“An incoherent assemblage of incoherent opinions it is perhaps of all the physiological sciences that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What do I say? It is not a science for the methodical mind, it is a shapeless assemblage of inexact ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive remedies and of formula as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged”.
In short Hahnemann lived in a changing age and viewing the period just before and just after him we see many alterations and reforms in medical practice. In these reforms he played a great part, but deserves neither the sole credit as his followers would have it, nor the ridicule his detractors would cast upon him.
“Tut man! one fire burns out anothers burning,
One pain is lessened by another anguish.
Turn giddy and be hop by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with anothers anguish
Take thou some new infection to the eye
And the rank poison of the old will die”.
-Romeo and Juliet.
In physics things of melancholic hue are equality used against equality, sour against sour, salt to remove salt.
-Samson and Agonistes.
