Samuel Hahnemann's Organon of homœopathic medicine.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1848
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    administered hyosciamus, whose special action consists of causing a spasmodic constriction of the throat, with the impossi- hility of swallowing, an effect which Tozzetti, Hamilton, Ber- Tiigaii, Sauvages. and Hunerwolf * have seen it produce in a very high degree. How could camphor produce such salutary effects as the veracious Huxhamf says it does, in the so-called slow nervous fevers, where the temperature of the body is decreased, where the sensibility is depressed, and the vital powers greatly di- minished, if the result of its immediate action upon the body did not produce a state similar in every respect to the latter, as observed by G. Alexander, Cullen, and P. Hoffman ?J Spirituous wines, administered in small doses, have cured, homoBopathically, fevers that were purely inflammatory. 0. Crivellati,§ H. Augeniuis,]! A. Mundella,** and two anonymous writers,!f have afforded us the proofs. AsclepiadesJJ on one occasion cured an inflammation of the brain by administering a s?naU quantify of wine. A case of feverish delirium like an insensible drunkenness, attended with stertorous breathing, similar to that state of deep intoxication which wine produces, was cured in a single night by ivine which Rademacher§§ ad- ministered to the patient. Can any one deny the power of a medicinal irritation analogous to the disease itself {similia ^imilibus) in either of these cases ? A strong infusion of tea produces anxiety and palpitation of (he heart in persons who are not in the habit of drinking it; on the other hand, if taken in small doses, it is an excellent remedy against such symptoms when produced by other causes, as testified by G. L. Rau.|||| * See my Materia Medica, vol. iv. pp. 38, 39. t Opera, t. i. p. 172 ; t. ii. p. 84. X See my Materia Medica, vol. iv. ^ Trattato dell' uso e modo di dare il vino nelle febri acute. Rome, 1600. il Epist. t. ii. lib. ii. ep. 8. ** Epist. 14. Basil, 1538. ft Eph. Nat. Cur. dec. ii. ann. 2, obs. 53. Gazette de Sante, 1788. XI Ccel. Aurelianus, Acut. lib. i. c. 16. In Hufeland's Journal, xvi. i. p. 92, ill Ueber den Werth des Homceopathischen Heilverfahrens. Heidelbere- 1824, p. 75. ^' 6