The clinical guide, or, pocket-repertory for the treatment of acute and chronic diseases / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated by Charles J. Hempel ... enriched by the addition of the new remedies, by Samuel Lilienthal.

  • George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr
Date:
1869
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Credit: The clinical guide, or, pocket-repertory for the treatment of acute and chronic diseases / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated by Charles J. Hempel ... enriched by the addition of the new remedies, by Samuel Lilienthal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gross in llie scale of dilution, the more they recede also in (heir cftects and every one a])pears in its particular^ strictly different or specific peculiarities: so that, when, for example, in a given case of disease, where the choice lies between two or three diiferent remedies, one as well as the other tnay help in loic dilations. This ?iever can be admitted with the higher and highest dilutions^ as soon as the case shows strongly marked symptoms for only one of these very similar remedies. § 19. A known fact, wliich helps to corroborate this view of the qualitative difference of the dilutions, is among otliers also the effect of medicaments and poisons in large, massive, or at any rate sufficient doses, to produce their noxious ge- neric effect. In such doses, all narcotics, as Belladonna, Opium, Stramonium, act in a manner equally stupefying, producing death by apoplexy or paralysis ; all drastics pro- ducing vomiting or purging; the so-called acrid poisons in-^ iiammation of tiie stomach and bowels, and at this point of