Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 50

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 50:

'Mighty Nature herself has, as we see, at her command,
as instruments for effecting homœopathic cures, little
besides the miasmatic diseases of constant character,
(the itch) measles and smallpox 1, morbific agents
which 2, as remedies, are either more dangerous to
life and more to be dreaded than the disease they are
to cure, they themselves require curing, in order to
be eradicated in their turn - both circumstances that
make their employment, as homœopathic remedies,
difficult, uncertain and dangerous. And how few
diseases are there to which man is subject that find
their similar remedy in smallpox, measles or itch!
Hence, in the course of nature, very few maladies can
be cured by these uncertain and hazardous homœopathic
remedies, and the cure by their instrumentality is
also attended with danger and much difficulty, for
this reason that the doses of these morbific powers
cannot be diminished according to circumstances, as
doses of medicine can; but the patient afflicted with
an analogous malady of long standing must be subjected
to the entire dangerous and tedious disease, to the
entire disease of smallpox, measles (or itch), which
in its turn has to be cured. And yet, as is seen, we
can point to some striking homœopathic cures effected
by this lucky concurrence, all so many
incontrovertible proofs of the great, the sole
therapeutic law of nature that obtains in them: Cure
by symptom similarity!
Footnotes:

1 And the exanthematous contagious principle present
in the cow-pox lymph.

2 Namely, small-pox and measles.'
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President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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