HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICINES, 



THEIR MODE OF PREPARATION; THEIR CURATIVE SELEC- 

 TION; THE DOSE OR POTENCY, AND THE MANNER OF 

 THEIR ADMINISTRATION, BRIEFLY EXPLAINED. 



Homoeopathic Medicines. 



The homoeopathic " Materia Medica " contains at the 

 present time from 260 to 270 medicinal preparations ; 

 the greater number of these have been faithfully proved 

 on man, woman, and child, while in a state of health, 

 in order to ascertain the pathogenetic and specific pro- 

 perties of each drug, others have been but partially 

 proved, and hold a place in its pages on empirical 

 ground* 



Homosopathic medicines are prepared and kept in the 

 form of Tinctures, Triturations, Pilules, and Globules; a 

 few in ether and glycerine, such as the snake poisons. 



The tinctures are chiefly derived from the vegetable 

 ami animal kingdoms ; known as expressed juice, mother 

 tincture, or matrix tincture, the symbol of which is the 

 Greek ^>. 



From these tinctures the various dilutions or potencies 

 are prepared ; and the higher we ascend in the scale of 

 dilution the further we depart from the crude substance, 

 \vhich accounts for the non-poisonous, and consequently 

 nun injurious properties of homoeopathically prepared 

 medicines; but they nevertheless retain medicinal 



