Organon of homoeopathic medicine.

  • Samuel Hahnemann
Date:
1869 [©1859]
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    the editors of the Bresslauer Sammlungen speak of the cure it has effected of haemoptysis ; and, finally, if Thomasius (accordino- to Haller) has used it successfully in uterine h^emorrhao-e • these cures are evidently owing to the power possessed by the plant of exciting of itself hcemorrhage and hcematiiria^ as observed by G. Hoffmann,^ and more especially of producing ajyistouxis^ as confirmed by Boecler.f Scovolo,$ among many others, cured a case where the urinary discharge was purulent, by Arbutus Uvor-ursi ; which never could have been performed if this plant had not the property of excitino- heat in the urinary jpassage^ with discharge of a mucous urine, as seen by Sauvages.§ And, though the frequent experience of Storck, Marges, Plan- chon, Du Monceau, F. C. Junker, Schinz, Ehrmann, and others, had not already established the fact that Colchicum-autumnale cures a species of dropsy, still this power was to have been expected from it, by reason of the peculiar property it possesses of dimin- ishing the urinary secretion, and of exciting at the same time a continual desire to j^ass water. It likewise causes the flow of a small quantity of urine, of a fiery red color, as witnessed by StorckII and De Berge.=^=^ The cure of an asthma attended with hypochondriasis, effected by Goritz,f f by means of Colchicum, and that of an asthma complicated with an apparent hydrothorax, per- formed by StorckjJJ with the same substance, were evidently grounded upon the homoeopathic property which it possesses of exciting by itself asthma and dyspnoea, as witnessed by De Berge.§§ Muralto|||| has seen what we may witness every day, viz., that Jalajp, besides creating gripes of the stomach, also causes great uneasiness and agitation. Every physician, acquainted with the facts upon which homoeopathy rests, will find it perfectly natural, ^ De Medicam. Officin. Leyden, 1738. f- Cynosura Mat. Med. Cont., p. 552. X In Girardi, de Uva-ursi. Padua, 1764. § Nosolog., iii., p. 200. ]| Libellus de Colchico. Vienna, 1763, p. 12. ^^ Journal de Medecine, xxii. ft A. E. Biichner, Miscell, Phys. Med. Mathem., Ann. 1728, Jul., pp. 121^ 1213. Erfurt, 1732. XX Ibid., cas. 11, 13. Cont., cas. 4, 9. \^ Ibid., loe. cit. |||| Misc. Nat. Cur., dec. ii. ann. 7, obs. 112.