Ruoff's repertory of homoeopathic medicine : nosologically arranged / translated from the German by A. Howard Okie, with additions and improvements by Gideon Humphrey.

  • Ruoff, A. J. Friedrich.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Ruoff's repertory of homoeopathic medicine : nosologically arranged / translated from the German by A. Howard Okie, with additions and improvements by Gideon Humphrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. With the design of inculcating the truth, and of diffusing the important benefits of Homoeopathy, the present volume has been translated from the German, and published with additions in the English language. Its aim is to concentrate the practical results of Homoeopathic medicine, in a manner so plain and precise, that every intelligent observer of morbid phenomena, whether within the pale of the medical profession or out of it, may readily avail himself of the experience of the most distinguished practitioners of this system. As a book of reference for the practitioner, it far excels every other work, presenting him at a single glance what he might otherwise seek for amidst a confused mass of records, and never find. The in- defatigable author has drawn his matter from the infallible results of experience; all guess work and hypothesis, which have so long occupied the place of rational induction in the practice of medicine, find no support here. It is time that mere authority in medicine, or the ipse dixit of a public teacher of the healing art, uttered with true professional dignity, but unsup- ported by facts, should be discarded; that the mvs-