Homoeopathy and its principles explained / [John Epps].

  • John Epps
Date:
1850
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    Again, behold the youth, full of power, “ with marrow whose C1IAP. bones are moistened,” in the hey-dey of life, affected with turgid cheeks, flashing eyes, enlarged and throbbing arteries in his temples, talking madly, trying to break from the kind hands that restrain him. What is this ? Is it life ? Yes, it is. Is it life in regular action ? No. It is life in irregular action—it is DISEASE. See the full grown man, the centre of the social circle, the provider for the wants of his happy home, the bread-winner for them all—the man of strong energy, of active habits—laid on the bed of sickness: See his pallid look, his anxious countenance, his sunken eyes, his panting nostrils, his brow clothed with the cold damp of death, his fingers convulsively active in picking the bed clothes ; and, at his side, see the loved one, who lives in him, living a new life—a life of unsleeping activity, watching every look and speaking thanks in her looks at every respite from his pains, his restlessness. What is this ? Is it death ? No; it is life, exhausting itself in its destructive efforts—it is DISEASE. What then is disease but irregular, abnormal, manifesta- tions of life? Disease is vitalitg disturbed in its manifestations : life, not disturbed in its own nature, but disturbed, because the apparatuses, the organs, through which it acts, are not in their natural, their normal, their regular state. Health, then, is life, acting through the organs of the body in their natural, their regular, their normal condition: disease, also, is life, acting through the organs in an unnatural, an irre- gular, an abnormal condition : in other words, health is life, acting through healthy organs : disease is life, acting through unhealthy organs. But it is LIFE in BOTII. Disease and health, both are life’s actions, both are the effects of vitality. The conditions, essential to health, are life and a natural con- dition of the organs ; a condition, like that in which they were created, and in relation to which they were pronounced “ good.” The conditions, essential to disease, are life and a condition of the organs contrary to nature, in which disturbed condition the life, acting through them, will, in most cases, if unaided, end in death. /