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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    three essential conditions, viz: 1. The employment of a medicine corresponding with the disease. 2. The reaction of nature. 3. That the action of the medicine be not disturbed by any internal or exter- nal causes—and hence the prognosis must be ren- dered according to the more or less complete union of these conditions. Another advantage possessed by Homoeopathy consists in this, that the patient is spared a tedious convalescence in acute diseases, because as he has not been exhausted by blood-letting or evacuant medicines, he passes directly from a state of disease to one of health, to the regular exercise of his func- tions. Medicines, however, cure disease only as they assist nature in her conservative efforts; the physician who administers them according to this principle, is the only true minister of nature, and not he who attempts to thwart her operations. The allopathic physician, by blood-letting, exhausts the powers of nature, he prevents her re-action, and baffles her salutary efforts; he therefore much better merits the title of her tyrant than her minis- ter, and when he endeavours by enormous doses of medicine to produce an action opposed to that of the disease, he becomes her executioner. The im- propriety of such treatment is fully and fearfully at- tested by the frequent Gastralgias, the different or- ganic lesions of the stomach and alimentary canal, of the liver, urinary organs, lungs, and the nervous sys* tern, which remain behind as the results, not as is generally supposed, of the malignancy of the disease, but from the large doses of medicine, or from the debilitating effects of blood-letting.