162 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA. 
irritation of the intestinal canal has created a disease that sus- 
pends the former one until, if acute, it has reached its termina- 
tion, but a state of weakness has been produced in which 
Quinine is really efficacious. But no one is aware at what a 
fatal price this cure is obtained. 
“Thus, among other things, spring tertian fevers, which, if left 
to themselves, would last some weeks, require upon this sys- 
tem treatment for months; at the end of which the patient - 
rejoices that his life has been spared, while a few days would 
have sufficed for the cure of his first disease. Hence the rule 
so often inculcated, not to give Quinine, in intermittent fever, 
until the body has been thoroughly cleared from all morbific 
matters, or, what is the same thing, until the intestinal disease 
produced by art has exceeded the natural term of duration of 
the fever ; so that weakness alone remains to contend with, 
against which Quinine is naturally successful, after the patient 
has endured long sufferings. 
“ This was and is still called, in many instances, acting in a 
methodical and rational way. It is as much so as would be 
robbing the widow and the orphan to enrich the poor-box. 
“ Quinine, having for its first consequence an aperient effect, 
will be found for that reason very useful in certain cases of 
diarrhea, provided the patient has no other symptoms in 
opposition to it. 
“ In studying cases of moist external gangrene, one may per- 
ceive, in the general habit of the patient, morbid symptoms 
resembling those of Quinine, which explains why Peruvian 
bark is so valuable in such circumstances. 
“ T have sometimes seen pains, which a mere touch or the 
least movement increased to intensity, and which, as described 
by the sufferer, greatly resembled those caused by Quinine, 
yield at once and finally to a litfle dose of diluted tincture, 
although the attacks had often recurred ; the evil was cured 
homeopathically, and health restored as by enchantment. No 
