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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![pulously suitable regimen, an appropriate psychical deportment towards the patient on the part of his friends and physician, by way of an auxiliary mental regimen, must be most carefully observed! To furious mania we must oppose calm intrepidity, and cool, firm resolution—to doleful, querulous lamentation, a mute expression of commiseration—to senseless chat- tering, a silence not wholly inattentive,—to disgusting and abominable behaviour, and to conversation of a similar character, total inattention. We must merely endeavour to prevent the destruction and injury of external objects, without reproaching the patient for his acts, and everything must be arranged in such a way that the necessity for any corporal punishments and tortures^ whatever, may be done ^ It is impossible not to marvel at the hard-heartedness and indis- cretion of the medical men in many establishments for patients of this kind, not only in England, hut also in Germany, who, without attempting to discover the true and only efficacious mode of curing such diseases, which is by homoeopathic medicinal (antipsoric) means, content themselves with torturing those most pitiable of all human beings, with the most violent blows and other painful torments. By this unconscientious and revolting procedure they debase themselves beneath the level of the turnkeys in a house of correction, for the latter inflict such chastisements as the duty devolving on theii’ office, and on criminals only, whilst the former appear, from a humiliating consciousness of their uselessness as physicians, only to vent their [* The cruel and irrational system of treating the unfortunate insane by restraint and coercion is now nearly obsolete in England, but that it still prevails in some parts of Germany, those who have visited that den of wretchedness, the Eisen Thiirm of Vienna, can testify.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21307957_0334.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
