An address on the homoeopathic system of medicine, read before the Medical and Surgical Society ... Newcastle on Tyne / [Thomas Hayle].

  • Hayle, Thomas, 1809?-1886.
Date:
1843
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Credit: An address on the homoeopathic system of medicine, read before the Medical and Surgical Society ... Newcastle on Tyne / [Thomas Hayle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The books of both Allopathic and Homoeopathic practitioners were examined, with the view of discovering the respective proportions between cases treated and deaths. The highest Homoeo¬ pathic proportion was three in the hundred, the lowest less than one; while the Allopathic pro¬ portion ranged from eight to ten. When it is known that the practitioners of Brunswick are obliged, under pain of heavy penalties, to keep a faithful register of cases treated and deaths occur¬ ring ; and that the inquiry extended in the case of one of the Homoeopaths over ten years, and in the case of another over four, statistical informa¬ tion of this kind must be allowed to have great weight. ON THE MINUTE DOSES. I have stated before, that a peculiarity in the Homoeopathic principle, as compared with the Allopathic, is, that the medicines act on the parts affected. A consequence results from this pecu¬ liarity, which a considerate mind might have foreseen, although no one could d priori have appreciated its extent; the diminution, I mean, of the dose. The medicine that acts Allopathi- cally, acts on a sound part, and is given in a dose which ensures its action, and very often its speedy expulsion from the system. The medicine that acts Homoeopathically, acts on the diseased part,