Why Students of Medicine Should Select the Homoeopathic School: The Prize Essay in the Medical Century Competition and the Essays Obtaining Second and Third PlacesMedical Century Company, 1904 - 62 pages |
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Page 22 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 4 - No careful observer of his [Hahnemann's] actions, or candid reader of his writings, can hesitate for a moment to admit that he was a very extraordinary man, one whose name will descend to posterity as the exclusive excogitator and founder of an original system of medicine as ingenious as many that preceded it, and destined probably to be the remote, if not the immediate, cause of more importAnt fundamental changes in the practice of the healing art than have resulted from any promulgated since the...
Page 49 - A homeopathic physician is one who adds to his knowledge of medicine a special knowledge of homeopathic therapeutics and observes the Law of Similia. All that pertains to the great field of medical learning is his, by tradition, by inheritance, by right.
Page 6 - When we have to do with an art whose end is the saving of human life, any neglect to make ourselves thorough masters of it becomes a crime.
Page 9 - I fear, or to mark time while we watch and wait. They are sometimes given as a gambler on the Exchange speculates in futures, an enhanced reputation being the windfall that is hoped to secure; and then we often give drugs as an experiment in the hope that they may do good." Much more might be quoted from these and others very high in the councils of the old school pointing to the futility of giving drugs to cure disease and the chaos of "rational
Page 12 - For the structural change is not disease, it is not co-extensive with disease ; and even in those cases where the alliance appears the closest, the statical or anatomical alteration is but one of other effects of physiological forces, which, acting under unphysiological conditions, constitute by this new departure the essential and true disease. For disease in its primary condition and intimate nature is in strict language dynamic ; it precedes, underlies, evolves, determines, embraces, transcends,...
Page 7 - The century has witnessed a revolution in the treatment of disease and the growth of a new school of medicine. The old schools, regular and homoeopathic, put their trust in drugs, to give which was the alpha and omega of their practice. For every symptom there was a score of medicines — vile, nauseous compounds in one case; bland, harmless dilutions in the other.
Page 33 - 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 11 - Human life is in no respect regulated by purely physical laws, which only obtain among inorganic substances. The material substances of which the human organism is composed no longer follow, in this vital combination, the laws to which material substances in the inanimate condition are subject ; they are regulated by the laws peculiar to vitality alone, they are themselves animated just as the whole system is animated.
Page 19 - whose sole aim is to perfect his art, can avail himself of no other information respecting medicines than " First. What is the pure action of each by itself on the human body ? " Second. What do observations of its action in this or that simple or complex disease teach us?