Jahr's and Possart's new manual of the homoeopathic materia medica : arranged with reference to well authenticated observations at the sick bed, and accompanied by an alphabetical repertory, to facilitate and secure the selection of a suitable remedy in any given case.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Jahr's and Possart's new manual of the homoeopathic materia medica : arranged with reference to well authenticated observations at the sick bed, and accompanied by an alphabetical repertory, to facilitate and secure the selection of a suitable remedy in any given case. 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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    edition of the work would not only be increased but also improved. In future editions the object of this work will therefore be to offer a carefully-selected digest of the symptoms which shall be progressively elicited by every new proving; to separate the wheat from the chaff, and not to crowd into the work the frightful mass of rubbish which the builders of the homoeopathic ma- teria medica may be pleased to accumulate. In regard to the technical arrangement of the mate- rials, I have not made any alterations in the common mode of distributing and printing the text; the cura- tive and purely pathogenetic symptoms have been dis- tinguished in this work by the same signs, as in the Symptomen-Oodex. Hence symptoms marked with a cypher (°) indicate purely curative symptoms; those marked with an asterisk (*), mean such symptoms as are at the same time curative and pathogenetic; symp- toms without any sign, are symptoms such as have not as }^et been confirmed in practice; and a dash (—) in- dicates the limit of the preceding sign. I have more- over enriched the pathogenesis of every drug with many practical facts, and have added eight new reme- dies, which are not to be found in the Symptomen- Codex. These are: Argentum nitricitm, Aurum muria- ticum, Bromurn, Chlorum, Fluoris acidum, Kali bichroma- ticum, Nux juylans, Sanguinaria. The following reme- dies, which are not contained in the second edition of this manual, but are to be found in the Symptomen- Codex, have likewise been added to the fourth edition : Baryta muriatica, Calcarea phosphorica, Chininum sul- phuricum, Crotalus, Daphne iridica, Ferrum muriaticum, Kreasotum, and Lachesis (both of which have been en- larged), Lactuca virosa, Mephitis putorius and Prunns spinosa. On the other hand, the following drugs, the pathogenesis of which is as yet too little known, or which are only known to us ex urn in mortis, have been expunged from the present edition : Aethusa, Ani-