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Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community — John Shaqi

Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the communityHooker, Worthington

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Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community

Name: Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community
Author: Hooker, Worthington

Hooker, Worthington

Medical ethics; Physician and patient; Physicians; Quacks and quackery

Principles of the system as promulgated by its founder. Bold
  confidence of Thompson in his mode of practice. Points in his
  theory. Obstructed perspiration. Strife between the heat and the
  cold. Simplicity of the system. No need of “learned doctors.”
  Thompsonian views of the _modus operandi_ of medicines. Radicalism
  of Thompsonism. Prejudice against mineral medicines. No article
  injurious simply _because_ it is mineral. The most deadly poisons
  in nature vegetable. Effects of vegetable poisons generally as
  abiding as those of mineral. Lobelia a poison, sometimes fatal,
  though Thompsonians claim it to be perfectly harmless. Definition
  of _poison_. Some poisons more rapid than others in their effects.
  Poison sometimes used in a relative sense. This word one of the
  watch-words of Thompsonians, though they daily use poisons as common
  articles of food. Changes in Thompsonian practice since the system
  was first promulgated.


  CHAPTER VI.

  HOMŒOPATHY,                                                      120

  Brief notice of the founder of Homœopathy. His exalted ideas of his
  “discovery.” Two principles in his theory. 1. _Like cures like._
  According to Hahneman there are three modes of practice—allopathic,
  antipathic, homœopathic. The last alone truly successful, according
  to him. The name allopath wrongly bestowed by Hahneman upon
  physicians. 2. _Minute division, with agitation and trituration,
  communicates a new power to medicines._ Subdivision very minute, and
  extremely particular directions given by Hahneman for effecting it.
  Whether such a power is thus communicated to be decided by facts.
  “Observations” on which the opinion is founded. Character of them
  illustrated from Jahr’s manual. Their extreme minuteness. Mode of
  collecting them. Based upon the ridiculous idea that all states of
  the body are to be referred to the remedy taken. Notices of some
  particular remedies in illustration. Alleged success of Homœopathy.
  _Apparent_ success to be attributed to six causes. 1. Mental
  influence. 2. A strict regard to diet and regimen. 3. Operation
  of the _vis medicatrix naturæ_, or curative power of nature. 4.
  Comparisons made between the results of homœopathic practice and
  those of over-dosing physicians. 5. An occasional stealthy use of
  remedies in ordinary doses. 6. The facility with which people are
  deceived in regard to comparative results. Parallel case of a German
  clergyman. Empty boasts of homœopathists as to the character of
  their physicians. Points of resemblance and of difference between
  Thompsonism and Homœopathy.


  CHAPTER VII.

  NATURAL BONE-SETTERS,                                            146

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