Pathogenetic outlines of hompathic drugs / by Dr. Med. Carl Heinigke ... Tr. from the German by Emil Tietze.

  • Heinigke, Carl, -1889.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Pathogenetic outlines of hompathic drugs / by Dr. Med. Carl Heinigke ... Tr. from the German by Emil Tietze. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    proportion in which the medicinal substance stands to the sugar of milk or alcohol used in their preparation. For this reason, any opinion based upon the numerical pro- portion of these substances, has not the slightest value as re- gards their efficacy. When the arithmetical calculation declares that, for in- stance, in the third centesimal potency, the drug is propor- tioned to the vehicle as one to a million, or in the thirtieth centesimal potency, as one to a decillion, no practical argument, even of the weakest kind, is thus presented, if one is required to abandon all theoretical and mathemathical preconceived notions, and to judge the specific effects of such preparations upon the healthy as well as diseased organism. As regards the effects of homoeopathic drugs, properly prepared, the material, to judge by, is supplied only by experiments and observations. That which is the qualitative in the drug-pre- paration, produced by percussion and trituration, is the essen- tial and important element for the production of specific effects such as are required by the homoeopathic method of cure. The quantitative proportion in the attenuation of our prepara- tions, on the other hand, is a matter of indifference to us for the very reason that it is a rule of the homoeopathic method to employ, for curative purposes, doses of the intended specific, as small as possible. Already Hahnemann, by experiments and observations, found that the peculiar effects of a specific develop more freely, if the remedy is applied in the atomized form of aggregation. Theory and practice of the homoeopathic curative method justify and demand the use of so-called potentized drugs. That the minuteness of our drug-doses, as well as the subtility of many of our preparations, militate against the trivial views in vogue in science and life, cannot disturb us, remembering, as we do, the old saying: Arsnon habet osorem nisi ignorantem