A proposal for the settlement of the homoeopathic controversy / by J.F. Paisley.

Date:
1852
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    speedily resort to the spirit shops, where a downward course of crime and debauchery is now for the first time entered upon, leaving their restoration to bodily health a question of very equivocal import! This branch of the Institution should have an especial claim on the advocates of temperance. The second should be an Infirmary for chronic and acute diseases, not infectious. I would hope that two-thirds of the exploits of modern Surgery would be dispensed with by this provision ; and if prevention be allowed on all hands to be better than cure, surely the saving of a member is infinitely preferable than its removal ; and, moreover, the subjects of diseases hitherto requiring surgical aid would not only have their members preserved, but the recurrence of these diseases prevented (humanly speaking) in a large majority of cases. The third should be a Lying-in or Maternity Hospital, and for the treatment of diseases peculiar to females. The latter consideration is one of vital moment, for of late years the practice and operations of the French schools of medicine have found their way into this city and other parts of the United Kingdom, a circumstance to be exceedingly deplored, as it must be at all times most deeply humiliating to the invalid in whom moral delicacy is in any degree present. 1 would sanguinely hope that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, these degrading, and sometimes dangerous, opera- tions would be unneeded. The combined systems of Hydro- pathy and Homoeopathy having singular efficacy in these peculiar diseases, and also sterility, even when the former are pronounced by some Pathologists to be of a malignant character. The fourth should be for Cholera, or such like pestilential disease—but in the absence of such, might be used for the infectious diseases of infants and children. A areat boon would be thus conferred on the heads of poor families, who are often deepened in misery by the neglect of their employ- ment when necessarily engaged in close attendance upon