Translator's preface.

We have generally endeavored to translate the same German word by the same English word, except where words have several meanings. A few particulars may here be mentioned. The frequently recurring adjective drueckend, which by Dr. Hempel is usually rendered with "aching" and by Dr. Dudgeon with "pressive" or with "aching", we have uniformly rendered with pressive ; while we use "ache" to translate the German weh. There are a few words which require a varied translation according to the context : Brust is used both for "chest" and for "the female breast", so that e. g. die rechte Brust may mean either "the right breast" or "the right side of the chest" ; Hals means either "throat" or "neck" ; Schenkel may mean either "the thigh", "the leg" or "the whole lower limb", though for these parts usually the more specific terms Oberschenkel, Unterschenkel and Bein are used ; Gesicht means either "face" or "sight". We have taken care to translate these terms according to the context in every case, though the learned reader will remember that in some of these cases there is a little ambiguity. One of the German terms which seems to have no good English equivalent is Eingenommen with respect to the head. It means literally "occupied" and describes the sensation produced in the head by a cold, where the parts are as it were benumbed and incapacitated from acting freely. Dr. Hempel has usually described this state of the head by "obtusion", Dr. Dudgeon usually by "confusion" or "muddled feeling". We have usually rendered it with "benumbed feeling", though as none of these terms was quite satisfactory, we have also sometimes used "muddled feeling" or "obtuseness".

As was done in the Materia Medica Pura published in London, so we have also in this work printed the names of old school authorities cited with small capitals, while the names of other provers are in italics, so that it may be seen at a glance, whether the symptom was produced by an intentional proving (or from clinical experience), or whether it was the result of accidental poisoning or an overdose by an observer of the old school.

While there seemed to be no necessity for an index to the Antipsoric Medicines, since this is furnished in the various repertories, especially in that of Bœnninghausen, it was thought useful to have an index to the first or theoretical part, and this was accordingly prepared by the translator.

L. H. TAFEL.