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{{anchor:s2}}HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, as applied to OBSTETRICS. {{anchor:s3}}By //Sheldon Leavitt//, //M. D.,// Prof, of Physiology and Clinical Midwifery in the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Chicago, pp. 121, price $1.00? {{anchor:s4}}Chicago; Duncan Brothers. 1881.

{{anchor:s5}}This new advocate for professional favor claims that, only “the most //characteristic// features of a limited number of remedies, and those only, are embraced” in its design. {{anchor:s6}}In pursuance of this object, there is given the condensed symptomatology of ninety odd remedies, with a repertory. {{anchor:s7}}The indications for the remedies are short but in the main good; the repertory will be found especially useful. {{anchor:s8}}This brochure will be of service to those who are in the habit of searching for the //simillimum//; to all such we recommend it.

{{anchor:s9}}THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS of our MATERIA MEDICA. {{anchor:s10}}By C. Hering. Vol. III. Philadelphia. {{anchor:s11}}The American Homoeopathic Publishing Society.

{{anchor:s12}}This, the third volume of the “Guiding Symptoms,” has recently appeared, after much delay. {{anchor:s13}}Let us hope that the other volumes will be more speedy in coming forth. {{anchor:s14}}The homoeopathic profession should subscribe for this work; it is needed by all. {{anchor:s15}}And they should demand that the work be given them as Dr. Hering left it. {{anchor:s16}}The editors say in their preface: “Actuated, as we have been, by the spirit of the departed author, it has been our aim to complete the volume just as it would have been had Hering lived.”

{{anchor:s17}}This volume carries the work from //Bryonia// to //Chamomilla//, inclusive. {{anchor:s18}}We hope, now that a third volume is out, that there will be a large increase of subscribers to the work. {{anchor:s19}}Send your orders to J. M. Stoddart //&// Co., 727 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.

{{anchor:s20}}Dr. Hering wrote, in preface to the first volume: “This work will especially commend itself to the busy practitioner, because it is an attempt to give our materia medica in such a form as will make the selection of the curative medicine in any given case as easy as possible. {{anchor:s21}}It is a //complement// to all other works on our materia medica, being principally a collection of cured symptoms. {{anchor:s22}}A symptom only cured has never such intrinsic value as //one produced and// cured, and yet, such a one must not be ignored.{{anchor:s23}}” Clinical symptoms are useful in aiding us to use proved drugs. {{anchor:s24}}No drug has yet been exhaustively proven. {{anchor:s25}}Clinical symptoms are to the therapeutist as crutches to the lame, an assistance; let us beware lest we rely so much on our “crutches” that we neglect to seek sound limbs. {{anchor:s26}}Those who advocate the use of unproved drugs, relying upon clinical symptoms solely, may be said to prefer “crutches” to sound limbs.

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^ Source: | The Homoeopathic Physician Vol. 01 No. 11, 1881, pages 559-560 |
^ Description: | BOOK NOTICES, REVIEWS, ETC. |
^ Author: | HPhys01 |
^ Year: | 1881 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |