A homopathic treatise on the diseases of children / by Alph. Teste ; translated from the French by Emma H. Côté.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
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[1857], ©1857
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Credit: A homopathic treatise on the diseases of children / by Alph. Teste ; translated from the French by Emma H. Côté. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    continued, because commenced. Some (the majority of German Homoeopathists) adhere obstinately to mother tinctures, and large doses, under the frivolous pretext, that dynamisation having not yet been dis- covered, it was under the influence of these doses that the greater part of the pathogenesis, reported in the materia medica jpura was produced. Others, with Dr. Gross at their head, pushing to a fanatical length the ideas of the master, only employ the extreme dilu- tions called korsakovienne, that is to say, the five or six thousandths ! The first, in yielding to their allo- pathic reminiscences, or perhaps, by being influenced unduly by their deference to the prejudices of the Old School, voluntarily forego the fruits of a magnificent discovery ; while the others unnecessarily alarm public opinion, by the almost fantastic improbability of their pretensions S* It is between these two extremes that I would endeavor to establish what is suggested at once by reason and experience. But let us begin by declaring that we take, as a starting point, this practical truth, to which, as we have before stated, we give full adhesion, viz: That * If I charge upon the korsakovienne dilutions, the reproach of furnishing arms to the adversaries of Homoeopathy, and sharpening against it the shafts of satire, I refrain, nevertheless, from pro- nouncing them absurd. I know too well, that the infinitely small, is like the infinitely great, inaccessible to human understanding, and that in principle, the six millionth dilution is no more absurd than the tenth.