Digest of the homoeopathic principles / [Edward Williams].

  • Edward Williams
Date:
1837
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    introduced, and exciting diseases, was a long cherished doctrine: and the system was to be cleansed from such impurities, by inducing per- spiration, and scouring the stomach and intes- tines, on their favourite principle, remove the cause and the disease will disappear. Hence the classing of medicines under the general effects characterising them, as purgatives, diuretics. These gratuitous and vague suppositions served the purpose of convenience, as they were reduced under the form of systems of treatment, and solely expounded in the vivifying atmo- sphere of the schools. But the extreme suscepti- bility of the system at any attempt to introduce a foreign body into the circulation, should satisfy us, so irritable a principle could not endure a cu- taneous affection of twenty years’ continuance, if proceeding from material particles. By whom has been detected the morbid principle of gout or scrofula ? Disease, then, is to be attributed to the deviation of the vital principle from the healthy standard. The intelligent disciples of the former school conceal the fact of their treatment being directed towards the expelling peccant materials, pro- essing to imitate nature in soliciting discharges
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