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Theory of acute diseases, and their homoeopathic treatment (1847)
Theory of acute diseases and their homoeopathic treatment - 1847 Author:Franz Hartmann 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: .. i. Jj 11. mm J "u-l iiiip These examples, which might be multiplied by- many more, will suffice to show the importance of investigating the causa occasiona... more »lis, and will at the same time silence the accusation of our opponents, that the investigation of the causa occasionalis is neglected by- practitioners of our school. Homoeopathic physicians know just as well as the physicians of the old school, that the visible symptoms of a disease are accompanied with changes in the internal organism, which are considered the essence of the disease by allopathic physicians. Homoeopathic physicians, however, do not believe, that we can have a sufficiently clear perception of those changes to base upon them our principles of cure. Homoeopathic practitioners are guided by the visible symptoms in selecting the appropriate remedial agent; without denying the existence of the first cause of the disease they observe with especial care the symptoms of the disease, and consider them sufficient indications of cure. Homoeopathy accepts the symptoms which we are now able to obtain by means of auscultation and percussion, and which aid us in establishing a correct diagnosis; by means of auscultation and percussion, and even by the investigation of the pathological changes, we obtain a more accurate knowledge of the internal phenomena of the disease, and avail ourselves of that knowledge wherever we can improve and complete, by its means, the application of our therapeutic law. In order to apply this law to the pathological phenomena we shall have, in the first place, to ascertain what drugs will produce similar phenomena in the healthy organism. We need not to mind the reproach of curing merely by symptoms ; years of experience have sufficiently shown that a disease is cured when its symptoms cea...« less