Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 119

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 119:

'As certainly as every species of plant differs in its
external form, mode of life and growth, in its taste
and smell from every other species and genus of plant,
as certainly as every mineral and salt differs from
all others, in its external as well as its internal
physical and chemical properties (which alone should
have sufficed to prevent any confounding of one with
another), so certainly do they all differ and diverge
among themselves in their pathogenetic - consequently
also in their therapeutic - effects.1 Each of these
substances produces alterations in the health of human
beings in a peculiar, different, yet determinate
manner, so as to preclude the possibility of
confounding one with another.2
Footnotes:

1 Anyone who has a thorough knowledge of, and can
appreciate the remarkable difference of, effects on
the health of man of every single substance from those
of every other, will readily perceive that among them
there can be, in a medical point of view, no
equivalent remedies whatever, no surrogates. Only
those who do not know the pure, positive effects of
the different medicines can be so foolish as to try to
persuade us that one can serve in the stead of the
other, and can in the same disease prove just as
serviceable as the other. Thus do ignorant children
confound the most essential different things, because
they scarcely know their external appearances, far
less their real value, their true importance and their
very dissimilar inherent properties.

2 If this be pure truth, as it undoubtedly is, then no
physician who would not be regarded as devoid of
reason, and who would not act contrary to the dictates
of his conscience, the sole arbiter of real worth, can
employ in the treatment of diseases any medicinal
substance but one with whose real significance he is
thoroughly and perfectly conversant, i.e., whose
positive action on the health of healthy individuals
he has so accurately tested that he knows for certain
that it is capable of producing a very similar morbid
state, more similar than any other medicine with which
he is perfectly acquainted, to that presented by the
case of disease he intends to cure by means of it;
for, as has been shown above, neither man, nor mighty
Nature herself, can effect a perfect, rapid and
permanent cure otherwise than with a homoeopathic
remedy. Henceforth no true physician can abstain from
making such experiment, in order to obtain this most
necessary and only knowledge of the medicines that are
essential to cure, this knowledge which has hitherto
been neglected by the physicians in all ages. In all
former ages - posterity will scarcely believe it -
physicians have hitherto contented themselves with
blindly prescribing for diseases medicines whose value
was unknown, and which had never been tested relative
to their highly important, very various, pure dynamic
action on the health of man; and, moreover, they
mingled several of these unknown medicines that
differed so vastly among each other in one formula,
and left it to chance to determine what effects should
thereby be produced on the patient. This is just as if
a madman should force his way into the workshop of an
artisan, seize upon handfuls of very different tools,
with the uses of all of which he is quite
unacquainted, in order, as he imagines, to work at the
objects of art he sees around him. I need hardly
remark that these would be destroyed, I may say
utterly ruined, by his senseless operations.'

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