Samuel Hahnemann's Organon of homœopathic medicine.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1848
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    ture of this plant. The internal use of hyoscyamus is follow- ed by mental aberration, the leading features of which are jealousy and irascibility. When these hallucinations exist, this remedy is indicated. Opium in general causes drowsiness, torpor, and deep sleep, and yet this remedy in small doses removes these symptoms when they occur in disease. Sulphur is a specific against itch; notwithstanding which, when it is administered to healthy individuals, it frequently excites a pustular eruption, resembling itch in every parti- cular. These observations corroborate the statements of our author as to the value and importance of homoeopathy; and were not the limits of a preface too confined, I could bring forward the actual experiments from which these deductions have been drawn. On the subject of small doses of medicines, a few observa- tions will suffice. A mixture composed of one drop of hydrocyanic acid and eight ounces of water, administered in a drachm dose, has produced vertigo and anxious breathing. Vomiting has fol- lowed the use of the sixteenth of a grain of emetic tartar; narcotism, the twentieth of a grain of muriate of morphia ; and spirit of ammonia, in doses of one drop, acts on the sys- tem as a stimulant. On the homoeopathic attenuation of medicines, many are sceptical, and presume that the quantity of the article extant in the dose, cannot produce a medicinal effect. I refer to the pages of the Organon for an elucidation of this proposition, and will relate an experiment, which may serve to explain the degree of dilution substances are capable of. One grain of nitrate of silver, dissolved in 1560 grains of distilled water, to which were added two grains of muriatic acid, a gray pre- cipitate of chloride of silver was evident in every part of the liquor. One grain of iodine dissolved in a drachm of alcohol,