The Grounds of an Homoeopath's FaithBoericke & Tafel, 1885 - 92 pages |
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Adjuvans administer aloes antipathic apothecaries ascertaining the pure bad results bichloride bromism Burserius centuries cian Cinchona composite substance compounded of five constituens corrigens cure quickly desired effect disease-action dysentery effect and excludes effects of medicines elements of disease exclude the bad experiment fact frankincense gentlemen grain Hahnemann Haller heteropathic HOMEOPATH'S FAITH homoeopath homœopathic inductive philosophy inevitable sequence inflammation Ipecacuanha law of similars learned LECTURE Lemnia Materia Medica Materia Medica Pura medi mercury method indicated minimum dose motor-fibres oboli opium Organon patient Paul of Ægina periment phenomena in health Philip Barrough physi physician physiological ac physiological action Picric acid pleasantly polypharmacy power of prevision practice of medicine prescription produce Prof pure effect rational manner rational scientific groundwork Ringer Samuel Hahnemann says scientific medicine seed single remedy small doses symptoms system of therapeutics Theriaca Theriaca Andromachi tion to-day Tolu truth Veratrum viride vermin
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Page 63 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.
Page 36 - Men cannot help believing that the laws laid down by discoverers must be in a great measure identical with the real laws of nature, when the discoverers thus determine effects beforehand, in the same manner in which nature herself determines them when the occasion occurs. Those who can do this must to a great extent have detected nature's secret — must have fixed upon the conditions to which she attends and must have seized the rules by which she applies them. Such a coincidence of untried facts...
Page 33 - The work of the therapeutist is chiefly with the second portion of the law. Evidently, it is his especial province to find out what are the means at command, what the individual drugs in use do when put into a human system. It is seemingly self-evident that the physiological action of a remedy can never be made out by a study of its use in disease.
Page 15 - Verily she has been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind; and the history of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities. In the past, there is scarcely a conceivable absurdity that men have not tested by experience and for a time found to be the thing desired...
Page 15 - Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily, she has been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind; and the history of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities.
Page 16 - If I were asked to state what chiefly distinguishes the homeopathic physician from his older brother in the science and art of medicine, I should at once reply : Not the law of cure, not the infinitesimal dose, not the Hahnemannian hypothesis of chronic diseases, none of these, but simply this, his fixed faith in the efficiency of drugs.
Page 49 - I refer is this ;—that a combination of theory with facts, of general views with experimental industry, is requisite, even in subordinate contributors to science. It has of late been common to assert that facts alone are valuable in science; that theory, so far as it is valuable, is contained in the facts; and, so far as it is not contained in the facts, can merely mislead and preoccupy men. But this antithesis between theory and facts has probably in its turn contributed to delude and perplex;...
Page 34 - If, in order to ascertain this, medicines be given to sick persons only, even though they be administered singly and alone, then little or nothing of a decided character is seen of their pure effects, as those peculiar alterations of the health, to be expected from the medicine, are mixed up with the symptoms of the disease, and can seldom be distinctly observed.
Page 14 - Therapeutics developed in this manner cannot, however, rest upon a " secure foundation. What to-day is believed is to-morrow to be cast aside, " certainly has been the law of advancement, and seemingly must continue to
Page 48 - ... it may be laid down as an axiom, that in proportion as he complicates a medicine, he does but multiply the chances of its failure.