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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![hours, up to the millionfold pulverulent attenuation, and of this one grain is to be dissolved, and brought to the thirtieth development of power by means of twenty-seven attenuating phials, in the same manner as the vegetable juices.^ § CCLXXII. In no case is it requisite to administer more than one single, simple medicinal substance at one time.® § CCLXXIII. It is not conceivable, how the slightest dubiety could exist as to whether it was more consistent with nature and more rational to prescribe a single, well- known medicine at one time in a disease, or a mixture of several ditferently acting drugs. § CCLXXIV. As the true physician finds in simple medicines administered singly and uncombined, all that he can possibly desire, (artificial morbific agents which are * As is still more circumstantially detailed in the prefaces to the medicines in the thii'd edition of the second part of the Pure materia medica [and in the second edition of the Chronic Diseases, pt. L] ^ Some homceopathists have made the experiment, in cases where they deemed one remedy suitable for one portion of the symptoms of a case of disease, and a second for another portion, of administering both remedies at once or almost at once; hut I eaimestly deprecate such hazardous experiments, that can never be necessary, though they may sometimes seem to be of use.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21307957_0381.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
