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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. HOMCEOPATHY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. General Remarks--London School of Homoeopathy--Homoeopathic Institutions in the United States. Homoeopathy, as a system of medicine, is without legal recognition. No Examining Body is homoeopathic, nor will examine candidates in other than the regular system. Hence an exclusiveness on the part of the licensing authorities which, I think, tends to retard advancement in medical science. I am no partizan of homoeopathy; but I am disposed to give it that fair play and equal opportunity which its advocates demand; and I submit that if the system is unsound, its failure would be best procured by putting it in regular competition with recognised medicine. As it is, homoeopathic practitioners are such as have qualified through the ordinary licensing channels by passing examinations in allopathy. I am free to admit that, if a homoeopathic licensing body were established, other irregular systems, and perhaps eclecticism itself, would proceed to demand similar recognition; but to this objection the answer is that the claim is one of degree. Nor is the matter unsusceptible of easy arrangement. The difference to be distinguished is limited to Materia Medica and Therapeutics. Omitting these subjects, therefore, let the homoeopathic student, instead of taking the usual Preliminary examination and the subsequent tests of the Licensing Bodies, undergo the examination for the ordinary B.A. degree of our senior Universities, and proceeding to Physics, Anatomy, Physiology, and Botany, pass finally in Operative Medicine and Surgery, together with Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Thus, by eliminating methods of practice, and accepting general education, together with the sciences constituting the basis of rational medicine, a comm...
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