Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... LECTURE V. PURE HOIffiOPATHT Any morbid action is cured by a similar action, if cured at all. The exceptions are apparent, not real. First: There may be poisons which threaten morbid action, which is prevented by their removal or neutralization. This is no cure of disease, and no exception to the law. If disease has been induced, it is cured according to the law. Secondly: There may be apparent death from sudden violence, after which chemical or physical agents may put the material organism in such a chemical or physical state as to be susceptible of a certain degree of vital action, after which its morbid character is removed by homoeopathic means. Indeed, the action of these strong stimulants which effect the partial restoration, is, so far as they act vitally, analogous to that of the lightning, blow or other violence by which animation had been suspended. Finally, many cases of disease have a tendency Read before the Central-New York Homceopathic Society. to a spontaneous termination in health. The patient may be greatly reduced; but the vital forces are ultimately triumphant, either without medicine, or in opposition to false and hurtful medication: in the last case, they achieve a double victory, against the combined forces of disease and drugs. In either case, it is merely a recovery, not a cure: the law is not violated. We bebeve in the universality of the therapeutic law, similia similibus curantur. A belief in its universality makes one of the fundamental distinctions between the pure homoeopathist and the homoeopathic eclectic. We have now considered the cure by similars, as a law of nature. We are next to consider it as an imperative rule or law in medicine considered as an art.--Similia similibus curentur, as well as curantur. This is one mo...
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