Old-School Medicine and Homeopathy (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: New York, November, 1882. Dear Doctor: The following pages are a reprint of the article " Old-School Medicine and Homeopathy," by Professor J. W. Dowling, as it appeared in " The North American Review of June, 1882." Its publication having created intense interest among the profession and friends of Homeopathy, with urgent inquiry as to where copies could be obtained, I am prompted to meet this demand, Dr. Dowling Mndly consenting to allow me to reprint it in the form now presented to you. I mil cheerfully send copies free to any person whose address you may indicate; but if you wish a number for personal distribution, I shall be pleased to supply them at the cost of postage, twenty- four cents per dozen. Depending on your hearty cooperation and approval of my effort to advance the practice of Homeopathy as my only reward for the expense incurred, I remain, Tours respectfully, C. T. HURLBURT. 3 East Nineteenth Street, New York City. OLD-SCHOOL MEDICINE ) HOMEOPATHY. Professor Palmer, in his article in the March number of the Review entitled " The Fallacies of Homeopathy," says truthfully that it is gratifying to know that the amount of indifference and ignorance which has existed in the past, on the part of the public, as to the conditions which affect their health and life, is fast diminishing at the present. As an evidence of the truth of this statement, he refers to the interest taken in the recent long struggle for life of the late President of the United States, which has brought before the minds of the masses of civilized people details which had not before received so general attention; and on the strength of these statements he writes a twenty-two-page article on the "fallacies of homeopathy," and the "present scientific methods and the...