Homoeopathy is a system of drug therapy, a set of rules governing the administration of drugs to sick people. These rules enable the physician to understand the patients illness and to prescribe the drug which will act curatively. The homoeopathic rules were developed by following procedures of scientific method, and homoeopathy is, therefore, a scientific form of drug therapeutics. Since a scientific truth is universal, homoeopathy claims universality for its rules of drug use and, except in comparatively few instances, does not view the prescription of drugs on other principles as beneficial to the patient. This essay sets forth the homoeopathic rules and indicates why they are scientific, why homoeopathic medicine is "scientific medicine." An exposition of these rules necessarily involves reference to the prevailing orthodox system of medical practice (which in the homoeopathic literature is called "allopathy"), ans we will proceed essentially by way of a contrast between the homoeopathic rules and principles and those accepted in the allopathic practice of medicine.

Homoeopathic Medicine

Harris L. Coulter

Formur Intl.

Homoeopathic Science and Modern Medicine

Health, Fitness & Dieting

North Atlantic Books

Divided Legacy (Vols. I-IV) is a history of Western medical philosophy from the time of Hippocrates to the twentieth century, treating it as a unified system of thought rather than a series of fortuitous discovers. Dr. Coulter interprets the development of medical ideas as the product of a conflict between two opposed systems of thought, Empiricism and Rationalism. This third volume of Divided Legacy continues the account of the conflict between the Empirical and the Rationalist approaches to therapeutics but introduces a socio-economic dimension which had earlier been lacking. In the early nineteenth century, Samuel Hahnemann’s formulation of the Empirical therapeutic doctrine, which he called homeopathy. It flourished especially in the United States. This volume traces the history of the rise and decline of this formulation of Empirical therapeutics in the nineteenth century United States. It analyzes the interaction between the homeopathic doctrines and those of the orthodox school and attempts to illustrate the influence of socio-economic constraints on the movement of medical thought during this period.

Divided Legacy, Volume III: Science and Ethics in American Medicine

Alternative Medicine

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Harris L. Coulter. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Harris L. Coulter