Digest of the homoeopathic principles / [Edward Williams].

  • Edward Williams
Date:
1837
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    n doctrine, could we otherwise interpret why opium, which in moderate doses is attended with obstinate costiveness, should yet be found the only cure in severe and dangerous cases of constipation. It is unquestionable, that sulphurous mineral waters have the virtue of causing eruptions re- sembling pruriginous affections—it is this same property that enables them to remove various cuticular diseases. In mercurial salivation, accompanied with ulcers in the mouth and throat, nitric acid is especially available—similar effects ensue from bathing with it the surface of the body. Arsenic in healthy persons gives rise to indu- rated tumours; it has the character of dissipating scirrhous glands—in fevers of an intermitting type its curative power is well attested ; it has also been accused of occasioning like symptoms. These cited observations show, the homoeopa- thic principle of curing, through the medium of a similar disease was casually adopted, though contrary to their determinate mode of reasoning; yet the simplicity of its operation and its satis- factory results, could not but raise, though mo- mentarily, the veil of prejudice.
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