Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 40

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 40:

'III. Or the new disease, after having long acted on
the organism, at length joins the old one that is
dissimilar to it, and forms with it a complex disease,
so that each of them occupies a particular locality in
the organism, namely, the organs peculiarly adapted
for it, and, as it were, only the place specially
belonging to it, while it leaves the rest to the other
disease that is dissimilar to it. Thus a syphilitic
patient may become psoric, and vice versa. As two
disease dissimilar to each other, they cannot remove,
cannot cure one another. At first the venereal
symptoms are kept in abeyance and suspended when the
psoric eruption begins to appear; in course of time,
however (as the syphilis is at least as strong as the
psora), the two join together,1 that is, each involves
those parts of the organism only which are most
adapted for it, and the patient is thereby rendered
more diseased and more difficult to cure.

When two dissimilar acute infectious diseases meet,
as, for example, smallpox and measles, the one usually
suspends the other, as has been before observed; yet
there have also been severe epidemics of this kind,
where, in rare cases, two dissimilar acute diseases
occurred simultaneously in one and the same body, and
for a short time combined, as it were, with each
other. During an epidemic, in which smallpox and
measles were prevalent at the same time, among three
hundred cases (in which these diseases avoided or
suspended one another, and measles attacked patients
twenty days after the smallpox broke out, the
smallpox, however, from seventeen to eighteen days
after the appearance of the measles, so that the first
disease had previously completed its regular course)
there was yet one single case in which P. Russell 2
met with both these dissimilar diseases in one person
at the same time. Rainey3 witnessed the simultaneous
occurrence of smallpox and measles in two girls. J.
Maurice4, in his whole practice, only observed two
such cases. Similar cases are to be found in
Ettmuller’s 5 works, and in the writings of a few
others.

Zencker6 saw cow-pox run its regular course along with
measles and along with purpura.

The cow-pox went on its course undisturbed during a
mercurial treatment for syphilis, as Jenner saw.
Footnotes:

1 From careful experiments and cures of complex
diseases of this kind, I am now firmly convinced that
no real amalgamation of the two takes place, but that
in such cases the one exists in the organism besides
the other only, each in pairs that are adapted for it,
and their cure will be completely effected by a
judicious alternation of the best mercurial
preparation, with the remedies specific for the psora,
each given in the most suitable dose and form.

2 Vide Transactions of a Society for the Improvement
of Med. and Chir. Knowledge, ii.

3 In Edinb. Med and Phys. Journ., 1805.

4 In Med. and Phys. Journ., 1805.

5 Opera, ii, p.i, cap. 10.

6 In Hufeland’s Journal, xvii.'
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