A popular view of homoeopathy / by the Rev. Thomas R. Everest.

  • Everest, Thomas R. (Thomas Roupell), -1855
Date:
1842
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    normal state we call disease. Resulting as they do from a change in the action of the force of life, they must be purely and entirely dynamic*—a new state of existence in fact: an alteration in the play of the power which reigns over the body, which might, a priori, be expected to effect a change in the construction of the material frame which is under its control. Change of structure, therefore, is not the cause] of disease: it is a simple result of disease : it is, like every other aberration from the normal state of a sound mind in a sound body, merely a token that the Prin- ciple of life, dynamic itself, is dynamically disturbed. This Principle of life is never disturbed without the individual feeling it: and that very feeling is what is called a symptom. The quantity of disturbance is measured by the symptoms: the whole, therefore, of what a patient complains of—the totality of the symptoms which be- token a non-normal action of the vital power, indicates the disease with which the individual is afflicted. And inas- * La vieille idee qu'une maladie est quelque chose d'etranger Ji I'in- dividu qui en est attaint, un principe kcre introduit dans son organisme, un monstre malfaisant a. combattre, une entite, enfin, quel que le soit le fades qu'on lui donne, est unedes plus funestes qu'ait popularise I'allopathie. C'est d'elle qu'est ne le besoin de trouver un agent destructeur du principe morbifique, un remede a chacun de ces entites: et de 1^ toutes les facheuses consequences qui en sont result6es par la pratique.—Bib. Horn. An. 34, p. 39. t Change of structure, when brought about by any violent external means, a blow for example, may, from the intimate connection existing between the body and the power which rules it, influence the play of that power, and derange its action. In all other cases, however, dis- ease is purely dynamic, and change of structure a very natural effect of it.
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