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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    when overheated, is also explieable on the same principle. There are many other domestic remedies whose mode of action can only be so explained. We may select for illustration, from amongst the diseases of childhood, one which is denoted by a scarlet eruption on the skin, sore throat, and fever (scarlatina) : a similar effect is produced by a wild, berry that grows in the woods (belladonna), of a sweet taste; it is sometimes eaten by children, ignorant of ts poisonous character, when it produces a scarlet efflorescence of the skin, with fever, headache, and sore throat. Belladonna ought therefore, if there is truth in homoeopathy, to be the remedy for scarlatina. We need not rely upon the testimony of homceopathists that it is so, for Dr. A. T. Thompson says of bella¬ donna :— “ It produces a state of the skin closely resembling scarlatina, accompanied with fever, suffused eyes, dimness of sight, and frequently, though not always, headache.” (Mat. Med., p. 422.) And another physician of the old school, writing in Hufeland's Journal, (May, 1812,) says,— “ I am also acquainted with a quarter in which during the prevalence of a very severe scarlet fever, the preservative of Hahnemann, (belladonna) was tried, and where all who tried it were protected from the disease. This fact is worthy of the greatest attention, and deserves to be frequently tested; for to allow ourselves to be prejudiced by the circumstances of the minute dose, would be to forget that we are treating of dy¬ namic effects—effects upon a living body, which no one can appreciate by pounds or grains.” One other illustration must suffice, and we select inflammation, because its treatment by the ordinary * v