Lectures on the Theory and Practice of HomoeopathyHenry Turner, 1854 - 565 pages |
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Page 501 - The body had been placed at length, with the head to the north and the feet to the south.
Page 69 - A weaker dynamic affection is permanently extinguished in the living organism by a stronger one, if the latter (whilst differing in kind) is very similar to the former...
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Page 306 - In these investigations, the ascertainable physical constitution of the patient (especially when the disease is chronic), his moral and intellectual character, his occupation, mode of living and habits, his social and domestic relations, his age, sexual function, etc., are to be taken into consideration.
Page 18 - ... selected remedy can never be prepared so small that it shall not be stronger than the natural disease, and shall not be able to overpower, extinguish and cure it, at least in part, as long as it is capable of causing some, though but a slight preponderance of its own symptoms over those of the disease resembling it (slight homoeopathic aggravation, §§ 157 — 160) immediately after its ingestion.^ § 280.
Page 51 - Drugs," in which he first declared that we should "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.