The Homeopathic Examiner Author:Gray 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: toms of the disease, mostly having a quick recovery,) homoeopathic treatment is. deserving of great confidence, since it is able not only to prevent the developm... more »ent, but also annihilates the very germ of the disease ; even, if typhus is completely established, it can enter the lists with all other methods of cure, and most certainly excels them in successful results. ESSAY ON THE HIGHEST POTENCIES. Inasmuch as the highest potencies have been alluded to in our statement of principles, and a great many practitioners feel deeply interested in obtaining a more accurate knowledge of their power, we shall transcribe in this and the following number of the Examiner, the interesting observations and cases which Dr. Gross has communicated to the Profession in the last number of the " Archive." "The principle 'similia Similibus Curantur,' which we all recognize, is a great and useful principle, the discovery of which will secure immortality to the name of our Master. It has indeed been suspected by some, and even distinctly stated by others, but Hahnemann has been the first to apply it systematically to the treatment of disease. No less important than the law itself, is the principle of dynamization (potentiali- zation); this is his exclusive property. Although the law ' Similia similibus' may, to a certain extent, be regarded as independent of the process of dynamization, yet it may be asserted, that, without it, the Homoeopathic healing art would never attain perfection. Hahnemannism, which is the true method of healing disease, has been severely attacked during the last ten years. It has been asserted by some that Homoeo- pathy is something different from the teachings of Hahnemann. These wiseacres of the profession began by criticising, censuring, deriding, and ended by what th...« less