Specific Medication and Specific Medicines: Fourth Revision, With an Appendix Containing the Articles Published on the Subject Since the First ... Specific Medication (Classic Reprint)

In this edition the part on Materia Medica has been revised, and about one hundred and fifty additional remedies added. We have medicines enough and to spare, and what we need most now is, a thorough study of them to determine their specific indications. The best way for a student, the young practitioner, or any one making a first study of Specific Medication is, to take the remedies marked u MyP ocket Case, and learn their use, being guided by single indications. After this one can add to his materia medica as he has need for other remedies, and as he has opportunity to study them. It is very difficult in looking over a Medica Medica like this, to determine the remedies of greatest value, and to distinguish the important from the unimportant symptoms. Each practitioner must make his own materia medica, and the greater the amount of care he gives it the better will it serve his purposes. What I have tried to do in this work, and in the companion volume, Specific Diagnosis, is to point out the way for these studies, and give such definite knowledge of a number of remedies as will suffice for successful treatment of the more common diseases of our country. The favor with which these volumes have been received is a proof that the profession has been looking in this direction for a better practice of medicine. Cincinnati, March 30th, 1880.
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