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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    In the first place, not one of the patients, wHose cases arc related, was conscious that he was treated Homoeopathically. This fact at once overthrows the first objection; for, Avhere no object is presented for its exercise, there can be no faith. Again, in reference to the second supposed agent, while indispensable in chronic diseases, in acute cases thne is death. In the following examples the mitigation of the dis- ease follows too closely upon the apphcation of the remedy, to admit of its being referred to time. In reference to the third supposed agent, the diseases selected are, for the most part, of that violent character, that, if left to themselves, they generally terminate fatally. In these instances, the members of the old school never dream of trusting to unassisted nature, but use the most powerful means at their disposal. If, in the annexed cases, in which none of those measures were employed, the cure Vv^as due to the unaided efforts of nature, the sooner those gentlemen relinquish their treatment, and rely solely on her poAver, the better. To be consistent they must do this, or confess that Homoeopathy does cure acute diseases. Since, then, it appears that neither of these agents is admissible, the only alternatives that remain, are, ]Magic, or Homoeopathy. I have thought it right to offer, in the first instance, a fcAV general observations on the three principal Allopathic remedies—Bleeding, Salivation, and Purgatives.