An essay on homoepathy.

  • Wheaton, P. M.
Date:
1846
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Credit: An essay on homoepathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Light is the natural stimulus to the eye, and during its healthy state, it would require a very strong light to give rise to inflammation of this organ. Yet during active disease of the eye, the least ray of light is absolutely in- tolerable, and might even endanger the sight of the pa- tient. Our joints tolerate freedom of motion to a great degree during health, yet, during disease of the joints, the least motion causes extreme suffering, and the free motion to which we subject our articulations during health, might destroy our limbs, or even life itself. A person during health might take a grain of musk, and doubtless feel no inconvenience from it, but a grain of musk will saturate the air in a thousand rooms, so as to produce a perceptible smell in every part of them, and a gentleman is known to one of us, upon whom this air would excite convulsions ; and similar instances are not uncommon in individuals subject to spasmodic diseases. The Homoeopathic physician knowing by experiments on the healthy, what organs are affected by a given reme- dy, and then administering that remedy according to the great law of Homoeopathy, (the law of similarities,) di- rects his remedy directly to the suffering organ, and this is the reason why we are obliged to use such minute doses. How much Opium dare ordinary physicians give in con- gestion of the brain % Not a particle, and why ] Because they well know it causes congestion of the brain, and woidd increase the difficulty. 'Or how much Belladonna would they dare to give in acute inflammation of the brain '. Not a particle, for they would reasonably expect it to destroy their patient. Neither should we venture to use the above remedies were we confined to their doses. Yet every Homoeopathic physician well knows that they are among our most valuable remedies in the above diseases,
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