Why Students of Medicine Should Select the Homoeopathic School; The Prize Essay in the Medical Century Competition and the Essays Obtaining Second and Third Places (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... WHY STUDENTS OF MEDICINE SHOULD SELECT THE HOMEOPATHIC SCHOOL. BY "QUE DITES VOUS." Among the beautiful works of art that adorn our national capital is a splendid monument in granite and bronze upon which may be found this inscription: CHRISTIAN FREDERICK SAMUEL HAHNEMANN, DOCTOR IN MEDICINE. HOFRATH LEADER IN THE GREAT MEDICAL REFORMATION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND FOUNDER OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC SCHOOL. This monument was dedicated June 21, 1900, in the city of Washington, D. C, by the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the oldest national medical society in America. One of the foremost periodicals of the school thus speaks of it: "It stands for what we, as Homoeopathists, believe is true and best in medical science; it stands for honesty, for liberality, for tolerance; it stands for scientific medicine; it stands for Homoeopathy." Hahnemann, the founder of Homoeopathy, the "Leader in the Great Medical Reformation of the Nineteenth Century," was a German physician, a scholar, a philosopher, and a master of ten languages. He was versed in all branches of science independent of as well as connected with medicine, and he ranked as one of the profound scholars of his day. In proof of this we quote the following from no less an authority than Sir John Forbes, physician-in-ordinary to the Queen: "No careful observer of his actions, or candid reader of his writings, can hesi Pursuant to the writer's desire to remain incognito, unless first place was attained. tate for a moment to admit that he was a very extraordinary man, one whose name will descend to posterity as the exclusive excogitator and founder of an original system of medicine; the remote, if not the immediate, cause of more important fundamental changes in the practice of the healing art than have res...