facts, known from the earliest periods of medicine, showing that, under
certain circumstances, the very medicine which, from its known effects,
one would expect to aggravate the disease, may contribute to its relief
There are well-ascertained
facts, known from the earliest periods of medicine, showing that, under
certain circumstances, the very medicine which, from its known effects,
one would expect to aggravate the disease, may contribute to its relief.
I may be permitted to allude, in the most general way, to the case in
which the spontaneous efforts of an overtasked stomach are quieted by the
agency of a drug which that organ refuses to entertain upon any terms.
But that every cure ever performed by medicine should have been founded
upon this principle, although without the knowledge of a physician; that
the Homoeopathic axiom is, as Hahnemann asserts, 'the sole law of nature
in therapeutics,' a law of which nothing more than a transient glimpse
ever presented itself to the innumerable host of medical observers, is a
dogma of such sweeping extent, and pregnant novelty, that it demands a
corresponding breadth and depth of unquestionable facts to cover its vast
pretensions.

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Q My sister has had little luck in getting pregnant. Is there any truth to the book "Fertility Diet?" F.G., Winterville

Washington, May 14 : A low-calorie diet is likely to be better than regular exercise or aerobics in extending one's lifespan, according to a study.

What did the common folk of medieval Britain know that we don't? Maybe not a lot, but experts say their circumstances informed a diet considerably healthier than what many of us consume today. Taken as a steady source of sustenance, much conventional fast food poses a risk to the liver, according to at least one recent study, and various other health hazards, according to many others.

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