Digest of the homoeopathic principles / [Edward Williams].

  • Williams, Edward, 1921-2013.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Digest of the homoeopathic principles / [Edward Williams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART II. - Homoeopathic Precepts of the Organon. It is the intention of the healing art to remove disease on intelligible principles, a purpose only to be accomplished by the judicious discri- mination of remedies, by an acquaintance with the distinct effects of medicines, and by the skilful application of this acquired knowledge. Disease, implies a change in the human economy opposite to a state of health, the primary cause of which deviation remains still concealed; symptoms being the evidence of this alteration, and alone accessible to the inquiry of the physician. Every one not swayed by systems, may re- mark the external variations of the mind and body from their usual state of health; the group- ing of these changes constitutes the true sketch of a disease, this outline being our sole guide in selecting appropriate remedies, where no mani- fest exciting cause presents itself for removal; nor is it otherwise than reasonable to con-