The Journal of the British Homoeopathic Society, Volume 3Includes list of members. |
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Page 11 - I repeat, for it holds good and will continue to hold good as a homoeopathic therapeutic maxim not to be refuted by any experience in the world, that the best dose of the properly selected remedy is always the very smallest one in one of the high potencies (X), as well for chronic as for acute diseases...
Page 345 - ... the two most ready solutions appear to be, either that the altered quality of the blood affords irregular and unwonted stimulus to the organ immediately; or, that it so affects the minute and capillary circulation, as to render greater action necessary to force the blood through the distant sub-divisions of the vascular system.
Page 127 - ... of symptoms of known medicines, in order to find among these an artificial morbific agent corresponding by similarity to the disease to be cured, the more striking, singular, uncommon, and peculiar (characteristic) signs and...
Page 127 - ... way, in the gastrocnemii, in the soles of the feet, and in the palms of the hands, the pains were of a tearing character, which she described as resembling " iron teeth " tearing the flesh. The pains recurred many times daily ; her life was a perfect burden to her, and always had been during these attacks.
Page 1 - The register of his consultations, every day increasing in magnitude, forms at this moment a stupendous Medical Encyclopaedia. We have seen upon one of the shelves of Hahnemann's library, thirty-six quarto volumes of at least 500 pages each, entirely written by his own hand...
Page 9 - Some Homoeopathists have made the experiment in cases where they deemed one remedy Homoeopathically suitable for one portion of the symptoms of a case of disease, and a second for another portion, of administering both remedies at the same or at almost the same time; but I earnestly deprecate such a hazardous experiment, which can never be necessary, though it may sometimes seem to be of use.
Page 28 - Journal, he describes this knowledge as follows : " What organs it (the drug) deranges functionally, what it modifies in other ways, what nerves it principally benumbs or excites, what alterations it effects in the circulation and digestive operations, how it affects the mind, how the disposition, what influence it exerts over some secretions, what modification the muscular fibre receives from it, how long its action lasts, and by what means it is rendered powerless, etc., etc.
Page 325 - ... in the raw surfaces left by burns. He applied pledgets of cotton dipped in the extract. He says there appeared to be sufficient astringency to do away with the fungosities, and some portion of the hamamelis dried into the ulcer. Normal granulations immediately formed underneath, and as these became firm and substantial the hamamelis came off, leaving a good, firm, new skin, which rapidly grew in area and thickness. The entire dorsum of a hand that was burned was completely covered in the course...
Page 178 - ... the hips rather drawn back, and the breast advanced, but without constraint ; the body straight and inclining forward, so that the weight of it may bear principally on the fore part of the feet ; the head erect, but not thrown back, the chin slightly drawn in, and the eyes looking straight to the front.
Page 330 - In this, as well as in many other chronic forms of disease, I have derived inestimable benefit from a combination of the milk, rest and water cures. Indeed, it is amazing to see what can be accomplished by these alone, while, without them, drugs may be set aside as of little use in chronic Bright's disease.