HULL’S JAIIE: A NEW MANUAL OF HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE. FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION. EDITED, WITH ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS, BY FREDERICK G. SPELLING, M.D. R E P E R T Mr PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM RADDE, 300 BROADWAY. Wm. Raddr, 635 Arch-street, Philadelphia.—Otis Claw. Boston.—R. St H T.hytif.s, M. D., St Louis.—Halsey St King, Chicago.— J. M. Pakks, M. D., Cincinnati.—John B. Hall, Cleveland.—Bali.iere, 219 Regent-street, and Henry Turner & Co., 71 Fleet street, Lou- don.—H. Toener & Co., 41 Picadilly, and 15 Market-street, Manchester, England. 1 8 6 2. Entered according te Act of Congress, in the yeai 1861, by "WILLIAM EADDE, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. HE2SRY LUDWIG, Printer and Stereotyper, 39 & 41 Centre-street. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION. This day brings to a close the labor of many months, and, as the last pages of this volume are passing through my hands, I desire to say a few words in regard to the scope and aim of my undertaking. A work of such universal necessity and prime impor- tance to the homoeopathic physician as our Manual of Symptomatology, of course is in constant and daily de- mand ; and, when it was found that the last edition was exhausted, and the work out of print, it became a matter of no small moment to have a new edition prepared as promptly as practicable. But, as many new remedies and a vast amount of clinical experience had accumu- lated since the former edition, it was judged advisable to embody as much as was valuable of this in the forth- coming edition, but without encroaching upon or mu- tilating the original text, except where it was found ab- solutely faulty or erroneous. In this way, therefore, there have been added twenty-six new remedies and some two hundred pages of new clinical experience, some of which relates to the new remedies introduced, and some to the older remedies which have been long in use. Wherever it was practicable, also, a succinct resume of the rationale of the action of each remedy was given—showing its ge- neral sphere of action, the rationale of its operation, and 3 4 PREFACE. its actions on s]3ecific parts or organs : a most important addition, tlie utility of which can only be fairly under- stood by an attentive perusal. This, the second volume, however, was found to be so full and complete in every particular that it was difficult to find anything demanding much alteration or addition. All the chapters were so full and well digested in their several ways—new suggestions and indications as to re- medies were so completely forestalled—that the editor was forced to content himself with adding such new remedies as have come into use since the last edition, and cor- recting any errors which had unavoidably crept into the former edition. It is hoped that the general efficiency and usefulness of the whole work will be manifestly in- creased. At all events, no labor has been spared to make it what it should be, and to bring it down to the period o£ the present day. And here I cannot withhold a tribute of admiration to those who have devoted themselves so earnestly and so worthily to the advancement of homoeopathic literature, both in this and kindred works. The names of Jahk, Hull, Peters, Guernsey, Hering, and Hemuel are inse- parably connected with our literature, and must ever "be gratefully regarded by us who are reaping the benefits of their labors. In fact, when one looks back at the position of homoeopathy thirty years ago, and then at its position at the present moment, one cannot but own a sense of the deepest obligation to those who have so manfully asserted its claims, and withstood the odium of an unpopular cause. To such men as Gram, Gray, Hull, Yanderburg, Peters —men whose learning and social position gave dignity to the cause they espoused—are due its present honorable and enviable position. They have redeemed our system from obloquy, and have elevated it to the dignity of a science; they have given us a position honorable in the eyes of the world and creditable to ourselves. We have colleges, clinics, hospitals, and dispensaries, where before we were denied these advantages, and cut oft' from the simplest medical courtesy ; we are now a large and power- ful sect, holding the confidence of the community and pro- tected by law, where we were once but a handful of neglected and unregarded theorists. The firm, steadfast, and manly front presented by the pioneers we have named to the encroachments of our opponents in the past, gave stability to our foothold; while the labors of acute and forcible writers were spreading the tenets of homoeopathy far and wide, and carrying a knowledge of them into every household. But to few men in the modern school of medicine are we more indebted than to Peteks ; for his solid attainments and unwearying industry in the cause of science have extorted an involuntary respect even from the bitterest of our opponents. His quiet, rational, manly, and scientific exposition of his views has gone far to im- press upon the opposite school a respect for our tenets and personal consideration for our members. “Honor to whom honor is due!” preface 5 20 Ear Thirteenth Strhhi, April 8, 1861. WILLIAM RADDE, anti §00liselltrt Mfl §r0