Homoeopathy in 1851 / edited by J. Rutherfurd Russell, M.D.

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1852
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    other hand, Homoeopathists are every day directing more and more attention to the physiological aspects of diseases which they had before much neglected.” In the “ British and Foreign .Medical Review” for January, 1846, the learned editor, Dr Forbes, among the best expedients for bringing his art out of its present de- plorable position, recommends the future cultivators of it “ to re-consider and study afresh the physiological and curative effects of all our therapeutic agents, with the view to obtain more positive results than we now possess,” and “ to endeavour to substitute for the monstrous system of Poly- pharmacy now universally prevalent [in the old school W.H.], one that is, at least, vastly more simple, more in- telligible, more agreeable, and, it may be hoped, one more rational, more scientific, more certain, and more bene- ficial.” Professor Maly, of Gratz, already mentioned, urges the exhibition of medicines one at a time. Dr Sie- bert, too, advocates the greatest possible simplification of the number and form of drugs in prescribing. Now in these, and similar advices from various Allopathic authorities, and which have been partly carried into prac- tical effect, though to a very small extent, by Allopathic physicians, both in America and Europe, a very satisfactory testimony is given to two of Hahnemann’s fundamental principles, which he thus expressed, whilst those who now echo his words were enjoying the polypharmics of the nur- sery :— “ There is no way more certain, or more natural, for finding infallibly the proper effects of medicines on man, than to try them separately, and in moderate doses, on healthy persons, and to note the changes which result from them in the physical and moral condition.”—P. 194.* “ It will never enter the mind [of the true physician] to * Exposition de la Doctrine Medicale Homoeopathique, 2d edition. Paris, 1834.
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