Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 102

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 102:

'In the course of writing down the symptoms of several
cases of this kind the sketch of the disease picture
becomes ever more and more complete, not more spun out
and verbose, but more significant (more
characteristic), and including more of the
peculiarities of this collective disease; on the one
hand, the general symptoms (e.g., loss of appetite,
sleeplessness, etc.) become precisely defined as to
their peculiarities; and on the other, the more marked
and special symptoms which are peculiar to but few
diseases and of rarer occurrence, at least in the same
combination, become prominent and constitute what is
characteristic of this malady.1 All those affected
with the disease prevailing at a given time have
certainly contracted it from one and the same source
and hence are suffering from the same disease; but the
whole extent of such an epidemic disease and the
totality of its symptoms (the knowledge whereof, which
is essential for enabling us to choose the most
suitable homoeopathic remedy for this array of
symptoms, is obtained by a complete survey of the
morbid picture) cannot be learned from one single
patient, but is only to be perfectly deduced
(abstracted) and ascertained from the sufferings of
several patients of different constitutions.
Footnote:

1 The physician who has already, in the first cases,
been able to choose a remedy approximating to the
homoeopathic specific, will, from the subsequence
cases, be enabled either to verify the suitableness of
the medicine chosen, or to discover a more
appropriate, the most appropriate homoeopathic
remedy.'

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