Letter to John Forbes ...: On His Article Entitled "Homœopathy, Allopathy, and Young Physic" ...William Radde, 1846 - 66 頁 |
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第 42 頁 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears.
第 6 頁 - In a considerable proportion of diseases it would fare as well, or better, with patients, in the actual condition of the medical art, as more generally practiced, if all remedies, at least all active remedies, especially drugs, were abandoned." "Things [in medicine] have arrived at such a pitch, that they cannot be worse; they must mend or end.
第 5 頁 - First, that in a large proportion of the cases treated by allopathic physicians, the disease is cured by nature, and not by them. Second, that in a lesser but still not a small proportion, the disease is cured by nature in spite of them ; in other words, their interference retarding instead of assisting the cure.
第 30 頁 - If the dose be increased, the alimentary canal becomes disordered (indicated by the nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, thirst, and constipation, or even purging) ; a febrile state of the system is set up (manifested by the excitement of the vascular system, and dry tongue) ; and the cerebro-spinal system becomes disordered, as is shown by the throbbing headache and giddiness.
第 19 頁 - Aconite in pure inflammatory fevers, with or without eruption, as well as in inflammatory diseases generally, in obedience to his principle, similia similibus, by which the effusion of blood, except in certain exceptional cases, is wholly obviated. Even were we under no other obligation to Hahnemann, by this simple discovery he would, like Jenner, deserve to be ranked among the greatest benefactors of suffering humanity.
第 55 頁 - should I occupy time by adducing more examples of a similar operation of medicines, since it is in the very nature of the thing that a medicine must produce a much greater effect when it is applied to a body already suffering under an affection similar to that which the medicine itself is capable of producing.
第 41 頁 - This comparative powerlessnessand positive uncertainty of medicine, is also exhibited in a striking light, when we come to trace the history and fortunes of particular remedies and modes of treatment, and observe the notions of practitioners, at different times, respecting their positive or relative value. What difference of opinion ; what an array of alleged facts directly at variance with each other; what contradictions ; what opposite results of a like...
第 7 頁 - ... susceptible of cure under every variety of treatment, and under no treatment at all ; but even all the severer and more dangerous diseases, which most physicians, of whatever school, have been accustomed to consider as not only needing the interposition of art to assist nature in bringing them to a favourable and speedy termination, but demanding the employment of prompt and strong measures to prevent a fatal issue in a considerable proportion of cases.
第 5 頁 - That, consequently, in a considerable proportion of diseases, it would fare as well, or better, with patients, in the actual condition of the medical art, as more generally practiced, if all remedies, at least all active remedies, especially drugs, were abandoned.