ALLOPATHY v. HOMOEOPATHY.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 192, 21 May 1872, Page 3

ALLOPATHY v. HOMOEOPATHY.

To tre Editor of the Thames Guardian. Sir, — I am surprised to see the Press allowed to become the vehicle for such a cowardly personal attack as that of your correspondent, “ Live and Let Live,” in to-day’s issue. lam not above./aiV criticism ; but the conclusions therein drawn are most unfair, and I do not at all wonder at their author not being ashamed to affix his name to such a pioduction. Fistly, the case Lethbridge v Davis is one in which all the respectable members of the medical profession here are unanimous in appioving the course I adopted, not to mention that the remarks of the Resident Magistrate in surnmiriguptheevidei.ee of the case, were quite in my favor; and, although certain persons are always on the look out for a pug upon which to liang homoeopathy, I cannot see that homoeopathy has of necessity anything to do with it. When I had informed the parents of the boy Davies, more than a fortnight before I threw up the case, what was the rule of the prof ssion with reference to calling other medical advice, it was natural to suppose that by sending for any one else iinkn'wn to m<*, while I was attending, th y did what would i revent any medical ma - ' in my plica from continuing to treat their son, and did it with their eyes open, so to sppak. For mv part, let people enjoy perfect freedom of opinion on medical suhj -cfs, but these amateur medicos go further ; they display an aggressive spirit, which, if resisted in the slightest degree, can only be satisfied with much vituperation, and it may be a Is subscription. One thing I affirm, viz., that I never “ gave up ’’ a case, however little hope I may have entertained of recovery, and I think tho idea of “ curing ” a fever after the crisis has been passed through under another man’s hands is worthy of the impudence of the person who suggested it.—l hare the honour to be, sir, your obedient s rvant, Charles F. Lethbridge. May 20, 1872.