The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7408 p48
8 July 2006

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· Control of entry
· Controlled drugs
· Medicines use review
· Homoeopathy

Letters to the Editor

Homoeopathy

Charles Darwin’s view

From Mr A. G. Hopkins, MRPharmS

“You speak about homoeopathy, which is a subject which makes me more wrath, even than does clairvoyance. Clairvoyance so transcends belief that one’s ordinary faculties are put out of the question, but in homoeopathy common sense and common observation come into play, and both these must go to the dogs, if the infinitesimal doses have any effect whatever.”

Not my words, alas, but those of Charles Darwin in 1850. Darwin was the great experimentalist and wrote nothing he could not substantiate by experiment.

A. G. Hopkins
Aldershot, Hampshire

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