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Narrative style book. Discusses the therapeutics of a variety of diseases. Based on the lectures the author gave to his students. A course of lectures. Includes the knowledge of life, health, disease and medicines. Also has chapters on pyrexia and the antipyretics, rheumatism and the anti-rheumatics, cerebral localization and pharmacodynamics.
The four volumes contain records of all proving done to date. Hughes believed that Allen's Encyclopedia had several faults, among them poor translations of the proving and admitting all published provings without checking their veracity. This latter issue was quite touchy since several years earlier a German physician, C.W. Fickel, had published (to enhance his reputation) several provings that were pure inventions. He had published under several pseudonyms ...