Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1889 Excerpt: ... that the remedy having control over arterial excitement alone fails to relieve the symptoms coming from a specific poison. Thus much in keeping with the early theories is the reasoning we yet hear, and all unconsciously men pursue the well-worn groove of the ages while deluding themselves with a fancied advance in modern learning. So long as the administration of remedies is in accordance with the theories which prompted the older plans of practice, there can be but little hope of scientific advancement. To change from antiphlogistic to antipyretic is but changing weapons--the method of attack remains the same, and with this method our argument now has to do. CHAPTER II. In the preceding chapter we have carefully traced in outline the growth of medical science, and briefly pointed to the seeming defects of the system in its study and experiments. Our examination had led us in the historic search to the beginning of the present century or near it, while the citations of authorities brought us to the present time. It now becomes necessary, for an intelligent advance into our subject, to examine the claims of Hahnemann and his'followers, to find what basis exists for their claims to a more scientific application of medicine to the cure of disease, and he will prove recreant to his scientific trust who lets error or prejudice so warp his judgment as to give the question unfair attention. Judged by all previous experience in medical growth, this system ofHahnemann could have had no seeming promise of growth or permanence, and yet we find it, a century later, now-acting as the most dominant element in the field of mooted medical questions, and the present cause of bitterest controversy. Judged by all logical conclusions, such could not be the case had the claim n...
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