Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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appellation of PSORA, but to the less refined portion of the community by
the name of ITCH. In the words of Hahnemann's "Organon," "This Psora is the sole true and fundamental cause that produces all the other countless forms of disease, which, under the names of nervous debility, hysteria, hypochondriasis, insanity, melancholy, idiocy, madness, epilepsy, and spasms of all kinds, softening of the bones, or rickets, scoliosis and cyphosis, caries, cancer, fungua haematodes, gout,--yellow jaundice and cyanosis, dropsy,--" ["The degrees of DILUTION must not be confounded with those of POTENCY. Their relations may be seen by this table: lst dilution,--One hundredth of a drop or grain. 2d " One ten thousandth. 3d " One millionth, marked I. 4th " One hundred millionth. 5th " One ten thousand millionth. 6th " One million millionth, or one billionth, marked II. 7th " One hundred billionth. 8th " One ten thousand billionth. 9th " One million billionth, or one trillionth, marked III. |
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