Excerpt from The Sides of the Body, and Drug-Affinities: Homoeopathic Exercises

This gave rise to the publication of the present pages, which are few in number, but full of deep significance, and which it has cost me a great deal of labor to achieve. Any one who will take the trouble to study the characteristic peculiarities of our drugs in the original provings on the healthy, will find, that the records of such peculiarities are exceedingly scanty, and that it is precisely in the provings of our polychrests, which are constantly used in daily practice, that this want of all accurate distinction between the right and left side of the body, although frequent mention is made of semi-lateral ailments, is principally perceptible. In order to increase my materials, and to obtain a confirmation of my statements and data by experience, it became necessary to consult my own cases of cure, as well as those of other practitioners, and to devote a. Considerable deal of time and labor to this business which I could not have accomplished if I had not had carefully-conducted records of diseases to refer to. In spite of all the care and attention which I have bestowed upon this execution of my plan, I am not sure that I may not have committed a mistake or an oversight, especi ally in regard to the remedies that are not much used in the prae tice. As regards the vast majority of my indications, especially as far as the more frequently used remedies are concerned, I believe I can safely say that no errors need be apprehended.

Most drugs having manifested their action more or less on eitherside of the body, both during the proving and during their use in disease, the great question is, on which side this action was more particularly manifest. This distinction as Well as the degrees of this action seemed to me best indicated by different print. The same plan was pursued in my repertories of the anti-psoric and non-anti-psoric drugs, and the public seemed to be pleased with it. For the benefit of those who do not possess these repertories which are partly out of the market, or have been replaced by the later works of J ahr, Mueller, Possart, and others, I will state that I used four different kinds of type.

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