A brief attempt to shew the truth and value of homoeopathy, with illustrations of homoeopathic practice / [John Edward Norton].

  • Norton, John Edward, -1871.
Date:
1850
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Credit: A brief attempt to shew the truth and value of homoeopathy, with illustrations of homoeopathic practice / [John Edward Norton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The lower numbers contain the most of the medi¬ cine ; the higher numbers, the medicine in the finest state of subdivision, and the smallest quantity. If these minute doses exceed the capacity of our senses to grasp them, we should remember that modern science lias brought to light many things that once were equally beyond our comprehension. Shall we like the Brahmin, who when first shewn the myriads of animalcuke that float in a drop of stagnant water, sought, in his impotent rage, to crush the microscope to atoms—try to annihilate a fact by an equally impotent attempt—denial ? Shall we refuse to admit the stupendous wonders of the celestial world, as reflected in the telescope, because we had never before dreamed of them ? Is it not a fact, that a single grain of musk will perfume a room, for years, diffusing its particles everywhere around, and still weigh no less than a grain ? Can we weigh the particles of the infectious miasm that floats through the air, and may desolate a city with plague, pesti¬ lence, or fever ? Does not the loadstone impart its magnetic property to many dozens of needles, and yet lose neither weight nor power ? Has not the speed of the electric telegraph realized the fond aspi¬ rations of the poet,— “ To speed the intercourse of Soul with Soul, “ And waft a thought from Indus to the Pole ?” And is not the indelible fixing, on durable brass, of the mirror-reflected ray of light, by the photographic art, an every-day fact ? Shall we then deny that even infinitesimal doses of medicine, may have power to