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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    it?”. This occurred in the year 1790. For six years after, he patiently and zealously tried different medi¬ cines upon himself, his wife, his sons, his daughters, and his friends ; and finding all his experience con¬ firmatory of the above thought, he ventured to make his discovery known to the world. His humility, however, would not allow him to claim the merit of a discovery, and indeed, Stahl, some 150 years before him, says, “ I am persuaded that diseases yield to agents which produce a similar disorder (similia simi- libusj’ and Hippocrates likewise, some 2,300 years ago, enunciated the same thing, when he wrote “ Vomitus vomitu curator,” but he did claim the merit of having discerned the Law, and carried it into practical effect, by proving medicines on the healthy animal frame, and reducing their doses to a degree which is indispensable to their safety, on this principle of treatment. Having thus acquired a knowledge of the disease-creating powers of many medicines, or as they must be called, when in large doses, poisons, and of the cures effected by them on the sick, when given in conformity with this Law, he hesitated not to consider as established, and to promulgate, the grand and universal Law, that, “ Every disease is best cured by that medicine which tends to produce on the healthy body similar symp¬ toms,” or in other words,—similia similibus curan- tur Like cures Like, i. e. homoeopathically ; but not Same cures Same, as it has sometimes been ren¬ dered. In contradistinction, he named the common medical practice, from employing in the treatment of