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
After a careful comparison of the symptoms of the Solanum tuberosum
ægrotans with those of the other known remedies of our Materia Medica, we
have found them to agree with the symptoms of the following drugs which
we enumerate in the order of their importance:
1. _Bryonia_;
2. _Arsenicum_;
3. _Plumbum_;
4. _Nux-vomica_;
5. _Sepia_;
6. _Strontiana_;
7. _Viola-tricolor_;
8. _Squilla_;
9. _Pulsatilla_;
10. _Graphites_;
11. _Alumina_;
12. _Mercurius_;
13. _Natrum-mur_;
14. _Ignatia_;
15. _Calcarea_.
We have no doubt that Bryonia and Arsenicum will prevent the rot; but, to
be frank, we believe that, in this case at least, the isopathic method
of treatment will prove more successful than the homœopathic. It is
well known that the mode of preparing our drugs for medicinal purposes,
modifies their action a good deal. This result is principally obtained by
rubbing them down with sugar of milk, which is not an inert substance as
Hahnemann believed, but is on the contrary endowed with the most useful
powers of action. The sugar of milk effects a preliminary digestion of
the drug, and, by imparting to it vital qualities, fits it for medicinal
purposes. Do we not know that certain animal products are preferable
to corresponding mineral substances? Is not the calcarea prepared from
the oyster-shell preferable to the chemically prepared carbonates and
phosphates of lime? Are not the poisons of serpents destined to occupy
the first rank among the polychrests?
To return to our subject, the medicinal preparation obtained from the
diseased potato is not the original poison as used by nature, but the
poison modified in consequence of its having been previously engrafted on
a living tubercle.
Our mode of inoculating either the isopathic or homœopathic preparation
is as follows. Before putting the potato in the ground we perforate it
with a big needle, and into this hole we insert a single globule of the
third attenuation.
This operation is simple and easy. It can be applied on a large scale and
we think that by its means the potato will be preserved for a long time
yet to the European continent.
First prover: _Van-Dyck_, 26 years old, of a sanguine nervous temperament
and a robust constitution.
_First day._—1. Painful stitch in the right side, a few moments after
taking the drug. Acidity and eructations, at 9 in the evening.
_Second day._—On waking, weight above the eyes and in the forehead, as
the morning after being intoxicated. Shuddering and sensation of cold
internally, at noon. 5. Scanty and difficult stool, in the shape of small
hard balls, in the evening.
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