
New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers
Essays on Forgotten Remedies, Clinical Provings, and Nineteenth-Century Homeopathic PracticeBy VariousLength12h 13m
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New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers is a substantial anthology of therapeutic observation assembled within the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century homeopathic tradition. Its essays recover neglected substances, reassess established remedies, and record cases intended to clarify their characteristic indications, preparation, and clinical use. The book's literary style is practical, testimonial, and implicitly argumentative: individual practitioners write from experience, combining case history with materia-medica description rather than presenting a single systematic theory. In its literary and medical context, the volume belongs to the period's vigorous effort to preserve empirical knowledge while challenging the narrow authority of orthodox pharmacology. The attribution to "Various" is central to the work's purpose. It gathers contributions from numerous physicians and observers, allowing the collective profession—not one dominant authorial voice—to shape its repertory of remedies. The editor's project reflects a period when medical knowledge circulated through journals, societies, provings, and published case reports, and when forgotten treatments could be reclaimed through careful observation. The contributors' diversity gives the volume both documentary value and a revealing portrait of homeopathic culture. Readers interested in the history of medicine, alternative therapeutics, or the development of clinical writing will find this book especially rewarding. It should be approached critically, as a historical artifact rather than a modern medical guide, yet its detailed reports illuminate how practitioners reasoned from symptoms, experience, and tradition. The anthology is recommended to scholars seeking primary evidence of early modern medical pluralism and to general readers curious about the intellectual afterlife of remedies that conventional histories often omit.
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Length12 hrs 13 mins
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Publish dateNov 25, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Henley's Formulas, Recipes and Processes
26CORNUS ALTERNIFOLIA.
2PREFACE.
27CRATÆGUS OXYACANTHA.
3ACALYPHA INDICA.
28CUPHEA VISCOSISSIMA.
4ACIDUM LACTICUM.
29ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA.
5ÆTHIOPS ANTIMONIALIS.
30EPIGEA REPENS.
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6AGAVE AMERICANA.
31ERYNGIUM AQUATICUM.
7AMBROSIA ARTEMISIFOLIA.
32EUPHORBIA COROLLATA.
8AMYGDALUS PERSICA.
33FAGOPYRUM.
9ANAGALIS ARVENSIS.
34FAGUS SYLVATICUS.
10ARSENICUM BROMATUM.
35FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR.
11ASPIDOSPERMINE.[B]
36FUCUS VESICULOSIS.
12AURUM MURIATICUM NATRONATUM.
37GAULTHERIA.
13AVENA SATIVA.
38HELODERMA HORRIDUS.
14AZADIRACHTA INDICA.
39JACARANDA GUALANDAI.
15BACILLINUM, TUBERCULINUM AND AVIAIRE, THE VIRUSES OF TUBERCULOSIS.
40LAC CANINUM.
16BELLIS PERENNIS.
41LAPIS ALBUS.
17BERBERIS AQUIFOLIUM.
42LATRODECTUS MACTANS.
18BLATTA ORIENTALIS.
43Cases of Spider Bite.
19BOLETUS LARICIS.
44LEMNA MINOR.
20CALCAREA RENALIS PRÆPARATA.
45LEVICO.
21CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS.
46LATHYRUS SATIVUS.
22CEPHALANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS.
47LIATRIS SPICATA.
23CEREUS BONPLANDII.
48LOLIUM TEMULENTUM.
24CHEIRANTHUS CHEIRI.
49LYCOPUS VIRGINICUS.
25CHIONANTHUS VIRGINICA.
50MALARIA OFFICINALIS.