Organon of homœopathic medicine / Samuel Hahnemann.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843. Organon der rationellen Heilkunde. English
Date:
1860
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    mi-nation being moderately fixed, and gliding the hands slowly over the body from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet.' In this form it is applicable to internal haemorrhages in their last stage, when they threaten death. It acts likewise by imparting a uniform degree of vital power to the organism when there is an excess of it at one point and a deficiency at another—such, for example, as where there is a determination of blood to the head, or when a patient, in a state of debility, is subject to insomnolency, anxiety, &c. In this case, a single transit, similar to the pre- ceding one, but stronger, is to be practised. Finally, it acts by immediately communicating a degree of vital power to a weak part or to the entire organism—an effect that cannot be produced by any other means with such certainty, and without interfering with the other medical treatment. This third indication is performed by assuming a very firm and decided manner, and applying the hands or tips of the fingers to the weak part, which an internal chronic affection has made the seat of its principal local symptom—such, for example, as old ulcers, amau- rosis, paralysis of a limb, &c.^ To this class belong certain ap- parent cures that have, in all ages, been performed by magnetizers who were endowed with great natural strength. But the most brilliant result of the communication of human vigor to the entire' organism is where, by the resolute and fixed determination of a- man in the full vigor of life,^ it recalls to life persons who have ^ The smallest homoeopathic dose, when properly applied, effects wonders. It not unfrequently occurs that patients are overwhelmed, by incompetent homoeopathists, with a rapid succession of remedies, which, though well se- lected, and o-f the highest potence, yet produce a state of such excessive'' irritability that the life of the patient is placed in jeopardy, and another dose, however mild, may prove fatal. Under such circumstances, the hand of the mesmerizer, gently sliding down, and frequently touching the part af- fected, produces a uniform distribution of the vital power through the sys-- tem, and rest, sleep, and health are restored. “Although this operation of locally supplying the vital power, which ought to be occasionally repeated, cannot effect a durable cure when the local affection is of an ancient date, and depends upon (what very frequently occurs) some general internal malady, still the positive communication of the vital power, which is no more a palliative than food and drink to hunger and thirst, is of no slight aid in the radical cure of the entire affection by antipsoric remedies. “ Particularly one of those men, of whom there are but few, who, possess ing great goodness of disposition and complete bodily power, have a very
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