1 is stated, “ More individuals perish through the inter-
2 ference of physicians, than are saved by their assistance.”
3 Hence, many have lost all confidence in medicine;
4 for, the dark side (the defects of the art) cannot be
5 concealed from even the uninitiated. Lord Bacon says
6 — “I will not deny that physicians of the present day
7 are indifferently well acquainted with the general symp-
8 toms of a disease ; but, either they do not rightly
9 understand, or, have not sufficiently examined the medi-
10 cines which they prescribe in particular cases. The
11 addition, diminution, and alteration of medicines, in the
12 most arbitrary manner, so that usually one medicine is
13 substituted for another, is quite a common proceeding.”
14 Peter Frank, in his System of Medical Police , Vol. I.
15 says, “ It is strange that the government should interfere
16 only in time of epidemics and against charlatans, whilst
17 it takes no notice of the thousands who are daily sacri-
18 ficed in their solitary chambers. Governments should
19 determine either to banish all physicians and their art,
20 or, take measures to render men’s lives more secure than
21 they are at present.”
22 Confessions like these, by physicians themselves, are
23 so numerous and so well known, as to render more
24 quotations unnecessary ; those which I have given
25 affording the most conclusive evidence of the defective-
26 ness and uncertainty of Allceopathic medical science.
27 It was, without doubt, the defects of the science
28 of healing as practised by the Alloeopathists, which
29 induced the immortal Hahnemann to embrace and pro-
30 pagate the doctrine of similia similibus curanlur.
31 There cannot be anything more irrational, than
32 an implicit adherence to a system, without a pre-