Illustration from the title page of William Leo-Wolf’s Remarks on the Abracadabra of the Nineteenth Century (1835), an anti-homeopathy tract.
Featured on PDR in the essay Proving it: The American Provers’ Union Documents Certain Ill Effects
What would induce physicians to ingest mercury to the point of vomiting and to painstakingly note down the effects of imbibing large amounts of cannabis tincture? Alicia Puglionesi explores the history of "proving", the practice of auto-experimentation which forms the cornerstone of homeopathic medicine.
Also appearing in the essay…
Title page of William Leo-Wolf’s Remarks on the Abracadabra of the Nineteenth Century
Date
1835
From
Remarks on the Abracadabra of the Nineteenth Century
