Volume 1

Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann.

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

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    With such false and materialistic views concerning the origin and essential nature of diseases, it was certainly not to be wondered at that in all ages the main endeavor of the most obscure, as well as of the most distinguished practitioners, and even of the inventors of the sublimest medical systems, was always only to separate and expel an imaginary morbific matter, and the indication most frequently laid down was to break up and put in mo¬ tion this morbific matter, to effect its expulsion by saliva¬ tion, expectoration, diaphoresis and diuresis, to purify the blood from (acridities and impurities) morbific mat¬ ters, which never existed, by means of the intelligence of sundry obedient decoctions of root and plants; to draw off mechanically the imaginary matter of disease by se- tons, by issues, by portions of the skin kept open and discharging by means of perpetual blisters or mezereum bark, but chiefly to expel and purge away the materia pec cans, or the injurious matters as they were termed, through the intestines, by means of laxative and purgative medicines, which, in order to give them a more profound meaning and a more prepossessing appearance, were fondly denominated dissolvents and mild aperients—all so many arrangements for the expulsion of inimical morbific matters, which never could be, and never were instrumental in the production and maintenance of the diseases of the human organism, animated as it is by a spiritual principle—of diseases which never were any¬ thing else than spiritual dynamic derangements of the life altered in its sensations and functions. Let it be granted now, what cannot be doubted, that no diseases—if they do not result from the introduction of perfectly indigestible or otherwise injurious substances