produces all medical results — works against Christian Science; and the percentage of power on the side of this Hygienic delusion. Science must mightily outweigh the power of popular belief, in order to heal a single case of disease. The human mind acts the more powerfully to offset the discords of matter, the ills of flesh, in proportion as it puts less weight into the material scale and against Spirit, — against its own interests. Homœopathy diminishes the drug; but its potency increases as the drug disappears.
Vegetarianism, Homœopathy, and Hydropathy have diminished drugging; but if drugs are an antidote to Drugging diminished. disease, why lessen the antidote? If drugs are good things, is it safe to say that the less you have of them the better? If drugs possess intrinsic virtues or curative qualities, those qualities must be mental. Who named them, and what made them good or bad, beneficial or injurious to mortals?
A case of dropsy, given up by the faculty, fell into my hands. It was a terrible case. Tapping had been Dropsy cured. employed, and yet the patient looked like a barrel, as she lay in her bed. I prescribed the fourth attenuation of Argenitum nitricum, with occasional doses of a high attenuation of Sulphuris. She improved perceptibly. Believing then somewhat in the ordinary theories of medical practice, and learning that her former physician had prescribed these remedies, I began to fear an aggravation of symptoms, from their prolonged use, and told the patient so; but she was unwilling to give up the medicine, when she was recovering. It then occurred to me to give her unmedicated pellets, and watch the result. I did so, and she continued to gain. Finally she said that she
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