The homoeopathic materia medica : arranged systematically and practically / by A. Teste ; translated from the French and edited by Chas. J. Hempel.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1854
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    INTRODUCTION. The Homoeopathic Materia Medica diners from the Materia Medica of the Old School, particularly in this, that it is susceptible of being constituted as a science, which is, in some respects, independent of the other branches of the healing art; by which is to be understood, that the Homoeopathic Materia Medica contains, within itself, its primary facts or funda- mental principles, its laws of development and practical application, in one word, the reason of its own existence. But, inasmuch as every science necessarily implies the idea of multiple and correlative definitions, or propositions which are methodically developed out of, and therefore depending upon, each other, it is impossible that a science should exist without a system.1 Hence, the Homoeopathic Materia Medica cannot become a science, in the true acceptation of this term, except by first being systematised; otherwise, it would 1 I have defined the term system as follows : A complete series of beings or facts compared amongst each other by their common properties, and disposed, either agreeably to the unchange- able order of nature, or in such a manner as to form the terms of a progression, which can be continued, by the reason, beyond the limits of positive observation.—(Encyclopedia of the XIX. century, article System.)