Volume 5

Chronic diseases : their specific nature and homoeopathic treatment / Samuel Hahnemann ; translated and edited by Charles J. Hempel ; with a preface by Constantine Hering.

Samuel Hahnemann

Date:: 1845-1846

Credit: Chronic diseases : their specific nature and homoeopathic treatment / Samuel Hahnemann ; translated and edited by Charles J. Hempel ; with a preface by Constantine Hering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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$Medical Books. tha< books of this character, on perusal, make good the claims which their titles assume, hut this is a well marked exception i its descriptions of diseases though concise, are comprehensive; its reasonings just and philosophical, and its practice as a consequence, intelligible and rational, 'f he character of the author, and his experience of more than ha f a century, together with the unexampled popularity of the work in its original r- my opinion, all individual recommendation superfluous. ITlope ttiaUt maj soon be found in the hands of every medical man, whether pupil or practi- * New-York, September 7, 1842. _James R. Manlev, il.D. Certificate of John F. Gray, M.D., formerly resident phpkian tr• the New-York Hospital, Lecturer on the Theory and Practice oi Phj mc, Censor of the State and New-York Medical Societies, etc., etc. , , I am very glad to find the press engaged in diffusing a knowledge nl the German medical literature in this country At the hea3 of the German books of practice stands this book of the good HufelandMr. Bruchhausen andI Dr. Nelson have laboured with diligence and good faith in rendeiw the i dion ■ and so far as I have had leisure to compare their work with the origi- nal I tod no error of magnitude. Another edition will no doubt be called lor soon, and then the worthy American curators can dispense with the some what mea-re characteristic given to it by their too close adherence to the letter of th°e author. I heartily wish success to the good enterprise New-York, September 8, 1842. John F. Grai , M.D. The reputation of the venerable eclectic of Germany scarcely requires endorsement even on this side of the Atlantic. An independent and original thinkerHufeland laboured for the cause of medical science and has ^qmred an universal renown, amply attested to by his Journal of Practical Medi- an universal renow,y - System of Practical Medicine, ' and numerous^iTesidfs personal contributions of 1—; and necessary innovations in the treatment of Inoculation, Small Pox, ana >-ign, oi Dea h.» His last work, Enchiridion Medicum, concentrates the experience of his entire medical life, and fully maintains in its careful and concise de- sSioni and diagnosis of diseases'all the evidence of the discriminating intellect of the Patriarch of German medical literature. New-York, September 12, 1842. A. Gerald L.uix, al.lt- The writings of the great Hufeland need no recommendation of mine His nam™ a medical authority, is so well established, that I have no doubt this work will find a ready and extensive sale. ^ M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Medical Jurisprudence in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New-iorK. New-York, 14 Le Roy Place, September 6, 184i. I have looked over the Enchiridion Medicum of P^«£gf*j an excellent compendium of German FF«^t^.^5^SJb2 vade mecum to the student and practitioner. It can profi^ b« P^?^ and ought to be in the hands of a 1 physicians. The justly djstmgmsnea reputation of the author will make it a work g^F^^fc, M.D. The publishers have conferred a benefit upoathe^SgSgSSS ?{u°fc! country, by producing this translation oi the Enchmdwn MedWUm*^ land, ^ew works on practice contain so much ^X^Som^P^ compass. But independently of the value attached to an] ™5*'S£i?MX of ilufeland, this book is especially useful to Amencan^^ffSmSl with the modes of thinking and practising, peculiar to the large portion of continental Europe, to which they have few means olaccc EPWARD DELAriELD, M.U. 103 Blcccker-strcct, September 5, 1S42.$