LESSER WRITINGS
by Pr J. T. KENT
presented by Dr Robert Séror
62- To all Homoeopaths
“If you give quinine, go on with it; if you give an opiate, go on with
it; do not go back into Homoeopathy.
The man who does these things is a homoeopathic failure.
Some men are incapable of grasping the homoeopathic doctrines, and fall
back into mongrelism which is a cross between Homoeopathy. and allopathy.
I would prefer an allopath to one who professes to be a homoeopath but does
not know enough Homoeopathy to practice it. . . .
If a doctor has not the grit to withstand the cries of the family, the
criticisms of the friends, the threatening of his pocketbook and of his bread and butter, he
will not practice Homoeopathy very long. An honest man does not fear these things.
There is but one thing for him to consider : “What is the right thing
to do in this case ?” . . .
The attitude of the public must never furnish the
physician with indications as to what he shall do. .
But the doctor who will flinch and tremble at every threatening is one who
will violate his conscience; is one that can be bought; can be hired to do anything; . . .
becomes a coward and a sneak; is ready to do almost anything that is vicious and cowardly, and
will abandon his colors in time of emergency. . . . The doctor who violates the law also
violates his conscience, and his death is worse than the death of the patient.”