A concise view of the system of homœopathy [by C.W. Luther]. |
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Page 63 - ... and of other coloured substances, exhibit a prodigious subdivision and dissemination of matter. A single grain of the sulphate of copper, or blue vitriol, will communicate a fine azure tint to five gallons of water. In this case, the copper must be attenuated at least ten million times ; yet each drop of the liquid may contain as many coloured particles, distinguishable by our unassisted vision. A still minuter portion of cochineal, dissolved in deliquiate potash, will strike a bright purple...
Page 158 - Fleischmann (homoeopathic) recovered, two-thirds of those treated by the ordinary methods, in other hospitals, died. This very extraordinary result led Count Kolowrat, Minister of the Interior, to repeal the law relative to the practice of Homoeopathy.
Page 90 - We can hardly refuse our assent to the observations of the late Sir Gilbert Blane, that in many cases patients get well in spite of the means employed; and sometimes when the practitioner fancies he has made a great cure, we may fairly assume the patient to have had a happy escape.
Page 181 - Any person who shall have pursued a regular course of medical studies, according to the requirements of the existing medical institutions of our country...
Page 139 - Whatever the opponents of this system may put forward against it, I am bound to say, and I am far from being a homoeopathic practitioner, that the cases I saw treated by it in the Vienna hospital were fully as acute and virulent as those that have come under my observation elsewhere, and the statistics show that the mortality is much less than in the other hospitals of that city.
Page 235 - He had the satisfaction of seeing his system, after half a century's existence, spread over every part of the globe ; and just before his death, he learned that homoeopathy was about to have a chair at the University of Vienna, and hospitals in all the Austrian States, at Berlin, and at London.
Page 48 - ... the symptoms of the natural disease then existing, mingling with those which the medicinal agents are capable of producing, the latter can rarely be distinguished with any clearness or precision.
Page 35 - ... first, in the discovery of Specifics, which may counteract the different diseased actions of which the body is susceptible, as effectually as the cinchona counteracts the intermittent fever, citric acid the scurvy, or vaccination the small-pox ; and, secondly, in the investigation of the Causes of disease, whether external or internal...
Page 139 - Austrian prolomedicus, has published those for 1838, which exhibit a mortality of but five or six per cent., while three similar institutions on the allopathic plan, enumerated before it in the same table, show a mortality as high as from eight to ten per cent.
Page 27 - It is at this period, he observes, that the attentive and judicious surgeon can be of essential service by giving a right direction to the medicine, as well as by counteracting any injurious effect it may produce. Thus during this critical period, the patient is liable to attacks of griping, frequent desire to go to stool, and tenesmus ; these efforts are attended with only slight evacuations, which chiefly consist of mucus tinged with blood ; sickness of stomach and vomiting also often supervene,...