither to the eye nor the ear, neither to the understanding nor the senses, but simply to the imagination, and so allows its disciples the liberty of multiplying and enlarging their impostures at pleasure, in proportion to the easi- ness and comprehension of that faculty. To speak in the language of one of our philosophical writers,—“ It is something much beyond the actual bounds, and only within the conceived possibility of nature.” Nothing in the fictions of poetry or romance, or even in the lying wonders of a credulous superstition, can surpass the pretensions of these magical, wonder-working