A Concise View of the System of Homoeopathy, and Refutation of the Objections Commonly Brought Forward Against itJ. McGlashan, 1848 - 240 pages |
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Page 180 - Fleischmann (homoeopathic) recovered, two-thirds of those treated by the ordinary methods, in other hospitals, died. This very extraordinary result led Count Kolowrat, Minister of the Interior, to repeal the law relative to the practice of Homoeopathy.
Page 150 - Whatever the opponents of this system may put forward against it, I am bound to say, and I am far from being a homoeopathic practitioner, that the cases I saw treated by it in the Vienna hospital were fully as acute and virulent as those that have come under my observation elsewhere ; and the statistics shew that the mortality is much less than in the other hospitals of that city.
Page 75 - In the gilding of buttons, five grains of gold, which is applied as an amalgam with mercury, is allowed to each gross ; so that the coating left must amount to the 110,000th part of an inch in thickness. If a piece of ivory or white satin be immersed in a uitro-muriate solution of gold, and then plunged into a jar of hydrogen gas, it will become covered with a surface of gold hardly exceeding in thickness the 10,000,000th part of an inch.
Page 75 - In this case, the copper must be attenuated at least ten million times ; yet each drop of the liquid may contain as many coloured particles, distinguishable by our unassisted vision. A still minuter portion of cochineal, dissolved in deliquiate potash, will strike a bright purple colour through an equal mass of water.
Page 59 - ... the symptoms of the natural disease then existing, mingling with those which the medicinal agents are capable of producing, the latter can rarely be distinguished with any clearness or precision.
Page 45 - ... first, in the discovery of Specifics, which may counteract the different diseased actions of which the body is susceptible, as effectually as the cinchona counteracts the intermittent fever, citric acid the scurvy, or vaccination the small-pox ; and, secondly, in the investigation of the Causes of disease, whether external or internal...
Page 38 - It cannot, however, be denied that the immoderate use of mercury has been productive of liver disease. The late Mr. Hewson pointed out this to the attention of those who visited the Lock Hospital while under his care. At this period it was the custom to salivate every patient, and keep him under the full mercurial influence for a month or two ; and it frequently happened that, just as the mercurial course was finished, the patient got disease and enlargement of the liver.
Page 150 - Austrian prolomedicus, has published those for 1838, which exhibit a mortality of but five or six per cent., while three similar institutions on the allopathic plan, enumerated before it in the same table, show a mortality as high as from eight to ten per cent.
Page 26 - Tut, man ! one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish ; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning ; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to the eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
Page 108 - N which the affected organ is lodged; or in convulsions, or in delirium running into coma; or in death either from exhaustion or from one of the foregoing states ; or, more fortunately, in partial subsidence of the original malady, and protracted convalescence. Such are the consequences which but too often result — which I have seen on numerous occasions to result, when blood-letting has been looked upon as the only or chief means of cure— -the "sheet anchor" of treatment, as it too has frequently...