Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy

[2] The allegorical image[2] Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy was painted by Alexander Beideman in Munich in 1857.

There is also an unfinished variant of the painting, which until the early 1970s was in possession of the widow of Nicholas Gabrilovich, Larisa Maslova-Gabrilovich (1894–1985), and then was sold to a private collection in Kemerovo.

In front of her is the god of medicine Aesculapius in a red cloak, his left hand raised in anger and indignation.

All of them look with disapproval and indignation at those associated with allopathy (modern medicine) in the "negative extreme", located on the left side of the painting, where doctors mistreat a patient.

[5] The picture reflects the status homeopathy had in the nineteenth century, when it claimed to be more scientific than the extremely dogmatic "heroic medicine" of the period, which frequently did more harm than good, whereas, in the words of Ben Goldacre, homeopathy "at least did nothing either way".