ENGLISH HOMOEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION, Instituted in May, A. D. 1845, Being the Homeopathic General Association first established in this country. To the President and the Committee of the English Homœopathic Association. MY LORD AND GENTLEMEN, year In accordance with the Resolution, by which you requested me to draw up, for publication by the Association. the Lectures delivered by me at Exeter Hall, in the 1849, on the subject of Homœopathy, I have endeavoured to fulfil the duty thereby imposed. On completing its fulfilment, I must acknowledge the delay that has taken place. Of its cause your kindness will render unnecessary any detail, further than to state that the work has been written in moments snatched from the duties of a profession, which subjects its followers to almost continual interruption. This condition having existed, will serve also as apologetic of any imperfections which the critical eye may discover in the work itself. When this work was commenced, little was it supposed, that it would be necessary to record an attack on the personal liberty of one of the Members of the Association, an attack, which all parties have agreed in denouncing, and the particulars connected with which are detailed fully in the Appendix. This has been an additional source of delay. |