IN CERTIS UNITAS, IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS, IN OMNIBUS CHARITAS. LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE & SONS, 5 PATERNOSTER ROW; EDINBURGH: W. H. BILLING, 19 CASTLE STREET; NEW YORK: W. RADDE, 322 BROADWAY. MDCCCLVI. PROFESSOR HENDERSON ON BRIGHT'S DISEASE OF THE KIDNEY.. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF HOMEOPATHY, BY DR. REMARKS ON HOOPING COUGH, BY DR. BLACK ON THE LEGITIMATE POSITION OF HOMOEOPATHY, BY DR. TESSIER. SIR H. HOLLAND'S MEDICAL NOTES AND MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY DR. S. COCKBURN'S MEDICAL REFORM ib. REVIEW. SIXTH REPORT OF THE LONDON HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL.. DR. RUSSELL ON SOME DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 529 PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS, BY DR. HALE DR. SCHNEIDER ON ACUTE CEREBRAL DISEASE FROM INTERNAL CAUSES 621 WHY WE OBJECT TO BEING CALLED HOMEOPATHISTS, BY DR. TESSIER 640 THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF HOMEOPATHY. ON BRIGHT'S DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS. BY WILLIAM HENDERSON, M.D., Professor of General Pathology in the University of Edinburgh. BRIGHT's disease of the kidneys has often appeared to me one of the most discouraging, and difficult to deal with profitably, of the maladies commonly encountered in practice; and I confess to having entertained so little hope of being homœopathically serviceable in that affliction, that I have not generally taken much pains to endeavour to be so. I believe much of this hopelessness to have been due to the habitual failure during my years of allopathic practice, most of which in this disease was hospital practice, to do more than palliate for the time-to lessen or remove the attendant dropsy perhaps, to give a temporary fillip to the digestive organs, or to mitigate a rheumatic pain. The dissection-room, too, ministered very pointedly towards repressing any tendency (if it ever occurred) to anticipate an epoch when the progress of therapeutics would enable physic to add this lately-discovered (I speak of some fifteen years ago) region of morbid anatomy to its subjugated domains. What hope of raising a kidney from the size of a chesnut up to its original dimensions of five inches by two and a half? Or what hope of broadening again the cortical mass which had shrunk into a VOL. XIV, NO. LV.-JANUARY, 1856. B |