The principles and practice of homoeopathy.

  • Hughes, Richard, 1836-1902.
Date:
1902
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    seemed to him to be of any practical value and of homoeopathic character. As the experience of no single physician could extend to all diseases, Dr. Hughes has been careful to give that of others who have had the opportunity of observing and treating diseases which had been denied to himself. Thus the book will be found to be a complete survey of all that is known up to the date of its publication about diseases and their rational homoeopathic treatment. I may be permitted here to correct an erroneous impression entertained by Dr. Hughes {v. p. 17, note) with regard to a Greek quotation made by Hahnemann in his Medicine of Experience. The translation which was adopted by me in the Lesser Writings erroneously ascribed the words to Gregory the Great, whereas Hahnemann in the original correctly at- tributes them to Gregory Nazianzen. Of course, I am to blame for passing this undoubted press error when I included the translation in my collection, so no blame can be attached to Hahnemann for the substitution by the translator of Greg. Mag. for Hahnemann's Greg. Naz. Possibly few will care whether a Greek saying came from Pope Gregory the Great, who, though he is credited with the conversion of Britain to Christianity, probably only wrote in Latin, or to the Nazianzen Gregory, who, though a saint like the other, was never a pope, but only a bishop, and probably knew no language but Greek; but I am unwilling that any slur should be put on Hahnemann's reputation for classical knowledge, which has hitherto never been truthfully impugned. R. E. Dudgeon. London, June, 1902.