Od, or odo-magnetic, force : and explanation of its influence on homoeopathic medicines, from the odic stand-point, with opinions of medical homoeopathic authorities on the sanative effect of od-preparations, together with several sketches of interesting cases of disease : appendix, the conscientious, educated physician at the sick-bed according to the odic laws, magnetizing and odic touch, from the German, after the best sources / translated by Robert Rohland for physicians and for the friends of homoeopathy.

Rohland, Robert

Date:: 1871

Credit: Od, or odo-magnetic, force : and explanation of its influence on homoeopathic medicines, from the odic stand-point, with opinions of medical homoeopathic authorities on the sanative effect of od-preparations, together with several sketches of interesting cases of disease : appendix, the conscientious, educated physician at the sick-bed according to the odic laws, magnetizing and odic touch, from the German, after the best sources / translated by Robert Rohland for physicians and for the friends of homoeopathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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tion, furnish it with polarized Od. The same is done by those forces, which construct a living object, a plant or an animal; they endow it from the first with Od-polarity ; there as well as here the poles emit positive and negative Od for the entire time of the existence of the object. In fine, as Reichen- bach has it, Entire nature seems to be pervaded by that which I comprise under the name of ' Od;' seems to be filled with its phenomena, formed by its polarity ; the organic struc- tures obey its laws, it shapes crystallization, it sways over plants and animals. Man—his physical nature as well as his psychical—is a being in which the odical dualism has the function of coefficient. By the discovery of the odic forces and their currents our ideas of disease have entirely changed. Till then, physi- cians in curing diseases assumed the presence of a disease- matter ; they were intent on removing this disease-matter, al- though it existed only in their imagination, with drugs, vhose effect they measured invariably by their capacity of promoting perspiration and urine, of causing evacuations frun the stomach or rectum, from above or below, never cheaming of taking into account the vital principle being tLus so unreasonably abused. Yet how feeble, how very trfliug sometimes are the causes that produce a revolution in he human body ! How trifling, for example, is the con- tagious matter which may produce a whole series of diseases in amther individual! Merely psychical affections even, as joy, fe,r, fright, exert a great influence over the nerves ; not only dt they call forth involuntary motions of the body, but they map produce also lasting distempers, nay, even secre- tions of natter. Grief causes tears to flow, the appetite for a p^rticilar dish increases the secretion of saliva, fright provokes perspiration ; anxiety, diarrhoea, and all are accom- paniel by severe palpitations of the heart. Fright is more particdarly a psychical act, formed in company with strong positivt Od developing through the body, and consequently it is the ause of convulsions and cramps, which are an odic positive tate. The caise of every disease-phenomenon lies in the dis-

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