History of Homoeopathy: Its Origin, Its Conflicts, with an Appendix on the Present State of University Medicine |
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Page 107 - But few medicines are exceptions to this rule, continuing their primary action uninterruptedly, of the same kind, though always diminishing in degree, until after some time no trace of their action can be detected, and the natural condition of the organism is restored.
Page 107 - Most medicines have more than one action ; the first a direct action, which gradually changes into the second (which I call the indirect secondary action). The latter is generally a state exactly the opposite of the former. In this way most vegetable substances act.
Page 105 - If I mistake not, practical medicine has devised three ways of applying remedies for the relief of the disorders of the human body. The first way, to remove or destroy the fundamental cause of the disease, was the most elevated it could follow. All the imaginings and aspirations of the best physicians in all ages were directed to this object, the most worthy of the dignity of our art.
Page 365 - I can return no other answer than that there is no other kind of heterology in morbid structures than the abnormal manner in which they arise, and that this abnormity consists either in the production of a structure at a point where it has no business, or at a time when it ought not to be produced, or to an extent which is at variance with the typical formation of the body.
Page 111 - I do not bring forward the following passages from authors who had a presentiment of homoeopathy as proofs in support of this doctrine, which is firmly established...
Page 103 - His own words are as follows: "For sake of experiment I took for several days four drachms of good Cinchona bark twice a day; my feet, finger tips, etc., first grew cold. I became exhausted and sleepy; then my heart began to palpitate, my pulse became hard and rapid. I had an intolerable anxiety, trembling, prostration in all my limbs; then throbbing of the head, flushing of the cheeks, thirst, and, in short, all the ordinary...
Page 169 - Hahnemann was undoubtedly a man of genius and a scholar, a man of indefatigable industry, of undaunted energy. In the history of medicine his name will appear in the same list with those of the greatest systematists and theorists, surpassed by few in the originality and ingenuity of his views, superior to most in having substantiated and carried out his doctrines into actual and most extensive practice.
Page 105 - ... an opposite condition ; for example, constipation by purgatives; inflamed blood by venesection, cold and nitre; acidity in the stomach by alkalis: pains by opium. In acute diseases, which, if we remove the obstacles to recovery for but a few days, nature will herself generally conquer, or, if we cannot do so, succumb; in acute diseases...
Page 80 - CEdipus himself to tell what was the exact action of a single ingredient of the hotchpotch ; the prescription of a single remedy at a time was in those days almost rarer than it is now-a-days. How was it possible, in such a complicated practice, to distinguish the powers of individual medicines...
Page 113 - The internal essential nature of every malady, of every individual case of disease, as far as it is necessary for us to know it, for the purpose of curing it, expresses itself by the symptoms, as they present themselves to the investigations of the true observer in their whole extent, connexion and succession. When the physician has discovered all the observable symptoms of the disease that exist, he has discovered the disease itself; he has attained the complete conception of it requisite to enable...