Homœopathic 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.

  • Pulte, J. H. (Joseph Hippolyt), 1811-1884.
Date:
1852
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    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 public by the author, who has attempted to embody in it the results of a prac- tice of more than sixteen years. In the pathology of the work he has followed mostly the views of Hufeland, who is generally practically useful, and of Schcenlein, who is precise and scientific. In the therapeutics he has endeavored to consult the best authors of our school, carefully comparing their views with his own results, which are embodied in this work. To increase its general usefulness, popular treatises of Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene, and Hydropathy, have been added, branches and parts of medical science as a whole, which, when properly understood and digested by the people, will in a great degree aid in promoting the salutary results expected from the use of a domestic physician. Beside this, a condensed extract of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, given at the close of the book, enables the reader to correct his prescriptions, and enlarge his general knowledge of the homoeopathic science. Thus it is hoped that, by these additions, the work is rendered more perfect in a twofold manner: first, by giving a more extended knowledge of the hu- man system and its laws, through the treatises on Anatomy and Physi- ology; and, secondly, by making the reader acquainted with those practical branches of medicine, Hygiene and Hydropathy, of which, particularly, the latter has, within the last few years, very much en- grossed the attention of the profession and of invalids. In this respect the author himself does not hesitate to declare that he considers Hydro- pathy, applied within her proper limits, the handmaid of Homoeopathy, and that these two, combined in this relationship, are destined to con- quer the medical world. The Author. Cincinnati, October, 1850.