Hydropathy and homoeopathy impartially appreciated : with an appendix of notes illustrative of the influence of the mind on the body / by Edwin Lee.
- Date:
- 1847
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hydropathy and homoeopathy impartially appreciated : with an appendix of notes illustrative of the influence of the mind on the body / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![to them, as we have seen that analogous effects often occur after a pill or], liquid, composed of inert substance, but which the patient imagines to possess some extraordinary power. The fourth case is that of a young \yoman, to whom a homoeopathic dose of a preparation of nux vomica was given, in whom the peculiar symp- toms that usually follow a large dose of strych- nine were produced, though she had been led to believe the remedy prescribed was merely a dose of calomel. Now, when we consider that an ordinary dose of strychnine is only one-six- teenth or one-twelfth of a grain, it would not occasion much surprise, even admitting that an homoeopathic infinitesimal dose was actually given, (the quantity is not stated,) that the peculiar symptoms of this energetic medicament should be produced in an isolated case. The only fair test is to make experiments with this or any other homoeopathic dose on a number of individuals; this has been done by impartial persons, and also by homoeopathists themselves, subject to the supervision of others; and, as has been seen from some of the instances ad- duced in the preceding pages, the result has been always a failure. Homoeopathy has fur- ther tended to make more generally known](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21912087_0111.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
