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For my own part, my practice and teaching for the past 25 years have been strictly Hahnemannian: and, for me, it is a delight to watch the emergence of the Hahnemannian conceptions. I believe they will become more and more evident in the near future. There is, today, an earnest groping after something better in medicine; and surely it is our wisdom-nay, our duty-to look around outside our own immediate sphere of work and thought, and by opportune suggestions and help, to do our small part in shaping the course of events and stimulating progress. LONDON, ENGLAND.

I wonder, now, if a homoeopathic, with the best intentions in the world, were to get his neck broken, whether we should not all be accused of being “shaky” in the cervical region, or if he should chance to shallow a plum-stone, whether he would not be charged with doing it “on purpose”, and because we all had gizzards. WILLIAM HENDERSON, M.D.

And true it is, beyond all question, that as the proper science of the physician becomes more understood and effective, there will be less for the anatomist to contemplate, thought it may well be doubted whether, even remedies fully ascertained for every ill that flesh is heir to, men would generally submit to them at the right stage of their disorder, continue them for the proper time, or give them a fair field for the full and free use of their virtues.

That, however, is the business of the sufferer: the chief duty of the physician is to know how to cure him if he but give the opportunity. But even in order to acquire this coveted knowledge, Hahnemann should have remembered, that to every honest man on right road “his failures are the preparation of his victories”, and that the morbid anatomy of the dead was capable of teaching much that might be of service to the still living, even on his own therapeutic principle; for medicine taken to a poisonous excess, or given to the lower animals in experiment, have, of course, their morbid anatomy too, the effects of their action on the living organs, and therefore similar to those producible by deceased, WILLIAM HENDERSON, M.D., 1954.

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John Weir
Sir John Weir (1879 – 1971), FFHom 1943. John Weir was the first modern homeopath by Royal appointment, from 1918 onwards. John Weir was Consultant Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1910, and he was appointed the Compton Burnett Professor of Materia Medica in 1911. He was President of the Faculty of Homeopathy in 1923.
Weir received his medical education first at Glasgow University MB ChB 1907, and then on a sabbatical year in Chicago under the tutelage of Dr James Tyler Kent of Hering Medical College during 1908-9. Weir reputedly first learned of homeopathy through his contact with Dr Robert Gibson Miller.
John Weir wrote- Some of the Outstanding Homeopathic Remedies for Acute Conditions with Margaret Tyler, Homeopathy and its Importance in Treatment of Chronic Disease, The Trend of Modern Medicine, The Science and Art of Homeopathy, Brit Homeo Jnl, The Present Day Attitude of the Medical Profession Towards Homeopathy, Brit Homeo Jnl XVI, 1926, p.212ff, Homeopathy: a System of Therapeutics, The Hahnemann Convalescent Home, Bournemouth, Brit Homeo Jnl 20, 1931, 200-201, Homeopathy an Explanation of its Principles, British Homeopathy During the Last 100 Years, Brit Homeo Jnl 23, 1932: etc
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