Organon of Medicine - Couverture souple

Hahnemann, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8131903117 ISBN 13 : 9788131903117

Editeur : B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd, 2007

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cleanse the diseased body from all morbific matters?but they only weakened it, so as generally to render it incurable, by all these senseless unnatural processes.u) I admit that it was more convenient for the weakness of humanity to assume that, in the diseases they were called on to cure, there existed some morbific material of which the mind might form a conception (more particularly as the patients readily lent themselves to such a notion), because in that case the practitioner had nothing further to care about than to procure a good supply of remedies for purifying the blood and humours, exciting diuresis and diaphoresis, promoting expectoration, and scouring out the stomach and bowels. Hence, in all the works on Materia Medica, from Dioscorides down to the latest books on this subject, there is almost nothing said about the special peculiar action of individual medicines; but, besides on account of their supposed utility in various nosological names of diseases, it is merely stated whether they are diuretic, diaphoretic, expectorant or emmenagogue, and more particularly whether they produce evacuation of the stomach and bowels upwards or downwards; because all the aspirations and efforts of the practitioner have ever been chiefly directed to cause the expulsion of a material morbific matter, and of sundry (fictitious) acridities, which it was imagined were the cause of diseases. These were, however, all idle dreams, unfounded assumptions and hypotheses, cunningly devised for the convenience of therapeutics, as it was expected the easiest way of performing a cure would be to remove the material morbific matters (si modo essent /). But the essential nature of diseases and their cure will not adapt themselves to such fantasies, nor to the convenience of medical men; to ...

Biographie de l'auteur :

Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born in Meissen, Saxony, near Dresden. His father Christian Gottfried Hahnemann [2] was a painter and designer of porcelain, for which the town of Meissen is famous.[3] As a young man, Hahnemann became proficient in a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Greek and Latin. He eventually made a living as a translator and teacher of languages, gaining further proficiency in "Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaic and Hebrew".[4] Hahnemann studied medicine for two years at Leipzig. Citing Leipzig's lack of clinical facilities, he moved to Vienna, where he studied for ten months.[5] After one term of further study, he graduated MD at the University of Erlangen on 10 August 1779, qualifying with honors. His poverty may have forced him to choose Erlangen, as the school's fees were lower.[6] Hahnemann's thesis was titled Conspectus adfectuum spasmodicorum aetiologicus et therapeuticus. [A Dissertation on the Causes and Treatment of Cramps][7][8]

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 8131903117
• ISBN 13: 9788131903117
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 412