Organon of MedicineRavenio Books, 2014 M07 20 - 338 pages "Without disparaging the services which many physicians have rendered to the sciences auxiliary to medicine, to natural philosophy and chemistry, to natural history in its various branches, and to that of man in particular, to anthropology, physiology and anatomy, etc., I shall occupy myself here with the practical part of medicine only, with the healing art itself, in order to show how it is that diseases have hitherto been so imperfectly treated. Far beneath my notice is that mechanical routine of treating precious human life according to the prescription manuals, the continual publication of which shows, alas! how frequently they are still used. I pass it by unnoticed, as a despicable practice of the lowest class of ordinary practitioners. I speak merely of the medical art as hitherto practiced, which, pluming itself on its antiquity, imagines itself to possess a scientific character." |
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... diseases of the human organism, animated as it is by a spiritual principle ... disease, in a word, is caused by any material substance, but that every one is only and ... acute disease of any kind, then the contents of the bowels become ...
... disease, which should draw away the primary disease under the semblance of crises and under the form of excretions, in order to admit of a gradual lysis by the curative powers of nature. It is only the slighter and acute diseases that ...
... acute disease; they merely imitated the unreasoning lifepreserving power when left to itself ill diseases, which entirely dependent as it is upon the organic laws of the body, is only capable of acting in conformity with these laws and ...
... diseases which run a rapid course, there is frequently more of suffering ... acute disease, performed only in obedience to the laws of organic life and ... acute diseases, and, if death do not ensue, restore, though only slowly and ...
... disease indirectly, by the production of a disease much greater in intensity and of ... acute, and consequently naturally of but short duration, may certainly ... diseases, and by way of lending it a helping hand, to increase still more ...