I have indeed often prescribed this remedy in larger doses than those given by allopathic physicians. For instance, in certain acute diseases, bronchitis especially, presenting the peculiarity of remittent attacks, growing in gravity an threatening dangerous results, allopathic physicians have slowly succeeded or entirely failed by prescribing from fifty to sixty centigrams of quinine per day during six, eight or ten days in succession. These medium doses, too long repeated tease, wear out the organism, which then no longer reacts at all, or reacts imperfectly, I have been consulted after these allopathic physicians by the same patients, presenting similar morbid conditions, and I have prescribed quinine in the quantity of one gram, administered in a single dose, each day for three successive days, as if congestive attacks were to take place, and I have cured these remittent attacks and concomitant diseases ore rapidly and completely than allopathic physicians had done before in the same person. And yet these physicians had prescribed four or five grams of quinine in eight or ten days, while I only (prescribed three grams, but my patient had taken them in three successive days, taking each day one gram in a single dose. It is clear, therefore, that remedies may be prescribed according to diseases and patients in the most varied doses and at different times.
Allopathic physicians unconsciously make use of remedy in the infinitesimal or radiant state-for instance, when they prescribe for their patients the waters of Wildbad (Wurtemberg) and of Gastein (Tyrol). these water, although they contain no other chemical elements than ordinary drinking waters, cure paralysis. Are not their curative agents remedies in the radiant state, since chemistry cannot discover their presence Chemistry is likewise unable to reveal the nature of given remedies in medium and high homeopathic dilutions, and vet these dilutions cure many diseases.
The strength of the body seems restored, not only by the remedies in the radiant state, but also by food, in the radiant state. This may at least be presumed when we consider the fact noted daily by all men, and thus stated by Professor Rostan: Food produce this effect almost as soon as it enters the stomach. The painful feeling of hunger disappears, to give lace to a feeling of general comfort; strength is immediately restored; it seems as if new life we coursing through our entire frame. This effect, however, is not due to assimilation, since not a single nutrient molecule can have been carried into our organs. Thus food, introduced into the stomach and most as yet as similated, immediately restores the strength. Must this result be attributed to the fact that the food in such a case is absorbed in the radiant state
Besides, the radiant state seem to manifest itself under other forms also-for instance, under the form of light, heat or electricity. Is light anything else than matter in the radiant state, since spectroscopic analysis enables us to recognize all bodies by means of their respective luminous tint Electricity, heat and light are not forces, properly speaking since they cannot be isolated from the bodies which produce them. They are nothing else than these same bodies in their respective radiant states.
It was the odor of matter which gave Aristotle glimpse of the radiant state which he called subtle state, after having noted that one grain of musk, without losing anything from its weight, perfumed for months and months a vast edifice, the air in which was constantly renewed.
Darwin reports a still more astonishing example of the persistence of odor, that modality of the radiant state. I wrapped, says he, the hide of a Patagonian deer in a silk handkerchief to carry it home. Now, after having had this pocket handkerchief washed I used it continuously. Notwithstanding frequent washings, every time I unfolded it for nineteen months I immediately smelled that odor. This is an astonishing smelled that odor. This is an astonishing example of the persistency of an odor, which, however, must be very volatile.
The radiant state of matter which, as the preceding facts demonstrate, is produced by nature may also be produced by art. In order to accomplish this, it is only necessary to comply with the direction of the physicists. Faraday and Crookes, who for that purpose recommended that the constituent molecules of each boy should be separated so that they should be more distant from each other than they are in the solid, liquid of gaseous state. In this matter, as Crookes says, we reach, I repeat it, the limit where matter and force shade off into each other; in other words, there are developed in each body the latent forces which were smothered under the mass of matter. Now that is just what Homoeopathic pharmacists do when they prepare the infinitesimal doses of each remedy, either by means of successive dilution in a vehicle (distilled water or alcohol), or, if the remedy be insoluble by successive triturations, with insoluble by successive triturations with sugar of milk.
