Originally Published 1902. This work is much more than a revised edition of the Homeopathy Therapeutics, the last edition of which was published in 1878. Dr. Hughes’s experience and skill as a physician, and his thorough acquaintance with all medical literature, has enabled him to produce a work of cyclopaedic character unrivaled in homoeopathic literature. The work is devoted to the homoeopathic treatment of all the diseases in the nosology.
Small doses, then, speaking comparatively, is an essential element of the Homoeopathic method. But that such dosage should be what is known as infinitesimal that it should habitually deal with fractions from millionth upwards to this Homoeopathy does not compel either logically or practically….
All other medical systems had been based upon certain doctrines of life and disease: Hahnemann’s method was utterly independent of them. His whole argument might be conducted, as indeed it is in the first three editions of his work, without any discussion of Physiological and Pathological questions….
He adopted the view that vitality was a “force,” analogous to the physical agencies so called, without which the material organism would lack sensation and functional activity, which animates and energies it during life and leaves it at death….
The etiology and Pathology of the disease were more or less uncertain, and our conceptions of them was liable to vary as new facts came into view. But its clinical features remained….