Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 6

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 6:

The unprejudiced observer - well aware of the futility
of transcendental speculations which can receive no
confirmation from experience - be his powers of
penetration ever so great, takes note of nothing in
every individual disease, except the changes in the
health of the body and of the mind (morbid phenomena,
accidents, symptoms) which can be perceived externally
by means of the senses; that is to say, he notices
only the deviations from the former healthy state of
the now diseased individual, which are felt by the
patient himself, remarked by those around him and
observed by the physician. All these perceptible signs
represent the disease in its whole extent, that is,
together they form the true and only conceivable
portrait of the disease.

Footnote:

I know not, therefore, how it was possible for
physicians at the sick-bed to allow themselves to
suppose that, without most carefully attending to the
symptoms and being guided by them in the treatment,
they ought to seek and could discover, only in the
hidden and unknown interior, what there was to be
cured in the disease, arrogantly and ludicrously
pretending that they could, without paying much
attention to the symptoms, discover the alteration
that had occurred in the invisible interior, and set
it to rights with (unknown!) medicines, and that such
a procedure as this could alone be called radical and
rational treatment.

Is not, then, that which is cognizable by the senses
in diseases through the phenomena it displays, the
disease itself in the eyes of the physician, since he
never can see the spiritual being that produces the
disease, the vital force? nor is it necessary that he
should see it, but only that he should ascertain its
morbid actions, in order that he may thereby be
enabled to cure the disease. What else will the old
school search for in the hidden interior of the
organism, as a prima causa morbi, whilst they reject
as an object of cure and contemptuously despise the
sensible and manifest representation of the disease,
the symptoms, that so plainly address themselves to
us? What else do they wish to cure in disease but
these?*

* The physician whose researches are directed towards
the hidden relations in the interior of the organism,
may daily err; but the homœopathist who grasps with
requisite carefulness the whole group of symptoms,
possesses a sure guide; and if he succeed in removing
the whole group of symptoms he has likewise most
assuredly destroyed the internal, hidden cause of the
disease.
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Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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