Farrington's Clinical Materia Medica
Ernest Albert Farrington · 1908 · 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908) · 140 remedies with a page here
Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Ernest Albert Farrington lectured at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, and his method was comparative: remedies are taken in natural groups — the mercuries together, the kalis together — and distinguished from one another as he goes. If you have ever confused two remedies from the same family, this is the book that separates them.
It is substantial: long continuous lectures rather than entries, averaging over eleven thousand characters per remedy.
This is the fourth edition of 1908, revised and enlarged by his son Harvey Farrington and published by Boericke & Tafel.
Reach for this one when: You keep mixing up remedies that belong to the same family or salt.
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140 remedies. Each page carries what this book says, alongside the other public-domain Materia Medicas that cover the same remedy.
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The other books
- Boericke's Homoeopathic Materia Medica — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Allen's Keynotes and Characteristics — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Boger's Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
Source and copyright status. Published 1908: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1885). Reproduced as the author wrote it. This is a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.