Organon of medicine / by Samuel Hahnemann ; translated from the fifth German edition, by R. E. Dudgeon.
- Hahnemann, Samuel Christian Friedrich, 1755-1843.
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Organon of medicine / by Samuel Hahnemann ; translated from the fifth German edition, by R. E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![§ CXI. TKe agreement of my observations on the pure effects of medicines with these older ones—although they were recorded without reference to any therapeutic object—and even the concordance of these accounts with others of the same kind by different authors, must at once convince us that medicinal substances act, in the morbid changes they produce in the healthy human body, according to fixed, eternal laws of nature, and by virtue of these are enabled to produce certain, trustworthy morbid symptoms, each according to its own peculiar character. § CXII. In those older descriptions of the often dangerous effects of medicines ingested in such excessively large doses, we notice certain states that were produced, not at the commencement but towards the termination of those sad events, and which were of an exactly opposite nature to those that first appeared. These symptoms, the very reverse of the primary action (§ Ixiii) or proper action of the medicines on the vital force, are the re-action of the vital force of the organism, its secondary action (§ Ixii—Ixvii) of which there is seldom or never the least trace from experi- ments with moderate doses on healthy bodies, and from small doses none whatever. In the homoeo- of my Heine Arzneimiitellelire. [Translated in the Brit. Jour, of Homoeopathy, vol. vi. pp. 261, 424.] P](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21307957_0267.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
