Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Homeopathy, Pharmaceuticals

    Reports Mr Punch's response to letters defending homeopathy and notes Punch's wife's conversion to the doctrine of Christian F S Hahnemann. Argues that the 'infinitessimal doses' of homeopathy are 'the best remedies' for excessive drinking and medicine-taking, but points out that they are only suitable for curing 'infinitessimal diseases'. Ridicules the claim of a correspondent, Judy, that her baby's sickness was cured homeopathically. Refuses to 'investigate a theory which carries apparent absurdity on the face of it', and considers that it rests with the homeopathic practitioners to 'prove their doctrines'.