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Aconite action allopathic appeared attenuation Belladonna body Bryonia called camphor Caspar Hauser cause CHAPTER chemist cholera chronic diseases chronic miasm Coethen condition CONSERVATIVE MEDICINE constipation corresponding Count Radetsky curative powers debility dilution doctor doctrine dosage duced Dudgeon effects epidemic eructation example experience facts give given Hahne Hahnemann healthy homœo homoeopathic Homœopathic Hospital Homœopathic Materia Medica Homœopathic medicines homœopathic practitioner homœopathic remedies Hufeland infinitesimal instance Ipecacuanha itch JOHN HENRY CLARKE law of similars manifest mann Materia Medica Pura means MEISSONIER ment method natural disease nosode Nux vomica observation Opium organism Organon pain pathic pathology patient peculiar persons poisoning potency practice preparation prescribed present principle produced Professor provings psora published Pulsatilla quantities quote radio-activity radium recognised Rhus SAMUEL HAHNEMANN scarlatina sensitive sick substances symptoms taken therapeutic tion tonic treated treatment Tuberculin tumour vital force vomiting whilst word dose
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Page 43 - No careful observer of his actions or candid reader of his writings can hesitate for a moment to admit that he was a very extraordinary man, one whose name will descend to posterity as the exclusive excogitator and founder of an original system of medicine, the remote, if not the immediate, cause of more important fundamental changes in the practice of the healing art than have resulted from any promulgated since the days of Galen himself.
Page 74 - What do we know, he asks, of the atom apart from its force ? You imagine a nucleus which may be called a, and surround it by forces which may be called m ; 'to my mind the a or nucleus vanishes, and the substance consists in the powers of m.
Page 74 - In that view matter is not merely mutually penetrable, but each atom extends, so to say, throughout the whole of the solar system, yet always retaining its own centre of force.
Page 98 - Pulsatilla produces the same state (995), and it also causes over-sensitiveness of other organs of the senses, for example, of the sight (107). And although intolerance of noise is also met with in nux vomica, ignatia, and aconite, yet these medicines are not homoeopathic to the other symptoms and still less do they possess symptom 8, the mild character of the disposition, which, as stated in the preface to pulsalitta, is particularly indicative of this plant.
Page 44 - By most medical men it was taken for granted that the system is not only visionary in itself, but was the result of a mere fanciful hypothesis, disconnected with facts of any kind, and supported by no processes of ratiocination or logical inference; while its author and his apostles and successors were looked upon either as visionaries or quacks, or both. And yet nothing can be farther from the truth.
Page 157 - That there may therefore be no misapprehension about the cases I saw in your hospital, I will add, that all I saw were true cases of cholera, in the various stages of the disease, and that I saw several cases which did well under your treatment, which I have no hesitation in saying would have sunk under any other.
Page 44 - 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 ; unsurpassed 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 26 - Every powerful medicinal substance produces in the human body a kind of peculiar disease ; the more powerful the medicine, the more peculiar, marked, and violent the disease.^ We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic disease by superadding another, and employ in the (especially chronic) disease we wish to cure, that medicine which is able to produce another very similar artificial disease, and the former will be cured ; similia similibus.
Page 39 - His physician, Lagusius, observed high fever and swelling of the abdomen early on February 28th ; he combated the malady by venesection, and as this produced no amelioration, three more venesections were performed without relief. Science must ask why a second venesection was ordered when the first had produced no amelioration. How could he order a third ; and, good Heavens ! how a fourth, when there had been no amelioration after the preceding ones? How could he tap the vital fluid four times in...
Page 94 - Now, as this woman was very robust, and the force of the disease must consequently have been very considerable to prevent her by its pain from doing any work, and as her vital forces, as has been observed, were not impaired, I gave her one of the strongest homoeopathic doses, a full drop of the undiluted juice of Bryonia root,* to be taken immediately, and bade her come to me again in 48 hours.