As soon as preliminaries were arranged, and his MSS. placed in our hands, we worked assiduously until the completion of the present volume, which is the fruition of our labors. Its earlier appearance was prevented by other exacting literary work and professional duties that demanded close application.
In respect to the dedication, it will be of interest to note that Dr Hering left the following writing, which is quoted verbatim :
“This third volume is dedicated by the author to
Dr P. P. WELLS,
one of his oldest and dearest friends.
Why was not the first volume dedicated? It had been intended, and was promised, to be dedicated to our gifted
CARROLL DUNHAM,
but he had been called away, and his place remained empty.
Why was the second volume not dedicated? At that time, after the unexpected demand for a second edition of the Condensed Materia Medica, it seemed very uncertain whether an exhaustive work would ever be wanted by the profession; but the demand for our third volume, makes it no longer doubtful.
As this country never forgets pioneers, let our names go together in history, until the time comes when Hahnemann’s will be the predominating medical school.”
As a motto for himself, his co-workers and all others, when he began the third volume, the ceaseless worker wrote
“Individualize! and study our most valuable medicines in their monographies, picking them out here and there for comparison, but not in alphabetical order. Go on in that way, not omitting a day, until Zinc. will roof the building.”
To the marks used in the present volume, we have nothing to add to the explanation given in Volume 1, except that the character
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