1863, Hang 15. Hon. Thus Shimmer. (Class &:283.) HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY LONDON PRINTED BY JOHN TRAPP, BUDGE ROW. To the President and the Committee of the English Homœopathic Association. MY LORD AND GENTLEMEN, In accordance with the Resolution, by which you requested me to draw up, for publication by the Association. the Lectures delivered by me at Exeter Hall, in the year 1849, on the subject of Homœopathy, I have endeavoured to fulfil the duty thereby imposed. On completing its fulfilment, I must acknowledge the delay that has taken place. Of its cause your kindness will render unnecessary any detail, further than to state that the work has been written in moments snatched from the duties of a profession, which subjects its followers to almost continual interruption. This condition having existed, will serve also as apologetic of any imperfections which the critical eye may discover in the work itself. When this work was commenced, little was it supposed, that it would be necessary to record an attack on the personal liberty of one of the Members of the Association, an attack, which all parties have agreed in denouncing, and the particulars connected with which are detailed fully in the Appendix. This has been an additional source of delay. This attack has tended, like all such attacks generally do tend, to the honour and the progress of Homœopathy. Congratulating the Association on the success of its efforts in this matter, a success demonstrating the necessity and the value of its existence, I beg to present this tribute of my homage to the objects for which the Association was established, and subscribe myself, Your fellow-member and co-operator, January 1, 1850. JOHN EPPS, M.D. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.-The treatment and the progress of a truth. CHAPTER II.—The antipathic method.-Illustrations.—Its CHAPTER III.-The allopathic method.-Illustrations.—Its CHAPTER IV. The homoeopathic method.-Its scientific CHAPTER V.-The universality of the homœopathic law.— CHAPTER VI.-The characteristics of science.-Absence of CHAPTER VII.-Certainty an impossibility under the old- CHAPTER VIII.—Futility of attempting to ascertain the vir- CHAPTER IX-What is false must be injurious.— Injuries CHAPTER X.-The power and the superior efficacy of infini- tesimal quantities, the result of experience, not the consequence of a theory. All actions take place between bodies in infinitesi- CHAPTER XI.-The action of infinitesimal quantities of medi- CHAPTER XII.-The diet objection.-The imagination ob- CHAPTER XIII.-The objection, "Nature does it all."- CHAPTER XIV.-Objection, Homœopathy will not do in acute cases.—Abuse of homœopathy and of homœopathists. CHAPTER XV.-Objection, Homœopathy has been tried and found wanting. The true history of these trials.-Objection as CHAPTER XVI.-The opponents of homœopathy. CHAPTER XVII.-The friends of homœopathy.-The English SECTION 2.-Hahnemann and his literary labours. SECTION 3.-Ignorance of medical practitioners, both allo- SECTION 4. The progress of homeopathy in various parts SECTION 5.-Facts in connexion with, and comments on the |