Digest of the homoeopathic principles / [Edward Williams].

  • Edward Williams
Date:
1837
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    malady; yet as most diseases are of immaterial origin, at least not apparent to the senses, they were driven to the necessity of inventing the morbid essence. By comparing the aberrations presented by organs after death, and the derangements of their functions in the living body, they deduced conclusions, relative not only of the changes which occur in disease, but also of the essential source of the disturbing power, although it is evident, the consequence cannot be in itself and at the same time both cause and effect. How fallacious must any system be, that prescribes medicines whose curative tendency is unknown, for a cause equally obscure ! The pursuers of this untangible cause, which, like an ignis fatuus, still eluded them, now turned their attention to the symptoms which appear in disease, hoping thereby to discrimi- nate with unerring precision the character of the malady : here was displayed a boundless re- gion for hypotheses, and systems followed theories in quick succession, each in itself containing, like the produce of the Colchian soil, elements for its own destruction; because the alleged variety of diseases could only be combated by
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