Homœopathy : explained and illustrated / by T. Battye.

  • Battye, Thomas.
Date:
1854
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    advice of one of the many kind friends ready always to inter¬ fere ; and so not venture further upon new plans that had so unaccountable a power. As to allowing additional time for a cure, on account of the effects of former medicines, they never dream of that; although, even in our minute doses, a suf¬ ficient length of time must be allowed on a change of medi¬ cine, before it is proper to commence again; how long is known and laid down by rule, according to the nature of the previous medicine. I can speak for myself also with regard to another unreasonable expectation from us; that, from the Patient’s own description of the case by letter, often stupid enough, we must work the cure just the same, without either the tongue, the pulse, or the appearance, as indices of the com¬ plaint. I had many instances in my London practice, of a per¬ fect cure of diseases of long standing, in Patients so far off that I had actually never seen them from the beginning to the end of my prescribing; and this is no doubt the case with many of my brethren, owing to the scarcity of Homoeopathic Practitioners, and indeed the utter absence of them in many neighbourhoods. A man of the commonest observation can hardly help noticing in little every-day incidents, a Homoeopathic prin¬ ciple continually shewing itself in moral as well as physical matters; Shakespear evidently saw the same, or we should not find in his Henry IV.— “ In poison there is physic ; these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Being sick, have in some measure made me well.” Most know that frost bites are curable by friction with snow, —sneezing, by a pinch of snuff,—burns, by hot oil of turpen¬ tine ; all which is Homoeopathic. Many years ago, when I could not believe in the small doses of Homoeopathy, I fre¬ quently worked on the Homoeopathic principle : what, however, decided me to turn literally and at once to the study of the science, was this;—^my brother, who came up to London to be under my care, for weeks scarcely ever slept, on account of a rising in his throat like the brewing up of yeast; all the means I could think of were tried in vain; the advice of the first Physicians in London was obtained and tried with the