The Homoeopathic theory and practice of medicine v. 1, Volume 1

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Pagina 36 - And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh : and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy : and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
Pagina 533 - 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 91 - 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 483 - ... processes; but, after two or three days spent in acute pain, a sharp pain is frequently complained of in the seventh, eighth, and...
Pagina 74 - 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 73 - Edinburgh ) from the market-place opposite, laboring under a terrible accident. The man, on trying to hook up a heavy piece of meat above his head, slipped, and the sharp hook penetrated his arm, so that he himself was suspended. On being examined, he was pale, almost pulseless, and expressed himself as suffering acute agony. The arm could not be moved without causing excessive pain, and in cutting off the sleeve he frequently cried out ; yet when the arm was exposed it was found to be quite uninjured,...
Pagina 280 - One thing only escapes his attention ; that is, he is looking at merely organic effects, forgetting all the while that he must mount higher up to discover their causes. These organic alterations are observed, perhaps, in the body of a person who has suffered deeply from mental distress and anxiety ; these have been the energetic cause of his decay, but they cannot be discovered in the laboratory or the amphitheatre.
Pagina 397 - The first class is composed of interlobular branches, one of which occupies the centre of each lobule, and receives the blood from a plexus formed in the lobule by the portal vein ; and the second class of hepatic veins is composed of all those vessels contained in canals formed by the lobules,' and including numerous small branches, as well as the large trunks terminating in the inferior cava.
Pagina 280 - Many physicians of extensive experience are destitute of the ability of searching out and understanding the moral causes of disease ; they cannot read the book of the heart, and yet it is in this book that are inscribed, day by day, and hour by hour, all the griefs, and all the miseries, and all the vanities, and all the fears, and all the joys, and all the hopes of Man, and in which will be found the most active and incessant principle of that frightful series of organic changes which constitute...
Pagina 124 - ... 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.

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