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2 vious examination of it; without having tested it .md
3 Satisfactorily proved it (“ Jura re in verba nutyisln ”)
4 consequently, I do not profess myself v votary, of
5 Hahnemann’s system. In the couise of this work. I
6 ■shall have to cite cases wherein it will appear, that the
7 most minute doses of a medicine have, sometimes,
8 proved efficacious; whilst, in other instances, they did
9 not produce any effect whatever; and I am bound to
10 confess, that, in the majority of cases, the results L
11 'obtained from Homoeopathy, were not favorable , I
12 felt persuaded, that larger doses would have been better,
13 1 have also found it injudicious to wait too long in
14 order to discover* by thp operation of a medicine, if
15 it were well-chosen ," and I consider it erroneous to
16 prescribe for a patient the strictest diet, prohibiting the
17 use of such things as the body has been accustomed
18 to—particularly lea and roffee, which have ft stimulating
19 influence on the nerves and blood vessels. I do not
20 deny the antipsori: theory in several chronic diseases ;
21 nor do i, like Hahnemann, reject the use of external
22 adjmmntia —such as bleeding, blistering ike.
23 The disciple's of Hahnemann are of opinion, that,
24 as tea and coflee exercise a pecnlar influence on the
25 nervous system, and are ihrrej'ore good and certain
26 remedies for persons unaccustomed to. the use of them,
27 they should be used medicinally only. But, let mo
28 urge, amongst live substances which constitute our
29 usual nourishment, or things which we consume as
30 articles of luxury, there arc many which affect the
31 nerves even more strongly than tea or coffee; there*
32 i >re, by parity of reason, we ought to debut ourselves
33 of them also.