Materia Medica of the Nosodes Book

An outline of the history of this book, so far as we know it, may be of interest here, and indeed is needed.We have no means of knowing when the work was started, but, judging from the manuscript, it must have been many years ago, for much of the manuscript is old, and bears evidence of frequent revision and correction; of the work of painstaking and conscientious author.Close towards the end of the year 1908 Dr. Allen wrote us that his work was completed, the manuscript had received its final revision, and was ready for the compositor.The contracts were made, the manuscript was sent to the compositor.Several pages of the first section, Adrenalin, were set up and submitted to the author for style of type, and arrangement, passed on by him as being satisfactory, the compositors were told to go ahead with the work, and then when all this was finished, word came of Dr. Allen's death.This threw the responsibility of seeing the work through the press, and the proof reading, on us.How well this work has been performed the reader can judge for himself.We believe it is a good work.Concerning the character of this book, Nosodes, it may be said that Dr. Allen first, last and all the time, regarded these drugs as homœopathic, and not as isopathic, remedies; that they were to be proved as homœopathic remedies and prescribed according to the totality of the symptoms.The preliminary remarks, preceding the drugs treated in this book, tell all that we know concerning the source of the provings.Dr. Allen placed great store by this, his final work, which he, we believe, considered his greatest.Read More