Word: vomica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next six years, while living at times in desperate poverty, he tried doses of well-known drugs on his family and friends. Belladonna, he discovered, produced fever and red eruptions in healthy persons; he tried it on scarlet fever and it drove away the disease. Nux vomica paralyzed the chest muscles; he fed his patients tiny doses to check asthma. Arnica, which in overdoses brought on belly aches, he used in small doses to cure diarrhea. After "proving" scores of drugs, Hahnemann broadcast his famed principle of homeopathy (Greek, homoios, like, and pathos, disease): Similia similibus curentur. (Like should...
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