Dr. B. Mure's materia medica

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH AND ARRANGED ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN’S METHOD, BY CHARLES J. HEMPEL, M.D. FELLOW AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HOMŒOPATHIC COLLEGE; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE HAHNEMANN SOCIETY OF LONDON, &C., &C.
NEW-YORK: WILLIAM RADDE, No. 322 BROADWAY, Philadelphia: Rademacher & Sheek.—Boston: Otis Clapp.—St. Louis: J. G. Wesselhoeft.—London: James Epps, 112 Great Russell-Street, Bloomsbury.—Manchester: H. Turner, 41 Piccadilly. 1854.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by WILLIAM RADDE, In the Clerk’s Office, of the District Court, for the Southern District of New-York.
Henry Ludwig, Printer, 45 Vesey-street.

Though the precious metals hidden in the Brazilian soil, may be never so abundant; though the splendor of its precious stones, may be never so brilliant; though the crops which the soil yields to the farmer, may be never so rich: yet there are, in the Brazilian empire, treasures of a far, greater importance, and infinitely more necessary to human happiness. They are the powerful means which this vast country furnishes for the cure of disease.
Previous to Hahnemann’s discovery, we were ignorant of a positive method of determining the use of drugs. We knew that they existed, but we did not know how to use them; and popular experience, more successful than the wisdom of the School, had alone picked up a few stray fragments from the rich harvest which had been abandoned for want of the proper means of gathering. Providence at last permitted Hahnemann and his disciples to discover the method of applying remedies to diseases in a positive and efficacious manner. The dominion of mere palliatives is at an end.—Homœopathy, by attacking the cause of disease, destroys the chronic miasms, which are transmitted from generation to generation; dries up the fountain-heads of epidemic and contagious diseases; enables the infant-body, by a positive hygiene, to resist the deleterious influences to which it might be exposed in the course of its existence; and, by preserving human life, which is the most precious capital of nations and the first element of their greatness, Homœopathy will insure their prosperity, provided they adopt it without reserve.