Homœopathy : explained and illustrated / by T. Battye.

  • Battye, Thomas.
Date:
1854
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    the most violent measures to enforce the taking of Allopa¬ thic doses:—to say nothing of the inevitable consequence of unfitting the stomach for its work, at the very time when it is most wanted. Let the reader picture to himself the agony of mind*t must cause a fond mother, who, with intense anxiety, is watching over her suffering and perhaps sinking child, to be absolutely dreading the hour when she must again witness its struggles to avoid the nauseous draught. That life has become extinct during these very struggles, many a wretched mother can bear melancholy witness of. No one can suffi¬ ciently appreciate the discovery of a principle, upon which are banished for ever, the horrors of cauteries, moxas, issues, blisters, caustics, purgatives, emetics, &c., &c.; and, above all, the draining away of the life-blood, for every trifling cause; and, upon which, medicines are discovered, and a system for the ad¬ ministration of them taught, which insures the impossibility of inducing a new disease. Many ailments are of so contrary a nature, that the most skilful Physician could never administer any medicine, in the quantity the Allopathists do, for the alleviation of one symptom, without increasing another. In a low fever, for instance, every one can in some measure judge of the dilemma. A daughter of my own, was, at one time, sub¬ ject to catching every epidemic that visited our neighbour¬ hood, amongst which was a low fever two or three years in succession; she caught it every time, and had all the threaten¬ ing symptoms, but always recovered quickly ; and, as she has often said since, without seeing that low fevers were even disagreeable. At one of these times of visitation, the daughter of a neighbour and friend of mine, an Allopathic practitioner, caught it also, but she died, though attended daily by an eminent physician. I know, my friend’s other patients died fast; but in what comparison to the cases, I cannot say, neither would it signify further, as I had no cases of my own to set against them, mine being only consulting prac¬ tice, and also only in Town. Long before I became a Homoeo- pathist, I had a wholesome horror of bleeding in all its varieties. We find in*Leviticus—‘‘For the life of all flesh is the blood thereof,” and the practice is barbarous which drains away the c