Homœopathy ; the science of therapeuticsproprietor, 1877 - 529 pages |
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Page 232 - I am, alas ! — I say, alas ! for I would much rather have upheld the larger doses which accord with current views — I am compelled to declare myself for the higher dilutions. The physiological experiments made with Natrum muriaticum, as well as the great majority of the clinical results obtained therewith, speak decisively and distinctly for these preparations.
Page 69 - That in a lesser, but still not a small proportion, the disease is cured by nature, in spite of them ; in other words, their interference opposing, instead of assisting the cure.
Page 68 - 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, as ingenious as many that preceded it, and destined...
Page 146 - I am, alas! (I say, alas! for I would much rather have upheld the larger doses, which accord with current views) — I am compelled to declare myself for the higher dilutions The physiological experiments made with Natrum muriaticum, as well as the great majority of the clinical results obtained therewith, speak decisively and distinctly for these preparations."* Pathogenesis goes hand in hand with curative drug-action.
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Page 23 - When we devise an experiment to ascertain the effect of a given agent, there are certain precautions which we never, if we can help it, omit. In the first place, we introduce the agent into the midst of a set of circumstances which we have exactly ascertained.
Page 129 - If the primary symptoms of a disease are present, and we are combating them with a remedy whose primary symptoms correspond, we must make the dose the smallest compatible with reason ; and if we are treating the secondary symptoms of a malady with a remedy whose secondary symptoms correspond, we must use as large a dose as we can with safety.
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