Humphreys' homeopathic mentor, or Family adviser in the use of specific homeopathic medicine / By F. Humphreys.

  • Humphreys, F. (Frederick), 1816-1900.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Humphreys' homeopathic mentor, or Family adviser in the use of specific homeopathic medicine / By F. Humphreys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    fection, to the entire cessation of life and the dissolution of the plant itself. The entire habit of a tree may even be changed by a systematic perversion of the laws of its life. What is true in regard to vegetable life, growth and devel- opment, holds in perhaps a higher sense in regard to animal life. In the former, vitality simply appropriates that within its reach and needful for its sustentation, unmoved by any influence higher than the Chemico-vital laws of its existence. But in animal life all these functions become complicated or more or less influenced by the psycho- logical or mental organization of the individual. The sensible organization of man begins with a simple cyst, too small the unassisted eye to detect. This cyst, so diminutive and formless, without body or parts, is endowed with wonderful vital powers, by virtue of which it draws from the blood of the mother all that is necessary for the perfection of its embryo or foetal life, until this form of existence, having been perfected, it is ushered into the world. Thence forward a new mode of life takes place. Through food and drink, light and air, heat and moisture, every thing required for the growth, development and sustenance of the body, is appropriated to its proper office and use, until, in this manner, man, the highest development of animal life, becomes a microcosm, having in his own body, certainly all the more common, and probably every primary element in existence. Thus we have carbon and oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen, sulphur and iron, phosphorus and lime, ammonia and albumen, silica and silver, and even gold and arsenic. It is not probable that there is a single essential element or primate in nature that is not in a more or less