Life of Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar / by Sarat Chandra Ghose.

  • Ghose, Sarat Chandra.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Life of Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar / by Sarat Chandra Ghose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    provinces. And what is this miasma ? It consists of something, the prodigious effects of which are marked and yet it is so small in mass that no scientific instruments are sensible enough to detect its unwelcome approach or injurious contract. Itisnothlg but a contagious or infectious poison, generated outside the living organism, contaminating the atmosphere, and thereby acting upon the health of the majority of the people as to excite one or another from o^ zymotic derangements, such as ague, typhus and plague. Is it not, therefore, easy to rely upon the efficacy of infini- tesimal and imponderable doses in relation to the human system ? The principal cause which led Hahneman to adopt such smaller doses of remedies than those so long adminis- tered was the observation that the susceptibility of the organs and tissues of the body was greatly enhanced for their specific stimuli by disease. The eye in health can bear the brightest light, but when it is diseased the smallest flood of light produces excruciating pain. The ear in health can tolerate the roar of a hundred canon or the most loud-sounding peals of thunder, but in a state of inflammation it suffers the greatest torture from the slightest sound. Every organ of the body is painfully affected by its specific stimuli, which in normal health produce I only pleasurable sensations. It is therefore clear that the i various organs or tissues of human body, when not in health, react with strong force to doses of their specific stimuli, greatly smaller than those they can tolerate without pain in health. Hahnemann first laid down different doses for different medicines, but as his experience gained ground he marked that almost all remedies posseseed marvellous curative powers in attenuations greatly beyond those his first experiments had led him to believe.