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| ====== OUR MATERIA MEDICA.====== | ====== OUR MATERIA MEDICA.====== | ||
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| {{anchor:s2}}["Advice to Beginners, Etc.;" a lecture delivered at the Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania, October, 1864.] | {{anchor:s2}}["Advice to Beginners, Etc.;" a lecture delivered at the Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania, October, 1864.] | ||
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| {{anchor:s54}}The question then is, how far shall the caudal extremity of the radish be bobtailed, since that is to be thrown away when the radish is eaten? {{anchor:s55}}In the purification of the Materia Medica, on the contrary, <span grade2>it</span> is considered as <span grade2>alone worth keeping,</span> and as health-bringing. | {{anchor:s54}}The question then is, how far shall the caudal extremity of the radish be bobtailed, since that is to be thrown away when the radish is eaten? {{anchor:s55}}In the purification of the Materia Medica, on the contrary, <span grade2>it</span> is considered as <span grade2>alone worth keeping,</span> and as health-bringing. | ||
| - | {{anchor:s56}}4th. {{anchor:s57}}But the fourth and most prolific activity is manifested in the endeavors to arouse suspicion, and in calumny of individuals: the casting out of the black sheep. {{anchor:s58}}Here one is said to have approached the mirror too often to examine his pupils, without sufficient knowledge of all the optical and physical improvements made tens of years afterwards. {{anchor:s59}}Then, another is accused of having used the milliners employed by his wife, for the purpose of manufacturing symptoms; and, just as the peasant women of Tiefenfort decorated themselves with the ribbons and caps obtained from the factory of the mistress, in like manner did Hartlaub and Trink's pure Materia Medica 1 - 3, and, later, Hartlaub and Trink's Annals, parade the provings derived from the symptom-factory of the husband. {{anchor:s60}}And as the ribbons and caps of those peasants, in the region of Tiefenfort in Bohemia, have become old-fashioned, in like manner have the productions of the symptom-factory of that well-meaning but logically inexperienced Surgeon Cajetan Nenning gone out of fashion and belong in the lumber room along with the bivalvular hoop-skirts of ancient spinsters. | + | {{anchor:s56}}4th. {{anchor:s57}}But the fourth and most prolific activity is manifested in the endeavors to arouse suspicion, and in calumny of individuals: the casting out of the black sheep. {{anchor:s58}}Here one is said to have approached the mirror too often to examine his pupils, without sufficient knowledge of all the optical and physical improvements made tens of years afterwards. {{anchor:s59}}Then, another is accused of having used the milliners employed by his wife, for the purpose of manufacturing symptoms; and, just as the peasant women of Tiefenfort decorated themselves with the ribbons and caps obtained from the factory of the mistress, in like manner did Hartlaub and Trinks' pure Materia Medica 1 - 3, and, later, Hartlaub and Trinks' Annals, parade the provings derived from the symptom-factory of the husband. {{anchor:s60}}And as the ribbons and caps of those peasants, in the region of Tiefenfort in Bohemia, have become old-fashioned, in like manner have the productions of the symptom-factory of that well-meaning but logically inexperienced Surgeon Cajetan Nenning gone out of fashion and belong in the lumber room along with the bivalvular hoop-skirts of ancient spinsters. |
| {{anchor:s61}}Twenty years ago (not now) another class of doomed provers were subjected to the ordeal of bottle-flies and other insects, and were called bashful, sensitive, timid, more timid, most timid, white-livered sensationalists. {{anchor:s62}}In Paris, on the other hand, the work was done more boldly, by placing the necks of such people under the guillotine, and the word was "heads off!{{anchor:s63}}" What an enormous lot of symptoms must have tumbled into the pit along with the corpses! {{anchor:s64}}The pure Materia Medica stood like a man of snow in the March sun, melting away, leaving only the dismal eyes of charcoal and the pipe stem. {{anchor:s65}}That is called the foundation of a life saving healing art. {{anchor:s66}}Such, it is thought, are the four hinges of the gates that close or open our domains. | {{anchor:s61}}Twenty years ago (not now) another class of doomed provers were subjected to the ordeal of bottle-flies and other insects, and were called bashful, sensitive, timid, more timid, most timid, white-livered sensationalists. {{anchor:s62}}In Paris, on the other hand, the work was done more boldly, by placing the necks of such people under the guillotine, and the word was "heads off!{{anchor:s63}}" What an enormous lot of symptoms must have tumbled into the pit along with the corpses! {{anchor:s64}}The pure Materia Medica stood like a man of snow in the March sun, melting away, leaving only the dismal eyes of charcoal and the pipe stem. {{anchor:s65}}That is called the foundation of a life saving healing art. {{anchor:s66}}Such, it is thought, are the four hinges of the gates that close or open our domains. | ||
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