CHAPTER VI.
HOMŒOPATHY CONTINUED. TESTIMONY IN FAVOR OF HOMŒOPATHY CONSIDERED—–DIFFERENT KINDS OF WITNESS REQUIRED TO PROVE DIFFERENT MATTERS—–WITCHES, ETC.
I am told that there must be some truth in Homœopathy, or so many intelligent people would not patronize it. This is an erroneous conclusion. If this were the rule of evidence, it would establish as true all the false schemes in medicine and religion that have ever been put forth. By this rule, Paganism, Mahometanism, and Mormonism, would at the same time be proved true; and by this rule Perkinsism, Thomsonism, and Chrono-thermalism, would each be established as the best mode of medical practice. Each one of these has enjoyed the patronage and support of numerous intelligent and respectable individuals. If it is claimed that the followers of Samuel Hahnemann are more numerous than the followers of Samuel Thomson,
