Dr. B. Mure's materia medica : $b or, provings of the principal animal and vegetable poisons of the Brazilian Empire, and their application in the treatment of diseaseMure, Benoît
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Dr. B. Mure's materia medica : $b or, provings of the principal animal and vegetable poisons of the Brazilian Empire, and their application in the treatment of disease
Mure, Benoît
Homeopathy; Materia medica, Vegetable
The veterinary homœopathist does very well in selecting his remedy by
the human pathogenesis. Why should not the same mode be applicable to
vegetables? We have invited our fellow-beings to try it; we have not
only invited them to teach, and to cure, and to make themselves sick,
in order to discover the true means of healing; but we have encouraged
them to suffer themselves to be persecuted, and even imprisoned, as a
reward for their labors of love, we have said to them; whilst the world
is hesitating whether it should accept or reject the blessing offered by
Hahnemann, let us lose no time; there are other regions where the evil is
still triumphant, and where truth is not even known by name; let us expel
error from its last hiding-places. And we have never failed in meeting
corresponding souls that would hear us and follow us. And thus it is that
homœopathy, this physical reflex of the Christian redemption, combats
evil by itself, pursuing it from region to region until it shall have
been exterminated from the world.
Now let us describe the practical part of our proving.
From the first, frontal headaches, with pressure above the orbits, have
been observed with much regularity not only by the three provers whose
symptoms are published, but also by other provers who continued the
proving only for a few days.
Until the 20th day, these headaches were often accompanied by fever,
with chill, heat, sweat, shudderings followed by sore throat, cough and
greenish mucous expectoration.
The palpitation of the heart which occurs during the whole period of
the proving, and with particular violence at the end of the third
proving, appears to be represented in the case of the second prover by
violent muscular pulsations occurring in the same chronological order.
The hard, large-sized, fragmentary stools, and their painful expulsion
which sometimes caused a falling of the rectum; the frequent emission of
flatulence preceded or accompanied by colic, with sensitiveness of the
abdominal integuments in the case of the first prover, are very constant
symptoms of this drug; they were observed from the first and increased
until the last days of the proving.
We will likewise point to the general or partial weakness, which, in the
case of the third prover, were followed by violent pains in the loins.
The white coating of the tongue which was observed on the first day,
gradually limited itself to a yellow line along the middle. Among the
less general symptoms which were observed during the whole time of the
proving, we may note the want of appetite, the bitter taste of food,
the cutaneous eruptions, the swelling of the mucous membrane of the
palate, the thick urine, and lastly the pain in the groin or the right
ileo-femoral articulation.
In the emotive sphere the drug induced a great irritability. The dreams
about a change of form occurred very generally to the three provers. The
second prover had the same dreams on two successive nights.
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