Homœopathy: Its Tenets and Tendencies, Theoretical, Theological, and Therapeutical

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Sutherland and Knox, 1853 - 292 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 26 - Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard : the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up...
Pàgina 26 - And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Pàgina 252 - Led by this indication, he tries the effect of iodine on that complaint, and the result establishes the extraordinary fact that this singular substance, taken as a medicine, acts with the utmost promptitude and energy on goitre, dissipating the largest and most inveterate in a short time, and acting (of course, like all medicines, even the most approved, with occasional failures) as a specific, or natural antagonist, against that odious deformity.
Pàgina 164 - ... the more striking, singular, uncommon and peculiar (characteristic) signs and symptoms of the case of disease are chiefly and almost solely to be kept in view ; for it is more particularly these that very similar ones in the list of symptoms of the selected medicine must correspond to, in order to constitute it the most suitable for effecting the cure.
Pàgina 152 - ... and does not permit it to come to maturity; but, on the other hand, the cow-pox when near maturity does, on account of its great similarity, homreopathically diminish very much the supervening smallpox and make it much milder...
Pàgina 43 - Sundew to the decillionth, but shake each of the bottles with twenty or more succussions from a powerful arm, in the hand of which the bottle is held, in that case this medicine, which I have discovered to be the specific remedy for the frightful epidemic...
Pàgina 228 - Some homoeopathists," he says, " have made the experiment in cases where they deemed one remedy suitable for one portion of the symptoms of a case of disease, and a second for another portion, of administering both remedies at once, or almost at once; but I earnestly deprecate such hazardous experiments, that can never be necessary, though they may sometimes seem to be of use.
Pàgina 185 - ... soap, the patient then placed for a quarter of an hour in an alkaline bath, containing a pound of the carbonate of potash to twenty gallons of water, at the temperature of 92°, the skin well dried, and this sulphuro-alkaline ointment afterwards thoroughly rubbed in; the disease may thus be effectually cured in two or three days, a single friction, preceded by the alkaline and saponaceous bath, being used daily.
Pàgina 165 - An excessively burning miliary rash on the face, neck, and arms, that had lasted six years, under the influence of measles assumed the form of a swelling of the surface of the skin ; after the measles had run its course, the rash was cured, and returned no more.
Pàgina 20 - ... motives for its spring — and for its result? that they cannot cure all important and serious diseases (which pure and careful homoeopathy can), and that they send many of their patients to that place whence no one returns, whilst the friends console themselves with the reflection that everything (including every hurtful allopathic process!) has been done for the departed.

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