Organopathy, or, Medical progress : an essay / by William Sharp, M.D.

  • Sharp, William, 1805-1896.
Date:
1867
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    not teen so deficient in homoeopathic auxiliary diseases! He proceeds thus : mighty nature herself has, as we see, at her command, as instruments for effecting homoeopathic cures, little more than the fixed miasmatic diseases,—the itch, measles aaid small-pox! Which as curative agents are either, (namely small-pox and measles), more dangerous to life, and of a more frightful character than the disease they are to cure; or of such a kind, (like the itch), that after they have effected the cure, they themselves require curing, in order to be eradicated in their turn; both circumstances that make their employment as homoeo- pathic remedial agents difficult, uncertain, and dangerous. And how few diseases are there to which man is subject, that find their analogous remedial agent in small-pox, measles and itch I To propose to inoculate with small- pox as nature's remedy for an inflamed eye, would be as unreasonable as to prescribe submersion for some minutes as a cure for a cold caught by getting wet; without doubt both would be dangerous, In the Essays referred to it will be seen that HahnE' MANN also applied the principle of homoeopathy to the action of mental emotions upon each other; but to prove that it does ao apply there is neither analogy nor evidence. He would also have us believe that, the effects on the human body of the, physical forces of inanimate nature,— heat, light, electricity, and magnetism—are governed by the same law. I have examined (in the Essays) each of these forces in detail, and. end with this remark : For myself, I can- not but conclude that, Hahnemann is quite in error when he supposes that the homoeopathic law can, with any show of propriety, be applied, to the action of the physical influence of any of the; so-called imponderable agents. Only drugs remainbut as regards these there is sufficient evidence to compel the admission that ■ a rela- tion exists, in. nature between the effects of material