Manual of Pharmacodynamics By  Richard HUGHES, MD Based on 60 lectures given in London for the British Homeopathic Society in 1875 and 1876. In addition to symptoms for over 200 remedies, Hughes reveals the original sources of Materia Medica more thoroughly than any other writer. His scholarly approach also covers principles of drug action, philosophy and posology. Dr. Anthony Campbell has written in the British Homeopathic Journal that Hughes is "a writer to be trusted." Printed in India, 962 pages, hardback Dimensions (in inches):  8.70 x 5.70 x 1.50 Minimum Price Books sales rank: 439 This item was not in stock when this catalog was last updated on 8/12/2010. Please tell us if you would like to be notified if/when it becomes available. Let me know when it is available Or for help ordering call 800-663-8272 (from United States and Canada) or 604-597-4757 or email orders@minimum.com

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The book is in form of lectures on the remedies, which are presented in a personal fashion but carefully and succinctly stating the history of the drug source, its use, its abuse, its preparation, etc.

Commentary

A transcription of the lectures on materia medica delivered to his classes in London. Although much of the material in the book concerns the pharmacological action of the remedies, Hughes' scholarship is flawless. He says this work is "in no way a substitute for the materia medica. It is, rather, a guide and companion to it." The back of the book has a remedy index with clinical indications listed. The book was issued by William Radde in 1868, and had its 5th edition in the UK in 1886. George Royal relates that he was told by his preceptor to study Hering's Condensed Materia Medica, but he couldn't make head nor tail of it. He then met Erastus Case who said, "That foolish man! Why did he not give you Hughes' Pharmacodynamics first? Get that and read it through. Then you can appreciate Hering." Although Kent considered Hughes a "skunk" for the emphasis on the pathological symptoms and advocacy of substantial doses, the book by Hughes is one of the best essays in the basics of homeopathic materia medica. However it should be kept in mind that Hughes was concerned with the pathological symptoms seen in the provings and many of our most "characteristic symptoms" we find in discussing remedies today will not be found in Hughes' work. Many of them developed through clinical symptoms after this work was published, and many Hughes would disregard because they are not in the provings. Said Dr. Fornias in the April 1888 issue of The Medical Advance: "It is a book written in elegant, forcible English, well adapted to inveigle or induce our old-school friends to look into the subject...it contains information well to know, but I pity the Homeopathist who goes into the sick-chamber provided only with the limited knowledge of symtomatology which can be obtained from this book." Says H.C. Allen, of the book, "It teaches us how to practice Allopathy with homeopathic remedies. Nothing more. The prescriber is taught to guess both at the pathology of the disease and the pathological action of the remedy, but he can never make an accurate Homeopathic prescription if he follows its teaching. Is it to not be wondered at that 'our old-school friends' are often disappointed?" This commentary is reprinted from The Heritage of Homoeopathic Literature with permission of the author Julian Winston

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