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Synopsis
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. 1859 Excerpt: ...practice of his day, Hahnemann first endeavored to collect, from the writings of the most eminent medical practitioners, a sufficient number of facts upon which he might erect a superstructure worthy of his ardent exertions but failing in this, from the fact of the recorded symptoms of disease being so intimately connected with existing theories, and withal so poorly described, he abandoned the practice of medicine and devoted himself to the translation of medical and chemical works from other languages into German; a task for which his extensive knowledge of the ancient and modern languages eminently fitted him. While translating the Materia Medica of Cullen, Hahnemann was not satisfied with Cullen's theoretical explanation of the action of cinchona or Peruvian bark in the treatment of intermittent fever. While it was evident, theoretically, that Peruvian bark should cure all cases of intermittent fever, Hahnemann knew that, practically, it was not applicable to very many cases; also, that when taken by persons in health, it had produced symptoms similar to those of intermittent fever. Resolved to satisfy himself, he took the cinchona and discovered that the symptoms which he experienced were similar to one of the forms of the fever. So singular a coincidence determined him to ascertain, by similar experiments, whether other medicines possessed the same disease-producing power, and found that they produced symptoms many of them similar to the symptoms of well-known forms of disease which they were already known to cure. Hahne with regard to times of day and night, rest and motion, differences in temperature, in his habits, &c. He presents portions of it to his medical friends who also prove it. It is proved upon persons of both sexes, of all ages, temp...
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