The homoeopathic treatment of the diseases of females, and infants at the breast / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated from the French by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1856
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    Vlll PEEFACE. persuaded that all these diseases are no less accessible to internal treatment than many others which were formerly, before they had been successfully treated with Homoeopathic remedies, supposed equally incapable of being removed by internal medicines, we have not omitted a single case without at least indicating the remedies which seemed to us to deserve in preference to others, the attention of the profession in regard to its treatment. The usefulness of the pathological, symptomatological and diagnostic notes, with which we have accompanied each article of our Treatise on Nervous Affections, having been generally appreciated, we have enriched the present work with similar notes, and we have availed ourselves for this purpose not only of what the principal French authors, such as Velpeau, De- sormeaux, Lisfranc, Chailly, Nouvre, Fabre, etc., have pub- lished on this subject, but likewise of what the most celebrated and recent authors in Germany have contributed to the study of these affections. However, since it is not the object of our work to present a nosographical treatise of these mala- dies, but only to furnish therapeutical indications, we have often been obliged, without however omitting any thing of the substance, to content ourselves with furnishing a general statement of the well established facts contained in the works which we have consulted. Among the observations which have been addressed to us concerning some of our previous publications, we find com- plaints from various quarters that the dose of the medicine to be prescribed, has not been indicated. In the present work, we have furnished here and there a few indications in reference to this matter, but rather with a view of preventing the employment of too large doses, than for the purpose of furnishing general rules which are to be followed blindly. It is impossible to indicate the dose in every single case ; one must not have the least idea of the practice of medicine in order to imagine that every affection, notwithstanding its greater or less degree of intensity, has its particular doses which cure all the varieties and forms thereof, no matter how