Homeopathic domestic physician : containing the treatment of diseases ; with popular explanations of anatomy, physiology, hygiene and hydropathy : also an abridged materia medica / by J.H. Pulte, M.D.

  • Pulte, J. H. (Joseph Hippolyt), 1811-1884.
Date:
1853
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    PREFACES TO THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS. Of late years a great deal of attention has been bestowed upon the preparation of popular works on the treatment of diseases, by the medical profession, as well by members of the Homoeopathic as of other medical schools. This shows, evidently, that the hitherto backward world of medical science has been caught at last, with the proper spirit of modern progress, whose distinguishing feature in scientific matters consists, undoubtedly, in the tendency to popularize abstruse sciences and make them useful and accessible to the many. Homoeopathy has not been in the rear as regards these popular treatises, many valuable volumes having been issued from the press within a short time which have facilitated in a great degree the do- mestic use of the homoeopathic medicines. This service, rendered by the profession to the public in a liberal and generous spirit, has been amply rewarded by the latter, in extending all over the country, more rapidly, the blessings of our beloved healing art, and establishing its title, as a benefactor of mankind, more firmly in the hearts of the people. The author well recollects that the first domestic physicians which appeared, were looked upon with distrust by some of the profession. But the people in general hailed them as welcome friends in their domestic afflictions, where counsel is so often needed at times when medical aid cannot be obtained. At this time scarcely one homoeopathic family is without one or more books on domestic practice, which is a sufficient evidence of their practical utility. Thus have these messengers of mercy and usefulness traveled with, and often ahead of, the regular practitioners of Homoeopathy—the silent, but efficient missionaries of truth, declaring it everywhere by facts and conquests over disease, won by the people themselves. The profession in general seems now to regard them as necessary allies in the great work of reforming the medical state of the world, and bestows a great deal of care on their constantly increasing perfection, by making them more practical and definite, progressing in their improvement as the science itself progresses. In this spirit the present volume is written and given to the publi& by the author, who has attempted to embody in it the results of a practice of more than sixteen years.