Lectures on materia medica / by Carroll Dunham.

  • Dunham, Carroll, 1828-1877.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Lectures on materia medica / by Carroll Dunham. 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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    PATHOGNOMONIC SYMPTOMS AND CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. DR. VEIT MEYER, of Leipsic, in 1850, told me an anecdote of Hahnemann, which, so far as I know, has never appeared in print. It was related to him by Dr. Franz Hartmann, then recently deceased, who in his early days had been a pupil of Hahnemann, and was present at his consultations with patients. Hartmann relates* that one day a patient came to consult Hahnemann. The malady was condylo- mata (figwarts). Hahnemann examined them and then questioned the patient for a half-hour, noting symptoms in his record book. He then closed his book, consulted the Materia Medica for a few moments, went into the next room, brought out three powders, and said: Take a powder every three days; come again the fourteenth day, and pay now four dollars. The man paid and retired. *In this paper (written for spoken of as haemorrhoidal tu- delivery before the Onondaga mors, and the patient as a County Homoeopathic Medical female. Its present version is Society, October i8, 1864), taken from a note-book written the disease here designated as by Dr. Dunham, at Leipsic, condylomata (figwarts) was dated 1856.—[H. E. K. D.]