Homoeopathy, as practised in Manchester : contrasted with its alleged principles / by William Roberts.

  • Roberts, Sir William, 1830-1899.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Homoeopathy, as practised in Manchester : contrasted with its alleged principles / by William Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were teeming with living things whirling around in it ; frequent sneezing; toothache, especially when eating warm food ; aversion to meat soup ; screwing together iD the region of the stomach; colic with constipation; in- flammation of the inguinal glands; cough with vomiting when expectorating; tearing pain in the left side of the chest; violent pain in the small of the back ; glandular swellings in the nape of the neck; tearing pain in the upper arm; sensation in walking, as if the calves were too short; swelling of the feet; painful cramp in the right sole, and especially in the big toe, during a walk ; much yawning; bad dreams, with violent weeping; profuse general night sweat ; itching and biting of the whole body, &c., &c.—Jahrs New Manual, pp. 798-816. Carbonate of lime or chalk (calcarea carbonica), which is found in our ordinary drinking-water, and in the vegetables we eat, produces above one thousand symptoms; alumina 17 pages of symptoms, sulphur 32 pages, charcoal 16 pages, and so on for a number of other inert substances which we are in the constant habit of taking with our food, drink, or the air we breathe. And let it be remembered these are not the antiquated first provings of Hahnemann merely, but what are incorpo- rated in the newest editions of the homoeopathic materia medica. On a basis like this is the superstructure of homoeo- pathy reared ! If I were to characterize these provings in language expressive of my own opinion of their merit, I should probably be deemed slanderous—certainly prejudiced; but I will step aside, and make way for an eminent
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