Miscellanies to the Graefenberg water-cure, or a demonstration of the advantages of the hydropathic method of curing diseases as compared with the medical / translated by C.H. Meeker.

  • Rausse, J. H., 1805-1848.
Date:
1848
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    stand only such, from whose diet all artificial, all poison- ous, and all imported stimulants from foreign zones, are excluded.) -If we add this elucidation to the above-given definition of poisons, we have found in it a demarcation, which also allots to the transition substances, salt and spices, their appointed place. The next question in the determination of the term poison is, whether those substances, which in a speci- fied quantity produce partly speedy death, partly speedily ensuing symptoms of disease, also still absolutely produce pernicious effects, and consequently still then remain absolute poison, when they are taken in smaller quantity. Logic, as well as physiology, reply in the affirmative. But before we proceed, we must observe that this question has led us imperceptibly into the territory of medicine, and that before replying to the same with logical and physiological reasons, we must give the definition of the term medicine. What is medicine ? The word medicine, or medica- ment, signifies, in its literal translation, a means of cure for diseases. In fhis broad and original sense we do not accept the word here, as also in general it is no more used in such a sense : e. g. no one calls the sympathetic method of treatment a medical method, and one calls the sympa- thist a mediciner. The word has only retained this broad signification in figurative language, which, however, is excluded from our treatise. The words medicine and medicament, in the limited and modern sense, are those articles, the trade in, and preparation of, which, are the peculiar privilege of the apothecaries, comprising all the various kind of poisons, or by far the greater part. There is not a solitary poison