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Jacob Bigelow Quotes

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Jacob Bigelow
Errors, Order, Causes
Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.165

Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.

Jacob Bigelow
Hands, Medicine, Waiting
Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.231

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