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Hahnemann opposed old school of medicine
Published in Dinesh Kumar Jain, Homeopathy, 2022
Hahnemann also said,Old school of medicine thought the best thing to do was to imitate nature, by means of stronger heterogeneous irritants applied to organs remote from the seat of disease and totally dissimilar to the affected tissues, they produce evacuations and generally kept then up in order to draw as it were the disease thither. In this imitation … They endeavored to excite by force new symptoms in the tissues that are least diseased. (Hahnemann, 1921/1993, p. 52)To assist this derivative method, the old school of medicine employed the allied treatment by counter irritants, woollen garments to the bare skin, foot baths, nauseant, … Substances to cause pain, inflammation and suppuration in near or distant parts as the application of horseradish, mustard plasters, cantharides, blisters, mezereum setons, issues, tartar emetic, ointments, moxa, actual cautery, acupuncture etc. by exciting pain in distant parts of body or by metastases and abscess by eruptions and suppurating ulcers.(Hahnemann, 1921/1993, p. 53)
Changing “Unchangeable” Bodily Processes by (Hypnotic) Suggestions: A New Look at Hypnosis, Cognitions, Imagining, and the Mind-Body Problem
Published in Anees A. Sheikh, Imagination and Healing, 2019
The importance of previous experience is illustrated in a study carried out by Podyapolsky and reported by Vasiliev [92, pp. 75–76]. A selected good hypnotic subject on two occasions was given the suggestion that a mustard plaster had been applied to his skin, once before and once after he had experienced a mustard plaster. Erythema was observed in the designated area when the suggestions were given after he had experienced the mustard plaster but not before. In brief, it appears that subjects can more vividly hallucinate a suggested burn if they have had a previous profound experience of a burn similar to the one suggested. However, we would expect very few individuals who have had such previous profound burn experiences to manifest skin changes when given the suggestion of being burned [93]; as stated above, many other variables also seem to be needed.
Historical introduction
Published in Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Upton, Peter J. Goadsby, Headache in Clinical Practice, 2018
Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Upton, Peter J. Goadsby
Emotional well-being can effect great change in headache intensity. One dramatic example is found in the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.41 The general describes a ‘sick headache’ he suffered on 9 August, 1865. He attempts to cure it by ‘bathing [his] feet in hot water and mustard and putting mustard plasters on [his] wrists and the back of [his] neck’. He gets complete relief, however, only when he receives word that Robert E. Lee agrees to discuss terms of surrender; ‘… the instant I saw the contents of the note I was cured’.7,41
Facts and ideas from anywhere
Published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2019
In the pandemic of 1918, physicians tried a number of therapies, including bloodletting, laxatives (magnesia, calomel [mercury chloride]), aspirin, Friar’s balsam (benzoin) or eucalyptus leaves, quinine, mustard plaster, codeine, phenolphthalein, castor oil, burning orange peels, diced onions, and poisonous gases, including chlorine gas. Not all physicians practiced like quacks during the pandemic. James B. Herrick (1861–1954), a prominent Chicago physician who was the first to describe sickle cell disease in 1910 and the nonfatal outcome of acute myocardial infarction in 1912, pleaded with physicians to stop using nearly all the medications in their arsenal, emphasizing that there was no evidence that any of them worked. He stressed that the condition was self-limiting. Herrick recommended isolation, face masks, plenty of fluids, and lots of rest. Of the millions who typically get the flu virus each year, less than 1% die. Antibiotics, of course, are ineffective against the flu.