Electro-homoeopathic medicine : a new medical system, being a popular and domestic guide founded on experience / by Cesar Mattei ; translated by R.M. Theobald.

  • Cesare Mattei
Date:
1891
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Credit: Electro-homoeopathic medicine : a new medical system, being a popular and domestic guide founded on experience / by Cesar Mattei ; translated by R.M. Theobald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    INTEODUCTION. The human body is composed of blood and lymph, two substances to which is entrusted the constant nutrition and preservation of the different parts of the organism, which, though different in them- selves, both in form and in the functions they are called upon to discharge, are, notwithstanding, essentially similar, since they are all primarily composed of blood and lymph, and perpetually receive their nutrition from these two elements. Any change in one or the other of these liquids must necessarily lead to a change in the norma] state of the individual, and produce an abnormal or pathologic state. In accepting this fundamental theory, as simple as it is true, it is easy to under- stand that the composition of my remedies, called electro-liomoeopatliic on account of their instant and efficacious action, must embrace a number of simple medicinal principles, which, in virtue of then- nature and their mode of action on the whole body and on the different parts of which it is composed, must respond to the combined requhe- ments of the various morbid elements, which, by