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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    many practitioners would obtain successful results from their employment and would no longer doubt the efficacy of these remedies. The reviewer ardently desires the continua- tion of this work. A distilling apparatus invented by Hahnemann is then spoken of. With regard to the next number, complaint* is made that Hahnemann had introduced many disused drugs, and that some articles were inferior. Hahnemann completely refutes these criticisms in a reply he made.-f- Neverthe- less some of the articles are very well done, and the reviewer would pronounce the whole work excellent if they were all equally so. Everything the author says on the subject of fermentation and poisons is to the purpose and convincing. Apropos of the next number the reviewer writes (1799, II. 411) : A work of this kind by a man who has made himself a name in Germany, both as a chemist and as a practitioner, deserves especial recommendation. Especially excellent articles in this number are those on the laboratory, precipitation, furnaces, oils, pills, modes of preparation.' In the article on phosphoric acid, the author gives a new method, peculiar to himself, of obtaining phosphoric acid and from it phosphorus. Every article gives evidence of having been written writh the greatest care. Trommsdorff, Professor in the University of Erfurt, thus criticises the work in his Journal der Pharmacie : J An ex- cellent work which every apothecary ought to procure. Brevity, lucidity, decision and yet completeness, seem as far as we can judge from this first part to distinguish this work from all others of a similar character. (Certain articles are then discussed.) We see from these few extracts that this work is not a compilation of an ordinary character. In examining the work more closely we can find very much new and important matter, and every page shows that the well informed author speaks from experience. We refer our readers to the articles : evaporation, evaporating * 1796, I., p. 393. f lb., IV., p. 15. % 1794, H-, St. I., p. 1S5.