Excerpt from The Monthly Homoeopathic Review, 1885, Vol. 29 Observe, in the first place, that the principle of drug selection, which was to form the basis of prescribing, was derived from an investigation of recorded instances of drug action on healthy human beings, as seen inter alia in poisonings, and these were compared with histories of cases and diseases which the same drugs had been observed to cure. Secondly, - While by this method of enquiry Hahnemann aimed at the discovery of specifics, it was not specifics for generic forms of disease, but specifics for individual cases of generic forms of disease, that he hoped to obtain. 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.