Therapeutic methods : an outline of principles observed in the art of healing / by Jabez P. Dake.

  • Dake, J. P. (Jabez Philander), 1827-1894.
Date:
1886
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    1850, and those of 1853 and 1854, and those of 1866, as well as the last in America, 1873, they maintained the character given them by Hahnemann, and shed abundant glory upon his law. This brief display of medical history shows the diffi- culties and failures experienced by theoretical as well as empirical medicine, in the presence of any new form of disease that is especially destructive of human life; and, also, the exceeding value of a general therapeutic principle that may cast light on the pathway of the practitioner in advance of any actual experience. Be- fore Hahnemann had ever seen a case of cholera, such a principle enabled him to name the remedies which would meet it most successfully, in its different phases, at all times and in all countries. In conclusion, it may be remarked, that as every case of disease is, in a measure, a new one, because in some respects different from all others, the perplexities of antipathy, allopathy, and empiricism, in the presence of Asiatic cholera, must recur, in a greater or less de- gree, at every step in daily practice ; and, on the other hand, that the advantages of homoeopathy, seen in the case of Asiatic cholera, are constantly being realized by its practitioners in the treatment of other diseases.