Excerpt from On the Present State of Therapeutics: With Some Suggestions for Placing It Upon a More Scientific Basis

At the commencement of my professional career, I was much struck with the reported success of hom?opathic remarkable recoveries had taken place under that method; but like many other physicians who had no faith in the curative action of infinitesimal does of medicine, I did not believe they could be ascribed to the action of the drugs employed. It appeared to me, however, that properly detailed histories of cases, in which hom?opathic treatment had been employed, would afford us invaluable information with regard to what could be accomplished in disease by the vis medicatrix natur?.

Since that period, some trustworthy reports have been furnished by physicians attached to hom?opathic hospitals, which leave no reasonable doubt about the large proportion of recoveries that occur in their practice. From an examination of these reports in the second part of this work, it will be found that some hom?opathic hospital practice gives results as satisfactory as those of any other method.

It is evident that the recoveries referred to in these reports must be ascribed either to the curative power of the organism itself, or to that aided by the action of the drugs. I shall endeavour to prove that they cannot be accounted for on the latter supposition.

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