Samuel Hahnemann: A Sketch of His Life and CareerAdlard & Son, 1896 - 69 halaman |
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Halaman 11 - It was painful for me to grope in the dark, guided only by our books in the treatment of the sick— to prescribe, according to this or that (fanciful) view of the nature of diseases, substances that only owed to mere opinion their place in the materia medica; I had conscientious scruples about treating unknown morbid states in my suffering fellow-creatures with these unknown medicines which, being powerful substances, may, if...
Halaman 16 - ... part of a grain of the extract, which, according to my subsequent experience, is rather too large a dose). She remained quietly seated all day, without lying down ; the heat of her body became but little observable; she drank but little; none of her other symptoms increased that day, and no new ones occurred. She slept pretty quietly during the night, and the following morning, twenty hours after taking the medicine, most of the symptoms had disappeared without any crisis; the sore throat alone...
Halaman 21 - A few tea-spoonsful of this mixture, will. I assert, bring him to the brink of the grave, if he was previously regularly ill, and if his disease was of such a description as belladonna is suitable for.
Halaman 12 - Every powerful medicinal substance produces in the human body a kind of peculiar disease ; the more powerful the medicine, the more peculiar, marked, and violent the disease.^ We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic disease by superadding another, and employ in the (especially chronic) disease we wish to cure, that medicine which is able to produce another very similar artificial disease, and the former will be cured ; similia similibus.
Halaman 43 - I am now in my eighty-first year, and naturally desire at last to rest and to give up all medical practice, which is at present too burdensome to me. "I, therefore, disclaim all intention of augmenting my fortune and renounce all further gain, which, after having amply provided for my family, I am not in need of. Deeply impressed with...
Halaman 20 - A very hard dry pill of extract of belladonna produces in a robust, perfectly healthy countryman or labourer usually no effect. But from this it by no means follows that a grain of this extract would be a proper, or too weak a dose for this or a similar stout man if he was ill, or if the grain were given in solution,— certainly not ! On this point let the pseudo-empiricism of the compendiums hold its tongue ; let us hear what experience says.
Halaman 13 - I never allow any insane person,' he writes, ' to be punished by blows or other painful corporeal inflictions, since there can be no punishment where there is no sense of responsibility, and since such patients cannot be improved, but must be rendered worse, by such rough treatment.
Halaman 17 - ... during the prevalence of other epidemics she had always been the first to take them. This circumstance completely confirmed my idea. I now hesitated not to administer to the other five children of this numerous family this divine remedy as a preservative in very small doses, and, as the peculiar action of this plant does not last above three days...
Halaman 42 - Frederick, should he be still alive, otherwise his daughter is to receive it, like the other portions of her father's inheritance. All the other valuable articles and moveables belonging to me have already, for the most part, been divided among my children during my lifetime by a special deed of gift. The lists containing those articles which each of my heirs has received, or is to receive, are all signed with my name, and are marked, respectively, A, B, C, D, F, G, H, and are annexed to this will....
Halaman 16 - ... symptoms, but if possible (in accordance with my new synthetical principle) to obtain a remedy whose peculiar mode of action was calculated to produce in the healthy body most of the morbid symptoms which I observed combined in this disease. My memory and my written collection of the peculiar effects of some medicines, furnished me with no remedy so capable of producing a counterpart of the symptoms here present, as belladonna.