Homoeopathy in acute diseases / by Stephen Yeldham.

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

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    mediate state between liealth and disease^ (a period in Allopathic practice^ so replete witli danger to tlie patient and anxiety to liis friends) is liere almost entirely wanting. An impression once made upon tlie disease—tlie first few liours of active suffering past^ and the patient's danger is over—^lie has nothing farther to apprehend. Nor need he dread any of those evil consequences which mar the benefit of Allopathic treatment—there is Httle or no fear of a relapse—no chance of dropsy^ and the host of other ailments which follow in the wake of the lancet. There is_, moreover^ no call for that interminable nursing and cod- ling ; those courses of bitter tonics—^rarely any of that longing for the life restoring influence of pui^e air^ and the bracing sea-breezCj which distiuguisli the exhausted patient of the old-school practitioner. Homoeopathy d.emands of her subjects simply to remaiu in bed and swallow a few doses of tasteless medicine—^tliey sustain no loss beyond the temporary loss of food—thev emerge from illness nearly tlie same persons they were when it overtook them—they have no emptied veins to replenish— no emaciated forms to remould—no undermined energies to renovate: all those restorative means therefore which have been referred to above^ though they may be indulged in to please the taste of the convalescent^ are rarely necessary in Homoeopatliic practice. Having thus passed in rapid review, and placed side by side, the mischief which arises from bleeding in Allopathic, and the advantages of its omission in Homoeopathic practice, I am mistaken if the reader does not experience both aston- ishment and regret that an operation which is confessedly on all hands calculated to produce so much harm, should so long- have retained its place at the head of our remedial agents—I sav confessedly on all hand, because, universal as its adop- tion has been in every age and country, there is perhaps no