Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-04-11
For The Quasqueton Guardian
MEDICINES, THEIR Uses, AND MODE
OF APPLICATION. %


Is not attenuated. On the contrary, If a
person susceptible of this miasm inhale
the air as he passes house where this
disease is, or if he resides in the vicinity
of it, he will become affected, and from
the inception of the disease to its termi-
nation, it will be violent in comparison to
that by incubation. The conclusion is,
therefore; that this miasm, when attenu-
ated, is more efficacious than when not.
No physician ofany experience in small
pox can doubt the truth of the above
statements. Take coat that NAV have
hung in the room of the affected person,
and place it in the open air for weeks,
and then let a person who may be sus-
ceptible to this miasm approach it and in
hale the air about it, and the disease will
be developed in him. Of what degree,
think you, is the attenuation in such a
case a.u.I ~. LIZ an.n,
The protective influence of vaccination
against this disease, affords good Illus
tration of the Homeopathic law.
Numerous other illustrations can be
adduced, showing the power of infinites-
lmals, as already mentioned, in light,
heat, and attraction. Also, in various
chemical combination, where the small
est appreciable quantity added to a mix
ture, has essentially changed its proper
ties and appearance.
The Homeopathic process of prepar-
ing medicines develops the power of a
drug by affecting communion.
This. is the secret of that incredible
power which experience proves its pre-
parations to possess. This is done by
subjecting every particle of the medicinal
substance to the mechanical tearing asun-
der of the non medicinal one. To tritu-
rate ten grains of medicinal powder with
ninety grains of q hard inert powder, af-
fects not merely wider separation of its
original component masses, but also d.
vision of those masses. Take ten grains
OF, this trituration with ninety of sugar
of milk, and triturate for an hour, and we
render the groups of medicinal molecules
still smaller; and thus through several
triturations, till the whole of the interior
of these medicinal molecules have been
brought to the surface, and medicinal in
fluence also impaired to tie substance
with which it is diluted. The old school
haze practically accorded some virtue to
small quantity of opium and ipecac, to
be triturated with a large quantity of nj
trate of potash, salt which they regard
as :" almost inert, but valuable in Doyer's
powders, by its hardness, in affecting the
of the opium They have
not so distinctly acknowledged the COM
effect on the ipecac., nor re-
flected on the mechanical Importance of
the disintegrating process But still they
are generally satisfied that there is some
peculiar charm in this g Puluis Ipecacu-
ma Compositus, or Dover's powder, and
that its effects are different from that of
its component parts separately given.
Mercury, or Quicksilver, is thought by
the old school to be an inert substance,
and, when swallowed, to produce only
mechanical effect. Yet this inert sub
stance is the active ingredient in blue
pills. Latent mercuriM power is here
developed by triturating the mercury
with several times its weight of conserve
IF roses, or some mixture containing SUI
gar, starch, or mucilage. The mercurial
slobules are rendered invisibly small, and
their .minutencss is the secret Of their lac-
livity. sa -
The same explanation applies to those
few cases where beneficial results follow
the administration of calomcl and other
similar medicines. The mass of the ar
licle is thrown off with the forcible evac-
nations, but it is easy to believe that par
Iicles might become comminuted in the
and intestines SO that the cura.
tive dose be as small as that administered
~ the homeopathic 80 break body
into fragments increases it's surface this
with every successive fracture.
A pebble of grain weight has an i'm
mense surface, when reduced to an inn
palpable powder. The old school know
nothing OF the medicinal
effect of such expansions, which renders
active drugs infinitely more medicinal,
and poisonous ones less poisonous than
in crude state. Philosophy can allege
no reason against this development, ex-
altalion and modification of properties.
Physical science presents many anala-
gous phenomena.
Yours Truly and Fraternally,
JEWIS DnnGE NJ n