Homœopathic domestic physician : containing the treatment of diseases, with popular explanations of anatomy, physiology, hygiene and hydropathy : also an abridged materia medica / by J.H. Pulte.

  • Pulte, J. H. (Joseph Hippolyt), 1811-1884.
Date:
1852
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    Thus we see, in pneumonia, under allopathic treatment, that the fever frequently returns with great violence, although the patient, shortly before, had been depleted to exhaustion. The reason is, that the cause of the fever, the pneumonia, had not been removed by the depletion; the reactive force or vital energy to overcome the disease was merely diminished, and, therefore, the system rouses itself up again to a second attempt; if checked or depressed again, it must finally sink to rise no more ; it must fall into the torpid or typhoid form. Not so, under the homoeopathic treatment, where the disease itself is specifically reached and as it were absorbed; for when the disease is removed, no effort of nature is necessary, and, consequently, the fever disappears of itself.* The action of the unaided vital force of nature, during the fever, is in two directions—by the nervous, and by the vascu- lar system—to bring about a crisis, sufficient for the extermi- nation of the disease; but if it fails in establishing a suffi- cient crisis, nature has to surrender, and death ensues, either by paralysis of the nervous system (paralysis prop- erly so called), or paralysis of the vascular system (mor- tification). The less the disease, therefore, the less needs be the crisis; and we aid nature, indeed, if we take away the disease, but not if we take away her vital power to overcome it. Herein lies another important difference between the two medical systems ; and it is easy to see how salutary the homoeopathic, and how destructive the allopathic treatment of fevers must be. * The best illustration of the modus operandi of the homoeopathic med- icines, or what is meant by specific action generally, is found in the effect of the dynamic agents of nature on edfch other. Positive and negative electricity, being similar, but not identical in their nature, neutralize or absorb each other; while positive and positive, being identical, repel each other, having no affinity to each other. In the same manner, two similar diseases absorb each other to the zero point; this state is where neither exists, and, therefore health.