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

  • Roberts, Sir William, 1830-1899.
Date:
1862
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    may call it, of the unsubstantiality of this law in the preceding Chapter, will not have left the reader alto- gether unprepared for the real state of the case. I have already directed attention to the differences in the treatment of cholera in Paris and London : let me now present a few additional instances. In chronic catarrh of the bladder, Dr. Hastings* * * § ** effected a cure by pareira brava; Dr. Pope'j' by bella- donna ; and Dr. Henderson^ by mercurius. Acute articular rheumatism is one of the most easily recognised diseases, and, as compared with others, one of the most uniform in its course. Here, if anywhere, one would expect a uniformity of treatment. In vain ] Dr. Henderson § cures his cases with bryonia, aconite, and belladonna; Dr. Henriques || employs bryonia only once, and belladonna and aconite not at all. His remedies are sulphur, china, arnica, rhus, and antimony. Dr. Black,* '1 in addition to most of the above, gives pulsatilla, spigelia, arsenic, mercury, lachesis, colchicum, and nux. Lastly, Drs. Wurmb and Caspar,ft in forty-seven cases, resorted to aconite, bryonia, pulsatilla, mezereon, colocynth, rhodo- * Brit. Journ. of Horn., Oct., 1855, p.593. + Brit. Journ. of Horn., July, 1855, p. 481. X Henderson’s Practice, p. 211. § Loc. Cit., p. 89. || Brit. Journ. of Horn., Jan., 1854, p. 35. ** Brit. Journ. of Horn., April, 1853, p. 230. +f Brit. Journ. of Horn., April, 1853, p. 220.