A Brief Study Course in Homoeopathy

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Dunhams Lectures on Materia Medica, very lucid.

Hahnemanns Materia Medica Pura, the prime source of the subject, placed late on the list because of the mass of symptoms.

Testes Materia Medica, giving suggestive groupings of the remedies, a unique book.

Allens Encyclopaedia of the Materia Medica, difficult reading because of the mass of material, but invaluable.

Jahrs Manual, which has many symptoms not to be found elsewhere.

When the nosodes are studies. H.C. Allens Materia Medica of the Nosode should be added, and for unusual remedies Kents Lesser Writings, Hales New Remedies, and Anshutzs New, Old and Forgotten Remedies. For those who read German, Stauffers Homoeopathische Arzneimittellehre, as yet untranslated, is a classic.

The student should also read Farringtons Clinical Materia Medica, although it is confusing, and Hughes Manual, or better his Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy. Cowperthwaites Materia Medica, Pierces Plain Talks on Materia Medica with comparisons, Woodburys little Materia Medica for nurses, Rabes Therapeutics, and Bogers Synoptic Key.

The student would do well before finishing his study to outline the emergency uses of each of the remedies and commit them to memory.

As a check to his study he can take the Kent Repertory and run through for the rubrics in which the remedy he is studying appears in the third (highest) degree.

If the student will follow this outline and get the habit of recognizing remedy types in street cars at meeting, wherever he may be, his knowledge will be solid and broad, and his time saved.

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Elizabeth Wright Hubbard
Dr. Elizabeth Wright Hubbard (1896-1967) was born in New York City and later studied with Pierre Schmidt. She subsequently opened a practice in Boston. In 1945 she served as president of the International Hahnemannian Association. From 1959-1961 served at the first woman president of the American Institute of Homeopathy. She also was Editor of the 'Homoeopathic Recorder' the 'Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy' and taught at the AFH postgraduate homeopathic school. She authored A Homeopathy As Art and Science, which included A Brief Study Course in Homeopathy.
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