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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    be strictly avoided as too exciting, while blue and violet are of calming influence. By placing colored glass in tJw windows, this varying influence of colors may easily be studied. Doebereiner recommended this study to physicians most emphatically, but in vain. Plants prosper in blue light better than in any other. Moonlight is of od-positive effect, and has likewise an evi- dent influence on the life of plants and animals. There are maladies upon which the moon exerts a visible influence ; such are cutaneous diseases, worm complaints, disposition for haemorrhages in women, and moon-walking. I once no- ticed a sick woman who would always turn her left side away from the moon. Many a sensitive cannot look with his left eye into the moon without experiencing an unpleasant sensation. To this may be added the odic influence of the earth upon life ; it is a thing of manifest existence, the earth being od-positive on the northern hemisphere, and od-negative on the southern. It is an essential requirement for sound sleep, especially for that of the sick, that the bed should stand so that the head comes to lie to the north and the feet to the south. The upper part of the body is more od-negative with respect to the longitudinal axis, the north pole of the earth od-positive ; hence that position will produce a combi- nation of unlike poles, and on that account be pleasant. With feeble patients three things ought to be considered, to insure them sound sleep : first, the bed should be so arranged, that the patient, in view of his necessity of lying on his right side, can turn his face against the wall, the odic emanations from the wall being negative; secondly, the bed must be placed in the meridian, so that the head lies to the north ; and thirdly, it should be seen to that on the other side of that wall, nobody sleeps in the reversed position. It may also be mentioned * Sick persons, especially sensitives, can fall to sleep only when lying on their right side, because the northern hemisphere is od-positive. If the left (likewise od positive side) is turned towards it, it forms a combination of like and like, which the individual with weak nerves does not bear. On the southern hemisphere the reverse will be true ; in New-Holland and Chili all sensitives and those of weak nerves will prefer to sleep on their left ; while near and on the Equator they will feel indifferent about it.