New homoeopathic pharmacopoeia & posology, or the mode of preparing homoeopathic medicines, and the administration of doses / compiled and translated from the German works of Buchner and Gruner, and the French work of Jahr, with original contributions by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Hempel, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1811-1879.
Date:
1850
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Credit: New homoeopathic pharmacopoeia & posology, or the mode of preparing homoeopathic medicines, and the administration of doses / compiled and translated from the German works of Buchner and Gruner, and the French work of Jahr, with original contributions by Charles J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liable to the suspicion of charlatanism and unenlight- ened intolerance ; and, on the other hand, the student who submits to this species of despotism, is entirely unfit to practise the sacred art of healing. The series of potencies is like the gamut in music. A skilful artist may indeed construct a harmony with the vari- ous vibrations of the same chord, but what a much more beautiful and perfect harmony he might con- struct by a proper combination of all the sounds that can be elicited from all the chords of his instrument! This is likewise true in regard to the various attenu- ations of a homoeopathic remedial agent. Either of the four classes into which we have divided the whole series of potencies, may be sufficient, in the hands of an able practitioner, to heal the sick ; but the cure will most assuredly be effected more promptly, and will be more thorough and permanent, by selecting from the whole series whatever attenuations may seem, in his independent judgment, to be suitable to the case, than by confining himself, from prejudice or habit, to one or two attenuations in preference to any other. This, however, is not literally true in all cases. It has been remarked by many impartial observers of the effects of the various attenuations of the same sub- stance, that, under certain circumstances, they are all, from the lowest to the highest, appropriate and even absolutely necessary in the treatment of disease. Many a patient has been sacrificed, under homoeopathic treat- ment, by the condemnable routine-habits and pre- judices of physicians. How many patients might have been saved from death, if their physicians had dared to give a few drops of the tincture of Aconite, instead of contenting themselves with a pellet of the 30th or 200th attenuation! Cases have come to our knowledge where the patients were left to die, not be- cause they were not given the right remedy, but ii? consequence of not receiving the appropriate dose, and where, perhaps, a stronger preparation was so clearly and unequivocally indicated, that the delinquent