Excerpt from The American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Neither of these, however, is exactly adapted to meet the requirements of the practitioners in this country for various reasons. The former adopts the innovation of prescribing that the tinctures should contain in ten parts the soluble matter of one part of the dry plant. This rule if adopted, would necessitate a careful drying of all fresh plants in order to calculate their percentage of water. This, in our estima tion, would needlessly complicate the process, it looks well enough in theory but is tedious and difficult of practical exe cution. In other respects this is a work of great merit and bears evidence of very careful preparation and of high schol arship. In Dr. Schwabe's Polyglotts on the other hand the rules laid down by Hahncmann for the preparation of the remedies are closely followed, and remedies introduced after his time are brought under the same rules as far as practica ble; however, no descriptions of plants are given, or of the chemical processes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.