Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 108

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 108:

'There is, therefore, no other possible way in which
the peculiar effects of medicines on the health of
individuals can be accurately ascertained - there is
no sure, no more natural way of accomplishing this
object, than to administer the several medicines
experimentally, in moderate doses, to healthy persons,
in order to ascertain what changes, symptoms and signs
of their influence each individually produces on the
health of the body and of the mind; that is to say,
what disease elements they are able and tend to
produce1, since, as has been demonstrated (§§ 24-27),
all the curative power of medicines lies in this power
they possess of changing the state of man's health,
and is revealed by observation of the latter.
Footnote:

1 Not one single physician, as far as I know, during
the previous two thousand five hundred years, thought
of this so natural, so absolutely necessary and only
genuine mode of testing medicines for their pure and
peculiar effects in deranging the health of man, in
order to learn what morbid state each medicine is
capable of curing, except the great and immoral
Albrecht von Haller. He alone, besides myself, saw the
necessity of this (vide the Preface to the
Pharmacopoeia Helvet, Basil, 1771, fol., p.12); Nempe
primum in corpore sano medela tentanda est, sine
peregrina ulla miscela; odoreque et sapore ejus
exploratis, exigua illiu dosis ingerenda et ad ommes,
quae inde contingunt, affectiones, quis pulsus, qui
calor, quae respiratia, quaenam excretiones, attendum.
Inde ad ductum phaenomenorum, in sano obviorum,
transeas ad experimenta in corpore aegroro, etc. But
no one, not a single physician, attended to or
followed up this invaluable hint.'

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