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- ↑ Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Review of Fragmenta de viribus of Hahnemann, Vol. 5, July 1809, pp.374-379
- ↑ The Medical Quarterly Review, Review of the Fragmenta de viribus of Hahnemann, (English translation by Dr FHF Quin, 1834, London), Vol. III, October 1835, pp.149-151
- ↑ Rudolf Tischner, History of Homeopathy (trans. L J Boyd), New York: AIH, 1933, p.269
- ↑ Wilhelm Ameke, History of Homœopathy, with an appendix on the present state of University medicine, translated by A. E. Drysdale, edited by Robert Ellis Dudgeon, London: E. Gould & Son, 1885, p.177
- ↑ Robert E Dudgeon, Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Homeopathy, London & Manchester: Henry Turner & Co, 1853, p.181
- ↑ Linn J Boyd, A Study of the Simile in Medicine, Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel, 1936, p.149
- ↑ Tischner, p.395
