Digest of the homoeopathic principles / [Edward Williams].

  • Edward Williams
Date:
1837
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    medicines similar in their effects to the morbid irritation, and these were prohibited, having been found, when casually used homoeopathically, to yield dangerous results; the idea of minute quantities never being entertained, or the spe- cific influence of medicines surmised. I The cure of diseases was attempted in the same school, by subduing the most prominent symptoms with medicines that produced effects directly opposite to them, hence termed the mitigating or palliative mode. ^ Or by a re- moval of the supposed material cause, nor were they at any time led to consider the origin of disease otherwise; the reaction of affected organs being regarded as sources of morbid irritation, an opinion still prevailing, and which regulated their treatment towards expelling the material cause by evacuants and bleeding, imagining they were thus enabled to attain a rational mode of cure. The consequence of this symptomatic method was the reappearing of maladies under an aggravated form, evincing the internal evil was only suppressed. An hypothesis of a morbid change in the composition of the blood either ingenerated or ’ See page 17. B 2
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