The homœopathic treatment of syphilis, gonorrhœa, spermatorrhœa, and urinary diseases

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Preface To The First English Edition

The acknowledged want of a Homoeopathic treatise on Urinary and Syphilitic Diseases has induced me to compile the present volume from the few authorities (homoeopathic) who have given the results of their experience to the world. I have endeavored to render the descriptions and treatment of the diseases as concise and as intelligible as possible, without being obscure, and have consequently rejected (as much as possible) the use of technical phraseology, which is. in treatises of this kind, almost unavoidable.

The principal authors to whom I am indebted for much of the practical information, are Drs. Laurie, of London; Gollmann, of Vienna; and Humphrey, of Philadelphia, U. S,; to whom I tender my best acknowledgments.

J. Ph. Berjeau.

London, December, 1856.

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Preface

TO THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

Having been requested to revise Dr. Berjeau's excellent treatise, for republication in this country, it is proper to mention the alterations and additions which have been made to the Second English Edition.

[The principal additions made by the American Editor will be found enclosed in brackets, like this sentence.]

The repeated dose-directions have been omitted as unnecessary, and the whole work condensed in various ways (without omitting anything else), in order to introduce new matter, and, at the same time, avoid increasing too much the size of the book, or enhancing its price.

The full discussion of the dose, added by the Editor, will, it is believed, be found to contain directions amply sufficient for the junior practitioner. Those more experienced will need no such guidance.

The treatment of acute and chronic Gonorrhoea, as well in the female as in the male, and of Gleet, has been much more fully set forth. Here will now be found,

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in addition to the system advised by our author, the various methods recommended by particular physicians of eminence; and also that which corresponds with our own experience, and which is believed to be most strictly in accordance with Homoeopathic principles. We refer here more especially to what we have said of intercurrent anti-psoric treatment in venereal cases.

The entire chapter on Venereal Rheumatism has been added to the work in this edition. Important additions will be found under Condylomata; Hematuria; Orchitis; Prostatitis; Chancre, and numerous other headings.

Similar additions also appear, in connection with Syphilis, and Syphilitic disorders. And in every part of the work numerous minute additions occur, — which it would not have been deemed worth while to enclose in brackets, but from an unwillingness to make the Author responsible for what he had not_ written.

The chapter on Cerebrospinal Meningitis, originally published in the fourth volume of the Hahnemannian Monthly, has been inserted as necessary to cover the vacant ground between the Spinal Irritation, and Tabes Dorsalis of Berjeau.

Some important New Remedies have also been introduced ; such as Copaiba and Occimum canum, in Hematuria and Renal Colic; Tussilago petasites, in Gonorrhoea ; Nat mur. and Mezereum, in Gleet ; Euphrasia, Nitric acid, and Sabina, in Condylomata; and Jacaranda caroba and Phytolacca decandra, in Syphilis.

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From the larger work of Jahr (translated, with additions, by Dr. Hempel) many important items have been gleaned. From Professor Heme's Pathology and Therapeutics w r e have taken some valuable indications. Some interesting matter has also been derived from American Horn. Periodical Literature — neither of these three sources having been accessible to Berjeau in preparing the work; and while we have thus sought in all directions for w T hatever would tend to enhance the practical utility of the present edition, or to confirm the treatment recommended, due credit has been given in every instance. And in regard to what we have ourselves advised, it is proper to state, that the conclusions we have reached on the subjects contained in the present work, and the corresponding suggestions which it offers, are the results of twenty years' experience in our own practice, and of a still larger observation of that of others.

J. H. P. Feost, M.D.

Bethlehem, Pa., July, 1869.