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.
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![xxii. If experience should shew, that by medicines that possess similar symptoms to the disease the latter would be most certainly and permanently cured, we must select for the cure medicines with similar symptoms—but should it shew, that the disease is most certainly and peraanently cured by opposite medicinal symptoms, we must choose for the cure medicines with opposite symptoms. Note,—The employment of medicines, whose symptoms have no real (patho- logical) relation to the symptoms of the disease, but which act on the body in a different manner, is the allopathic method, which is to be rejected, xxiii. By opposite medicinal symptoms (antipathic treatment) persisting symptoms of disease are not cured. xxiv, XXV. The other remaining method of treatment, the homoeopathic, by means of medicines with similar symptoms, is the only one that experience shews to be always serviceable, xxvi. This is dependent on the therapeutic law of nature, that a weak dynamic affection in the living organism is permanently extin- guished by one that is very similar to and stronger than it, only differing from it in kind. Note.—This applies both to physical affections and moral maladies. xxvii. The curative power of medicines, therefore, depends on the symp- toms they have similar to the disease, xxviii, xxix. Attempt to explain this therapeutic law of nature. Note 1.—Illustrations of it. [Note 2.—Later notions on the same subject.] XXX—xxxiii. The human body is much more disposed to let its health be altered by medicinal powers than by natural disease, xxxiv, XXXV. The correctness of the homoeopathic therapeutic law is shewn in the want of success attending every unhomceopathic treat- ment of a long-standing disease, and in this also, that two natural diseases meeting together in the body, if they be dissimilar to each other, do not remove nor cure one another, xxxvi. I. The older disease existing in the body, if it be equally strong or stronger, keeps away from the patient a new, dissimilar disease, xxxvii. Thus, under unhomceopathic treatment that is not violent, chronic diseases remain as they were, xxxviii. II. Or a new, stronger disease, attacking an individual already ill, suppresses, only as long as it lasts, the old disease that is dis- similar to it and akeady existing in the body, but never re- moves it.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21307957_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
