The Practitioner, Band 20

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John Brigg, 1878
 

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Seite 425 - No one, who is competent to form an opinion, can deny that one or two of the principles lying at the foundation of the system " (of homoeopathy) " are substantially true. These principles are what may be briefly termed the local actions of medicines, or the elective affinities of the tissues, the double action of medicines, and the opposite effects of large and small doses...
Seite 335 - And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies, and of our sea.
Seite 401 - Sir James Simpson introduced the oxalate of cerium, and prescribed it in ten-grain doses. The officinal dose is from one to two grains, which is as a rule so useless that the preparation has been stigmatized as the "oxalate of mud.
Seite 48 - ... as made up of atoms of the same kind, and compounds as consisting of atoms of different kinds. This hypothesis, the first step toward the atomic theory as entertained to-day, afforded a clear explanation of the numerical results stated in the three laws. If hydrogen and oxygen always unite together in the proportion of one of the former to eight of the latter, it is because, said Dalton, the compound consists of an atom of hydrogen, weighing 1, and an atom of oxygen, weighing 8. If, again, in...
Seite 324 - This body of men in our own country may be described like the British army in Caesar's time. Some of them slay in chariots, and some on foot. If the infantry do less execution than the charioteers, it is because they cannot be carried so soon into all quarters of the town, and dispatch so much business in so short a time.
Seite 433 - Homoeopathy in combination with other systems of treatment; and third, those who, under various pretences, meet in consultation, or hold professional intercourse with those who practise Homoeopathy.
Seite 332 - It is the glory of God to conceal a thing : but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Seite 84 - The tonic action of quinetum is similar and perhaps even greater than that of quinine. 8. The action of quinetum in cases of masked or larval malaria, and especially in rheumatic affections due to malarious influences, is incomparably greater than that of quinine.
Seite 39 - in the whole as well as in the several parts of the nervous system, and particularly in the brain, is at different times in different degrees of mobility and force. To these different states I beg leave to apply the terms of excitement and collapse. To that state in which the mobility and force are sufficient for the...
Seite 132 - It was found to act beneficially if given to the extent of one seventieth grain of the sulphate daily. The trial was made in consequence of the accepted fact that small doses diminish the action of the reflex nerve-centres, while large doses produce an opposite effect. Cases of motor epilepsy of not long standing recovered rapidly, and some old cases complicated with mental derangement also got well while taking the drug. In other cases the attacks were rendered less frequent. The observation was...

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