Homœopathy : explained and illustrated / by T. Battye.

  • Battye, Thomas
Date:
1854
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    diseases; none of which ever cure. If sinall-pox and measles come together,—if the stronger comes last, it suspends the other; but, if the weaker comes last, it can do nothing against the stronger, which repels the new one.. Thus we often see diseased persons guaranteed against infection. Vaccination will not take effect if the child is ill of a stronger dissimilar disease. Persons in consumption will not take fevers, except of a violent character, as I have shewn before; and in like manner we must remember that medicines also, on the Allopathic principle^ must be given in very strong doses; if not, they will not even suspend the ailment, however long continued; and if they are, we have seen their effect. Now, with such lessons received from nature, is it not astonishing that men should go on for ages attacking the patient till his strength can no longer sustain it,-~when they prove continually, they can merely suspend the disease; —and keep adding artificial, dissimilar, ones, to it ? ({ would have it borne in mind throughout, that I do not deny that the old School sometimes perform perfect cures; but that I main¬ tain, that, in such cases, it is by the use of medicines on the Homoeopathic principle, discovered by chance^ and therefore administered so blindly, as oftener to be pernicious than beneficial, in the different varieties of the disease in which they have been observed to do such wonders.) Often, when the suspension of the original disease is no longer possible, the artificial and natural will coalesce; and produce, what they themselves call, in many of their writings, incurable; and incomparably worse diseases than the original malady; and which the most philosophic treatment will require years to eradicate. When a Doctor confesses he can only administer palliatives^ the patient feels quite easy that the medicines themselves can do no harm; they are quite simple: very far from that; palliatives are of just the same class as the rest; but there is one good thing in their application, certainly; for the primary effect is known of those medicines that are used as such; and so, however injurious in their contrary ultimate one, they do produce a moment’s good, at whatever cost it may be; which cannot be said of those that are not understood )■
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