An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art / Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time

Professor of General, Special, and Surgical Anatomy, Late Professor of Surgery, Obstetrics, and Diseases Females and Children, in the W. H. College, Author of the Homœopathic Practice of Surgery, &c., &c.
CLEVELAND, OHIO: JOHN HALL, 72 SUPERIOR STREET. CHICAGO, ILL. HALSEY & KING, 162 CLARK STREET. 1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, By B. L. HILL, M. D., In the Clerk's office of the District Court in and for the Northern District of Ohio. Pinkerton & Nevins' Print, Cleveland, O.
In this table I have affixed to the remedies figures designating the dilutions or the attenuations, at which, under ordinary circumstances, I would advise their use. The strongest, or mother tinctures, marked with an apha (0), the dilutions or triturations to be of the decimal degrees of attenuation, are marked 1, 2, 3, &c., to designate that they are to be used at 1-10th, 1-100th, 1-1000th, &c., the strength of the pure drugs.
The list for a full Family Case contains all the remedies recommended in this book for diseases that may be safely trusted to unprofessional hands.
The Traveler's Case needs only such medicines as are prescribed for the diseases which he would be most liable to contract on his journey; though I have put in the principal ones used in domestic practice, so that the Case will do for family use.
The Cholera Case is only supplied with such remedies as are particularly applicable to that disease; useful, however, for many other complaints.

Tr. is used for tincture, Tt. trituration, P. pellets.

This work contains in a condensed form a very large portion of all that is practically useful in the treatment of the diseases ordinarily occurring in this country. The symptoms are given with sufficient minuteness and detail to enable any one of ordinary capacities of observation to distinguish the complaint; and the treatment is so plainly laid down, that no one need make a mistake. If strictly followed, it will, in a very large proportion of cases, effect cures, even when administered by those unacquainted with the medical sciences generally. It has been written from necessity, to meet the demands of community for a more definite work in a concise form, that should contain remedies of the most reliable character, with such directions for their use as can be followed by the traveler on his journey , or by families at home, when no physician is at hand. It might seem to some preposterous to speak of a demand for another domestic Homœopathic Practice, when half a score or more of such works are now extant, some having come out within a very short time. The demand arises, not from the want of Books, but from the defects of those that exist. There is in most of them, too little point and definiteness in the prescriptions, and a kind of vague doubting recommendation noticeable to all, which carries the impression at once to every reader, of a want of confidence by the author in his own directions.