Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann ; translated from the fifth edition, with an appendix, by R.E. Dudgeon.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843. Organon der rationellen Heilkunde. English
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1893
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Credit: Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann ; translated from the fifth edition, with an appendix, by R.E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    derivatives, &C.,1 and thus at a sacrifice of the patient’s strength, inducing a morbid state quite heterogeneous and dissimilar to the original one, to the ruin of his constitu- tion, by large doses of mixtures of medicines generally of unknown qualities, the employment of which can have no other result, as is demonstrated by the eternal laws of nature in the above and all other cases /in the world in which a dissimilar disease is adde/ to the other in the human organism, for a cure is never thereby effected in diseases, but an aggravation is tjie invariable consequence,—therefore it can have no oth</ result than that either (because, according to the process of nature described in I, the older disease in the/body repels the dissimilar one wherewith the patient is assailed) the natural disease remains as it was, qnder mild allopathic treatment, be it ever so long continued, the patient being thereby weakened; or (because, Recording to the process of nature described in II, the /ew and stronger disease merely obscures and suspends for a short time the original weaker dissimilar ofie), by the violent attack on the body with strong /llopathic drugs, the original disease seems to yield pSv a time, to return in at least all its former strengt/; or (because, according to the process of nature described in III, two dissimilar dis- eases, when both are of a chronic character and of equal strength, take up a position beside one another in the organism and complicate each other) in those cases in which the physician employs for a long time morbific Kite and dissimilar to the natural chronic. allopathic medicines in large doses, such atment, without ever being able to remove tie original (dissimilar) chronic disease, only artificial diseases beside it; and, as daily lows, only renders the patient much worse arable than before/0') 1 Vide supra in the Introduction: A Review of the Therapeutics, tyc., and my hook, Die Allöopathie, ein Wort der Warnung für Kranke jeder Art, Leipzig, bei Baumgärtner [translated in Hahnemann’s Lesser Writings],
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