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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    effected by such dilution ; if such a possibility exist, it is thus rendered possible only by admixture with water, and the least so, by admixture with solid substances. One thing, however, is certain, viz. that such an abstraction of the poison, through the agency of water, is possible only when the uncorrupted palate can no more perceive the most remote taste of the poison in the commixture. In the homoeopathic doses after the decillionth dilution, the slightest taste of the poison is no more perceptible, and consequently, I believe that such doses are absolutely divested of their poisonous influences on the human body, and for this reason have always had the most profound respect for this method of cure, in comparison with the allopathic, and looked upon it as a blessing to the human race. After having refuted all the arguments that have as yet come to my hearing, adduced by physicians, against my complaint, that they treat with poison and poison their patients, I must, in conclusion, say a word (2) Concerning the combination of poisons, because from that source also, the physicians have endeavored a vindi- cation of cure with poisons. A poison, combined with a non-poisonous body or sub- stance, is such an one as can be obtained or freed from the combination only by a chemical transformation of the substance with which it is combined. The combined poi- sons are free from all effective poisonous power or influ- ence, and hence receive their name, because their powers are bound up. Accordingly, poison combined or bound up, is to the human organism decidedly a non-poison, since neither the nerves of taste are capable of detecting it, nor the other organs experience any evil effect therefrom. In