Have seen no discussion of this...Organon - Aphorism 1 & footnotes

[Sheri Nakken]

Anyone want to start discussing the aphorisms of the organon - newbies? jump right in too!

What do you hear Hahnemann saying here about 'knowing' the cause of disease?

Paragraph (Aphorism) 1 (footnotes 1)
§ 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.
Sheri Nakken, former RN, MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
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[Ginny Wilken]

That we don't know, we cannot know, and to concern oneself with that aspect is a waste of time better spent on pursuing a cure, based on SYMPTOMS rather than causes.

...Not that we shouldn't know, or should run from knowledge, but that it may or may not come along, may or may not be an obvious insult, but is totally irrelevant to the choice of remedies and the pursuit of the resolution.

Hahnemann is ever driven by wanting to help the individual firstly; theory and education are only to this end.

ginny

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Ginny Wilken

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