Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 109

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 109:

'I was the first that opened up this path, which I
have pursued with a perseverance that could only arise
and be kept up by a perfect conviction of the great
truth, fraught with such blessings to humanity, that
it is only by the homoeopathic employment of medicines
(1) that the certain cure of human maladies is
possible(2).
Footnotes:

1 It is impossible that there can be another true,
best method of curing dynamic diseases (i.e., all
diseases not strictly surgical) besides homoeopathy,
just as it is impossible to draw more than one
straight line betwixt two given points. He who
imagines that there are other modes of curing diseases
besides it could not have appreciated homoeopathy
fundamentally nor practised it with sufficient care,
nor could he ever have seen or read cases of properly
performed homoeopathic cures; nor, on the other hand,
could he have discerned the baselessness of all
allopathic modes of treating diseases and their bad or
even dreadful effects, if, with such lax indifference,
he places the only true healing art on an equality
with those hurtful methods of treatment, or alleges
the latter to be auxiliaries to homoeopathy which it
could not do without! My true, conscientious
followers, the pure homoeopathists, with their
successful, almost never-failing treatment, might
teach these persons better.

2 The first fruits of these labors, as perfect as they
could be at that time, I recorded in the Fragmenta de
viribus medicamentorum positivis, sive in sano corpore
humano observatis, pts. I, ii, Lipsiae, 8, 1805, ap.
J. A. Barth; the more mature fruits in the Reine
Arzneimittellebre, I Th., dritte Ausg.; II Th., dritte
Ausg., 1833; III Th., zweite Ausg., 1825; IV Th., zw.
Ausg., 1827 (English translation, Materia Medica Pura,
vols I and ii); and in the second, third, and fourth
parts of Die chronischen Krankheiten, 1828, 1830,
Dresden bei Arnold (2nd edit., with a fifth part,
Dusseldorf bei Schaub, 1835, 1839).'

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Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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