A popular view of homoeopathy / by the Rev. Th. Everest.

  • Everest, Thomas R. (Thomas Roupell), -1855
Date:
1835
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Credit: A popular view of homoeopathy / by the Rev. Th. Everest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any possible means of recovering after an acute attack of dis- ease; for the impression produced by the natural morbific cause would remain unchanged, and the patient would suffer all his life under the symptoms of the first disease with which he was attacked. Keeping in mind then this indisputable fact, that restoration to health is solely owing to the reaction of the vital powers, which reaction may be produced or provoked by pathogene- tic agents, we will proceed to consider in turn the three cases mentioned above. And first, of that in which the medicine administered bears no relation to the disease in question, or l Allopathy, as it is at present termed. In Allopathic treatment, the medicine prescribed affects a different part of the organism from that which is already suf- fering, and the symptoms produced artificially have nothing ] in common with the previous morbific ones. An artificial v disease, for example, is created in the bowels when the head is affected, and so on. Now if our premises were true, it cer- \ tainly does not appear reasonable that this mode of practice should be effectual. There is no denying that if all that is \ wanting is to create a disease somewhere or other, it would be sufficient to administer the first drug at hand, without any consideration of its peculiar properties; if it excited symptoms, ' it would restore health as a matter of course, if allopathic treatment were the proper system. Whether this fortuitous chance-medley administration of medicines has ever been adopted or not, none can tell save those who preside over the mysteries of pill and draught; certainly, whatever might be the effect of such a practice, cure would not be numbered amongst them. Right or wrong, however, Allopathy is the ordinary prac- tice of the world, and has been so for so many years that it is quite interwoven with all our ideas of healing. And we are so full of preconceived notions on this subject, so accustomed to the usual system, that we must get rid of very much deep-
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