Homoeopathy : What is it? : A statement and review of its doctrines and practices / A. B. Palmer.

  • Alonzo Benjamin Palmer
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[1881], ©1881
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    Standard preparatious in our pharmacopoeia, and whicli we have a right to retain because we are fully acquainted with their therapeutic use. Such preparations are, for instance, calomel and opium, ammonia and tartar emetic, chinchona and sul- phuric acid, etc. Henriques, in his work, page 276, however, says: A dis- tinguishing characteristic of Homeopathic practice is, the ad- ministering one single remedial agent at a time. Hempel says, vol. i, page 87: The method of alternating two medicines at regular intervals is generally resorted to in acute cases onlv, mentioning many articles that may thus be alternated, and adds: We hear of physicians (Homoeopathic) using four and even six medicines, not only in the same case, but at the same time, alternating them in regular order; and Luz, he savs, in a late publication, has proposed to mix the remedies, instead of alternating them. Thus wehave the consistency and universality of homoeo- pathic teachings, as a doctrine of life, a heavenly truth, illus- trated. It will be remembered that Hahnemann strongly recom- mended medication by olfaction as the mildest and safest, and quite as efficient a method as by swallowing. Rau says, Orga- non, p. 178: Very sensitive, hysteric females, are indeed affected by merely smelling of the medicine (I suppose he means the dilution), but the re-action occasioned by olfaction is very fleeting at any rate; and Hempel says, this should only be resorted to in purely nervous affections; adding, we doubt whether it can be depended upon in acute inflamma- ti(jns, or in disorders of any kind which may terminate in dan- gerous disorganizations. This method, I believe, has gene- rally been abandoned; and it is not so much to be regretted, as Hahnemann averred that smelling of a globule at the 30th dilution, or putting it upon the tongue and not drinking after it, was ver\ imich the same. With this opinion I am prepared to concur. The mode of ]3reparing homoeopathic medicines with many of the school has not changed 'since the time of its founder. In the Homoeopathic Medical College of Philadel-