Homœopathy : explained and illustrated / by T. Battye.

  • Battye, Thomas
Date:
1854
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Credit: Homœopathy : explained and illustrated / by T. Battye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    use among Allopathists, which, a Hoinoeopathist could tell you, would produce the symptoms, you have no specific to rely upon. The few specifics which Allopathy is known to possess, produce, when given to a healthy person, exactly the symptoms they cure: but, as the 'principle is not acknow¬ ledged nor understood, the symptoms they would produce have not been watched and noted down in order to the restric- ' tion of those medicines to certain ailments in certain parts of the,body; therefore, those medicines, however valuable in themselves, when understood, and restricted within their pro¬ per limits,—not only fail of their intended effects, but, given in the large doses of Allopathy, make a grievous addition to the Patient’s complaints. The small doses that work the cure, are, no doubt, the most incredible part of the newly- discovered science; but, as to that,-—if it is found, however unlikely, that the small dose is large enough,—why give more than sufficient, of medicine, which can never do good but as far as actually needed ? Dr. Routh confesses that as far as he had tried^ he cannot deny that small doses, especially in large dilutions, act very satisfactorily; he has repeatedly seen it: but he talks of so small ones being affectation. Why did he not try till they began to fail, and then stop at that point ? He gives his decision of them thus :—we are compelled to conclude that the infinitesimal dose, neither by analogy nor upon any theoretical grounds^ can have any power upon the human frame.” Can he explain his theory ? or give an ana¬ logy to enlighten us with regard to the action of medicine on the human body ? He believed in the small doses because he had seen their action; let him try the smaller, and he will believe in them too. How continually we experience the wonderful effects of perfectly imponderable and invisible par¬ ticles of matter on the human frame ! a flash of lightning may strike us dead, and it is done by 'material particles. Both hearing, seeing, and smelling, and even warmth from external fire, we believe to be caused by material particles acting in some uncomprehended and incomprehensible manner. The poison of some serpents is known to cause almost immediate death, received into the body through the point of a needle ;
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