The North American Journal of Homeopathy (Volume 52) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: doses were Boericke and Tafel's hand-made loooth. The fourth was Fincke's cm. Perhaps the lower dilutions would have served equally as well, but the use of the very high, precludes all ideas of direct germicidal action, and, therefore, is better suited to my purpose in demonstrating that the restoration of order in the higher plane, or that of the vital force, will result in the restoration of order in the lower, even to removal of micoorganisms in the tissues. Treat the individual, and the disease with its results will take care of themselves. Remove the cause and the effect will cease. If we consider bacteria as the cause of disease, it is only logical to direct our therapeutic measures directly towards their extermination in the body, and we should, therefore, give massive doses of quinine, inject formalin into the circulation, flush the bowels and the kidneys, and the bladder with antiseptic medicines, give inhalations of antiseptic vapors, etc., etc. But the mortality under such drastic treatment is shown by the statistics of the great hospitals of Europe and America. A CLINICAL CASE AND DEFENSE OF HIGH POTENCIES. By F. H. Lutze, M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. History Of The Patient. WILLIAM H. MATHEWS, act. 38 years, residing in Jersey City, N. J., has been subject to occasional attacks of rheumatism in both legs, which, after continuing for three or four weeks, were usually cured by some simple treatment, at home. During February, 1898, the rheumatism returned again, but, unlike his previous experience, became more severe, and was accompanied with lameness and swelling of both feet, and especially of knees, extending also up to the thighs. He consulted, therefore, in March of the same year, a Homeopath, who diagnosed the case: articular rheumatism, treated him f...