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| ====== ADMINISTRATION OF HIGH POTENCIES.====== | ====== ADMINISTRATION OF HIGH POTENCIES.====== | ||
| - | {{anchor:s2}}Correspondence</span> - The questions contained in the following letter, recently received, represent a class of queries that are frequently propounded both orally and in correspondence. {{anchor:s3}}It has appeared not inappropriate to publish a general reply to these and similar questions: " October, 1864. | + | {{anchor:s2}}Correspondence - The questions contained in the following letter, recently received, represent a class of queries that are frequently propounded both orally and in correspondence. {{anchor:s3}}It has appeared not inappropriate to publish a general reply to these and similar questions: " October, 1864. |
| {{anchor:s4}}"Dear Sir: I recently had brought to my notice your two articles on "The Use of High Potencies in the Treatment of the Sick, which appeared in the American Homoeopath Review, for December, 1863, and January, 1864. | {{anchor:s4}}"Dear Sir: I recently had brought to my notice your two articles on "The Use of High Potencies in the Treatment of the Sick, which appeared in the American Homoeopath Review, for December, 1863, and January, 1864. | ||
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| {{anchor:s84}}We can assure our correspondent that it is safe and advantageous to strictly follow the Hahnemannian rule about the repetition of the dose in acute no less than in chronic diseases. {{anchor:s85}}But let us anticipate a possible confusion in his mind. {{anchor:s86}}Some writers, Dr. Drysdale we are surprised to see among them, seem to think that Hahnemann, when he said, "wait till the first dose shall have exhausted its action," meant to say "do not repeat the dose until that period shall have elapsed which I have indicated in the Materia Medica, as the duration of action of each drug.{{anchor:s87}}" This period for some drugs is several days, for others several weeks or even months. {{anchor:s88}}We do not so understand him. {{anchor:s89}}The duration of action of a remedy on the healthy subject (prover) furnishes no criterion of the duration or its action on the sick. {{anchor:s90}}Again, the duration of its action on one sick person furnishes no criterion of the duration of its action on another sick person. {{anchor:s91}}Surely the vital processes are much more rapid in acute pneumonia than they are in tuberculosis. {{anchor:s92}}Is it not probably that the duration of action of a dose of medicine would be shorter in the former than in the latter? | {{anchor:s84}}We can assure our correspondent that it is safe and advantageous to strictly follow the Hahnemannian rule about the repetition of the dose in acute no less than in chronic diseases. {{anchor:s85}}But let us anticipate a possible confusion in his mind. {{anchor:s86}}Some writers, Dr. Drysdale we are surprised to see among them, seem to think that Hahnemann, when he said, "wait till the first dose shall have exhausted its action," meant to say "do not repeat the dose until that period shall have elapsed which I have indicated in the Materia Medica, as the duration of action of each drug.{{anchor:s87}}" This period for some drugs is several days, for others several weeks or even months. {{anchor:s88}}We do not so understand him. {{anchor:s89}}The duration of action of a remedy on the healthy subject (prover) furnishes no criterion of the duration or its action on the sick. {{anchor:s90}}Again, the duration of its action on one sick person furnishes no criterion of the duration of its action on another sick person. {{anchor:s91}}Surely the vital processes are much more rapid in acute pneumonia than they are in tuberculosis. {{anchor:s92}}Is it not probably that the duration of action of a dose of medicine would be shorter in the former than in the latter? | ||
| - | {{anchor:s93}}We suppose Hahnemann meant as follows: "If amelioration follows a dose of medicine, do not repent the dose until the amelioration ceases to progress, <span grade2>then</span>, if the symptoms be the same as before, though mitigated in severity, repeat the dose. {{anchor:s94}}If the symptoms be different, study the case anew and make another selection of remedy. {{anchor:s95}}It is in the sense that we have understood and that we apply Hahnemann's rule. {{anchor:s96}}Not pretending that we do not often, through errors of judgment, infringe it, we are sure that whenever we do so, misfortune follows, and that in proportion to our faithfulness, so is our success. | + | {{anchor:s93}}We suppose Hahnemann meant as follows: "If amelioration follows a dose of medicine, do not repeat the dose until the amelioration ceases to progress, <span grade2>then</span>, if the symptoms be the same as before, though mitigated in severity, repeat the dose. {{anchor:s94}}If the symptoms be different, study the case anew and make another selection of remedy. {{anchor:s95}}It is in the sense that we have understood and that we apply Hahnemann's rule. {{anchor:s96}}Not pretending that we do not often, through errors of judgment, infringe it, we are sure that whenever we do so, misfortune follows, and that in proportion to our faithfulness, so is our success. |
| {{anchor:s97}}In respect of the repetition of doses, as well as of the form of the prescription, we have no difficulty with our patients. {{anchor:s98}}Patients are like soldiers, they believe in a man who believes in himself. {{anchor:s99}}We say this in all humility, for, in a matter of science, belief in oneself is faith in the laws one has undertaken to carry out in practice. {{anchor:s100}}And if the physician shows confidence in his methods, his patients will yield themselves implicitly to his guidance. {{anchor:s101}}The prejudice in favor of large and many doses is a relic of past ages, when the practitioner was paid, not for his skill and personal services, but for the <span grade2>medicines</span> he furnished, a barbarous usage which, along with slavery, we received from our British progenitors. {{anchor:s102}}Unlike them, we have discarded the former but not the latter. | {{anchor:s97}}In respect of the repetition of doses, as well as of the form of the prescription, we have no difficulty with our patients. {{anchor:s98}}Patients are like soldiers, they believe in a man who believes in himself. {{anchor:s99}}We say this in all humility, for, in a matter of science, belief in oneself is faith in the laws one has undertaken to carry out in practice. {{anchor:s100}}And if the physician shows confidence in his methods, his patients will yield themselves implicitly to his guidance. {{anchor:s101}}The prejudice in favor of large and many doses is a relic of past ages, when the practitioner was paid, not for his skill and personal services, but for the <span grade2>medicines</span> he furnished, a barbarous usage which, along with slavery, we received from our British progenitors. {{anchor:s102}}Unlike them, we have discarded the former but not the latter. | ||
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