Homoeopathy unveiled : or, Observations on Hahnemann, his doctrines and treatment of disease / by William Perrin Brodribb.

  • Brodribb, William Perrin.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Homoeopathy unveiled : or, Observations on Hahnemann, his doctrines and treatment of disease / by William Perrin Brodribb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    add a brief account of the mode of preparing homoeo- pathic medicines. It is copied from the Homoeopathic Pharmacopeia, compiled from the German works of Buchner and Gruner, and the French work of Jahr, by Dr. C. J. Hempel. All those drugs which constitute the pure Materia Medica, and vegetable substances which can only be had dry, by repeated triturations with sugar of milk, are reduced to the millionth part of a grain, in which state all such substances are supposed to be soluble either in alcohol or water. Tinctures are prepared by macerating vegetable substances in a given quantity of alcohol for a certain number of days, and afterwards filtered. To one grain of the millionth trituration you add fifty drops of distilled water, and turn the vial several times round its axis. By this means the sugar of milk be- comes dissolved. Then you add fifty drops of alcohol, and shake the vial twice. A dilution from any tincture is obtained in a similar way; that is, by adding one drop of a mother tincture to ninety-nine drops of strong or diluted alcohol, as the preparation may require, taking care to shake the vial as before. These solutions constitute the first attenuation or dilution; and the vials are to be marked with the name of the medicine, and the number 100th. Of either of these solutions you take one drop, and mix it with ninety-nine or a hundred drops more of alcohol, shaking the vial twice. By this is obtained the second attenua- tion or dilution, each drop now containing the ten thou- sandth part of the primitive drop; and the vial is there-