WHILE THE main purpose of this paper is to make readily available Cullen's introduction to his first (1761) Edinburgh materia medica course, some characteristics of Cullen's teaching, which was possibly the most significant in eighteenth-century British medical education, will also be considered. Cullen's 1761 materia medica course-omitting the introduction-was published in the early 1770s, ini...

Pharmacy which is an art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and Materia Medica gives the names, sources physical characters and chemical properties of herbs or substances used in medicine and their doses have been interwoven connected with medicine from the time immorial. This can be traced back to the findings of ancient Egyptian and Unani Physician like Hippocrates (460-377 B.C) Di...

This discussion delves into the concept of miasms in homoeopathy and their impact on human health. Miasms are dynamic influences that affect vital force or life energy an individual, they can be inherited acquired. Understanding a patient's miasmatic background is crucial homoeopathic prescribing. By matching symptoms with remedy resonates state, homoeopaths aim to stimulate address underlying ...