The British Homoeopathic Review, Volume 121868 |
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Page 625 - Prussic acid. Cyanides of potassium and all metallic cyanides. Strychnine, and all poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts. Aconite, and its preparations. Emetic tartar. Corrosive sublimate. Cantharides. Savin, and its oil. Ergot of rye, and its preparations.
Page 232 - And art in general consists of the truths of science, arranged in the most convenient order for practice instead of the order which is the most convenient for thought. Science groups and arranges its truths so as to enable us to take in at one view as much as possible of the general order of the universe. Art, though it must assume the same general laws, follows them only into such of their detailed consequences as have led to the formation of rules of conduct, and brings together from parts of the...
Page 232 - ... convenient order for practice, instead of the order which is the most convenient for thought. Science groups and arranges its truths, so as to enable us to take in at one view as much as possible of the general order of the universe. Art, though it must assume the same general laws, follows them only into such of their detailed consequences as have led to the formation of rules of conduct; and brings together from parts of the field of science most remote from one another, the truths relating...
Page 232 - But in the complicated affairs of life, and still more in those of states and societies, rules cannot be relied on, without constantly referring back to the scientific laws on which they are founded. To know what are the practical contingencies which require a modification of the rule, or which are altogether exceptions to it, is to know what combinations of circumstances would interfere with, or entirely counteract, the consequences of those laws : and this can only be learnt by a reference to the...
Page 549 - He who does not walk on exactly the same line with me, who diverges, if it be but the breadth of a straw, to the right or to the left, is an apostate and a traitor, and with him I will have nothing to do !' " Such servile following as this must be declined by every true student of nature.
Page 230 - ... hands it over to the science. The science receives it, considers it as a phenomenon or effect to be studied, and, having investigated its causes and conditions, sends it back to art with a theorem of the combination of circumstances by which it could be produced.
Page 230 - The relation in which rules of art stand to doctrines of science may be thus characterized. The art proposes to itself an end to be attained, defines the end, and hands it over to the science. The science receives it, considers it as a phenomenon or effect to be studied, and having investigated its causes and conditions, sends it back to art with a theorem of the combinations...
Page 630 - Chemist, or shall fail to conform with any regulation as to the keeping or selling of poisons, made in pursuance of this Act, or who shall compound any medicines of the British Pharmacopoeia, except according to the formularies of the said Pharmacopoeia, shall, for every such offence, be liable to pay a penalty or sum of five pounds...
Page 122 - ... us. I mean, more exactness of knowledge, and therefore more direct " and intelligent purpose, and more successful aim, in what is really the end " and object of all our labors — the application of remedies for the cure or " relief of disease. Certainly, the greatest gap in the science of medicine is to '' be found in its final and supreme stage — the stage of therapeutics.
Page 227 - SCIENTIFIC inquirers give the name of Empirical Laws to those uniformities which observation or experiment has shown to exist, but on which they hesitate to rely in cases varying much from those which have been actually observed, for want of seeing any reason wTiy such a law should exist.