Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy, Volume 22

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American Institute of Homoeopathy., 1870 - Homeopathy
 

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Page 175 - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes.
Page 172 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Page 13 - Not many years can pass away before the same curiosity excited by one of Perkins's Tractors will be awakened at the sight of one of the Infinitesimal Globules. If it should claim a longer existence, it can only be by falling into the hands of the sordid wretches who wring their bread from the cold grasp of disease and death in the hovels of ignorant poverty.
Page 124 - This Constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at...
Page 125 - Delegate shall be admitted during the session of the Institute to all the privileges of members, except voting and eligibility to office, on the following basis : First. From every association composed of more than fifty members from different States, two delegates, with an additional delegate for every twenty members. Second. From every State Society, two delegates, with an additional delegate for every twenty members. Third. From every county or local society, one delegate. fourth. From every hospital,...
Page 204 - Mercurial periostitis of the skull. Sensorium. Dizziness, with throbbing in the head. Eyes. Eyes inflamed and watery, with severe headache and general muscular soreness, as though he had taken cold. Ears. Burning sensation in the left ear (in the evening), on which in the morning there was a vesicular eruption.
Page 534 - That such is actually the case will be rendered probable by the considerations to be presently adduced. 5. No considerable changes of a physical or chemical nature can take place in any of the animal tissues, without disordering their •vital properties also ; and we have now to inquire into the mode in which these properties are affected by the contact of Alcoholic liquids. In the first place, it would appear that the solidifiability...
Page 538 - This state of mental excitement is very similar to the incipient stage of phrenitis or mania. It is not a uniform exaltation of the mental powers, but in some degree a perversion of them ; for that voluntary control over the current of thought, which is the distinguishing character of the sane mind of man, is considerably weakened, so that the heightened imagination and enlivened fancy have more unrestricted exercise, and whilst...
Page 533 - Among the most important of the chemical changes which alcohol has the power of effecting is the coagulation f of soluble albumen ; and although it will rarely, if ever, be introduced into the mass of the blood, or into the serous fluids of the tissues, by any ordinary alcoholic potations, in a sufficiently concentrated state to effect this, yet we should anticipate that its presence, even in a very dilute form, must affect the chemical relations of albumen, and can scarcely do otherwise than retard...
Page 125 - Candidates for membership shall present to the Board of Censors a certificate of three members of the Institute that the applicant has pursued a regular course of medical studies according to the requirements of the existing institutions of this country, and sustains a good moral character .and professional standing.

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