Curties, Comption Burnett and Radenmacher Flashcards
Rademacher based his practice on universal laws of cure, such as the law of similars.
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Rademacher followed some of the teachings of Paracelsus.
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Rachemacher taught the doctrine of “organ affinity,” “organ specificity,” or “organopathy,” meaning that there is an affinity between certain remedies (mostly herbs) and specific organs
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Rademacher used a method called “organ testing,” whereby he used the remedies attributed to each organ, one after another, until the curative one was found.
T
The doctrine of the genus epidemicus states that each epidemic disease has a distinct constitutional type, usually corresponding to a specific remedy.
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Rademacher taught that each acute disease had a constitution and therefore a specific remedy.
true
Rademacher traced many chronic diseases back to an original acute disease that remained and became chronic.
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The epidemic constitution changes from time to time, sometimes with the change of the seasons.
true
Rademacher sometimes used drop doses of remedies.
T
The word influenza comes from the Italian word for “influence” of the stars.
T
Compton Burnett was educated at the University of Vienna Medical School, because he came from a wealthy family.
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Compton Burnett’s used herbal and homeopathic remedies.
true
Compton Burnett believed that organ remedies worked by an affinity to local organs, tissues, or functions, according to the law of similars.
true
The homeopathic provings could provide a complete picture of all the indications for a remedy, according to Compton Burnett.
F
Compton Burnett believed that a remedy or herb had a ‘stop spot,’ or limited sphere of action.
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Compton Burnett believed that the practitioner should use his or her imagination.
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Compton Burnett taught that the remedy made from a disease organism (nosode) could treat the same or a similar disease.
T
According to Compton Burnett, the stronger the reaction to the vaccine, the worse would be the chronic side-effects.
F
Burnett and others believed that vaccinations could cause disease.
true
Curtis believed in balancing the relationships between:
Interior and exterior of the organism.
Upper and lower of the organism.
The three basic medicinal actions recognized by Curtis were:
Stimulation, contraction, relaxation.
It is necessary to clear internal obstructions to nutrition and elimination, according to Curtis.
true
Tension in the periphery causes tension in the center.
true
Curtis taught that if an organ or function was sick, another organ or function, or several of them, would have to compensate.
T
According to Curtis, the correct way to treat the system is to balance the differences in nerve force and blood distribution, between all parts of the body.
T
The term physio-medicalism means:
Nature is the medicine
Thomsonianism is the same or the base from which physiomedicalism developed.
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