The homoeopathic materia medica : arranged systematically and practically / by A. Teste ; translated from the French and edited by Chas. J. Hempel.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1854
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    compendium of empirical prescriptions, the spirit of classification has again prevailed in the Materia Medica. Indeed, it was impossible that Rasori and Broussais, those modern hrppocratists, (although Broussais, especially, by referring every species of disease to one and the same circumstance, an irrita- tion, rejected both pathology and therapeutics,) should not have had their respective systems of Materia Medica, as the Galenists, Paracelsus, Stahl, Brown, etc., had had theirs in regular succession. God be praised! we have every reason to believe that the Materia Medica has been forever freed from these dangerous wanderings in the regions of specu- lation. A precise and lucid perception of the character of a drug, obtained by observations on the healthy organism, and serving as a guide in the apprecia- tion and observation of the phenomena of disease. _ Evident and incontestable proofs of the curative virtues of the drug in a given case of disease. Hence the determination of a fixed, unchangeable relation between the phenomena of the disease and the action of the drug This it is that we owe to the immortal founder of homoeopathy; these are the great truths which a change of systems will never overthrow, and which will prove permanent acquisitions to the healine: art. G And yet, in spite of these lucid, positive and emi- nently suggestive faets, there still exist homoeopathic physicians who regard the systemizatiou of our Materia Medica as something impossible. I „Q farther; I believe that Hahnemann himself would