American Homeopathic Review Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... certain conditions. But beyond its scope in all directions lie immense fields glowing with wonders, and which, unaided, it cannot explore. Immense magnitudes it cannot compass, minute substances though teeming with life and beauty and perfection of organization, or hideous and ferocious in their forms and instincts, become cognizable only when the subtle energies of the brain have placed between this organ and these minute objects the wonder-moving microscope. Great velocity--intense light----deep darkness-very close proximity or great remoteness, with many other circum_ stances define limits of its power. The sense of hearing has an organ also for its specific purpose; and so of all the special senses. Their functions are definite, specific, comprehensive, and yet subject to limitation So it is with the whole digestive and assimilative apparatus, whose function as a unit, is to change foreign and crude substances into its own vitalized organism, to build up and repair its physical structure and to maintain its perfect integrity. The whole physiology of life is a commentary on Specific law. Let us now consider that condition of the organism to which our profession is more appropriately related--its pathological condition. Having seen that each organ is peculiar in structure and definite in function, performing its operations through the action of stimulants proper to itself, is it not reasonable to suppose that disturbing causes would be such as have a peculiar relation and natural determination of such organ? Leaving out of account for a moment the action of the Sympathetic system of nerves, I think we can arrive at no other conclusion than that each organ must become diseased by itself, though it may be synchronously with other...