The American Eclectic Materia Medica Therapeutics (Classic Reprint)

Whilst there have been great advances in the science of medicine especially in therapeutics, since this work was first issued, the author deems it of importance to the profession that the old remedies and old methods should be kept in view. The practitioner needs to renew his acquaintance with them from time to time, that he may lose nothing good of the old practice, and that he may clearly trace the connection between the old and the new. The student requires it, that he may attain a complete knowledge of therapeutics and materia medica. We claim to be a free and liberal class of physicians, and we do not recognize the right of any man either inside or outside of the Eclectic ranks to dictate what we shall use or how we shall use it. Every practitioner is personally responsible for the results of his practice. If he does a patient a wrong by large doses and poisonous effects, he is guilty to the extent of the wrong. If he fails to give relief or save life because of small doses and inefficient remedies, he is equally guilty. A physician is responsible to his patients in that he agrees to furnish that knowledge and skill which comes from thorough study and close observation. He can not claim that he has done his whole duty, unless he has been eclectic in fact, choosing from all sources that which to him seems best. I do not think that any one can know what Eclecticism is unless he has studied it from the beginning. It is wonderful what a mass of material the fathers had gathered together, and it is a matter of equal interest to note the evolution of our present practice specific medication from this. The reader may think it strange, but three-fourths of modern homoeopathy is from this source, and ninetenths of modernE
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