Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... but, notwithstanding this disadvantage, an infinitely greater number of diseases are cured by these means, and in a far safer and more certain manner, than by a treatment guided by the general and special therapeutics of allopathy, with all its unknown and mixed medicines. CXL. The third point in the duty of a physician is to employ those medicines whose pure effects have been proved upon a healthy person in the manner best suited to the cure of diseases homoeopathically. CXLI. Of all these medicines, that one whose symptoms bear the greatest resemblance to the totality of those which characterise any particular natural disease ought to be the most appropriate and certain homoeopathic remedy that can be employed--it is the specific remedy in this case of disease. CXLII. A remedy which has the power and tendency to produce an artificial disease closely resembling the natural one against which it is employed, and which is administered in proportionate doses, affects, in its action on the organism, precisely those persons who had till then been a prey to the natural disease, and excites in them the artificial disease which it is naturally capable of producing. The latter, by reason of its similitude and greater intensity, now substitutes itself for the natural disease. From that moment it then results that the vital powers no longer suffer from the lastmentioned, which in its quality of purely dynamic immaterial power has already ceased to exist. The organism is no longer attacked but by the medicinal disease. But the dose of the remedy administered having been very feeble, the medicinal disease soon disappears of itself. Subdued by the energy of the vital power, like every other mild medicinal affection, it leaves the..."
