Excerpt from The Prescriber: A Dictionary of the New Therapeutics
Through the courtesy of Messrs. Kenne & Ashwell, my English publishers, I have been enabled to comply with the request of Messrs. Boericke & Tafel to prepare an edition of the Prescriber for publication in the United States. The present volume is the outcome of my revision of the fourth English edition which appeared in 1893. Without altering the scope of the work, I have added to it such matter as later experience and later reading have suggested, and I think it will be found to be well up to date and to include references to all the newer remedies that have stood the test of experience.
I must ask my readers to be kind enough to read with care those portions of my Preface to the Third Edition, which I shall quote below, in order that may understand clearly my aim. When I commenced to practise Homoeopathy, now more than twenty years ago, there was no pocket companion of this kind; and the textbooks on homoeopathic therapeutics gave little help in the matter of attenuation, dose and how often to repeat - the very points most wanted by a novice. One of my objects in writing this book was to supply these details.
But the last thing I desire is to be dogmatic - except in so far as dogmatism can help a beginner. And as many hom?pathists, who are anything but beginners, have been good enough to say they have found The Prescribes useful, I wish it to be understood that my directions as to dose, etc., are not intended to supersede the teachings of individual experience.
I may add that many practitioners have
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