Diphtheria : its history, symptoms, cause, and radical, speedy cure, without the use of poisonous medication: scarlet fever, and its successful treatment : measles : with causes of throat diseases : catarrh and kindred constitutional disturbances / by Melville C. Keith.

  • Keith, Melville C. (Melville Cox), 1835-1903.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Diphtheria : its history, symptoms, cause, and radical, speedy cure, without the use of poisonous medication: scarlet fever, and its successful treatment : measles : with causes of throat diseases : catarrh and kindred constitutional disturbances / by Melville C. Keith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they give indiscriminately and call it a specific for scar- let fever. We presume no one will deny that Belladonna is given at all times and under all circumstances for scar- let fever by the so-called Homoepaths. It is a fact, and one easily proved by reference to their writers. This remedy is a poison, so subtle, usually given in so minute doses, so inappreciable in its direct effects that thousands of children are annually carried to the grave without the knowledge of the cause of death be- ing suspected. Belladonna is a cumulative poison. It destroys the brain. It cuts off or destroys the trans- mission of i]itelligence by the nerves, hence people without thinking suppose the effect is for the improve- ment of the children. But the after effect is deafness, short-sightedness, paralysis and general softening of the brain, and a marked deleterious influence upotL the great sympa- thetic nerve which is shown in the hollow cheeks and impaired digestion and nutrition of that large class who have taken belladonna as a medicine. It is true that the so-called homoepaths use also the water treatment, but when they do this they stultify Hahneman and prove themselves frauds, by following another practice. They may say and try to prove that they are at liberty to select the good from all schools. When they do this they acknowledge themselves to be Eclectics, and confess themselves medical swindlers of the basest stripe. It is a fact since the world has known homoepathy there has been a greater increase of paralysis, palsy and brain softening than ever before recorded in the same space of time. And the writer believes it is large- ly caused by the use of powerful vegetable poisons which leave no discoverable traces in the system. Among these poisons Belladonna, Aconite and Strych- nia stand in the front rank, and to the so-called homoe- pathic treatment we can look as the cause of the great