Digest of the homoeopathic principles / [Edward Williams].

  • Edward Williams
Date:
1837
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Credit: Digest of the homoeopathic principles / [Edward Williams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    similar to those by which she sometimes termi- nates disease; endeavouring to deflect the evil, by exciting evacuations from organs which re- semble in construction the affected part; this is the derivative or counter-irritant system. And thus has the experience of ages been accumu- lated and misapplied, in the imitating results equivocal and inefficient for the dissipating dis- ease, indolently copying nature, whose pre- serving influence is subordinate to the organic laws of the body, which laws were incapable of arresting the fatal hemorrhage from a lacerated artery, nor competent to the bringing into appo- sition the gaping lips of a wound. It was not to be expected, a monitor so void of reason should inculcate very exact principles. It is true the torture of counter-stimulus not uncommonly suspends the primary symp- toms, yet in the majority of diseases, when na- ture has become accustomed to the distant irritation, the malady returns with increased virulence, the constitution being less able to withstand a tw'ofold contest. Whilst some physicians modelled derivative systems from the manifest salutary efforts of nature, others were exerting their skill in ob-
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