Organon of homoeopathic medicine.

  • Samuel Hahnemann
Date:
1869 [©1859]
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    Golden,^ Bailey, and Michaelis,! in tlie treatment of other kinds of malignant quinsy ? It is evidently because this metal brings on of itself a species of angina of the worst description.;]: It was certainly by homoeopathic means that Sauter§ cured an ulcerous inflammation of the mouth, accompanied with aphthae and foetor of the breath, similar to that which occurs in salivation, when he prescribed a solution of Corrosive Sublimate as a gargle and that Block || removed aphthas by the use of mercurial prepara tions, since, among other ulcerations of the mouth, this substanci particularly produces a species of ajphthce, as we are informed by Schlegel^* and Th. i\.crey.f f HeckeiJJ used various medicinal compounds successfully in a case of caries succeeding small-pox. Fortunately, a portion of Mercury was contained in each of these mixtures, to which it may be imagined that this remedy will yield (homoeopathically), because Mercury is one of the few medicinal agents which excites of itself caries, as proved by the many excessive mercurial courses used against syphilis, or even against other diseases, among which are those related by G. P. Michaelis.§§ This metal, which becomes so formidable when its use is prolonged, on account of the caries of which it then becomes the exciting cause, exercises, notwithstanding, a very salutary homoeopathic in- fluence in the caries which follows mechanical injuries of the bones, some very remarkable instances of which have been trans- mitted to us by J. Schlegel,l|ll J6rdens,=^*^ and J. M. Miiller.fff *■ Medic. Observ. and Inquir., 1, No. 19, p. 211. t In Eichter's Chirurg. Biblioth., V., pp. 737—739. J Physicians have likewise endeavored to cure the croup by means of Mercury; but they generally failed in the attempt, because this metal cannot produce (of itself) in the mucous membranes of the trachea, a change similar to that particular modification which the disease engenders. Sulphuretem-cakis, which excites cough by impeding respiration, and still more so the tincture of Sponga-tosta, act more homoeopathically in their special effects, and are consequently much more eflScacious, particularly when administered in the smallest possible doses. (See my Mat. Med., vi.) § In Hufeland's Journal, VII., ii. II Medic. Bemerkungen (Med. Observations), p. 161. ** In Hufeland's Journal, VII., iv. ff London Med. Journal, 1788. IX In Hufeland's Journal, i., p. 362. ^ Ibid., June, 1809, vi., p. 57. nil Hufeland's Journal, v., pp. 605, 610. *** Ibid., X., ii. •ftj Obs. Med. Chirur., ii., cas. 10.