The lectures contained in these volumes were delivered by Dr. Dunham while he occupied the chair of Materia Medica in the New-York Homeopathic Medical College.
They have been edited from his note-books, practically verbatim, and are the ripe fruit of his thought and experience,—in his own latest words, "too valuable to be lost."
His wife, now also deceased, made arrange-ments for their publication, hoping thereby to render his labors more available to the profession, and thus promote a chief object of his life,—the benefit of his fellow-men through the development and dissemination of a rational and scientific Therapeutics.