Excerpt from The American Homoeopathist, 1886, Vol. 12: A Monthly Journal of Medical, Surgical and Sanitary Science Only think how simple If the patient has the gout, give him sulphuric acid: the remedy for rheumatism is mer cury cinchona is good for ague, sima ruba for dysentery, squills for dropsy I Thus summarizes Hahnemann some of the specifies in vogue at his time. But we don't do that any more. Surely not! Now-a-days it reads: If the patient has the gout, give him colchicum the remedy for rheumatism is salicylic acid quinine is good for ague, mercury for dysentery, digitalis for dropsy. The thing looks funny; it seems to be a thing that is subjected to freaks, like fashion, and it surely must be a shallow and quackish sort of practice and Hahne mann says of it It is so repulsive to me that I cannot dwell long upon it. 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.