Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 8

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 8:

'It is not conceivable, not can it be proved by any
experience in the world, that, after removal of all
the symptoms of the disease and of the entire
collection of the perceptible phenomena, there should
or could remain anything else besides health, or that
the morbid alteration in the interior could remain
uneradicated.

Footnote:

When a patient has been cured of his disease by a true
physician, in such a manner that no trace of the
disease, no morbid symptom, remains, and all the signs
of health have permanently returned, how can anyone,
without offering an insult to common sense, affirm in
such an individual the whole bodily disease still
remains interior? And yet the chief of the old school,
Hufeland, asserts this in the following words:
"homœopathy can remove symptoms, but the disease
remains." (Vide Homoopathie, p.27, 1, 19.) This he
maintains partly from mortification at the progress
made by homœopathy to the benefits of mankind, partly
because he still holds thoroughly material notions
respecting disease, which he is still unable to regard
as a state of being of the organism wherein it is
dynamically altered by the morbidly deranged vital
force, as an altered state of health, but he views the
disease as a something material, which after the cure
is completed, may still remain lurking in some corner
in the interior of the body, in order, some day during
the most vigorous health, to burst forth at its
pleasure with its material presence! So dreadful is
still the blindness of the old pathology! No wonder
that it could only produce a system of therapeutics
which is solely occupied with scouring out the poor
patient.'
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