Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgment of Common Sense!

In 1872, a physician named Frederick Hiller mounts a fierce assault on mainstream medicine. The establishment practice of allopathy, he argues, has survived not because it works, but because it has always been done that way. With the rigor and conviction of a reformer, Hiller turns the scientific method against his own profession, citing authorities who doubted conventional treatments, presenting statistics that challenged the received wisdom, and championing homeopathy as the more rational approach: treating like with like, using diluted medicines, and actually doing less harm. This is not a dry medical text but a passionate polemic from an age when medicine was still figuring itself out, when bleeding patients was still common, and when the question of what actually worked was far from settled. Hiller writes with the urgency of a man who believes the medical establishment is wrong and that lives depend on saying so. Whether you agree with him or not, the book captures a pivotal moment when questioning authority in medicine became not just acceptable but necessary.