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Source: Chironian Source type: magazine Document type: public address Document title: “Homœopathic Materia Medica as Applied to Surgery” Author(s): Dewey, Willis A. Date of publication: 25 May 1902 Volume number: 18 Issue number: 8 Pagination: 120-26 (excerpt below includes only pages 122-23) |
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| Dewey, Willis A. “Homœopathic Materia Medica as Applied to Surgery.” Chironian 25 May 1902 v18n8: pp. 120-26. |
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| William McKinley (medical care: personal response). |
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| Carroll Dunham; Edward C. Franklin; William McKinley. |
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The address (below) appears in a section of the magazine issue titled
“Alumni Day” (pp. 114-29), which in the table of contents is identified
instead as “Alumni Day Exercises.” On page 120 Dewey’s address is said
to have been titled “Materia Medica as Applied to Surgery;” however, the
boldfaced title in the magazine preceding the text of the address is “Homœopathic
Materia Medica as Applied to Surgery.”
“. . . Willis A. Dewey, M. D., ’80, of Ann Arbor, Mich. . . . ” (p 120). |
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Homœopathic Materia Medica as Applied to Surgery [excerpt]
Another septic remedy is Lachesis,
and its use in poisoned wounds has been known and tested from the moment of
its introduction into our Materia Medica. It was to this remedy and its successful
use in a dissecting wound that won to Homœopathy Dr. Carroll Dunham, a former
dean of this institution, and one whose memory will ever flourish in immortal
green for his services to our cause. It will be indicated by the sensitiveness,
the purplish color, the great burning and an unhealthy appearance about the
wound. In boils, carbuncles and abscesses, where there is a tendency of the
process to take on a malignant condition, it may be used with confidence. In
gangrene following wounds it is eminently curative; traumatic gangrene is especially
its field.
In almost every field of operative surgery there
is not only a chance to employ the [122][123] remedy,
but we are neglecting the best interests of the patient if we fail to use it.
In gun shot wounds the foregoing and other remedies may be used, and may often
assist nature in restoring injured tissues. I would recommend the careful perusal
of a pamphlet by the late Dr. E. C. Franklin, entitled “Homœopathic Therapeutics
in Gun Shot Wounds and the Sequelæ of Operation.” It will make you wish that
President McKinley could have had the benefits of the homœopathic remedy.