The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 133 of 653of Pathology.Pulmonary diseases are of essential importance to a homoeopath,for the reason that he has it in his power to watch them objectivthroughout all their phases and, thus, to become acquainted withthe effects of his drugs beyond the possibility of deception. Thediseases constitute most generally the battle-field upon which thstruggle for supremacy between Homoeopathy and her opponentshas to be fought; a number of publications bearing upon this poinhave already shown that the importance and decisiveness of thisstruggle are fully appreciated.One point of importance has to be carefully kept in view. Wecannot expect that our older Colleagues, who fancy themselves rulin medical Israel, should acquire a thorough knowledge of all modem means of diagnosis ; the thing is much too arduous an undertaking; but no young homoeopath should shun the trouble of availing himself both in his practice and in his reports of cases of tmost refined minutiee of an objective diagnosis. Unfortunately wecannot say that this is the universal rule. It is only by this methat we can convince our opponents with irrefutable arguments ofthe advantages of our System of Therapeutics. They brag of theexactness of their diagnosis and yet they have not as yet derivedthe least advantage from it for their own method of treatment.Here we have a point of attack, provided we prepare ourselves forthe combat with arms that even the most redoubtable hero in diagnosis would stand in fear of, and provided we show at the sametime that we do not study diagnosis as an intellectual entertainment, but as an addition to the science of Therapeutics, as a meato effect a cure of a given case of disease with more positive cetainty. More than one homoeopath has tried to cast a slur on phy(149)ISO Diseases of the Lungs.sical diagnosis as a subject of no importance to Therapeutics, because, as is alleged, we have no physiological pathogenesis to cotrast with the results obtained by means of a physical exploratioof the chest. This, however, is entirely incorrect, for in respeca number of drugs we are acquainted with the material changeswith which the physical symptoms correspond; but even if liiiswere not so, the objective diagnosis would still remain investedwith the highest importance, for the reason that it often interprthe frequently obscure symptoms and traces them to their origin,and likewise because it enables us to determine with reliable certainty the eflfect of the medicine we have administered in a givecase.It is, therefore, our belief that there are not many homoeopathicpractitioners who do not attach great importance to physical diagnosis and declare it a thing of indispensable necessity. Wq shoulnot have been able to refrain at the outset of this Section frompounding, as we have done at the commencement of our chapterson renal and hepatic diseases, the most important points in thediagnosis of diseases of the thoracic viscera, if we had been ablspare the necessary space for such an extensive undertaking. Weshould not only have had to deal with percussion and auscultationhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt