Minutus

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 7:

'Now, as in a disease, from which no manifest exciting
or maintaining cause (causa occasionalis) has to be
removed 1, we can perceive nothing but the morbid
symptoms, it must (regard being had to the possibility
of a miasm, and attention paid to the accessory
circumstances, § 5) be the symptoms alone by which the
disease demands and points to the remedy suited to
relieve it - and, moreover, the totality of these its
symptoms, of this outwardly reflected picture of the
internal essence of the disease, that is, of the
affection of the vital force, must be the principal,
or the sole means, whereby the disease can make known
what remedy it requires - the only thing that can
determine the choice of the most appropriate remedy -
and thus, in a word, the totality 2 of the symptoms
must be the principal, indeed the only thing the
physician has to take note of in every case of disease
and to remove by means of his art, in order that it
shall be cured and transformed into health.

Footnotes:

1 It is not necessary to say that every intelligent
physician would first remove this where it exists; the
indisposition thereupon generally ceases
spontaneously. He will remove from the room
strong-smelling flowers, which have a tendency to
cause syncope and hysterical sufferings; extract from
the cornea the foreign body that excites inflammation
of the eye; loosen the over-tight bandage on a wounded
limb that threatens to cause mortification, and apply
a more suitable one; lay bare and put ligature on the
wounded artery that produces fainting; endeavour to
promote the expulsion by vomiting of belladonna
berries etc., that may have been swallowed; extract
foreign substances that may have got into the orifices
of the body (the nose, gullet, ears, urethra, rectum,
vagina); crush the vesical calculus; open the
imperforate anus of the newborn infant, etc.

2 In all times, the old school physicians, not knowing
how else to give relief, have sought to combat and if
possible to suppress by medicines, here and there, a
single symptom from among a number in diseases - a
one-sided procedure, which, under the name of
symptomatic treatment, has justly excited universal
contempt, because by it, not only was nothing gained,
but much harm was inflicted. A single one of the
symptoms present is no more the disease itself than a
foot is the man himself. This procedure was so much
the more reprehensible, that such a single symptom was
only treated by an antagonistic remedy (therefore only
in an enantiopathic and palliative manner), whereby,
after a slight alleviation, it was subsequently only
rendered all the worse.'
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