This edition has been updated with a view to the new advancements made in the field of medicine and homeopathic therapeutics. With the advent of new diagnostic tools and techniques medicine has evolved into yet another dimension, which made it necessary to include all the advancements in this edition. But it was done keeping in view the needs of students thereby staying away from unnecessary irrelevant information that just adds to bulk of the book.

This Dictionary contains all the principal words and terminologies used in medicine and the collateral sciences during Hahnemann's time. It also contains an extended appendix on varied topics, arteries, bones, muscles, micro-organisms which are pathogenic to man and animals to name a few. The Appendix is also arranged in alphabetical order. It also includes physician's and veterinary dose table both in the English and Metric measures based upon the U.S. Pharmacopoeia.