The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-01 00:00:00

H OM CEOPATH IC PRACTICE

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE MORNING POST. ti
"Nec protinus crimen arts esse, si quod professoris
Celsus Lib. IL, c. 6.

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SIR,—We the undersigned homoeopathic
feel ourselves imperatively called upon to repudiate big
tain dietetic doctrines put forward by Dr. Curie I,,tlind
letter, in your columns, of the 17th inst. These door
are not only at variance with the practice followecid.co4
in the treatment of our patient, but in direct contra tier 0'
to the rules inculcated by Hahnemann, the Foot, pot
Homoeopathy, as well as to those promulgated 1; par
leading disciples of his school. It is neither our is'i° act'
our intention here to enter into any controversy re.'rel°
ing the merits, or demerits of the system of medietrusyril
think it our duty to pursue, as opposed to any othetrel
tern ; nor is it our province to animadvert on the
ment of the late Mr. Cordwell, by Dr. Curie, tri
denced at the inquest, and as subsequently defend pores
him in his letter. Had the matter remained where 3.. e
ner's inquest left it, or had Dr. Curie, in his pub'ioece
ter, confined his observations to the defence of their. de'
liar mode of diet prescribed by him in the case ell: tr
ceased patient, we (being totally unacquainted Wt io tilej
particulars of that case further than as it appeare"
public journals) should not have felt ourselves congoios;,
to come forward thus publicly. But, as an imPfe-con
(possibly an unintentional one) has been estensive.);l 0;1
veyed to the public by Dr. Curie's letter, that, lue o'ol
suing the course which he appears to have done,,eipl
acting in strict conformity with homoeopathic PrIP,O fee,
dote' ' e°'
and practice, we feel it to be our imperative 0
cue the memory of Hahnemann, and the system 05,tire
tine he has bequeathed to us, from the unmerited 'of tileo
Practttl cer,
which must be entailed upon both, in the eyes syst
public, by a tacit admission on our parts, that ac,rie4
of rigid abstinence, such as that avowed by Dr • is
his treatment of Mr. Cordwell, and other patient:s'le,
essentially identified with the homoeopathic prina i 5 15dt
The system of rigid abstinence above alluded t 011,"
only not authorised by Hahnemann, but strong 1
sured by him.
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Hahnemann, in his work upon the "Treat-
reedl,
Chronic Diseases," in recommending caution wittabidt;es'
to diminishing the quantity of nourishment and
CoP
stimulants, and in mentioning when brandy, win.,..e'i.ites
&c., may, and when they may not be given, "
follows :
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" The physician must not, by misplaced ne"„, p
tbf
diet) trifle with the advantages which the herf",,°,,d9
treatment has over other systems, in all diseases, or
titularly in chronic complaints, that of begspresery jot
forces of the patient, so that his strength maYue
ported whilst the disease is diminishing under t'
icfr
ment."
149 c°
We may also quote the work of an English Pilo, ,
Dr. Simpson, who, in his " Practical View of
,e ol
pathy," published in 1836, says :
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" Far, however, from starvation being the Prl in 01
homoeopathic diet, the very reverse is the cos:1090
concession of really nutritive substances, it g'resse,hieoi
beyond the old school. In the treatment of Ow o"er'
of an acute, but still more of a chronic nature,
etitioie
never to be lost sight of, by the homoeopathic Prlibe,lo)
is the due support of the material fabric, by 3,60
lowarire of pure .ive food, the only substa oe
for vital re-action Twithoutwhich the homoeoPatbic slat
can do but ' sit 0°

Were it requisite, we could quote nniverou!tior..re",:
proofs from the works of many continental to `0
Homoeopathy, but we deem it unnecessary flirt dere' 00,,(11
pass on your courtesy, and that of your rot obi covi
trust that we have sufficiently relieved Houice°l3d, il,lO, re:
the stigma of being a system of starvation ; BPvoo6',s/1:
elusion, we again, most distinctly, and unegutto o'4
pudiate all connection between HomceopatbY 8 beeB,Y
tern of Dietetics, which would appear to have d, b,
sued, and which 'has been subsequently defend' to
Curie.
Nothing but a sense of the injury likely t° froo3o 0
01
system of medicine, of which we are followenr,s„geei
scientious feelings, and under many disadva
induce us to acquiesce in the very general call
us to put forward the present declaration.
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FREDERIC FOSTER QUlN,Signed) -1.-
M.D. .. • • " PO.
JOSEPH GILIOLI, M.D.
WILLIAM H. MAYNE. M.D.. Lonnuotp
HUGH CAMERON, M.R.O S Lon-
HARRIS DUNSFORD, M.D. London.
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WILLIAM HERING, L.A.C. tioa'
S. T. PARTRIDGE, M.D.
JOHN D. CHARLES, S L°°doo.
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VICTOR MASSOL, M.D. j/
THOMAS ENGALL, M.R.C.S.
ALFRED DAY, M...
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J. DRYSDALE, M.D. .
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CLAUDIUS B. KER, M.D.
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March 25, 1845.