Od, or odo-magnetic, force : and explanation of its influence on homoeopathic medicines, from the odic stand-point, with opinions of medical homoeopathic authorities on the sanative effect of od-preparations, together with several sketches of interesting cases of disease : appendix, the conscientious, educated physician at the sick-bed according to the odic laws, magnetizing and odic touch, from the German, after the best sources / translated by Robert Rohland for physicians and for the friends of homoeopathy.

  • Rohland, Robert.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Od, or odo-magnetic, force : and explanation of its influence on homoeopathic medicines, from the odic stand-point, with opinions of medical homoeopathic authorities on the sanative effect of od-preparations, together with several sketches of interesting cases of disease : appendix, the conscientious, educated physician at the sick-bed according to the odic laws, magnetizing and odic touch, from the German, after the best sources / translated by Robert Rohland for physicians and for the friends of homoeopathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    temper of the od-activity in the organism; this distemper usullay precedes the breaking-out of the disease several days, which enables sensitive persons to anticipate the real disease. As far back as Plato we find in his Philebos an explanation of one's being well and one's being ill. His deep insight into the nature of our sensations claims our admiration. The fol- lowing is the remarkable passage bearing upon this subject: Whenever that which should be harmonic in an animal body loses its harmony, then immediately arises the danger of dissolution and the occasion for pains ; but when the harmony is restored there is a feeling of healthfulness, or a sensation of pleasure. Healthfulness depends upon the proper proportion of posi- tive and negative Od in our organism. In a healthy man the Od-negative state preponderates; it exists in animal life in a much greater measure than in the vegetable. ( The fuller, the richer, the more powerful that life is, the greater the amount of negative Od. Thus the most exuberant state of health is combined with a very great amount of negative Od.' —Keichenbach.) Indisposition and disease, however, inclhe towards the Od-positive state. Odic manifestations are differ- ent in different individuals, just as scent and taste vary vith the individual. This difference is most striking in the deid and living. In all that which is dead, the od polar tension, inheren in the chrystallized bodies, the magnet, and in all organic belies, ceases ; it must cease whenever death destroys its ties.anni- hilates its organic structure. This is the thread of iriadne which leads through the labyrinth of life, disease, anc7 death, a labyrinth whose intricate paths have for thousand >f years past been travelled over in vain by physicians. If the activity of the nerves ceases, the chemical operation commerces ; and the process of decomposition which before took jlace, according to the laws for organic life, is now carried on after the laws for «inorganic nature. We mean by tha, that matter continues to exist, but does so in a different fom and manner; that the body, under the influence of Ox-gen, is decomposed into its elements.