The Permeation of Present Day Medicine by Homoeopathy

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E. Gould & Son, Limited, 1904 - 111 pagina's
 

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Pagina 56 - Society. Price 10s. 6d. Ear. Aural Surgery. By W. LAIDLAW PURVES, MD, Aural Surgeon to Guy's Hospital. (See chapters in Gant's Surgery.) Ear. Movable Atlas of the Ear. Superposed Coloured Plates. By Prof.
Pagina 60 - ... has been but small. It may be urged that it is difficult to imagine how these remedies can produce effects so different and apparently opposite as the dispersion of inflammation in one case and the expulsion of pus in another ; but poultices and hot fomentations certainly possess the property both of subduing inflammation and of preventing suppuration, and in other cases of hastening considerably the evacuation of pus.
Pagina 62 - That most collected statistics as to the duration of treatment and freedom from relapse are misleading and worse than useless, because usually the treatment was far too short to be effectual. " That it has not yet been proved that there are any special forms of syphilitic disease in which mercury ought to be avoided, although, as a general rule, it is acknowledged that it must be used with more caution in all forms which are attended by ulceration than in others. " That iodide of potassium possesses...
Pagina 76 - is used by these quacks (homoeopaths) because it is a powerful agent which will produce manifest effects in small doses that may easily be disguised.
Pagina 70 - Mercury in small doses is a tonic (for a time at least) to individuals in fair health, not syphilitic. In such individuals, it increases the number of the red blood corpuscles.
Pagina 84 - For the diarrhoea of children, accompanied with slight inflammation, straining, and the passage of jelly-looking matter, but not true dysentery, five drops of castor-oil, given every hour in water with sugar and gum, is an excellent remedy.
Pagina 34 - ... itching of the nose or of the inner canthus of one or both eyes, sneezing, running at the nose of a watery fluid, weeping of the eyes, and severe frontal headache. This affection is often removed at once by iodine inhalations ; but when it succeeds only partially, it almost always lessens the headache and the discharge from the nose.
Pagina 62 - That many cases of indurated chancre, treated early by mercury, never show any of the characteristic symptoms of the secondary stage. "That in other cases of mercurial cure of the chancre, in which yet secondary symptoms do occur, they are usually milder, than if allowed to develope without specific treatment. "That when mercury does not wholly abrogate the secondary stage, it exhibits a remarkable power in delaying it.
Pagina 89 - Brunton as homoeopathic remedies. His reply to this is simply that they have been copied from Ringer, Phillips, Potter, Bartholow, &c., when every one knows the sources of inspiration of these authors. And in case this should not quite satisfy the candid reader, Dr. Brunton goes on to make the astounding statement that " the mere fact that a drug in small doses will cure a disease exhibiting symptoms similar to those produced by a large dose of the drug does not constitute it a homoeopathic medicine.
Pagina 10 - And again : — Experience has proved that many diseases are cured by therapeutic agents which seem to act in the same manner as the morbific cause to which we oppose them.

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