Samuel Hahnemann

Organon of Homoeopathic Medicine Samuel Hahnemann

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ... CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. rage A view of the prevailing allopathic and palliative medical treatment to the present time. 9 Examples of homoeopathic cures performed unintentionally by physicians of the old school of medicine,... 45 Persons ignorant of the science of medicine, discovered that the homccopathic treatment was the most rational and efficacious 73 Some physicians of an early period suspected that this curative method was superior to every other... 75 ORGANON OF MEDICINE. § 1, 2. The sole duty of a physician is, to restore health in a mild, prompt and durable manner. Note. It does not pertain to his office to invent systems, or vainly attempt to account for the morbid phenomena in disease. 79 § 3, 4. The physician ought to search after that which is to be cured in disease, and be acquainted with the curative virtues of medicines, in order to adapt the medicine to the disease. He must also be acquainted with the means of preserving health 79, 80 § 5. In the cure of disease it is necessary to regard the fundamental cause and other circumstances. ib. § 6. For the physician, the totality of the symptoms alone constitutes the disease. ib/ Note. The fruitless endeavours of the old school to discover the essence of the disease, the prima causa niorbi. § 7. To cure disease, it is merely requisite to remove the entire symptoms, duly regarding, at the same time, the circumstances enumerated in § 5. 81 Note 1. The cause which evidently occasions and maintains the disease must likewise be removed........... ib. Note 2. A symptomatic palliative method of treatment, or that directed against an individual symptom, ought to be rejected..... 82§ 8. When all the symptoms are extinguished, the disease is at the same time internally c...