160 FLORA HOMGOPATHICA. 
leuco-phlegmasia, and jaundice, to spasmodic affections, organic 
lesions, diseases of the bowels, and wasting fevers. 
“T appeal to the good sense of practitioners. How can they 
thus indiscriminately prescribe Quinine in all cases accompanied 
by debility? How can they expect to give strength to any one 
whose disease is unsubdued? Have they ever known a man 
recover quickly by proper means, without seeing his strength 
return of itself, as his complaint disappeared? But if weak- 
ness can only cease by the cure of the complaint, how absurd 
to attempt to remove it, without removing its cause! that 
is to say, by giving wine and bark to an invalid under the 
influence of disease. ‘lo be able to cure all weakness, Quinine 
must be the universal medicine ; but sad experience proves that 
it is not such, for the symptoms it excites also prove that it 
possesses the character of a remedy, or really curative properties, 
in but a few cases. 
“Tt is true that, upon first taking Quinine, it revives for a short 
time the powers of an invalid, under the most formidable 
illness. He raises himself in his bed, as if by enchantment ; he 
wishes to get up and dress himself; his voice is stronger; his 
manner firm; he tries to walk, and is eager for food. Buta 
close observer will perceive in this an unnatural excitement. 
After a few hours the disease gains power anew, and frequently 
death approaches with redoubled speed. 
“ The suspicious strength that the patient feels for a short time 
is always followed by bad effects, unless in cases where Quinine 
is the true remedy. Then we shall perceive the disease and 
the weakness cease together; but this is not a common case, 
because there are but few diseases that Quinine is capable of 
curing promptly, durably, and absolutely. In all other cases 
it is pernicious, in proportion to its great medicinal power. In 
fact, it is a rule without exception, that all medicines that fail 
to cure, because they are not properly adapted to the complaint in 
question, do harm, according to their potency and the largeness of 
the doses. 
