Organon of homoeopathic medicine.

  • Samuel Hahnemann
Date:
1869 [©1859]
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    of exciting such alternate mental aberrations when adminlsterei to a person in health. Percival. Stahl, Quarin,=^ and many other physicians, have observed that Cinchona occasions ojjpi'ession of the stomach. Others (Morton, Friborg, Bauer, and Quarin) have seen this substance produce vomiting and diarrhoea^ (D. Criiger and Morton) syncope I some an excessive diMlity ^ many (Thom.son, Richard, Stahl, and C. E. Fisher) a kind of jaundice'^ others (Quarin and Fischer) Intterness of the mouthy and yet others, tension of the oelly. And it is precisely when these complicated evils occur in intermittent fevers, that Torti and Cleghorn recom.- mend the use of Cinchona alone. The advantageous eifects of this bark, in cases of exhaustion, indigestion, and loss of appe- tite, resulting ft-om acute fevers (particularly when the latter have been treated by venesection, evacuants, and debilitants), are founded upon the faculty which it possesses of de^yTessing excessively the vital powers., producing mental and bodily ex- haustion^ indigestion^ and loss of appetite., as observed by Cleghorn, Friborg, Criiger, Romberg, Stahl, Thomson, and others.f HoY>r would it have been possible to stop haemorrhages with Ipecacuanha^ as eifected by Baglivi, Barbeyrac, Gianella, Dal- berg, Bergius, and others, if this medicine did not of itself pos- sess the faculty of exciting haemorrhage homoeopathically? as Murray, Scott, and GeoffreyJ have witnessed. How could it be so efficacious in asthma, and particularly in spasmodic asthma, as it is described to have been by Akenside,§ Meyer,|| Bang,*=^ Stoll,ff Fouquet,J:j: and Ranoe,§§ if it did not of itself produce (without exciting any evacuation) asthma^^vA spjamnodiG asthma in particular, as Murray, j] \ Geoffroy,*'*^ and Scottfft have * Q\ioted in my Mat. Med., iii. t Mat. Med., iii. X Ibid., pp. 184, 185. \ Medic. Transact., I., No. 7, p. 39. !i Diss, de Ipecac, refracta dosi usu, p. 34. ^-* Praxis Medica, p. 346. ff Prsalectiones, p. 221. t^ Journal de Medecine, torn. 62, p. 137. \\ In Act. Reg. Soc. Med. Hafn., ii., p. 163, iii., p. 361. llliMedie. Pract. Bibl., p. 237. #«* Traite do la Matiers Medicale, ii., p. 157. fit In ]Med. Coninient. of Edinb., iv., p. 74.