An Address Delivered At The Seventeenth Annual Meeting Of The American Institute Of Homoeopathy Held In The City Of Philadelphia June 6th 1860

Author : F. R. McManus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781390999631
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book An Address Delivered at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Homoeopathy written by F. R. McManus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Homoeopathy: Held in the City of Philadelphia, June 6th, 1856 I start, here, with the incontrovertible fact, that medicines, in large quantities, have a poisonous or destructive effect, in smaller quantities, a curative one; and this is a very im portant matter in the subject of my discourse. Is it true? Let us examine the assertion by referring to the action of what is considered a very simple medicine, - Epsom Salts. Give a table-spoonful of it to a man in the best health does it not disturb the harmony of his system? Let the dose be repeated morning and evening for a week, and at the end of that time he may be really sick} and, if persisted in, instead of producing, as It at first does, a simple irritation of the mucous membrance, inflammation will ensue, and, perhaps, more fearful consequences. The drug I have selected is not a poisonous one, nor is the dose administered a very large one, nevertheless, its continuance might prove destructive; but, the destructive influence of numerous other drugs, in common use, would be far greater than that of Epsom Salts. I have stated that large doses of medicines have a poisonous or destructive effect, - small doses, at curative one. A very small dose of a medicinal substance produces an effect directly the reverse of that produced by an ordinarily large sized dose of the same medicine. A medicine, then, which will produce pur gation (diarrhoea) in a large dose, will produce a reversed action in a very minute dose; and, hence, such a minute dose will cure precisely similar symptoms in a sick man. How? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.