Therapeutics founded upon organopathy and antipraxy / by William Sharp.
- William Sharp
- Date:
- 1886
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Credit: Therapeutics founded upon organopathy and antipraxy / by William Sharp. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![which oppresses. The action of the larger dose is the similar pointing out the case to be treated by Opium; the action of the smaller dose is the remedy. To give Opium to quiet an excited brain may, from Hahnemann's provings, be called homoeopathy; but it is wretchedly bad practice. Opium, as a remedy, in small doses, for an oppressed brain, is the best we know. Another great defect in his rule is its indefiniteness as applied by Hahnemann. He not only applies it to drugs, but also to a miscellaneous assembly of causes of disease, which are of the most diverse character. Wild examples of some of these are given in a long note to §. XXVI. of the Organon:— Thus are cured both physical affections and moral maladies. How is it that in the early dawn the brilliant Jupiter vanishes from the gaze of the beholder ? By a stronger very similar power acting on his optic nerve, the brightness of approaching day ! • [This is not a similar, but a stronger degree of the same power.] In situations replete with fetid odours, wherewith is it usual to soothe effectually the offended olfactory nerves? With snuff, that affects the sense of smell in a similar but stronger manner, &c.j &c. Other defects might be mentioned, but these are more than sufficient to prove that the principle, as explained by Hahnemann, is vague, obscure, and undefined. II. THE DEFECTS IN THE PROVINGS OF DRUGS IN HEALTH. (1). Their limitation to s7/mptoms.—Making inven- tories of symptoms only, whether in experimenting with](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21446210_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
