potentizev.

1849 R. E. Dudgeon tr. S. Hahnemann Organon of Med. 270 If, however, insanity or mania..have suddenly broken out as an acute disease..it should not be immediately treated with antipsorics, but..with..proved medicaments..in highly potentized, minute homœopathic doses.

1851 W. Hooker Homœopathy i. 29 Silex, for example, can be ‘potentized’, he claims, by trituration and shaking, and thus be endued with such power, that a single grain of it would suffice, if thus prepared, to cure of certain forms of disease not merely a world of human beings, but millions upon millions of worlds peopled as thickly as our own.

1991 S. Gibson & R. Gibson Homoeopathy for Everyone (new ed.) v. 83 Similar to the idea of producing remedies from disease processes which can then be used to treat the effects of that disease is the idea of potentizing individual substances to counteract allergies and sensitivities to them.

1851 W. Hooker Homœopathy 76 The action of the potentized infinitesimal upon the system must be regulated by different principles from those which govern the action of the same article in its crude form.

1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 315/1 The dynamic powers of a medicine may be set free and developed—as by..mixing an unlimited number of unmedicated globules with one that is medicated, and shaking them together. In this way, the former become potentized!

1864 Trans. Homœopathic Med. Soc. N.Y. 56 in Docs. Assembly State N.Y. (87th Session, Doc. No. 201) X The administration of potentized remedies.

1972 D. V. Tansley Radionics viii. 80 To augment the violet one may add an ampoule of potentized onyx to the treatment.

1988 Here's Health May 30/1 Treatment consists of giving the patient very diluted and potentised doses of the animal, vegetable or mineral product which in high or toxic doses causes the same symptoms as those seen in the illnesses.

1854 C. J. Hempel Organon Specific Homœopathy 76 One of the first causes which led to the potentising process, is the peculiar view which Hahnemann took of the modus operandi of remedial agents administered agreeably to the law ‘similia similibus curantur.’

1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 315/1 The homœopathists..maintain that, by certain processes, called, in the aggregate, dynamization and potentizing, the dynamic powers of a medicine may be set free and developed—as by shaking the bottle in which the article is contained.

1896 L. H. Tafel tr. S. Hanemann Chronic Dis. I. ii. 157 When I was still giving the medicines in undivided portions..I often found that the potentizing in the attenuating glasses effected by ten shakes was too strong.