A Clinical Materia Medica: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, of Philadelphia (Classic Reprint)

During the year following tbe death of Dr. Farri Dgton, the editor of this volume published Reveral of the lectures here presented, in the Hahnemannian Monthly, North American Journal of Homceopathif, aad Mtmihly Homceopathic Bemew. These were well received hythe profcssioD. Some of them were, moreover, translated and published in German, French, and Spanish journals. A number of physicians expressed their desire to have the lectures appear in book form. The consent of Mrs. Farrington to such publication was therefore obtained, the Doctor smanuscript was placed at our disposal, end Dr. S. Lilienthai kindly consented to revise tbe lectures atler their completion in manascript. In order that the work should be thoroughly representative of Dr, Farrington, thoae concerned in its preparation for the press decided that the authors style should be closely followed. These lectures are therefore presented exactly as delivered, excepting where a change was snested by his manuscript or by his published writings. There have also been incorporated in the volume, numerous abstracts from the comparisons in the Studies in Materia Medica, published in the Hahnemannian Monthly in the years 1880, 1881, and 1882. These will be found in the lectures on Lacbesis, A pis, Cantharia, and Bepia. The lecture on Mnsohua is essentially a reprint of the study of that remedy in the JB ahnemannian for Jannary, 1882. The editor feels no necessity, for apologizing for this addition of the above-mentioned matter to the lectures proper, for, as Dr. Korndcerfer truly says in his memorial sketch of bis deceased friend, they belong to the classics of our school. The rret is that they cannot be incorporated in their entirety. The reader most remember that in a course consisting of seventytwo lectures, it would be utterly impossible to include a complete presentation of the homoeopathic materia med
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