A complete treatise on headaches and diseases of the head : based on T.J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy : with introductions, appendices, synopses, notes, directions for doses and many additional cases / by John C. Peters.
- John Charles Peters
- Date:
- 1859
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A complete treatise on headaches and diseases of the head : based on T.J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy : with introductions, appendices, synopses, notes, directions for doses and many additional cases / by John C. Peters. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![published in the French, English and American works, and periodicals (see eases, 2, 3, 5, 0, 7. IS. 19, 20. 40, 41. 47, 55, 50, 58, 59, 0], 02, 63, 71, 81, 82, S3. 84. 85, SO, 98, 111, 112 to 114. and 103.) As his remarks are almost entirely clinical, or drawn from bed-side experience, it w od to me to add other indications for the selection and tee of remedies against Headaches, to be drawn princi- pally from their well-known pathogenetic and curative effects. (See Synopsis, page 101. and numerous notes scattered through the body of the work.) Although Ruckert has been as minute in his directions about the size and repetition strict adherence to his authorities would allow, still the publisher requested the addition of still more explicit directions. In the notes on doses, I have mainly followed tho advice and practice of my lamented friend Dr. Noack, late of the Leipzig Homoeopathic Hospital, and of the celebrated Fleisehman, of the Vienna Hospital. Personal opportunities of observing their practice have strongly- prejudiced me in its favour, corroborated as it then was, and now is, by the successful re>uit- of many thousand cases of every variety of disease. [ have also added short articles upon several remedies, viz.: Arum, Carb. veg., Glonoine, Gratioia, Hepar sulph. and Iris versicolor, and regret that time and space would not permit me to allude to a few other w ell established remedies _ ronic and nervous headaches. Thus Riick^rt's valuable, but bald compilation and condensation of cured cases, has been gradually enlarged and modified into a more or less complete treatise on Heada I feel constrained, however, to make a few remarks upon the varieties of pain, which have been met in the course of translation. Everv English and American physician is necessarily surprised at the infinite variety of pains, which the German-, describe so readily; we admit aches and pains in general, make some distinction between constant and intermitting pains, between dull and sharp pains, fixed and shooting- pains, &c, but we know little about the wonderfully numerous, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21147140_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
