Homeopathic philosophy

ESSAY ON A NEW PRINCIPLE FOR ASCERTAINTING THE CURATIVE POWERS OF DRUGS, WITH A FEW GLANCES AT THOSE HITHERTO EMPLOYED

1796 Samuel Hahnemann At the commencement of this century, the unmerited honour was conferred on chemistry, more especially by the Academy of Sciences of Paris, of tempting it to come forward as the discoverer of the medicinal virtues of drugs, particularly of plants. This folly, which was, with divers variations, perpetrated for nearly half a …

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Symptomatology – Chapter XI in The Genius of Homeopathy (Stuart Close)

Chapter XI Symptomatology        The Homœopathic Materia Medica. – The Materia Medica of Hahnemann is an enduring monument to the genius of its author, original in its conception and design and unique in its form and contents. Its foundation is on the bedrock of natural law. It is constructed of the cut stones of accurately …

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Are the obstacles to certainty and simplicity in practical medicine insurmountable?

Are the obstacles to certainty and simplicity in practical medicine insurmountable? 1 Dr. Herz’s essay “On the Medicinal uses of the Phellandrium aquaticum,” andc., in the first part of the second volume of the Journal der practischen Arzneykunde, plunged me into a sort of melancholy, which only by dint of long continued reflection has given …

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The Physician’s Record Book; Boenninghausen

Translated from the Allg. hom. Zeit., Vol 67, pp. 113-165 The Physician’s Record is without doubt a subject which deserves for many reasons and in many respects to be seriously considered and discussed. That it is indispensable to every true Homoeopathic physician follows undeniably from the necessity of individualizing all the characteristic symptoms in every …

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A Contribution to the Judgement Concerning The Characteristic Value of Symptoms (Boenninghausen, 1858)

A Contribution to the Judgement Concerning The Characteristic Value of Symptoms (Boenninghausen, 1858) It is now over three years since the great Homoeopathic Congress was held in Brussels, Germany being, I am sorry to say, but little represented. In the last session of this meeting after several propositions had been read, my resolution was adopted …

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