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Homœopathic infinitesimal doses, and their analogues in nature [a paper].
Homopathic infinitesimal doses and their analogues in nature - a paper Author:John Ryan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. A Conviction of the dangerous effects upon the organism, of large doses of drugs, as well as of the often lasting injury of an incited drug affecti... more »on, has frequently driven men of thought either into indolent and pernicious expectancy, or into the adoption of strange methods of seeking the curative, apart from the poisonous action of remedies. From the earliest dawn of so-called scientific physic down to the present day, we can trace such shifts. Hippocrates recommended that the nurse should be first subjected to medical treatment, that her milk might influence the child; and Pliny relatesf that the physician Democrates, having to treat Considia, the daughter of M. Servilius the Consul, who set herself against all severe medication, caused her, for some time, and with success, to use the milk of goats, fed with mastich. In the twelfth century, Bernard le Provincial, a Third book of the ' Epidemics.' t 'Nat. Hist.' lib. xxiv. pupil of Salernus, published a treatise on dietetics, in Yi'hich he gave a number of recipes, some of which are certainly curious examples of attempts to supply the desideratum of mild, attenuated medication. Aperients were to be prepared by introducing, in spring, certain laxative drugs underneath the bark of the plum-tree, or of the vine, so that the fruit, also, might be laxative. The celebrated Salernus was in the habit of administering to his patients the flesh of animals that had been fed upon medicinal substances. In the eighteenth century, Bielke, member of the Imperial Academy of Stockholm, proposed to render the milk of the cow specific against scurvy, by causing the animal to eat such herbs as dandelion, and scurvy-grass.t To come to the present day: we are told by Dr. Locock, that a patient of Mr. Keate's took merc...« less