Remarks on certain medical principles and publications / by Joseph Hamernik ; translated from the German by F. Marks.

  • Hamernjk, Joseph, 1810-1887.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Remarks on certain medical principles and publications / by Joseph Hamernik ; translated from the German by F. Marks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    that their essence cannot be a formal one, to be defined by the microscope ; that it is qualitative, and that therefore new developments from similar forms of the cells may have a widely different signification. From a clinical stand-point, experience leads us to the conclusion that a cancerous deposit never remains isolated, even though the present methods of examination show us no difference between isolated and dispersed cancerous deposits; the so-called “cures” by corrosives, fire, or the knife, may refer to isolated deposits, and the practice of such “cures” has, therefore, an indeter- minate value. Klebs says, “ These elements get quite beyond reason, and do not cease to increase until knife or fire makes an end of the spectre.” This flippant manner of speaking, though unbefitting an anatomist, is often to be met with amongst those charlatans, who, armed with pre- scriptions, knives and forceps, give themselves out as “ saviours of life.” Now Cellular Pathology has no connection whatever with practical medicine, and Klebs, as Virchow’s best friend, is even of opinion that in this respect it presents “ an important stumbling-block in the way of progress.” Virchow has done much towards making the German compulsory Vaccination Laws possible, and his tendency as a practical physician is finally visible enough from his advocacy (worthy of an anatomist) of the Hunyadi-Janos Bitter-water. According to Leibig and Bunsen this horrible Hunyadi-Janos Bitter- water exceeds in bitter salt and Glauber’s salt every hitherto known mineral water ; which any one would take to be a sufficient reason for avoiding it, seeing that the action of a spring is injurious just in proportion as it differs from ordinary drinking water. When will doctors learn the superfluity and mischief of all aperients ? It would seem as if Hahnemann’s experience and teachings were utterly un- known to them, and, unfortunately, it cannot be denied that many homceopathists of the present day partly ignore these teachings and are partly led away by “ eminent \men.” In
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