Excerpt from A Manual of Pharmacodynamics This work originally appeared in 1867, as the first part of a Manual of Homoeopathic Practice for students and begin ners.' It was couched in the form of letters to an enquiring friend. A second edition was published in 1870. The addi tions rendered necessary by the progress of knowledge were, for the convenience of those who possessed the volume in its original form, placed between brackets or affixed as notes. 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.