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322 BROADWAY Aconite action admitted adopted Allopathic applied assertion Belladonna blister body calomel Cantharides cause Colocynth common-sense condition cure difficulty dilution discovered discovery disease drugs dysentery E. E. MARCY effects efficacy electricity evidence experience fact fever give given grain HAHNEMANN HIPPOCRATES Homœo Homœopathy hospital infinitesimal infinitesimal doses inflammation instance Ipecacuanha Journal knowledge large doses law of Homoeopathy law of similia magnet manner Materia Medica MATERIA MEDICA PURA matter measles medi mercury method mind mode mortality nature New-York observation Organon pain pathy patient per-cent phosphorus physician pneumonia poison practice practitioner present principle produce profession prove quackery quantity RADDE remark remedy Routh says scarlet fever Second Edition similar similia similibus curantur SINGLE MEDICINE small doses stomach strangury substances success suffering sufficient symptoms thing tion TRACTS ON HOMEOPATHY treated treatment trial trituration true truth vomiting WILLIAM SHARP
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| Title | Tracts on Homoeopathy, Issues 1-12 Tracts on homoeopathy, William Sharp |
| Author | William Sharp |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Aylott, 1865 |
| Length | 250 pages |
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