Homœopathy in acute diseases / By Stephen Yeldham.

  • Yeldham, Stephen.
Date:
1849
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    practised, a correspondingly painful and precarious convales- cence. Daily experience has brought this matter to be so thoroughly understood and appreciated by the public as well as the profession, that it is scarcely requisite to do more than simply refer to it, as forming a strong pomt of objection against the depleting system of treatment. Let the reader recall to his mind the wretched condition of a man who has undergone the antiphlogistic treatment for an attack of acute disease. What a shattered frame does he present! What a long and weary time he is in crawling back to his former self! Reduced to the helplessness of childhood, he is forced to be nursed and fed lke a child. Undermined in constitution, and stripped of all power to resist, either a recurrence of his former complaint, or the invasion of new diseases, how often do we find him the subject of a relapse, or a prey to dropsy, diarrhoea, chest disease, or some other exhausting malady. His body is a citadel from which the garrison has been with- drawn, and which falls an easy prey to the first foe by which it is attacked. ble In the third place, the Homceopathist maintains that the best experience proves the abstraction of blood to be totally unnecessary in the treatment of any disorder whatever. The best experience is clearly that which can show the most successful results. So far from shrinking from such a test, Homeopathy courts it: it is her strong-hold. She does not ask the world to listen to an empty theory: she invites it to examine her practice, and judge her by its fruits. If Homeo- pathy could boast of no greater amount of success than Allopathy can produce, she would long ere this have been compelled to quit the field of contest in favour of her ancient and more powerful rival, notwithstanding the superior attrac- tions of her painless and tasteless remedies. But it is alone through the irresistible force of her successful experience that she has been enabled not only to withstand, but to triumph