Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 110

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 110:

'I saw, moreover, that the morbid lesions which
previous authors had observed to result from medicinal
substances when taken into the stomach of healthy
persons, either in large doses given by mistake or in
order to produce death in themselves or others, or
under other circumstances, accorded very much with my
own observations when experimenting with the same
substances on myself and other healthy individuals.
These authors give details of what occurred as
histories of poisoning and as proofs of the pernicious
effects of these powerful substances, chiefly in order
to warn others from their use; partly also for the
sake of exalting their own skill, when, under the use
of the remedies they employed to combat these
dangerous accidents, health gradually returned; but
partly also, when the persons so affected died under
their treatment, in order to seek their own
justification in the dangerous character of these
substances, which they then termed poisons. None of
these observers ever dreamed that the symptoms they
recorded merely as proofs of the noxious and poisonous
character of these substances were sure revelations of
the power of these drugs to extinguish curatively
similar symptoms occurring in natural disease, that
these their pathogenetic phenomena were intimations of
their homoeopathic curative action, and that the only
possible way to ascertain their medicinal powers is to
observe those changes of health medicines are capable
of producing in the healthy organism; for the pure,
peculiar powers of medicines available for the cure of
disease are to be learned neither by any ingenious a
priori speculations, nor by the smell, taste or
appearance of the drugs, nor by their chemical
analysis, nor yet by the employment of several of them
at one time in a mixture (prescription) in diseases;
it was never suspected that these histories of
medicinal diseases would one day furnish the first
rudiments of the true, pure materia medica, which from
the earliest times until now has consisted solely of
false conjectures and fictions of the imagination -
that is to say, did not exist at all.1
Footnote:

1 See what I have said on this subject in the
Examination of the Sources of the Ordinary Materia
Medica, prefixed to the third part of my Reine
Arzneimittellebre (translated in the Materia Medica
Pura, vol. ii).'

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