Diseases of Children

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Contents Introduction Diseases of Children

Preface:

The first appearance of Dr. Teste's work on the Diseases of Children, created quite a lively attention among the practitioners of Homoeopathy. Many of his therapeutically propositions were entirely new, and seemingly unwarranted by a close reference to the pathogenesis of the proposed remedies; the distrust and suspicion, therefore, with which at first the profession regarded them, were just and excusable. But these were soon dispelled by frequent and successful trials on the sick, and some of them have proved to be exceedingly efficacious.

Though we may not agree with Dr. Teste in all his propositions, as we certainly do not in many of his pathological views, yet we cheerfully admit that by his singular method in arriving at therapeutically conclusions, he has opened a new and easier way of selecting the proper and specific remedy. In the pneumonia of children, for instance, which is mostly complicated with hepatic congestion, he precedes the application of pulsatilla and spongia, which he considers specific, by that of chelidonium, which has a specific relation to hepatic disorders. This method seems to shorten the attack very considerably, as I had frequent occasion to observe. The application of chdidonium would generally be followed by the peculiar greenish discharges characteristic of liver-affection.