Carolina QuotesThose kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm." This may or may not be true as regards the individual. But it always does very great harm to the community to encourage ignorance, error, or deception in a profession which deals with the life and health of our fellow-creatures.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions (1842) p. iii
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- 1842
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