Samuel Hahnemann's Organon of homœopathic medicine.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1848
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    Mte. To know Iiow tlio sym])toms are produced by the vital power is unnecessftry for tlio pur- poses of euro. § 12. By the extinction of the totality of the symptoms in the process of cure, the suffering of the vital power, tliat is, the entire morbid affection, inwardly and outwardly, is removed. ... ...... 99 § 13. To presume that disease (nou-chirurgical) is a peculiar and distinct someihing, residing in man, is a conceit, which has rendered allocopathy so pernicious. 100 § 14. Every curable disease is made known to the physician by its symptoms, ih. § 15. The sufferings of the deranged vital power, and the morbid symptoms produced thereby, as an invisible whole, one and the same. . . . ih. § 16. It is only by means of the spiritual influence of a morbific agent, that our spiritual vital power can be diseased; and in like manner, only by the spiritual (dynamic) operation of medicine, that health can be restored. . 101 § 17. The physician has only to remove the totality of the symptoms, and he has cured the entire disease. ......... i6. JVo(el,2. Explanatory examples. § 18. The totality of the symptoms is the sole indication in the choice of the remedy 102 4 19. Changes in the general state, in disease, (symptoms of disease) can be cured in no other way, by medicines, than in so far as the latter possess the power, likewise, of affecting changes in the system. .... ih, § 20. This faculty which medicines have of producing changes in the system, can only be known by observing their effects upon healthy individuals. . 103 4 21. The morbid symptoms which medicines produce in healthy persons are the sole indications of their curative virtues in disease. . . . . ih. 4 22. If experience prove that the medicines which produce symptoms similar to those of the disease, are the therapeutic agents that cure it in the most certain and permanent manner, we ought to select these medicines in the cure of the disease. If, on the contrary, it proves that the most certain and permanent cure is obtained by medicinal substances that produce symptoms directly opposite to those of the disease, then the latter agents ought to be selected for this purpose. 104 JVotc. The use of medicines, whose symptoms bear no peculiar (nflective) relation to the morbid symptoms, but influence the body in a dift'erent way, is the exceptional allmopathic mode of treatment. 4 23. Morbid symptoms that are inveterate cannot be cured by medicinal symptoms of an opposite character (antipatJdc method) ibt 4 24, 25. The homwopathic method, or that which employs medicines pro- ducing symptoms similar to those of the malady, is the only one of which experience proves the certain efficacy. ....... 105 4 26. This is grounded upon the therapeutic law of nature, that a weaker dynamic affection in man is permanently extinguished by one that is similar, of greater intensity, yet of a different origin 106 JVoic. This law applies to physical as well moral affections. 4 27. The curative virtues of medicines depend solely upon the resemblance that their symptoms bear to thoso^of the disease. ih. 4 28,29. Some explanation of this therapeutic law of nature. . . . 107 JVote. Illustration of it. § 30 -33. The human body is much more prone to undergo derangement from the action of medicines than from that of natural disease. .... 108 4 34, 35. The truth of the homa'opathic law is shown by the inefficacy of non-