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Homeopathic
remedies come from every part of the world and from all the
kingdoms of nature - mineral, vegetable, animal and microbe.
They include strong poisons such as arsenic, the venom of
deadly snakes and the products of disease, as well as harmless
substances like sand and charcoal, and herbs whose healing
properties have been handed down through generations and are
celebrated in history and legend.
Dr Douglas Gibson (1888-1977) was a distinguished homeopath who recognised the importance of knowing the materia medica in depth. These studies of remedies, first published in the British Homeopathic Journal over the period 1963-1977, combine the panorama of each remedy with a faithful description of the mental and physical symptoms it elicits from a sensitive prover. The whole remedy is indeed used to treat the whole patient.
His
studies are edited here for publication in book form. They
differ from any previously published materia medica in the
uniquely wide range of insights that are brought to bear on
each remedy. They will be of great practical value, and a
source of pleasure and stimulation, to the homeopathic clinician.
Dr
Gibson studied medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London, subsequently
taking the Edinburgh FRCS. After many years as a medical missionary
in China he came to study homeopathy at the Royal London Homeopathic
Hospital, where he became first a Member and then a Fellow
of the Faculty of Homeopathy. Dr Marianne Harling and Dr Brian
Kaplan are practising homeopathic doctors.
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