Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 117

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 117:

'To the latter category belong the so-called
idiosyncrasies, by which are meant peculiar corporeal
constitutions which, although otherwise healthy,
possess a disposition to be brought into a more or
less morbid state by certain things which seem to
produce no impression and no change in many other
individuals.1 But this inability to make an impression
on every one is only apparent. For as two things are
required for the production of these as well as all
other morbid alterations in the health of man - to
wit., the inherent power of the influencing substance,
and the capability of the vital force that animates
the organism to be influenced by it - the obvious
derangements of health in the so-called idiosyncrasies
cannot be laid to the account of these peculiar
constitutions alone, but they must also be ascribed to
these things that produce them, in which must lie the
power of making the same impressions on all human
bodies, yet in such a manner that but a small number
of healthy constitutions have a tendency to allow
themselves to be brought into such an obvious morbid
condition by them. That these agents do actually make
this impression on every healthy body is shown by
this, that when employed as remedies they render
effectual homoeopathic service2 to all sick persons
for morbid symptoms similar to those they seem to be
only capable of producing in so-called idiosyncratic
individuals.
Footnotes:

1 Some few persons are apt to faint from the smell of
roses and to fall into many other morbid, and
sometimes dangerous states from partaking of mussels,
crabs or the roe of the barbel, from touching the
leaves of some kinds of sumach, etc.

2 Thus the Princess Maria Porphyroghnita restored her
brother, the Emperor Alexius, who suffered from
faintings, by sprinkling him with rose water in the
presence of his aunt Eudoxia (Hist. byz. Alexias, lib.
xv, p. 503, ed. Posser); and Horstius (Oper., iii,
p.59) saw great benefit from rose vinegar in cases of
syncope.'

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