Therapeutics founded upon organopathy and antipraxy / by William Sharp.

  • Sharp, William, 1805-1896.
Date:
1886
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    certain larger and certain smaller doses of the same drug—this was first announced in Essay XXII, (1873) and the following ones. It is further explained in these later ones. It may not be amiss to remind my readers here that this contrary action of different doses may be made use of in practice in two ways:—the larger doses may be prescribed to act contrary to diseases opposite to those produced by these larger doses when they are taken in health; as when Opium is given for sleeplessness, or for diarrhoea. This has been the common practice up to the present time. Or, the smaller doses may be given for the oj)posite condition caused by them in health; as when Opium is given for apoplexy, or for constipation. This last is the method which is very earnestly recommended to my professional brethren, as being greatly superior to all former methods. What are the larger and smaller doses of a drug? There is a vagueness in these expressions which requires removal by everyone who uses them. In a book now in course of publication in America, called a Handbook of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, by Dr. T. F. Allen, the action of Aconite is thus described:—Aconite in small doses accelerates the heart's action and causes a rise of temperature, &c. In these Essays the contrary is