Homeopathy: Holmes, Hogwarts, and the Prince of Wales Gerald Weissmann, Editor-in-Chief Do you think I don’t understand the hydrostatic paradox of controversy? If you had a bent tube, one arm of which was the size of a pipe-stem and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Thus discussion equalizes fools and wise men in the same way , and the fools know it. O. W. Holmes. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1) THE HYDROSTATIC PARADOX has never been so well illustrated as by current discussions of alternative medicine and its poster child, homeopathy. Hahnemann’s system, a therapeutic regimen unchanged since the Age of Mesmer, is making a comeback in the Age of Oprah. In 1810, Hahnemann (1755–1843) rebuked Enlightenment medicine in an over-ideational treatise called The Organon of the Rational Art of Healing : The partisans of the old school of medicine flattered themselves that they could justly claim for it alone the title of ’rational medicine’, because they alone sought for and strove to remove the cause of disease ... [but] the greatest number of diseases are of dynamic (spiritual) origin and
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