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. 1874 Excerpt: ...section, in a few comprehensive, but, I trust, logically cohering generalizations, have remained inaccessible to the mind of this author, as they must remain hidden from all eyes that are veiled by the obscuring mist of a purely sensual and materializing Science. Another objectionable feature of the present ...
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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. 1874 Excerpt: ...section, in a few comprehensive, but, I trust, logically cohering generalizations, have remained inaccessible to the mind of this author, as they must remain hidden from all eyes that are veiled by the obscuring mist of a purely sensual and materializing Science. Another objectionable feature of the present developments of Pharmaco-dynamics or the science of drug-powers, is the tendency to depend upon chemical analysis for a determination of the active principles of drugs. Chemical analysis has furnished us several valuable agents which it would be impossible to dispense with; I need but mention Quinine and Morphine. But should we repudiate Peruvian bark or Opium, for no better reason than because chemical analysis has decided that Quinine and Morphine are the active principles of these two agents? This somewhat arbitrary designation of "active principles," as applied to single chemical constituents of drugs, is apt to mislead practitioners who have resigned the guardianship of their minds into the destructive hands of the gentlemen of the crucible and the retort; it is one of the high aims of homoeopathy to restore the integrity of drugs as living emblems of diseases, and to reveal the therapeutic uses of their Godcreated forms with all the definiteness and precision of scientific Truth. Chemical analysis, as a means of investigating and determining the therapeutic powers of drugs, has led to inferences utterly subversive of clinical experience. We may illustrate this assertion by the results which chemical analysis has yielded in the case of Nux vomica and the bean of St. Ignatius. Chemistry informs us that the active principle of Nux is an exceedingly poisonous white substance, the name of which is known to every body, we mean Strychnine; Chemi...
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