Homœopathy in acute diseases / By Stephen Yeldham.

  • Yeldham, Stephen.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Homœopathy in acute diseases / By Stephen Yeldham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thus much has Homeopathy already accomplished. Who, contemplating this, can doubt that it is destined, at no very distant period, to “drag to ruin the system of receipt- crammed-heads !” These inroads have been made, principally, into the pro- vince of medicine, or the practice of physic, regarded as a separate branch of the healing art. ~ Its sister branch, surgery, though it has not so complete a revolution to apprehend from the advent of Homeopathy, is yet destined to feel its beneficial influence. Homeopathy does not pretend to abolish the use of the knife, the splint, the roller, and a thousand other mechanical contrivances, for the removal and rectification of accidental injuries ; but this it will do—it will render surgery far less formidable than it has hitherto been, by controlling those accompanying symp- toms on which the danger of operations mainly depends. In other cases, by curing, or rendering harmless, diseases which now are considered as remediable only by the knife, it will make a resort to such extreme measures less frequently necessary. Injuries may be classed under’ two heads. First—those in which the mischief is of such a nature as to demand the application of mechanical means for its cure—fractures, dis- locations, lacerations, and hernia. Here the surgeon does not hesitate to employ all those means which the ingenuity of others may have placed at his disposal. The other class of cases is that in which the injury may be as great as in the foregoing, but in which the same mode of treatment is not admissible—sprains, bruises, and concussions. Homeopathy here comes into play with admirable effect—it controls the constitutional disturbance, and allays local inflammation in a manner with which Allopathy has nothing to compare. Foremost among those medicinal substances, through whose agency this is accomplished, are Arnica, and Rhus Toxicodendron.