The Homoeopathic Theory and Practice of Medicine

Voorkant
Radde, 1852 - 631 pagina's
 

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Pagina 177 - Tis a most truculent executioner," said Philibert : "it invades the whole body, from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet, leaving nothing untouched.
Pagina 146 - ... processes; but, after two or three days spent in acute pain, a sharp pain is frequently complained of in the seventh, eighth, and...
Pagina 31 - The slightest action of a chemical agent upon the blood exercises an injurious influence; even the momentary contact of the air in the lungs, although effected through the medium of cells and membranes, alters the color and other qualities of the blood. Every chemical action propagates itself through the mass of the blood...
Pagina 67 - that in a large proportion of the cases treated by allopathic physicians, the disease is cured by nature, and not by them ; secondly, 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 opposing, instead of assisting the cure...
Pagina 98 - It is singular that we find medicinal agencies all dependent on certain matters, which differ in composition ; and if, by the introduction of a substance, certain abnormal conditions are rendered normal, it will be impossible...
Pagina 90 - ... which are material, the human intellect has only conceptions. We can ascertain, however, the laws which regulate their motion and rest, because these are manifested in phenomena. In like manner the laws of vitality, and of all that disturbs, promotes, or alters it, may certainly be discovered, although we shall never learn what life is.
Pagina 394 - Tjoth according to the stage ; in the early stage of both it is generally contracted, in the latter stage dilated. The conjunctiva injected and red in delirium ebriosorum ; the reverse in delirium tremens. The mental derangement in the former is more allied to an exalted, excited state of intellect : in the latter it approaches fatuity and depression. The tongue is generally pale and furred in delirium tremens. sometimes unnaturally clean and red ; in delirium ebriosorum it is usually dry, and sometimes...
Pagina 392 - ... half-recumbent, half-sitting posture with the face turned towards the sun. Then cover him entirely (except the face,) with newly dug earth until there are signs of returning animation ; after which Nux-vomica should be given by placing a few pellets on his tongue, and repeating the dose every half hour. 8. PARALYSIS.— PALSY. Paralysis is characterized by a partial or total loss of voluntary motion or of sensation. In some cases both sensation and voluntary motion are destroyed. These symptoms...
Pagina 67 - We repeat our readiness to admit these inferences as just, and to abide by the consequences of their adoption. We believe they are true. We grieve sincerely to believe them to be so ; but so believing, their rejection is no longer in our power; we must receive them as facts, until they are proved not to be so.
Pagina 110 - A rather more distinct experiment is the following : if we dissolve a fragment of silver, of 0-01 of a cubic line in size, in nitric acid, it will render distinctly milky 500 cubic inches of a clear solution of common salt. Hence the magnitude of each particle of silver cannot exceed, but must rather fall far short of, a billionth of a cubic line. To render the idea of this degree of division more distinct than the mere mention of so imperfectly conceivable a number as a billion could effect, it...

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