Author: Edmund Carleton
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781330260180
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Excerpt from Homoeopathy in Medicine and Surgery The author's aim was avowedly always to exemplify the practical - the clinical side of medicine. Leaving the theoretical and didactic side to others, he felt that his work, name and fame were gained at the sick bedside. Consequently he is remembered by the profession and his large clientele as a practical clinician and master of therapeutics. So, in endeavoring to hand down the fruits of his ripe experience of over forty years in the practice of pure Hahnemannian Homœopathy, he deemed it best to present the material in a series of object lessons, bringing the patient and sick room to the foreground as vividly as possible. In this way the morbid symptoms and the pathogenesis of the proven remedy are most closely compared; the results in actual cases most clearly brought forth. Comparisons and the factors leading to the selection of the drug most resembling in its symptomatology the pathological totality are a prominent feature. The constant aim is to show that individualization is the crux of Homœopathic practice; that cases must be studied - studied hard - and remedies too, until the one that accurately fits is found. It is just these practical and clinical features which every physician has to meet in prescribing for every case. If therefore any justification be needed for the appearance of this book or, more particularly, the unusual mode of presentation, the appeal to busy practitioner, student and all interested in Homœopathy is alike through actual and concrete "cases", the truth of which is unquestionable. There are abundant good text- and reference-books on Homœopathy: its theory, its defence, its scientific basis, its paralels and analogies in modern science, keynotes and abridgments of its voluminous materia medica designed to simplify the labors of the student and busy practitioner, pathologies and therapeutic guides, etc. And still, with the possible exception of Farrington's Clinical Materia Medica, which deals almost entirely with the drug picture rather than the therapeutic aspects of Homœopathic practice, the field of Dr. Carleton's book is untouched elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
