A sketch of homoeopathy, or the system of medical treatment, with specific remedies in all cases / [S.C. Davids].

  • Davids, S. C.
Date:
1847
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Credit: A sketch of homoeopathy, or the system of medical treatment, with specific remedies in all cases / [S.C. Davids]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    susceptible to the Homoeopathic doses) but upon others also which were not intended to be affected ; and thus bad is made worse. VII.—The next interesting enquiry about the system is, the form of its medicines, and their doses. The form is either that of a liquid tincture, powders* or else globules, that is, very small spherical pellets, made principally of sugar of milk, and saturated with the tincture. \ As to the doses, they are exceedingly small,—expe¬ rience having shown the necessity of reducing them to an extreme minuteness. Indeed, when Hahnemann first began to act upon the newly discovered principle, he used doses of ordinary quantity ; but finding them very highly to aggravate the complaint, without a cor¬ responding advantage, he made them smaller and smaller, till, after innumerable experiments, he found himself forced to reduce them to a minuteness, such, that, for want of a better name, they have been called infinitesi¬ mal. Perhaps nothing has been so great a hindrance to the favourable reception of Homoeopathy, both with the public and medictl men generally, as the extraordinary smallness of the doses which are used by Homoeo- pathists; yet it is only experience which has forced them to this result, and not any pre-conceived theory. In elucidation of this subject a few observations may be ma.de here. Every medicinal substance has its peculiar properties, and is capable of producing certain effects. It is noto¬ rious to all chemists, that the division of matter can be carried to a prodigious extent, without impairing the participation of each particle in the possession of all the properties of the original body. There is therefore
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