Volume 1

Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann.

  • Samuel Hahnemann
Date:
1922
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    The disease, if it be acute, and consequently naturally of but short duration, may certainly disappear, even dur¬ ing these heterogeneous attacks on distant and dissimilar parts—but it is not cured. There is nothing that can merit the honorable name of cure in this revolutionary treatment, which has no direct, immediate, pathological relation to the tissues primarily affected. Often, indeed, without these serious attacks on the rest of the organism, would the acute disease have ceased of itself, sooner most likely, with fewer subsequent sufferings and less sacri¬ fice of strength. But neither the mode of operation of the crude natural forces, nor the allopathic copy of that, can for a moment be compared to the dynamic (homoeopathic) treatment, which sustains the strength, while it extinguishes the disease in a direct and rapid manner. ever call that a victory if, in place of attacking the enemy in front in a hand-to-hand fight, and by his destruction terminating at once his hostile assaults, we should, in a cowardly manner and behind his back, lay an embargo on everything, cut off his supplies, burn down everything for a great way round him? By so doing we would at length deprive him of all courage to re¬ sist, but our object is not gained, the enemy is far from being destroyed,—he is still there, and when he can again procure pro¬ visions and supplies, he once more rears his head, more exas¬ perated than before—the enemy, I repeat, is far from being de¬ stroyed, but the poor innocent country is so completely ruined that it will be long before it can recover itself. In like manner acts allopathy in chronic diseases, when, by its indirect attacks on innocent parts at a distance from the seat of the disease, in¬ stead of effecting a cure, it destroys the organism. Such is the result of its hurtful operations!