Animal magnetism and homoeopathy, being the appendix to Observations on the principal medical institutions of France, Italy and Germany1838 |
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Page 26 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Page 66 - That the homoeopathic treatment produced no effect; and, 2ndly, that it had the serious inconvenience, in several of the patients, of preventing the employment of remedies by which they might be cured. On account of the statement of a Dr. Luz, a veterinary surgeon at Leipsic, that he had performed several surprising cures by the...
Page 83 - The intrepid Swiss, who guards a foreign shore, Condemned to climb his mountain-cliffs no more, If chance he hears the song so sweetly wild Which on those cliffs his infant hours beguiled, Melts at the long-lost scenes that round him rise, And sinks a martyr to repentant sighs.
Page 57 - Medicines, then, are not considered by the homoeopathists as direct remedies, but to act by giving rise to morbid symptoms, surpassing in intensity those of the disease against which they are employed, on the principle that two similar diseases cannot co-exist in the same individual: the original disease consequently yields, being overpowered by the artificial disease caused by the remedies; and this, on the discontinuance of the medicines, is in its turn speedily overcome by the powers of the constitution.
Page 62 - AGerman homoeopathist, practising in Russia, was invested by the Grand Duke Michael with full powers to prove, if possible, by a comparison of...
Page 81 - As some are so molested by fantasy ; so some again, by fancy alone, and a good conceit, are as ea.sily recovered. We see commonly the toothache, gout, falling-sickness, biting of a mad dog, and many such maladies, cured by spells, words, characters, and charms, and many green wounds by that now so much used...
Page 69 - During the first few days no treatment was adopted, and he continued in the same state. Four starch pills, which he supposed to be homoeopathic remedies, were then prescribed ; one to be taken regularly every six hours. Half an hour after swallowing each pill, the patient experienced anxiety, sense of oppression, spitting of blood. The pills were discontinued, and resumed on alternate days during a fortnight. Each time they were taken, they were followed by oppression, headache, acceleration of pulse,...
Page 89 - In one instant every feeling of decrepitude or bodily weakness left him, his limbs recovered their original vigour, all his lassitude and debility vanished, a difficulty of breathing under which he had long laboured disappeared, and starting from his seat he rushed to his wife's chamber, tearing, without the smallest difficulty, up a flight of stairs, which a quarter of an hour before it had taken him ten minutes to climb. He hurried to her bed-side, told her that her son was dead, heard her first...
Page 80 - ... their malignity plunges individuals- into diseases which often terminate fatally. One of these Indians, Matonabbi by name, conceiving that Hearne was in possession of supernatural powers, requested him to kill, by magic, a man against whom he entertained a deadly hatred. To oblige him, Hearne, without dreading any bad consequences, drew some figures upon a piece of paper, and gave it to Matonabbi, advising him to make it as public as possible. Matonabbi's enemy, who enjoyed perfectly good health...
Page 68 - ... next when four hours had elapsed. A few minutes after the first pill had been swallowed, the following symptoms manifested themselves — anxiety, pain, and uneasiness in the region of the heart and thorax, perspiration, with heat and eruption on the skin. The second pill appeared to aggravate these symptoms, with the addition of hiccough. She afterwards fell asleep, and, on awaking, was astonished to find she could talk in a loud tone.