§ 1
The physician's high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed. 1
1 His mission is not, however, to construct so-called systems, by interweaving empty speculations and hypotheses concerning the internal essential nature of the vital processes and the mode in which diseases originate in the interior of the organism, (whereon so many physicians have hitherto ambitiously wasted their talents and their time); nor is it to attempt to give countless explanations regarding the phenomena in diseases and their proximate cause (which must ever remain concealed), wrapped in unintelligible words and an inflated abstract mode of expression, which should sound very learned in order to astonish the ignorant - whilst sick humanity sighs in vain for aid. Of such learned reveries (to which the name of theoretic medicine is given, and for which special professorships are instituted) we have had quite enough, and it is now high time that all who call themselves physicians should at length cease to deceive suffering mankind with mere talk, and begin now, instead, for once to act, that is, really to help and to cure.
Regards
Soroush
Treat others as you would wish to be treated.
Organon 6 - Aphorism 1
Re: Organon 6 - Aphorism 1
The 'so called systems' and 'theoretic medicine' are the obvious key points here - is he confining this to non homeopathic administrations only I wonder.
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John Harvey
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Re: Organon 6 - Aphorism 1
Hi, Joy --
According to the meaning of homoeopathy that Hahnemann makes plain in various places later in the book, yes: anybody basing their practice on anything other than the law of similars is not practising homoeopathy, so one basing it on systems and hypotheses is not practising it either!
But I think you're right: the key points lie in those things, though they may be more accessible in those other terms, "empty speculations and hypotheses", especially if one understands "empty" to mean untestable, or, in other words, vacuous.
To try putting § 1 the other way round: any physician substituting untestable, or "empty", hypotheses for the law of similars as a basis for practising medicine is doing so at the expense of her high and only calling: restoring the sick to health.
Anyway, Hahnemann's opening aphorism is a good start.
John
2009/7/6 Joy Lucas >
According to the meaning of homoeopathy that Hahnemann makes plain in various places later in the book, yes: anybody basing their practice on anything other than the law of similars is not practising homoeopathy, so one basing it on systems and hypotheses is not practising it either!
But I think you're right: the key points lie in those things, though they may be more accessible in those other terms, "empty speculations and hypotheses", especially if one understands "empty" to mean untestable, or, in other words, vacuous.
To try putting § 1 the other way round: any physician substituting untestable, or "empty", hypotheses for the law of similars as a basis for practising medicine is doing so at the expense of her high and only calling: restoring the sick to health.
Anyway, Hahnemann's opening aphorism is a good start.
John
2009/7/6 Joy Lucas >
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Re: Organon 6 - Aphorism 1
I think we all gain clarity from each other once we have a common language -- which may be nearly within our grasp. I know I do.
Cheers!
John
2009/7/7 Joy Lucas >
Cheers!
John
2009/7/7 Joy Lucas >
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Sheri Nakken
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Re: Organon 6 - Aphorism 1
And I see in there that we cannot know the proximate cause (must ever remain concealed. I see this so much in allopathy and in people supposedly practicing homeopathy
Wanting to explain the cause and treat this organ and that organ and in allopathy we know what they do. We cannot know the proximate cause. We can know contributing causes (ie grief, out in cold wind, getting chilled, etc) but not the ultimate (other than the miasmatic cause).
We CANNOT know the cause.
In a lecture from Jeremy Sherr, he said that allopaths are linear and materialistic - want a cause, to find something from the outside that caused your symptoms - ie bacteria, virus; something from the inside that caused gallbladder pain - the gallstones. But can they explain why the gallstones are there. Well they'll try - high cholesterol or some such nonsense. And then they have to explain why the cholesterol was high and that could be, they think, because of too many eggs, and they why do too any eggs do this and on and on and on. And then they will do surgery, or give antibiotics, or give anti-depressants. All their medicine and technique is anti - against. The search for the 1 cause is unending - can go back forever and ever. Ulcer from this - too much acid (now its bacteria, for the sake of the example), and why too much acid, and why and why and why. They will never get to the end because the end is the Vital Force of the human and you can't measure that or find that. That is what the homeopaths look to from the beginning - not to measure or find but to listen to, hear, & watch what it is doing. There is no answer to the cause, only the message of the symptoms to see what the VF is telling us.
They don't recognize the VF of nature and the universe because they separate everything out - break into parts - cells, pieces. A Greek philosopher said he's rather discover the single cause of illness than be the King of Persia - he said that because it is not possible to find a single cause or a cause. You can only look wider and wider for real understanding.
(All above is my summary from lecture by Jeremy Sherr, years ago, & my own additions)
Sheri Nakken
Wanting to explain the cause and treat this organ and that organ and in allopathy we know what they do. We cannot know the proximate cause. We can know contributing causes (ie grief, out in cold wind, getting chilled, etc) but not the ultimate (other than the miasmatic cause).
We CANNOT know the cause.
In a lecture from Jeremy Sherr, he said that allopaths are linear and materialistic - want a cause, to find something from the outside that caused your symptoms - ie bacteria, virus; something from the inside that caused gallbladder pain - the gallstones. But can they explain why the gallstones are there. Well they'll try - high cholesterol or some such nonsense. And then they have to explain why the cholesterol was high and that could be, they think, because of too many eggs, and they why do too any eggs do this and on and on and on. And then they will do surgery, or give antibiotics, or give anti-depressants. All their medicine and technique is anti - against. The search for the 1 cause is unending - can go back forever and ever. Ulcer from this - too much acid (now its bacteria, for the sake of the example), and why too much acid, and why and why and why. They will never get to the end because the end is the Vital Force of the human and you can't measure that or find that. That is what the homeopaths look to from the beginning - not to measure or find but to listen to, hear, & watch what it is doing. There is no answer to the cause, only the message of the symptoms to see what the VF is telling us.
They don't recognize the VF of nature and the universe because they separate everything out - break into parts - cells, pieces. A Greek philosopher said he's rather discover the single cause of illness than be the King of Persia - he said that because it is not possible to find a single cause or a cause. You can only look wider and wider for real understanding.
(All above is my summary from lecture by Jeremy Sherr, years ago, & my own additions)
Sheri Nakken