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Good medicine: homeopathy

BMJ 2012; 345 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e6184 (Published 14 September 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;345:e6184

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Re: Good medicine: homeopathy

Thank you.

Now I will be in a mood to read your original letter.

"Nightingale" I presume refers to Miss Florence Nightingale of Crimea? She cleaned up the mess made by doctors, if I recall history correctly.

Some years later, a "mere chemist" by the name of Louis Pasteur invented the first antirabies vaccine. Then the medical fraternity gave him a medical licence - without examining him in anatomy, physiology or pharmacology etc.

JK Anand

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09 July 2013
JK Anand
Retired doctor
Free spirit
Peterborough