Organon of MedicineBoericke & Tafel, 1906 - 304 pages |
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Page 86 - Every agent that acts upon the vitality, every medicine, deranges more or less the vital force, and causes a certain alteration in the health of the individual for a longer or a shorter period. This is termed primary action.
Page 172 - I repeat, for it holds good and will continue to hold good as a homoeopathic therapeutic maxim not to be refuted by any experience in the world, that the best dose of the properly selected remedy is always the very smallest one in one of the high potencies (X), as well for chronic as for acute diseases...
Page 195 - The higher we carry the attenuations accompanied by dynamisation, with so much the more rapid and penetrating action does the preparation seem to affect the vital force and to alter the health, with but slight diminution of strength even when this operation is carried very far — in place, as is usual (and generally sufficient) to x, when it is carried up to XX, L, c, and higher ; only that then the action always appears to last a shorter time.
Page 50 - ... takes note of nothing in every individual disease, except the changes in the health of the body and of the mind which can be perceived externally by means of the senses...
Page 188 - If we give too strong a dose of a medicine which may have been even quite homoeopathically chosen for the morbid state before us, it must, notwithstanding the inherent beneficial character of its nature, prove injurious by its mere magnitude, and by the unnecessary, excessive impression it makes upon the vital force which it convulses,
Page 133 - ... solely to be kept in view ; for it is more particularly these that very similar ones in the list of symptoms of the selected medicine must correspond to, in order to constitute it the most suitable for effecting die cure.
Page vi - I must warn the reader that indolence, love of ease and obstinacy preclude effective service at the altar of truth, and only freedom from prejudice and untiring zeal qualify for the most sacred of all human occupations, the practice of the true system of medicine.
Page 52 - In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body (organism), rules with unbounded sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence.
Page 51 - ... affection of the vital force ^ must be the principal, or the sole means, whereby the disease can make known what remedy it requires — the only thing that can determine the choice of the most appropriate...
Page 92 - That, however, the third and only other possible mode of treatment (the homoeopathic), in which there is employed for the totality of the symptoms of a natural disease a medicine capable of producing the most similar symptoms possible in the healthy individual...