Ruoff's repertory of homoeopathic medicine : nosologically arranged / translated from the German by A. Howard Okie, with additions and improvements by Gideon Humphrey.

  • Ruoff, A. J. Friedrich.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Ruoff's repertory of homoeopathic medicine : nosologically arranged / translated from the German by A. Howard Okie, with additions and improvements by Gideon Humphrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    remote causes determine the development of the disease, and consequently require to be strictly in- quired into, because experience has taught the practitioner of the new school, that symptoms ap- parently similar, produced by different causes, de- mand peculiar treatment; for instance, a diarrhoea arising from cold ought not to be treated in the same manner as that produced by a fit of colic or by eat- ing unwholesome food. An inflammation of the brain resulting from a repelled erysipelas, would require a different remedy from the disease produced by a blow or a stroke of the sun, &c. The enlightened Homoeopathist will be governed in the selection of his remedy by all these circumstances, preferring that one which corresponds to all the existing symp- toms as well as the remote cause; whilst the old school would see only a diarrhoea, an encephalitis, and be governed in its treatment merely by these names; and instead of blindly theorizing concerning the nature of the proximate cause, and guessing at the requisite treatment, as it is too often the case with the routinist of the old school, Homoeopathy convinced of the impenetrability of the secrets of nature, contents itself with taking into account, all the antecedent circumstances in reference to the patient, the cause producing the disease, the condi- tion of the moral and physical functions of the in- dividual, the external changes which are percepti- ble, the sufferings and sensations felt by the patient. Thus it is easy to see which method is most like- ly to acquire the greatest amount of positive know- ledge in relation to the patient's disease, and con-