Quarterly Homeopathic Journal, Volume 1O. Clapp, 1849 |
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abdomen aching acid Aconite action acute aggravation alloeopathic allopathic animal appearance appetite Arsenic attack Belladonna blood body bowels brain cause cholera chronic diseases cold water congestion Conium consequence constipation convulsions cough Cuprum cure diarrhoea dilutions drops effect eruption especially evacuation excitement experience external eyes fact favor fever fibrin frequently given grains Hahnemann head healing heat high potences homoeopathic Hygea increased indicated individual inflammation irritation large doses less lungs magnet materia medica membrane ment morning mucous mucous membrane mucus muscles N. Y. city nature nerves o'clock observed Opium organism Organon pain paroxysms patient peculiar perspiration Phosphorus physician physiological practice predisposition principle produced proved pulse rectum regard relation remedies repetition scrofula sensation Silicea skin small doses spasms spinal stomach stool symptoms syphilis tenesmus thirst tion treated treatment trituration typhus ulcers urine uterus Veratrum album violent vomiting whole
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Page 398 - ... eminently rational. But because it is rational, because its reasoning is strictly inductive and founded on facts distinctly observable by finite man, it is not rationalism. Right reason is normal, rationalism a monstrosity. Hahnemann and his disciples are the only medical philosophers who have been true to the inductive method, in the reasonings which they have employed in establishing a therapeutic law. They have proved, by abundant experience, that a medicine will remove a group of symptoms...
Page 273 - Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased.
Page 440 - ... is poured into syrupy glycerine, a very lively oxidation ensues, the products of which I have not ascertained ; if, on the contrary, the above mixture of the two acids is placed in a freezing mixture, and glycerine poured into it, agitating to avoid all elevation of temperature, the glycerine quickly dissolves without any perceptible reaction ; if the mixture be now poured into water, an oily substance heavier than water subsides to the bottom of the vessel, where it is washed with a considerable...
Page 405 - Homoeopathy has been actually examined by many alloeopathic physicians, and found by them to be untrue in principle and inefficacious in practice. Those who state that they have made an examination with such results, have no adequate conception of what is implied in their statement. It is implied, that they have repeatedly taken and administered a variety of our potentized medicines, in small doses, and always without any effect, either in producing or removing symptoms ; secondly, that they have...
Page 195 - Liquor potassae must then be added in great excess ; a precipitate of hydrated oxide of copper first falls, which redissolves in the excess of alkali, if sugar be present, forming a blue solution like ammoniuret of copper. On gently heating the mixture to ebullition, a deposit of red suboxide of copper falls, if sugar be present.
Page 310 - March, 1827, in which the following occurs : " As all those around the sufferer know that the disease leads rapidly to death, if the medicinal poison cannot effect some change in its course, they say let the drug be given until some alteration in the symptoms is produced. But, unfortunately, they do not recollect, or perhaps, do not know, that the symptoms arising from the absorption of all, and every one of the active poisons hitherto experimented on, are precisely those that...