The British Homoeopathic Review, Volume 9

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1865
 

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Page 450 - Physicians, to whom all the returns had been submitted, had resolved " that by introducing the returns of homoeopathic practitioners, they would not only compromise the value and utility of their averages of cure, as deduced from the operation of known remedies, but they would give an unjustifiable sanction to an empirical practice alike opposed to the maintenance of truth, and to the progress of science.
Page 450 - I will add, that all I saw were true cases of cholera, in the various stages of the disease ; and that I saw several cases which did well under your treatment, which I have no hesitation in saying would have sunk under any other. " In conclusion, I must repeat to you what I have already told you, and what I have told every one with whom I have conversed, that, although an Allopath by principle, education, and practice, yet...
Page 145 - ... the changes in the health of the body and of the mind which can be perceived externally by means of the senses ; that is to say, he notices only the deviations from the former healthy state of the now diseased individual, which are felt by the patient himself, remarked by those around him and observed by the physician.
Page 44 - As regards clothing, it is pointed out that in spite of modern improvements in this matter, it is still too much the custom to leave the upper part of the chest and the lower part of the abdomen exposed, and that hence come pulmonary affections on the one hand and bowel complaints on the other. " It is a fact that not only has the child less power of generating heat than the adult, but that it has also a much larger surface in proportion to the mass of its body, and will consequently be far...
Page 191 - On the 16th of December, 1864, there met together at the Freemasons' Hall, in London, under the presidency of Lord Henry Gordon, a number of individuals in no respect identified with homoeopathy, but simply concerned in the promotion of their own pecuniary interests — to consider the bearing of this system of medical treatment on the health and life of the community. The parties referred to are the directors and shareholders of a company, entitled " The General Provident Assurance Company.
Page 193 - And, without a dissentient voice, this proposition of their directors was adopted by the shareholders of the General Provident Assurance Company. " Here, then, we have a testimony borne to the great practical value of homoeopathy, which nothing can gainsay, against which ridicule and abuse, the only weapons by which we have hitherto been attacked, can avail nothing.
Page 178 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Page 191 - Hall, in London, under the presidency of Lord Henry Gordon, a number of individuals — in no respect identified with homoeopathy, but simply concerned in the promotion of their own pecuniary interests — to consider the bearing of this system of medical treatment on the health and life of the community. The parties referred to are the Directors and Shareholders of a company entitled " The General Provident Assurance...
Page 143 - Therefore disease (that does not come within the province of manual surgery) considered, as it is by the allopathists, as a thing separate from the living whole, from the organism and its animating vital force, and hidden in the interior, be it of ever so subtle a character, is an absurdity...
Page 391 - In the midst of the disgust and shame which one must feel at such proceedings as you have alluded to, it is some consolation to the advocates of the...

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