Organon of homœopathic medicine. / by Samuel Hahnemann.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1836
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    40 The English sweating sickness, which first exhibited itself in the year 1485, and which, more murderous than the plague itself, carried off in the commencement, (as testified by Willis,) ninety-nine patients out of a hundred, could not be subdued until such time as they had learned to administer sudorifics to patients. Since that time, as Sennertus* * * § observes, few persons died of it. A case of dysentery, which lasted several years, threatening the patient with inevitable death, and against which every other medicine had been tried without success, was, to the great surprise of Fischer,t (but not to mine,) cured in a speedy and permanent manner by a purgative administered by an empiric. Murray, (whom I selected from numerous other authorities,) together with daily experience, inform us, that among the symptoms produced by tlie use of tobacco, those of vertigo, nausea, and anxiety, are the principal. Whereas Diemerbroeck,f when attacked with those very symptoms of vertigo, nausea, and anxiety, in the course of his close attendance on the vic- tims of epidemic diseases in Holland, removed them by the use of the pipe. The hurtful effects which some writers (among others Georgi§) ascribe to the use of the agaricus muscarius, by the inhabitants of Kamtschatka, and which consist of tremors, convulsions, and epilepsy, became a salutary remedy in the hands of C. G. Whistlingll, who used this mushroom with suc- cess in cases of convulsions accompanied with tremor; likewise in those of J. C. Bernhardt,** who used it with success in a species of epilepsy. * De Febribus, iv. cap. 15. t In Hufeland’s Journal fdr Practlsche Arzneikunde, vol. x. iv. p. 127. J Tract, de Peste, Amsterdam, 1665, p. 273. § Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs, (A Descrip- tion of all the Nations of the Russian Empire,) pp. 78, 267, 281, 321, 329, 352. II Diss. de Virt. Agaric. Muse. Jena, 1718, p. 13. ** Chym. Vers, und Erfahrungen, Leipzig, 1754, obs. 5. p. 324. Ghu-