Therapeutics founded upon organopathy and antipraxy / by William Sharp.
- William Sharp
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Therapeutics founded upon organopathy and antipraxy / by William Sharp. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![No great and perfect work is ever accomplished at a single effort, or receives its final polish from one instru-. ment. The conspicuous defects of Hahnemann's system are:— I. THE VAGUENESS OF THE PRINCIPLE. Hahnemann's principle is thus expressed5'm?7za similihus curanturYikes, are cured by likes. In a certain sense it is the opposite of Galen's principle:— Contraria contrariis curantur —« contraries are cured by contraries. This latter, it is well known, governed medical men and their practice for thirteen hundred years; and which is still, though without much acknow- ledgment, obeyed to some extent. Hahnemann has given, at different times, various accounts of what he understands of this principle; the following is taken from the last edition of the « Organon, which, according to Dr. Dudgeon, contains the prLcfpIes of his doctrine in their most perfect and matured state:— XXV. In all careful researches, pure experience the only, the infallible oracle of ]\fedicine, teaches us' that actually that medicine, which in its action on th' healthy human body, has demonstrated its power of pro- ducing the greatest number of symptoms similar to tliose observable in the case of disease under treatment, does also, in doses of suitable potency and attenuation, rapidly radically, and permanently remove the collective synip' toms of this morbid state, that is, the whole disease present, and change it into health, and tliat all medicines e](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21446210_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
