Family homoeopathy / By John Ellis.

  • John Ellis
Date:
1881
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Credit: Family homoeopathy / By John Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    INTRODUCTION. LAW OF CURE. Homoeopathy differs from all other systems of medical prae* tice, in being based upon a law of nature; and it is, therefore, strictly a scientific system. Like is cured by like, is the fun- damental law—that is, a remedy will cure symptoms when they arise from some other cause, similar to those which it will itsell cause if it is taken during health. The allopathic materia medica, or knowledge of the action of remedies, is derived from the em- pirical administration of poisons to the sick, their use in domestic practice, their being taken through accident or design, and the giving of them to brutes ; and allopathists are guided simply by past experience in administering them to the sick, with no fixed rule or law to guide them. The homoeopathic materia medica is the result of carefully proving remedies on the healthy, or the giv- ing of them during health, and accurately noting down the symp- toms which they cause ; and when given to the sick, they are administered in accordance with the law of cure named above. Homoeopathic remedies, then, act in the direction of the disease, and simply excite a reaction which overcomes the diseased action. It follows, as a necessary consequence, that if remedies are given which will excite symptoms similar to those which already exist, they must be given in small doses, or they will most cer- tainly aggravate the symptoms seriously, and experience has shown that this is unnecessary, hence the small doses of homoe- opathy.
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