Introductory Lecture to Course at Hahnemann College, Philadelphia, 1867-8 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to Course at Hahnemann College, Philadelphia, 1867-8<br/><br/>A famous much talked of symptom is the fanlike motion of the wings of the nose in Lycopodium. This one symptom basa literature, such quarrels arose about it. It should never be forgotten that the real symptom of Lycopodium is not a fanlike but a Spasmodic motion of the nostrils, and it corresponds with a dozen of others of this drug, as we will see in the lectures. If the other symptoms of the case do not correspond with Lycopodium, and it is given according to this one single symptom, it will either not make a cure of the case, or the cure will be merely an accidental one. It also no longer stands as a unicum. Since Gross ascertained, in asthma, Ferrum has the same as a characteristic. And how could it? The fanlike motion is a symptom in all diseases with difficult breathing, and we cannot expect to cure'all by Lycopodium. In short, a symptom that is found in one Of our drugs and in no other, never is a characteristic because it is a unicum every day we may find the very same in another, and on the other hand, it may be a very good genuine symptom and a unicum, still very far from being a real characteristic. There are a great many more such peculiarities of a very different value; further observations only can decide.

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