Homoeopathy unveiled : or, Observations on Hahnemann, his doctrines and treatment of disease / by William Perrin Brodribb.

  • Brodribb, William Perrin.
Date:
1851
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    homoeopathic physician chancing to call, and finding him laid up ill, stated at once that he had taken Nux vomica, which proved to be correct. An antidote on each occasion rapidly removed the symptoms. I ex- press no doubt of the truth of this statement, but I cannot receive the facts, the taking of the globules and the illness which followed, as cause and effect; because the evidence is insufficient to prove the connexion between the two: and a course of minute and long continued observation would be necessary to arrive at a just conclusion. r__ (~My own experience is quite the reverse of this. ^ I have often given to persons homoeopathic medicines, but without their producing any effect. I have also re- peatedly made trial of them on myself in the way men- tioned by Dr. Malan, viz., by taking some for several days together. I have taken daily for a fortnight some globules of rhus toxicodendron, varying in number from four to thirty. I have taken also for the same period, globules of Nux vomica, of Aconite, of Pulsatilla, of Mercurius, and of Arsenic, and on each occasion with- out feeling the slightest effect whatever. Desirous of testing them as fairly as possible, I have requested homoeopathic practitioners to give me any of their medicines, offering to take them in any dose, and for any length of time they pleased, but these offers have always been declined.^] Other persons, more cautious in their admission of the powers of these globules, say, that they are active for good, but not for evil; that they produce their effects on the body, not while in health, but only in disease; and then too, only when given homceopathically.