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Excerpt from An Address Before the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, at Its First Annual Communication, in Raleigh, April, 1850
Permit me to allude to a few of the extravagant appendages of the medical profession - Homepathy and Hydropathy - sys tems containing some truth, though largely diluted with error. The inappreciable doses of Homcepathy is a pretty apt illustra tion of the expectant plan of treating disease, and operate like doses of confidence, which are often of signal advantage. Who would at this day renounce cold water as a Therupeutic agent? Yet how vain the attempt to invest it with the virtues of a pana cea - vainer still the attempt to dignify Hydropathy with the appellation of science Heat and Steam are also valuable agents, but admit not of that universal application in the practice of medicine, which is claimed for them by the misguided and fa natical Thompsonian.
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