A Compend of the Principles of Homoeopathy as Taught by Hahnemann, and Verified by a Century of Clinical Application |
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Page 118 - THE physician's highest and only calling is to restore health to the sick, which is called Healing.
Page 74 - It is a matter of regret that we are still obliged to count among chronic diseases, very common affections which are to be regarded as the result of allopathic treatment, and the continual use of violent, heroic medicines in large and increasing doses. Examples of that kind are: the abuse of Calomel, Corrosive sublimate, Mercurial Ointment, Nitrate of Silver, Iodine and its ointments, Opium, Valerian, Quinine, Digitalis, etc., the use of purgatives persisted in for years, etc.
Page 65 - Some homœopathists have made the experiment in cases where they deemed one remedy suitable for one portion of symptoms of a case of disease, and a second for another portion, of administering both remedies at once, or almost at once; but I earnestly deprecate such hazardous experiments, that can never be necessary, though they sometimes seem to be of use.
Page 148 - Should the same antipsoric be still indicated, we must give it in a much higher potency and in a more minute dose. The doses can scarcely be too much reduced, provided the effects of the remedy are not disturbed by improper food. 43. The physician ought to avoid three mistakes, that the dose can be too small, the improper use of the remedy, and in not letting the remedy act a sufficient length of time. The surest and safest way of hastening a cure is to let the medicine act as long as the improvement...
Page 95 - The process of succussion and trituration is now said to result, not only in a thorough mechanical admixture, but in " a real spiritualization of the dynamic property — a true, astonishing unveiling and vivifying of the medicinal spirit.
Page 123 - In proving drugs it should be remembered that strong, so called heroic substances, even in small doses, have the property of affecting changes in the health, even of robust persons. Those of milder power should be given in considerable doses in these experiments; and those of least activity, in order to cause their effect to become perceptible, should be tried only upon healthy, but sensitive and susceptible persons. Let us be Very careful in regard to the reliability of the drugs used in the provings;...
Page 111 - When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self-acting (automatic) vital force, everywhere present in his organism, that is primarily deranged by the dynamic influence upon it of a morbific agent inimical to life...
Page 61 - Or there may be only one or two prominent symptoms, which may obscure the remaining features of the case, so-called Partial or One-sided Diseases. The best rule is to be most painstaking in eliciting symptoms, and then make the best uses of the few symptoms to serve as guides in the selection of the remedy. Although the remedy may be but imperfectly adapted, it will serve the purpose of bringing to light the symptoms belonging to the disease, thus facilitating a choice of the next remedy.
Page 127 - Cases may occur where the first examination of the disease and the first selection of the remedy prove that the totality of symptoms of the disease is not sufficiently covered by the morbific elements (symptoms) of a single remedy; and where we are obliged to choose between two medicines which seem to be equally well suited to the case, we must prescribe one of these medicines, and it...
Page 9 - 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.