A manual of pharmacodynamics / by Richard Hughes.

  • Richard Hughes
Date:
1886
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Credit: A manual of pharmacodynamics / by Richard Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Vol. V. 1819. Hahn. O.hers. Euphrasia 25 90 Menyanthes 28 269 Cyclamen 3 197 Sambucus 19 97 Calcarea acetica 0 255 Muriatic acid . 57 217 Thuja 222 287 Taraxacum 0 209 Phosphoric acid 160 411 Spigeha , 95 543 Staphisagria . 210 398 Vol. VI. I 821. Angustura . 93 209 Manganum 89 242 Capsicum 211 69 Verbascum 32 143 Colocynth 17 210 Spongia . 89 22-] Drosera . 124 155 Bismuth . 4 97 Cicuta 36 - 205 Stannum . . 95 457 There are, you will see, sixty-one medicines contained In these volumes, besides the magnet. Twenty-two of them are, as I have said, transferred from the Fragmenta, but always with their pathogeneses enlarged : the remaining thirty-nine are new. There is an important change now manifest, more- over, in the observations of others. These had hitherto consisted entirely of citations from authors ; and the descrip- tion still holds good of them as they appear in the first volume of the Rei?ie Arzneimittellehre. In the five years, however, which elapsed before the second was published, Hahnemann— now in Leipsic, and at the zenith of his fame—had gathered round him a band of disciples, and enlisted them in the task of proving. Of the eight medicines which appear in the second volume, seven have contributions from this source ; and henceforth their presence becomes the invariable rule, and they form an increasing proportion of the bulk of the patho- geneses. It is right that the names of the men who thus combined with Hahnemann to prove drugs on their own persons, and so to lay, at the sacrifice of their own ease, the foundation
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