PLAIN TALKS MATERIA MEDICA : Homeopathy
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Author(s)WILLARD PIERCE
ISBN / ASINB0041OSH4W
ISBN-13978B0041OSH43
Sales Rank2,881,158
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The following comparisons were made with the idea of inducing students of our materia medica to get the repertory habit, and only those remedies having the symptoms more or less prominent are included.
As it was arranged to be of assistance in office prescribing for the general practitioner, symptoms rather than diseased states have been sought for; when possible, differentiations have been made for the particular symptom or condition referred to;
Allen's Handbook has been taken as the guide, and otherwise unacknowledged matter is, for the most part, from that source.
When others have elaborated a symptom, or given additional indications for a remedy, acknowledgment is made at the end of such added matter, so that the authority can be readily consulted. When the name of the remedy alone is given, it has not been found feasible to state the authority here for such symptom, but it is given in the materia medica portion of the work.
Many of our most valued indications for a remedy are due to the experience and work of the individual; space is left to record such additional indications, as well as for those symptoms that one has raised to a higher grade than that given in our various works.
I will feel greatly indebted to all who will send me the results of their experience, and in return, will forward to each one all other additions that may be sent me, together with the names of those vouching for such symptoms.
These "Talks" on our remedies, with amplifications along various lines, more especially in reference to clinical symptoms, were originally given at the New York Homoeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital during the years 1898-1908.
While our knowledge of a remedy is in direct proportion to the thoroughness of the proving, our progress as individuals and as a school is also dependent upon our recording of the clinical verifications, as well as of those symptoms that we have discovered from the administration of the remedy.
One of the objects sought for in writing about these remedies was to so record the symptoms that the authority for them could be known and easy reference made to the records from which they were taken whenever further study was necessary.
Allen's Handbook is followed closely, and, except for emphasis, matter from the Handbook is not placed in quotation marks. Other symptoms from various authors are quoted, with the names of the authority or the work from which they are taken.
Many physfcTans, whose names follow the symptoms, have helped me in this work by furnishing me with valuable clinical indications from their own practice, either confirmatory of the provings or as additional symptoms.
Some minor remedies have not been included, but the indications for most of them will be found among the comparisons.
The aim is to present a plain, practical homoeopathic materia medica.
The qumerals, within parentheses, as found in the text, refer to the page in the comparison section where the symptom is compared with other remedies having the same or similar symptom or condition.
The potency spoken of at the end of a remedy is the one that I, as an individual, usually use, and it means nothing more than my preference. It always was my custom to speak to the students of potency in reference to each remedy, and I see no reason for omitting it here, only I took pains to emphasize the fact that the one referred to meant nothing more than my personal choice, and that they were at liberty to accept it or to reject is as experience or inclination should lead them to decide; simply to give the least amount of medicine that in their judgment will suffice to cure the patient.
We all have our ideas on this subject, and have expressed them, at times, with a good deal of force, but as others have said, the best potency in which to use even one particular remedy is not positively known, for if it were we would all be using the same.
WILLARD IDE PIERCE.
As it was arranged to be of assistance in office prescribing for the general practitioner, symptoms rather than diseased states have been sought for; when possible, differentiations have been made for the particular symptom or condition referred to;
Allen's Handbook has been taken as the guide, and otherwise unacknowledged matter is, for the most part, from that source.
When others have elaborated a symptom, or given additional indications for a remedy, acknowledgment is made at the end of such added matter, so that the authority can be readily consulted. When the name of the remedy alone is given, it has not been found feasible to state the authority here for such symptom, but it is given in the materia medica portion of the work.
Many of our most valued indications for a remedy are due to the experience and work of the individual; space is left to record such additional indications, as well as for those symptoms that one has raised to a higher grade than that given in our various works.
I will feel greatly indebted to all who will send me the results of their experience, and in return, will forward to each one all other additions that may be sent me, together with the names of those vouching for such symptoms.
These "Talks" on our remedies, with amplifications along various lines, more especially in reference to clinical symptoms, were originally given at the New York Homoeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital during the years 1898-1908.
While our knowledge of a remedy is in direct proportion to the thoroughness of the proving, our progress as individuals and as a school is also dependent upon our recording of the clinical verifications, as well as of those symptoms that we have discovered from the administration of the remedy.
One of the objects sought for in writing about these remedies was to so record the symptoms that the authority for them could be known and easy reference made to the records from which they were taken whenever further study was necessary.
Allen's Handbook is followed closely, and, except for emphasis, matter from the Handbook is not placed in quotation marks. Other symptoms from various authors are quoted, with the names of the authority or the work from which they are taken.
Many physfcTans, whose names follow the symptoms, have helped me in this work by furnishing me with valuable clinical indications from their own practice, either confirmatory of the provings or as additional symptoms.
Some minor remedies have not been included, but the indications for most of them will be found among the comparisons.
The aim is to present a plain, practical homoeopathic materia medica.
The qumerals, within parentheses, as found in the text, refer to the page in the comparison section where the symptom is compared with other remedies having the same or similar symptom or condition.
The potency spoken of at the end of a remedy is the one that I, as an individual, usually use, and it means nothing more than my preference. It always was my custom to speak to the students of potency in reference to each remedy, and I see no reason for omitting it here, only I took pains to emphasize the fact that the one referred to meant nothing more than my personal choice, and that they were at liberty to accept it or to reject is as experience or inclination should lead them to decide; simply to give the least amount of medicine that in their judgment will suffice to cure the patient.
We all have our ideas on this subject, and have expressed them, at times, with a good deal of force, but as others have said, the best potency in which to use even one particular remedy is not positively known, for if it were we would all be using the same.
WILLARD IDE PIERCE.
