The Hom Opathic Physician Volume 9 (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: tance. 1. That it is not the matter of the drug which cures, because here, when the doses given which cured so much more speedily and permanently must, if they contained any drug matter at all, have been in much less quantity than in those given in the previous practice with low numbers and the crude drug. 2. These cases, and a multitude of others similar to them, demonstrate the greater curing power in the dynamized than in the crude drug. And, 3. The superior curing effects of these high potencies over the third and lower demonstrate an increase of curing power by continuing the process of dynamization. The third number is, no doubt, a dynamic specimen of a drug power; but when the dynamizing process has been carried, as in the case of the medicines used in these cures, to the 200th, the result has been, and is, increased curing power in the higher number when its action is compared with that of the third or lower dynamization. 4. The falsehood of the rule formerly taught?low numbers in treating acute diseases and high in chronic?is fully demonstrated. The superior results of the treatment of croup by Boenninghausen's powders as compared with the experience of treatment with lower numbers can only be accounted for by the fact of the greater curing power in the higher dynamizations. And it is not a little interesting that in these six cases and in a multitude of similar ones these superior cures were wrought, notwithstanding the 200th dynamization employed in them was handicapped by so important a violation of law in the matter of time between the doses. The increase of curing power was equal to the cure, and would have it in spite of so important a violation of law. P. P. Wells. Brooklyn, November 29th, 1888. A Cough Symptom: ?Cough, with haemoptysis and feeble, weak heart...