The Materia Medica of the Nosodes. By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D. – Presented and arranged by Dr Robert Séror

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The Materia
Medica of the Nosodes.
By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D.
Author of THERAPEUTICS OF FEVERS, KEYNOTES
AND CHARACTERISTICS, AND BŒNNINGHAUSEN’S REPERTORY (Slips).

Presented and arranged by Dr
Robert Séror.

IN MEMORIUM.

Dr.
Henry C. Allen
was born [on February 10,
1836]
in the village of Nilestown, near London, Ontario, and was the son of
Hugh and Martha Billings Allen.

On his paternal side, he was a descendant of
that distinguished family of Vermonters of the same name, Gen. Ira

Allen
and Ethan Allen,
both famous in the revolution.

On his maternal side, the Billings’ were well
known among the Colonial families of Massachusetts Bay, and one of
them, the great-grand-father of Dr.

Allen,
owned the farm lands on which the present city of Salem is built.

After selling this property, the family moved to
Deerfield, in the Connecticut Valley and were there at the time the
Indians pillaged and ravaged that part of the country.

He received his early education in the common
and grammar schools at London, where he later taught school for a
time.

His medical education was acquired at the
Western Homeopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio (now the Cleveland
Homeopathic College), where he graduated in

1861,
and later from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Shortly after graduation, he entered the Union Army, serving as a
surgeon under General Grant.

After the war he was offered and accepted the
professorship on Anatomy in his Alma Mater at Cleveland, and it was
here that he first started practicing medicine. Later he resigned and
accepted the same chair in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago.

In

1868
he was offered the Chair of Surgery to succeed Dr. Beebe, but was
unable to accept. He then located in Brantford, Ontario, where on
December 24th,
1867,
he married Selina Louise Goold, who, with his two children, Franklin
Lyman Allen
and Helen Marian Allen
Aird, survives him.

In

1875
he moved to Detroit, Michigan, and in 1880,
being appointed Professor of Materia Medica at the University of
Michigan, he moved to Ann Arbor, where he has since resided.

In

1892
he founded the Hering Medical College and Hospital, of which he was
Dean and Professor of Materia Medica until his death, January 22nd,
1909.

Dr.

Allen
was an honorable senior of the American Institute of Homeopathy ; a
number of the International Hahnemannian Association ; of the Illinois
Homeopathic Medical Association ; of the Englewood Homeopathic Medical
Society ; of the Regular Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago ;
Honorary Vice-President of the Cooper Club of London, England ; and
Honorary Member of the Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio State
Medical Societies and Honorary Member of the Homeopathic Society of
Calcutta, India.

He was owner and editor of the

Medical
Advance for
many years.

Besides writing many articles in this and other
magazines he wrote numerous books, among which are the following :

Keynotes
of Leading Remedies, lately
placed on the Council List of
Books for use in the
Canadian Medical Colleges ; The
Homeopathic Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever, The Homeopathic
Therapeutics of Fevers, Therapeutics of Tuberculous Affections, and
recently completed the revision of Bœnninghausen’s Slip
Repertory, which
he brought down to date and arranged for rapid and practical work.

This, his latest work, a treatise on the
Nosodes, was completed only a short time before his death, and was the
result of years of study, experience, and of proving and confirming
the symptomatology of many of the nosodes.

His observations are here published for the
first time.

Franklin Lyman Allen

PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE.

It is with deep regret that the publishers are
compelled to offer a preface of their own to this great work instead
of one by the author, which intervening death prevented.

An outline of the history of this book, so far
as we know it, may be of interest here, and indeed is needed.

We have no means of knowing when the work was
started, but, judging from the manuscript, it must have been many
years ago, for much of the manuscript is old, and bears evidence of
frequent revision and correction ; of the work of painstaking and
conscientious author.

Close towards the end of the year

1908
Dr. Allen wrote us that his work was completed, the manuscript had
received its final revision, and was ready for the compositor.

The contracts were made, the manuscript was sent
to the compositor.

Several pages of the first section,

Adrenalin,
were set up and submitted to the author for style of type, and
arrangement, passed on by him as being satisfactory, the compositors
were told to go ahead with the work, and then when all this was
finished, word came of Dr. Allen’s death.

This threw the responsibility of seeing the work
through the press, and the proof reading, on us.

How well this work has been performed the reader
can judge for himself.

We believe it is a good work.

Concerning the character of this book, Nosodes,
it may be said that Dr. Allen first, last and all the time, regarded
these drugs as homœopathic, and not as isopathic, remedies ;
that they were to be proved as homœopathic remedies and prescribed
according to the totality of the symptoms.

The preliminary remarks, preceding the drugs
treated in this book, tell all that we know concerning the source of
the provings.

Dr. Allen placed great store by this, his final
work, which he, we believe, considered his greatest.

THE PUBLISHERS. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan.

14,
1910

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