Characteristic indications of prominent remedies : for the use of students of materia medica and therapeutics / by W.J. Hawkes, M.D.

  • Hawkes, William James.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Characteristic indications of prominent remedies : for the use of students of materia medica and therapeutics / by W.J. Hawkes, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    My motive for publishing this little book is to help students of Materia Medica, by selecting a few of the most characteristic symptoms of the more prominent remedies. In my own experience and practice, I am free to say, this plan of committing to memory such as may be called key-note symptoms, and associat- ing them in my mind with the medicines to which they belong, has been the chief source of such success as I may have had in curing the sick. The students in the college class are required to thus commit them; and as a result it is rare that a majority of each graduating class does not promptly select the right remedy for a given case in the med- ical clinic. The possession, in a useful shape in their minds, of thus much positive and valuable knowledge gives them a good start and needed courage. A very large proportion of the symptoms herein given I have myself verified. The remainder are given on good authority. No claim is made of originality, not even of expression. I have given the symptoms very often in the language of the authors from whose works they have been selected. W. J. H.