Tracts on Homœopathy, Issue 1 |
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Aconite action admitted adopted Allopathic antimony applied ascertained assertion attack Belladonna blister body bowels called calomel cantharides cause Colocynth common-sense condition cow-pox cure diarrhoea difficulty dilution discovered discovery disease drugs dysentery effects efficacy electricity evidence experience eyes fact fever give given grain HAHNEMANN HIPPOCRATES Homœo Homœopathy hospital infinitesimal infinitesimal doses inflammation instance Ipecacuanha knowledge large doses law of Homoeopathy law of similia limits magnet manner Materia Medica matter measles medi medicine mercury method mind mode mortality nature observation Organon pain pathy patient per-cent persons phosphorus physician pneumonia poison practice practitioner prescribed present principle produce profession proof prove purgatives quackery quantity reason remark remedy Routh says scarlet fever seen similar similia similibus curantur small doses stomach strangury substances success suffering sufficient symptoms things tion Tract treated treatment trial trituration true truth violent vomiting WILLIAM SHARP
Popular passages
Page 9 - The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Page 6 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 2 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 11 - I frame no hypotheses: for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
Page 19 - I repeat, for it holds good and will continue to hold good as a homoeopathic therapeutic maxim not to be refuted by any experience in the world, that the best dose of the properly selected remedy is always the very smallest one in one of the high potencies (X), as well for chronic as for acute diseases...
Page 13 - If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people.
Page 15 - Before you make your final choice," answered Imlac, "you ought to examine its hazards, and converse with some of those who are grown old in the company of themselves. I have just left the observatory of one of the most learned astronomers in the world, who has spent forty years in unwearied attention to the motions and appearances of the celestial bodies, and has drawn out his soul in endless calculations.
Page 15 - I thought myself honoured by this testimony, and protested, that whatever could conduce to his happiness would add likewise to mine." " Hear, Imlac, swhat thou wilt not without difficulty credit. I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather, and the distribution of the seasons : the sun has listened •to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command 3 I have restrained the...
Page 3 - And, first, evidence signifies that which demonstrates, makes clear, or ascertains the truth of the very fact or point in issue, either on the one side or on the other; and no evidence .ought to be admitted to any other point.
Page 15 - He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration, would be sure of nothing in this world, but of perishing quickly.