Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 17

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 17:

'Now, as in the cure effected by the removal of the
whole of the perceptible signs and symptoms of the
disease the internal alteration of the vital principle
to which the disease is due - consequently the whole
of the disease - is at the same time removed,1 it
follows that the physician has only to remove the
whole of the symptoms in order, at the same time, to
abrogate and annihilate the internal change, that is
to say, the morbid derangement of the vital force -
consequently the totality of the disease, the disease
itself.2 But when the disease is annihilated the
health is restored, and this is the highest, the sole
aim of the physician who knows the true object of his
mission, which consists not in learned - sounding
prating, but in giving aid to the sick.

Footnotes:

1 - A warning dream, a superstitious fancy, or a
solemn prediction that death would occur at a certain
day or at a certain hour, has not unfrequently
produced all the signs of commencing and increasing
disease, of approaching death and death itself at the
hour announced, which could not happen without the
simultaneous production of the inward change
(corresponding to the state observed internally); and
hence in such cases all the morbid signs indicative of
approaching death have frequently been dissipated by
an identical cause, by some cunning deception or
persuasion to a belief in the contrary, and health
suddenly restored, which could not have happened
without the removal, by means of this mortal remedy,
of the internal and external morbid change that
threatened death.

2 - It is only thus that God the preserver of mankind,
could reveal His wisdom and goodness in reference to
the cure of the disease to which man is liable here
below, by showing to the physician what he had to
remove in disease in order to annihilate them and thus
re-establish health. But what would we think of His
wisdom and goodness if He has shrouded in mysterious
obscurity that which was to be cured in diseases (as
is asserted by the dominant school of medicine, which
affects to possess a supernatural insight into the
nature of things), and shut it up in the hidden
interior, and thus rendered it impossible for man to
know the malady accurately, consequently impossible
for him to cure it?'
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