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acute diseases aggravation allopathic alterations antipathic antipsoric artificial disease attack become cause certainly character chronic diseases chronic medicinal chronic miasm cinchona cold cow-pox curative cure derangement diaphoretics dissimilar drugs dynamic dynamic medicinal dyscrasia effect employed employment epidemic evacuations excessively exciting experience external frequently healing art heat hitherto homœo homoeopathic homœopathic medicine homœopathic remedy human increased inflammation injurious intermittent fever internal irritation isopathy kind large doses malady manner Materia Medica Pura means measles medi medicinal disease medicinal power medicinal substance mode of treatment morbid morbid symptoms morbific agent morbific matter natural disease never observed old school olfaction opium organism ORGANON original disease pain palliative pathic patient peculiar persons physician practitioner primary action produce psora psoric pure remain removed salutary SAMUEL HAHNEMANN secondary action selected sensations similar small doses smallest dose smallpox stomach stronger sufferings suitable symptoms syphilis therapeutic thereby tion treated true violent vital force whilst whole
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Page 119 - ... 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.
Page 46 - The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation;1 it derives all sensation and performs all the functions of life solely by means of the immaterial being (the vital force) which animates the material organism in health and in disease.
Page 54 - ... unconditionally ; but we are made ill by them only when our organism is sufficiently disposed and susceptible to the attack of the morbific cause that may be present and to be altered in its health, deranged and made to undergo abnormal sensations and functions, hence they do not produce disease in every one, nor at all times.
Page 76 - Although a product of the medicinal and vital powers conjointly, it is principally due to the former power. To its action our vital force endeavors to oppose its own energy. This resistent action is a property, is indeed an automatic action of our lifepreserving power, which goes by the name of secondary action or counteraction.
Page 50 - ... follows, on the one hand, that medicines only become remedies and capable of annihilating diseases, because the medicinal substance, by exciting certain effects and symptoms, that is to say, by producing a certain artificial morbid state, removes and abrogates the symptoms already present, to wit, the natural morbid state we wish to cure. On the other hand, it follows that, for the totality of the Symptoms of the disease to be cured, a medicine must be sought which (according as experience shall...
Page 154 - 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 vi - I must warn the reader that indolence, love of ease and obstinacy preclude effective service at the altar of truth, and only freedom from prejudice and untiring zeal qualify for the most sacred of all human occupations, the practice of the true system of medicine.
Page 167 - If we give too strong a dose of a medicine which may have been even quite homoeopathically chosen for the morbid state before us, it must, notwithstanding the inherent beneficial character of its nature, prove injurious by its mere magnitude, and by the unnecessary, excessive impression it makes upon the vital force which it convulses,
Page 45 - ... affection of the vital force ^ must be the principal, or the sole means, whereby the disease can make known what remedy it requires — the only thing that can determine the choice of the most appropriate...
Page 97 - ... he does not at once obtain a knowledge of its complete picture, as it is only by a close observation of several cases of every such collective disease that he can become conversant with the totality of its signs and symptoms. The carefully observing physician can, however, from the examination of even the first and second patients, often arrive so nearly at a knowledge of the true state as to have in his mind a characteristic portrait of it, and even to succeed in finding a suitable, homoeopathically...