History of homoeopathy : its origin, its conflicts ; with an appendix on the present state of University medicine / by Wilhelm Ameke, M.D. (of Berlin) ; translated by Alfred E. Drysdale ; edited by R. E. Dudgeon.

  • Ameke, Wilhelm, 1847-
Date:
1885
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Credit: History of homoeopathy : its origin, its conflicts ; with an appendix on the present state of University medicine / by Wilhelm Ameke, M.D. (of Berlin) ; translated by Alfred E. Drysdale ; edited by R. E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for different purposes (I. 294), on reducing all sorts of substances to powder (II. 1, 246), on the construction of the special crucibles required for different purposes (II. 2, 161) and various kinds of furnaces (II. 1, 145, 150), &c. A number of Hahnemann's recommendations with regard to the supervision of apothecaries, have now been generally adopted, so too have his proposals regarding the regulation of the sale of poisons, distillation in vapour baths, the construction of tin vessels from pure tin, the inspissation by evaporation of extracts over water baths (I. 223), the distillation of ethereal oils in the steam bath (II. I, 152), the preservation of odoriferous substances, of plants, e.g., valerian, hemlock, &c, in tinned boxes (I. 338 and 411); the necessity of a herbarium in every chemist's shop for instruction and for the purpose of aiding their proper collection (II. 2.115). In the case of remedies belonging to the vegetable kingdom, he gives not only their botanical description, but their habitat (II. 2.115, 119), their time of flowering, the time for collecting the parts useful medicinally, and refers to works containing plates—this he does too with regard to the animals mentioned. The literature here referred to proves how thoroughly Hahnemann had studied the subject. Among the works mentioned are those of the first botanists and zoologists, such as Buffon, Pallas, Dryander, Regnault, Scopoli, Jussieu, Linnaeus, Slaone, Gleditisch, Haller, Bauhin, Rumpf, Kiimpf, Tabernae- montanus, Tournefort, &c, &c, more than 100 works in different languages, including the most recent books of travel. By his recommendation not to boil the extracts of narcotic plants, but to evaporate them over water baths, he deserves the credit of having contributed largely to the introduction of these important medicines. The advice of Professor Neumann* had been followed only two generally to boil freely in making extracts, since boiling for a considerable time with a large amount of water, is the best * Medic. Chcmie, I., 661.