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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![portion of the diluted fluid shall have received pro- portionally the same quantity of medicine as all the rest; for in the latter case the mixture has gained much more medicinal .power than in the former. From this every one will be able to draw his own inferences, as to how homoeopathic medicinal doses should be prepared if it is wished to diminish their medicinal action as much as possible, in order to suit the most sensitive patients,^ § CCLXXXVIII. The action of medicines in the liquid form^ upon the living human body takes place in such a penetra- ting manner, spreads out from the point of the sensitive attenuation that its development of power shall remain moderate. A more exact description of this process will he found in the prefaces of the thud edition of the second part of the Pure Materia Medica, 1833 [and in the first part of the second edition of the Chronic Diseases, 1835]. ^ The higher we cany the attenuations accompanied by dynamiza- tion'(hy two succussion-strokes), with so much the more rapid and penetrating action does the preparation seem to afiect the vital force and to alter the health, with hut slight diminution of strength even when this operation is carried veiy far,—in place, as is usual (and generally sufficient) to X, when it is carried up to XX, L, C, and higher; only that then the action always appears to last a shorter time. ^ It is especially in the form of vapour, by smelling and inhaling the medicinal aura that is always emanating from a globule, impreg- nated with a medicinal fluid in a high development of power, and placed, dry, in a small phial, that the homoeopathic remedies act most surely and most powerfully. The homoeopathic physician allows the patient to hold the open mouth of the phial first in one nostril, and in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21307957_0395.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
