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Hahnemann Recounts the Early Years of His Life
An excerpt of Hahnemann's autobiography in which he recounts the early years of his life, including some forces that shaped him. -
ACONITUM NAPELLUS
(Monkshood.) (The freshly expressed juice of the plant at the time of the commencement of flowering mixed with equal parts of spirits of wine.) Although the following symptoms do not express the whole significance of this most valuable plant, still they reveal to the thoughtful homoeopathic physician a prospect of... -
AMBRA GRISEA
(From vol. vi. 2nd edit., 1827.) (Ambergris, sometimes Ambra ambrasiaca, L ) This substance, often adulterated on account of its high price, we can hope to get genuine only in the first-class drug stores. The true ambergris, developed in the intestines of the sperm whale, as was proved by SCHWEDJAUR,... -
ANGUSTURA
(From vol. vi , 2nd edit.,1827) (The best pieces of the bark of this South American tree, called Bonplandia trifoliata, are about one line in the thickness , slightly bent on their external convex side covered witha greyish- whitish , easily scraped off, fine coating ; traversed by fine transverse... -
ARGENTUM
( From vol.. iv, 2nd edit., 1825.) (Silver.) This metal in its pure state, as leaf-silver (argentum foliatum), from the supposed impossibility of its being dissolved in our juices-an impossibility that has no better basis than theoretical speculation is said by the teachers of materia medica to be just as... -
ARNICA MONTANA
(From vol. i, 3rd edit.) The root of this plant, whose favourite habitat is in shrub-grown upland plains, very soon loses in the air a considerable portion of its odour and of its medicinal power, but it loses most by boiling. Still the freshly prepared powder dried rapidly and thoroughly... -
Arsenicum
(From vol. ii, 3rd edit., 1833.) (The semi-oxyde of metallic arsenic in diluted solution) As I write down the word Arsenic, consideration the most momentous throng upon my mind. When the beneficient Creator made iron he no doubt permitted the children of men to fashion it either into the murderous... -
ASARUM
(From vol. iii, 2nd edit., 1825.) (The spirituous tincture of the dry root of Asarum europaeum or the juice of the whole plant mixed with alcohol.) Even when the ordinary physicicans have taken the trouble, which they but seldom did, to arsenicum by their own experiments the powers of simple... -
AURUM
(From vol. iv, 2nd edit., 1825.) Just as superstition, impure observations, and credulous assumptions have been the source of innumerable falsely ascribed remedial virtues of medicines in the Materia medica; in like manner physicians by their failure to resort to the test of the experimentand by their futile theorizing, have...
