Mainly a 19th century medical manual written for the purpose of teaching students, with some remedy information.

Comments by author and historian Julian Winston:
'When I was called upon to lecture on special pathology and diagnostics about four years ago, I looked around for a work which would furnish the essential points of these branches of medical education, together with homeopathic therapeutics, in a concise manner and up to the latest researches; but I looked in vain. I was obliged to prepare my own material.' This is the text that Raue used with his classes at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. It was reprinted in 1881 with 1072 pages, in 1885 with 1094 pages and again in 1898 with 1039 pages.