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This pocket-sized medical dictionary is an essential reference for homeopaths and medical students, providing clear definitions of the principal terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences during the time of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy. Designed for ease of use and historical accuracy, it includes a comprehensive appendix featuring detailed tables of arteries, bones, muscles, nerves, chemical elements, microorganisms, medical signs and symbols. It also offers a physician’s dosage list of drugs with noted incompatibilities and a veterinary dose table, both in English and metric measures, based on the U.S. Pharmacopoeia. Compact yet thorough, this dictionary is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the language of classical medicine and homeopathy.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND INSIDE:-
Besides all the words arranged alphabetically, there are additional appendices having tables of :
- Principal arteries with their origin, distribution and branches.
- Bacteria pathogenic to man and animals, with their synonyms and hosts.
- Bones with their principal features, articulations, variety, as well as muscular and ligamentous attachments.
- Chemical elements with their atomic weight, specific gravity, etc.
- Infestations caused by metazoa as well as protozoa with its hosts.
- Muscles with their origin, insertion, innervation and functions.
- Nerves with their function, origin, distribution and branches.
- Physician’s dose table.
- Veterinary dose table, both in English and metric measures, based upon the U.S. pharmacopoeia.
- Table of weights and measures.
