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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![308 ment,^ and cannot be considered as homoeopathically selected, it must, therefore, either, if the aggravation be considerable, be first neutralized in part, as soon as possible, by an antidote, before giving the next remedy chosen from a more accurate similarity of action, or if the troublesome symptoms be not very violent, the next remedy must be given immediately, in order to take the place of the ill-selected one. of his practice to employ his whole dexterity in diminishing the dose more and more. Hence he latterly employed olfaction veiy fi'equently. For this end he put one or two globules in a small medi- cine pliial containing two draclims of alcohol mixed with an equal quantity of water, which he caused to he inhaled once or twice with each nostril, never oftener. My own wife was cured by him in this manner of a violent pleurisy in the course of five hours. In chronic diseases, happen what might, he never allowed this olfaction to be repeated oftener than once a week, and he gave besides for internal use nothing but plain milk-sugar, and in this manner he efiected the most marvellous cures, even in cases in which the rest of us had been able to do nothing.”] * As aU experience shews that the dose of the specifically suited homoeopathic medicine can scarcely be prepared too small, to effect perceptible amelioration in the disease for which it is appropriate (§ clx, cclxxix), we should act injudiciously and hurtfuUy, were we, when no improvement, or some, though it be even slight, aggi-avation ensues, to repeat or even to increase the dose of the same medicme, as is done in the old system, under the delusion that it was not effica- cious on account of its small quantity (its too small dose). Every aggravation by the production of neiv symptoms—when notliing un- toward has occurred in the mental or physical regimen—invariably proves unsuitableness on the part of the medicine formerly given in the case of disease before us, but never indicates that the dose has been too xveah.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21307957_0365.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
