Manual of homoeopathic theory and practice : designed for the use of physicians and families / by Arthur Lutze ; translated from the German, with additions by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Lutze, Arthur, 1813-1870.
Date:
[1860]
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Credit: Manual of homoeopathic theory and practice : designed for the use of physicians and families / by Arthur Lutze ; translated from the German, with additions by Charles J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    THE PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT. Dr. Lutze's work on the Theory and Practice of Homoeopathy is the most popular treatise on this science which has yet been published in Europe. No less than sixty thousand copies of this work have been Bold at the present moment. No physician in Europe can boast of a larger and more lucrative practice, or of a arger number of patients of the highest social standing and education than Dr. Lutze. He adheres with the utmost rigidity to Hahnemann's original doctrines, and his practice is crowned with undeniable and, in many respects, unparalleled success. In one particular Dr. Lutze deviates in the treatment of inveterate chronic diseases from the established rule of homoeopathic prac- titioners ; we allude to a combination of remedies. This proceeding is, however, applied only to a few remedies, and then only in chronic maladies. The section where the use of combined drugs is explained, does not form an integral part of this work ; but, in order not to omit any thing of the original text, the publisher has deemed it advisable to insert this section of Lutze's work in this Announcement, together with the letters to and from Hahnemann where the dis- covery of a combination of drugs is sanctioned by the author of Homoeopathy as a legitimate development of the homoeopathic healing art. This innovation, however,