A practical view of homoeopathy : being an address to British practitioners on the general applicability and superior efficacy of the homoeopathic method in the treatment of disease with cases / by Stephen Simpson.

  • Simpson, Ludi, 1953-
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1836
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    phenomena. The spontaneous cure of disease, therefore is affected by the reaction induced in parts of the organism not primarily affected, and hence may be referred to the law of antagonism. It is scarcely necessary to observe that antagonism is only there possible where a sympathy of the parts with each other already exists, for sympathy and antagonism bear the same relation to each other as sensibility and irritability, since every reaction supposes a susceptibility. If we endeavour with Rau, to follow the law of antagonism in its more special manifestations, we shall find that it is cha- facterized either : 1. By increased action in a different system of the organism, in one, however, which sympathises with the one primarily affected. In this way vascular fevers are cured by the antagonistically increased action of the skin and kidneys, as mani- fested by the increased secretion of urine and sweat; pleurisies, by increased perspiration, some- times by expectoration, but rarely by diarrhoea, as was long since remarked by Valleriola.* So also, gout, and sciatica,f and even dropsy,j and * Observ. Med. Lib. i. p. 331. t Forest. Observ. Lib. iii. Obs. 4. Storch Prac. Medic. Casual, Tom. X. p. 453. I Storch, Weiberkrankheiten, p- 63- A. J. G. Idelers Abhandl. liber die Krisen- p. ]56.