Constitutional medicine with especial reference to the three con-stitutions of Dr. Von Grauvogl / by John H. Clarke.

  • John Henry Clarke
Date:
[between 1930 and 1940]
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Credit: Constitutional medicine with especial reference to the three con-stitutions of Dr. Von Grauvogl / by John H. Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Having projected the compilation of a “ Repertory of Generalities ” it became apparent to me that the work of Dr. von Grauvogl would have to be taken into account, and especially his famous “ Constitutions.” A reference to such works as I possess, including his Text-book of Homoeopathy in the American translation by Dr. George VV. Shipman, published in 1870, showed me that no process of repertorial condensation could do justice to the subject, and that a complete setting out of it was necessary. As I know of no work of the kind in the English language, and as the subject is of most vital importance not only to Homoeopathy but to medicine in general, I have thought well to put it together as best I may, leaving to others to complete what may be lacking in my account of it. Grauvogl was certainly one of the most remarkable men who were drawn into the Homoeopathic fold in the period of its adolescence. For clarity of vision, philosophical and logical mentality, he has no superior. At the same time he was quite in the first rank as a practical physician. He has left on record a series of observations, the parallel of which I have never met. Every one of the cases recorded is a little drama complete in itself, a spring as full of medical wisdom from which every practitioner
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