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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    serving the tendency of the vital organs to re- lieve themselves from disease hy evacuations, which they encouraged and promoted, fancying the true method was at length acquired; nor did they suspect such seeming relief, far from contri- buting to a permanent cure, by exhausting the strength prolonged the evil, the primitive affec- tion at length returning under a disguised and malignant character. Yet, where organs indispensable to existence are threatened with a mortal disease, the energy of the vitality is enabled to avert immediate danger, by means of external local symptoms, transporting it to parts of less moment, these efforts are only temporary, and without the aid of homoeopathy, procrastinate to no distant pe- riod that fate which is inevitable. The allopathist assuming the efforts of nature to be salutary, and exaggerating the effects ascribed to this power, sought to promote and still farther develop them, expecting by so doing he was performing a radical cure ; thus in geld- ing to an opinion embraced without scrutiny, he practised to the detriment of his patient and the disappointment of his hopes, nor did he remark the derivative symptoms not only combine with
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