Volume 1

Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1922
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Credit: Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    induction of Hahnemann, that symptomsimilarity is the curative method of medically curable diseases. Those that pursue other methods have not even the frogs’ legs of Aristophanes to stand upon. Pasteur, perceiving that Jenner’s milder cowpox prevented the appearance of the severer smallpox, conceived the prophylactic treatment of infectious diseases by milder vaccinations with the virus exciting a given infection. Plow did Pasteur prove his conception? He took a number of sheep; vaccinated some of the sheep with a milder prophylactic dose of anthrax virus; then injected into all the sheep anthrax virus in larger dosage sufficient to excite anthrax; all those sheep he had vaccinated previously with the milder prophylactic anthrax virus lived without anthrax; those not vaccinated prophylactically died with anthrax. Pas¬ teur, like the elder and greater Hahnemann, was a scien¬ tific experimenter, not a would-be experimenter. The era of scientific medical experimentation begins with Hahnemann and nobody else. Scientific to the core, Hah¬ nemann experimented scientifically for scientific observa¬ tion. Alert with intellectual power, he conceived his in¬ duction scientifically from scientific observation. Uncom¬ promisingly scientific for experimental verification, he verified his induction scientifically for all time on his patients and made his method of symptomsimilarity for all time the central curative method of scientific medical therapeutics. For over a hundred years this method has been consciously and unconsciously followed by the medi¬ cal profession. The results substantiate Hahnemann’s contentions. There is no greater achievement than to have scientific truth, pass it on, have succeeding genera¬ tions follow it and express it. Hahnemann’s “Organon