Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1745

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894) Homoeópathy, and its kindred delusions. W. D. Ticknor 1842 v, 72 pp. 18.6 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1742

Holmes was quick to expose those medical systems and practices which he believed to be false. In these two lectures, originally delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, he attacks not only homeopathy (which he likens to astrology and alchemy), but four other contemporary quack claims: the royal cure of the King's Evil (scrofula), the Weapon ointment, the tar water mania of Bishop Berkeley (see No. 804), and the metallic tractors of Perkinism.

See Related Record(s): 804

Cited references: Cushing H415; Osler 2988; Waller 4850; Wellcome III, p. 293

Gift of John Martin, M.D.