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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    dicines are generally more easily impressed by them than others who have already been under homoeo- pathic treatment. This is particularly true in regard to inflammatory diseases, where, after a protracted alloeopathic treatment, a single dose of Aconite will sometimes relieve the patient as by enchantment. This remark applies likewise to organs that are acted upon for the first time by a certain medicine, though the same medicine might have been given to the same patient for diseases affecting other organs For instance, the patient may have taken so much Mercury, even in homoeopathic doses, for certain affections of the liver, that this organ refuses to re- ceive any further impression from that agent; but supposing he should be attacked with sore throat, and, for the first time, should take Mercury for this affection, provided, of course, that Mercury is the specific remedy: the action of the medicine will be speedily perceived by the diseased part. So with every other medicine. Affections of the larger nervous trunks require, as a general rule, to be treated with massive doses of the specific remedy. These trunks do not seem to be as easily impressed by medicine as other portions of the nervous system, from which we may infer, as has indeed been verified by observation, that the more central the diseased nervous mass, the more delicate should be the medicinal influence which is brought to bear upon it, of course within certain limits ; and, on the other hand, the more distant the diseased nerves from the central portions of the nervous system, the more massive should be the dose. This is certain- ly true as a general proposition, so much so, that the more external portions of the nervous system require very often to be acted upon by means of a suitable external application of the appropriate re- medial agent. This fact has been abundantly veri- fied in neuralgia, and in a variety of cutaneous affections-, such as itch, sycosis, syphilis; even the poultices which we apply to inflammatory tumours,