HOW TO PRACTISE HOMEOPATHY.

1. Necessary Implements.
2. Comparative Value of Symptoms. The Prescriber and Clinical Repertory. Cases in point.
3. The Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica.
4. Bœnninghausen's Pocket Book.
5. The Scope of Clinical Repertories.
6. Kinds and Degrees of Similarity.
7. Hahnemann's Doctrine of Chronic Diseases.
8. The Genius Epidemicus.
9. The Homœopathic Materia Medica.
10. Symptom Repertories.
11. Various Materia Medicas.

THE completion of my Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and of its Clinical Repertory since the sixth edition of The Prescriber appeared, enables me to give more full directions to my readers than I could before as to the best way to approach the study and practice of homœopathy. I have therefore decided to add to the former introductory portion of The Prescriber a separate essay, which I think will prove useful alike to the student who is desirous of acquiring the homœopathic art and to the practitioner who has had to be content hitherto with fragmentary implements.

The Prescriber was originally designed to put into convenient and accessible shape all the more salient indications for the use of homœopathic remedies from the clinical point of view. This is the approach which naturally first invites those who have been drilled in the practice of the ordinary schools. But homœopathy can never be properly practised by means of a clinical Index or Repertory (such as The Prescriber is in essence) unaided by other works. The homœopath must have his foundation authority always ready for instant reference. This authority is the Homœopathic Materia Medica.

It is of the greatest importance that a clear conception should be formed at the outset as to what the Homœopathic Materia Medica is. It is so unlike anything known as Materia Medica in the old school, that it is a pity, as I have pointed out below, that a different name could not have been found for it. The homœopathic materia medica consists of a Register of Symptoms. It is the Semiology of Drugs. For the practice of homœopathy we must know the symptoms which each drug has produced, and we must have these so arranged that they can be found instantly for any required region of the body. Hahnemann arranged them, for each of the remedies he tested, in a definite anatomical order, and this arrangement is the foundation of the order in which the symptoms are given in all works on the subject compiled since his day. This is named technically in homeopathy "The Hahnemannian Schema."

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