A practical guide to homeopathic treatment : designed and arranged for the use of families, prescribers of limited experience and students of homeopathy / by Myron H. Adams.

  • Adams, Myron H., 1846-
Date:
1913
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Credit: A practical guide to homeopathic treatment : designed and arranged for the use of families, prescribers of limited experience and students of homeopathy / by Myron H. Adams. 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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    CHAPTER II. THE PRINCIPLES OF HOMEOPATHY OR WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY? A glance at the medical history of one hundred years ago will show that all medical practice was, to say the least, extremely crude and chaotic. Approximately it was during this time that Homeopathy took its place as a distinct school of medicine, proclaiming openly a law of cure. This law as expressed by different authors in different phraseology, cannot well be misinterpreted. No more lucid or comprehensive expression of this principle has ever been made than the one by Samuel Hahnemann in the following Latin sentence: Sirnilia Similibus Curantur. It has become a classic and been adopted by Homeopathists the world over. Other and more familiar modes of expressing the same principle have been used, as for instance like cures like. Such definitions of Homeopathy without further elaboration, would fail to convey to the mind of the inquirer any adequate idea of the Homeopathic system of therapeutics as a zvhole. Therefore it has seemed necessary to enter upon some details in connection therewith, dealing with the same in the order of discovery and development. THE LxlW OF CURE — HOW DISCOVERED. As a preliminary this one pivotal principle must be rightly understood, for to it all that follows is vitally