A Compend of the principles of homoeopathyBoericke & Runyon, 1896 - 160 pages |
Common terms and phrases
according Aconite acute diseases aggravation Alcohol alkaloids allopathic animals anti-psoric remedies antidote antipsoric treatment appear application attenuated Belladonna bodily body cause centesimal chancre characteristic symptoms chronic diseases condition crude crude drug curative remedy diet disturbed dosage drug action drug effects Drug Pathogenesy drug proving dynamic dyscrasia epidemic eruption experience external functions give gonorrhoea guiding symptoms Hahnemannian hence homœo homœopathic homoeopathic remedy individual internal disease itch latent psora Lycopodium manifest Materia Medica Pura medi medicinal force medicinal powers medicinal substance medicine ment mental method miasm modalities modify morbid natural disease observation old school olfaction opathic organism Organon pain palliative Paracelsus pathic Pathogenesy pathological patient peculiar physician physiological Posology potency practice prescribing principle produce psora psoric poison removed Samuel Hahnemann selection sensations similar similimum single remedy skin small doses sycosis symp symptomatology syphilis theory tinctures tion totality of symptoms trituration vital force
Popular passages
Page 9 - Every powerful medicinal substance produces in the human body a peculiar kind of 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 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 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 54 - individualization in the investigation of a case of disease demands on the part of the physician, principally unbiased judgment and sound sense, attentive observation and fidelity in noting down the image of the disease.
Page 129 - ... the latter is generally dispelled by topical applications more rapidly than the internal disease. This often leads to the deceptive impression that we have accomplished a perfect cure. At all events the premature disappearance of this local symptom renders it very difficult, and in some cases impossible to determine whether the total disease has also been exterminated by the internal remedy.
Page 148 - ... be the height of folly. Let no physician suppose that, as soon as the time fixed for "the duration of the action of the remedy shall have elapsed, another remedy must at once be administered with a view of hastening the cure. This is contrary to experience. The surest and safest way of hastening the cure is, to let the medicine act as long as the improvement of the patient continues, were it even far beyond the period which is set down as the probable period of the duration of that action.* He...
Page 69 - That portion of the preceding quotation, which is printed in italics, embodies a great truth which has never been denied, which has been abundantly confirmed by the numerous results of the allopathic treatment of chronic diseases, and is, therefore, well worthy of attentive and serious consideration. Such results are even witnessed in the comparatively easy treatment of syphilis, from the abuse of mercury, which is then secondary syphilis.
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 65 - Some Homoeopathists have made the experiment in cases where they deemed one remedy Homoeopathically suitable for one portion of the symptoms of a case of disease, and a second for another portion, of administering both remedies at the same or at almost the same time; but I earnestly deprecate such a hazardous experiment, which can never be necessary, though it may sometimes seem to be of use.
Page 123 - ... 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.
Page 140 - ... by art. 10. In considering the formation of the three chronic maladies, psora, sycosis, syphilis, as well as that of the acute infectious diseases, three cardinal points must be noticed: 1, the period when the infection took place; 2, the period when the whole organism began to be tainted with the infectious poison, until it became a complete internal disease; 3, the manifestation of the external symptoms, by which nature indicates the complete development of the infectious disease in the internal...