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| {{anchor:s110}}In the former case, the defects should rarely be attributed to the insufficiency of our experimentations. {{anchor:s111}}The difficulty springs, most frequently, from the empirical use, not only of allopathic remedies, and of secret nostrums recommended as infallible in popular books and in the journals, but even also of homoeopathic remedies prescribed by <span grade2>dilettanti,</span> whose impatience has driven them to experiment with several remedies successively, and at short intervals. {{anchor:s112}}There results from this procedure a sort of monstrous affection, compounded of the natural disease and of a medicinal disease; an abnormal totality, in the midst of which one can neither find a convenient starting point, nor form of it an intelligent image. {{anchor:s113}}Help is not then possible, except on condition of having recourse to the preliminary rational use of antidotes of short action, by means of which to reconduct the entire malady to its natural and primitive state. {{anchor:s114}}When this end has been attained, we may select and employ, with confidence and efficacy, the remedy which corresponds to the case. | {{anchor:s110}}In the former case, the defects should rarely be attributed to the insufficiency of our experimentations. {{anchor:s111}}The difficulty springs, most frequently, from the empirical use, not only of allopathic remedies, and of secret nostrums recommended as infallible in popular books and in the journals, but even also of homoeopathic remedies prescribed by <span grade2>dilettanti,</span> whose impatience has driven them to experiment with several remedies successively, and at short intervals. {{anchor:s112}}There results from this procedure a sort of monstrous affection, compounded of the natural disease and of a medicinal disease; an abnormal totality, in the midst of which one can neither find a convenient starting point, nor form of it an intelligent image. {{anchor:s113}}Help is not then possible, except on condition of having recourse to the preliminary rational use of antidotes of short action, by means of which to reconduct the entire malady to its natural and primitive state. {{anchor:s114}}When this end has been attained, we may select and employ, with confidence and efficacy, the remedy which corresponds to the case. | ||
| - | {{anchor:s115}}Sometimes the failure of a well selected remedy is due to a chronic miasm, which pervades the whole organism. {{anchor:s116}}This is observed equally in other diseases. {{anchor:s117}}In such a case we shall never attain our object, at least with certainty, unless we first administer a suitable anti-miasmatic <span grade2>(sit venia vcrbo),</span> and then afterwards give the remedy which may be homeopathically indicated. {{anchor:s118}}This will infallibly act, often indeed in a very few hours, if the dose is small and sufficiently dynamized. {{anchor:s119}}For the rest I propose to return, in discussing the fourth head, to this point, so often neglected and even disputed. | + | {{anchor:s115}}Sometimes the failure of a well selected remedy is due to a chronic miasm, which pervades the whole organism. {{anchor:s116}}This is observed equally in other diseases. {{anchor:s117}}In such a case we shall never attain our object, at least with certainty, unless we first administer a suitable anti-miasmatic <span grade2>(sit venia verbo),</span> and then afterwards give the remedy which may be homeopathically indicated. {{anchor:s118}}This will infallibly act, often indeed in a very few hours, if the dose is small and sufficiently dynamized. {{anchor:s119}}For the rest I propose to return, in discussing the fourth head, to this point, so often neglected and even disputed. |
| {{anchor:s120}}3. According to what we have stated, Homoeopathy satisfies the first and third of the duties which Celsus imposes upon the good physician, when he says (III. 4): "<span grade2>Asclepiades Officium esse medici dicit, ut tuto, ut celeriter, ut jucunde curet;</span>" it cures with certainty, and avoids the opposite of <span grade2>jucunde,</span> while Allopathy is guilty of this, every day, in her manual operations. {{anchor:s121}}The duty remains of curing quickly <span grade2>(celeriter),</span> of putting to flight as quickly as possible the pains in the teeth, which are often violent in the extreme. {{anchor:s122}}But it would be to involve oneself in a vexatious contradiction with the duty of curing safely <span grade2>(tuto),</span> if one should understand by a rapid cure the alleviation of the pains by the use of palliatives. {{anchor:s123}}Our adversaries understand it in that sense, when they use opium, chloroform, etc.; but this treatment has for its inevitable consequence the reproductions of the pains, the exacerbation of the evil, and, most frequently, affections still more serious. {{anchor:s124}}The signification of the saying of Celsus is simply that the existing malady ought to be completely cured in the shortest possible time; but, on condition that there result therefrom no immediate or future injury. | {{anchor:s120}}3. According to what we have stated, Homoeopathy satisfies the first and third of the duties which Celsus imposes upon the good physician, when he says (III. 4): "<span grade2>Asclepiades Officium esse medici dicit, ut tuto, ut celeriter, ut jucunde curet;</span>" it cures with certainty, and avoids the opposite of <span grade2>jucunde,</span> while Allopathy is guilty of this, every day, in her manual operations. {{anchor:s121}}The duty remains of curing quickly <span grade2>(celeriter),</span> of putting to flight as quickly as possible the pains in the teeth, which are often violent in the extreme. {{anchor:s122}}But it would be to involve oneself in a vexatious contradiction with the duty of curing safely <span grade2>(tuto),</span> if one should understand by a rapid cure the alleviation of the pains by the use of palliatives. {{anchor:s123}}Our adversaries understand it in that sense, when they use opium, chloroform, etc.; but this treatment has for its inevitable consequence the reproductions of the pains, the exacerbation of the evil, and, most frequently, affections still more serious. {{anchor:s124}}The signification of the saying of Celsus is simply that the existing malady ought to be completely cured in the shortest possible time; but, on condition that there result therefrom no immediate or future injury. | ||
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