The British Homoeopathic Review, Volume 14

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1870 - Medicine
 

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Page 659 - In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body (organism), rules with unbounded sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence.
Page 387 - XXIII. In case it shall appear to the General Council that an Attempt has been made by any Body, entitled under this Act to grant Qualifications, to impose upon any Candidate offering himself for Examination an Obligation to adopt or refrain from adopting the Practice of any particular Theory of Medicine or Surgery...
Page 566 - In other things I will take no man's liberty of judgment from him ; neither shall any man take mine from me. I will think no man the worse man, nor the worse Christian, I will love no man the less, for differing in opinion from me. And what measure I mete to others, I expect from them again.
Page 166 - ... and innumerable, and so different that each of them occurs scarcely more than once in the world, and each case of disease that presents itself must be regarded (and treated) as an individual malady that never before occurred in the same manner and under the same circumstances as in the case before us, and will never again happen precisely in the same way.
Page 624 - Now came on the affection of the eyesight, every object growing dim, as though a cloud were between the eye and it. Sometimes objects appeared double, and with an undulating motion passed before the eye. I observed that by a strong effort of the will, a concentration of the nervous power, this paralysis of the retina might for a moment be combated, but only to return with greater severity when the mental effort had been succeeded by its corresponding relaxation. The...
Page 721 - Two similar effects, the one arising from a local irritation, and the other from the presence of Belladonna, like spreading circles on a smooth sheet of water, interfere with and neutralise each other.
Page 756 - Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep digging for pure waters ; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.
Page 721 - Passing from these observations to a consideration of the action of belladonna in inflammation, we are naturally led to expect that its influence would be both powerful and beneficial. And such indeed is the case, provided that the medicine be timely and judiciously used. The action of belladonna in febrile diseases is frequently attended with results which are not only unexpected, but exactly the opposite of what is observed in health. Thus...
Page 563 - ... and protests against oppression. We stand henceforth on equal ground as members of the great body of the medical profession, in which we shall take rank according to the worth of our work in the broad field of medical science. But our position is peculiar in this respect; that in contradistinction to any body of physicians, we profess a principle of therapeutics so wide in its application as to express the natural law, in accordance with which, in all cases, drugs are to be selected to restore...
Page 556 - For this commonly giveth in four, often seven, sometime nine, sometime eleven, and sometime fourteen days, respite to whom it vexeth. But that immediately killed some in opening their windows, some in playing with children in their street doors ; some in one hour, many in two, it destroyed ; and, at the longest, to them that merrily dined it gave a sorrowful supper.

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