Views of Hom Opathy; With Reasons for Examining It and Admitting It as a Principle in Medical Science (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: APPENDIX, We shall add, more especially to confirm the observations which have been made, some cases, which were among our first in the application of the Homoeopathic practice in the cure of disease; they are designed, as are the remarks which follow, more especially for the medical profession, but may not be without interest to the general reader. The few selected are of no particular interest, only going to snow that the early application of medicine on this principle is not without success. Still further observation and experience are necessary, to prescribe with accuracy. I trust what has already been said, will be sufficient to convince any one who is not familiar with the Homffiopath- ic literature, even of our own country, that the medicine is not inoperative. A recent interview with a physician of several years' experience, in a region where the science has made great progress, more than confirms all we shall say. In the country, and in acute diseases, we have a better opportunity to compare the two systems. In Epidemics of malignant Erysipelas, Typhus Fever, and Scarlet Fever, which had recently occured, the success was much in favor of the Homoeopathic practice. Indeed, it is decidedly in diseases of a violent character, that its success is pre-eminent. Case 1 -- . Achild,