Therapeutic Pointers

Farrington, a protege of Hering, died at the early age of in 1885. This edition was edited by Lilienthal and is comprised of Farrington's lectures to his class at ahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia that were eported phonographically." The material is presented in "family" order. A lecture on Spiders - The Arachnida; A lecture on the Compositae (Arnica, Artemisia, Millefolium, etc); the Umbelliferae; The acids; The Ammonium preparations, etc. In the 72 transcribed lectures, he discusses the topic and then compares the remedies to others - a comparative materia medica. The lecture on Halogens includes a part about Spongia - as it is rich in iodine and shares many symptoms of that group. With the current trend to looking at the "families" of remedies, it is interesting to reexamine this work and see that there is notmuch new, buta lotto be re-discovered.