Jahr's New manual of homoeopathic practice (Volume 2).

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1841-1842
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    almost always founded many categories of medicaments for consultation by constantly using the first with more details than the following, and by frequently referring the residue to the pathogenesis of medicaments or to other analogous medicines, in order to escape all confusion. Those who may compare our Clinical Remarks with the articles contained in the works of Haas, RuofF and Ruck- ert, will perceive, at the first glance, that, besides a large number of details, we have contributed a much greater number of articles and more perfect indications. At the end of the volume we have also added an entirely new essay on cases of poisoning and drug diseases, especially profiting by the excellent indications given by Hering on this subject. In the mean time it would be a great error to suppose that we had exhausted all pathology in our ar- ticles. On the contrary, we have only desired to treat of those maladies which are most frequent and most known, leaving it to time and to experience to furnish other and more accurate indications. The finished practitioner, in reading our articles and the indications we have given for the choice of medica- ments, will frequently find, without doubt, that we have said nothing new to him, and that, in truth, any physician thoroughly acquainted with the characteristic symptoms of medicines could dispense with these articles, or even com- pose those which would be preferable. This is indeed but too true ; and if our labours only concerned those physi- cians who are alike accomplished in a knowledge of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica and Medicine in general, we should have been more careful in the construction of our articles, or should have abstained altogether from the publication of this Manual. But those, for whom we have written this work are principally neophytes in Homoeopa- thia, who, without having had the time as yet to make long and'laborious studies in the Materia Medica, have been obliged to use it, and to select a suitable remedy from among a number of which they do not know any one suffi- ciently well. In indicating to them for each affection, the name only of twenty or thirty medicines, how is it possi- ble that they should recognize the cases in which one should be chosen more than another \ It may be said to them that this should be the remedy which, by its symp- toms best corresponds with the indications of an mdividual