Author : Stanford Chaille
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266990475
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Anniversary Oration of the Physico-Medical Society: Delivered December 1st, 1855 (Classic Reprint) by : Stanford Chaille
Download or read book Anniversary Oration of the Physico-Medical Society: Delivered December 1st, 1855 (Classic Reprint) written by Stanford Chaille and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Anniversary Oration of the Physico-Medical Society: Delivered December 1st, 1855 In these two virtues lies all the real merit of homopathy; but it has a firmer foundation still in that credulity and love of things strange and new which Charlatans have ever fattened upon. This is the satirist's subject, so I leave it for him to portray the gullible public, with its pussy paunch, enthusiastically gulping down Barnum and Hahnemann pro re neat - turning his head at times to damn the suffering dupe who first cries hold, enough 1 and then returning like poor little Oliver to lick the sugared spoon, and piteously cry for more. That necessity, the inexhaustible public appetite for humbug, which fathered Homopathy, and the equally inexhaustible credulity which mothered it, never lose their generative power. Let, then, the weak brethren, followers of this faith, continue to illustrate the medical properties of the imagination. And since a similar evil has always, and must ever exist, long life to this art of amusing a patient, while nature cures his disease 1 The benefits which the labors of the past have enabled the present to enjoy, I have attempted to represent to you, it is with still greater ditti dence that I now draw your attention to what our future promises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.