Plains Talks On Materia Medica With Comparisons by W I PIERCE

The following book gives comparisons of symptoms between the drugs under particular rubrics. This idea was in to induce students to study Materia Medica and repertory. Only those remedies having the symptoms more or less prominent are included. As it was arranged to be of assistance in office prescribing for the general practitioner, symptoms rather than diseased states have been sought for when possible differentiation have been made for the particular symptom or condition referred to.

Allen’s Handbook has been taken, as the guide and otherwise unacknowledged matter is, for the most part, from those sources. When others have elaborated a symptom, or given additional indications for a remedy, acknowledgment is made at the end of such added matter to that the authority can be readily consulted. When the name of the remedy alone is given, it has not been found feasible to state the authority here for such symptoms, but it is given in the materia medica portion of the work.

Many of our most valued indications for a remedy are due to the experience and work of the individual: space is left to record such additional indications as well as for those symptoms that one has raised to a higher grade than that given in our various works.