Aph 74 Organon 6
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:48 am
§ 74 Sixth Edition
Among chronic diseases we must still, alas!, reckon those so commonly met with, artificially
produced in allopathic treatment by the prolonged use of violent heroic medicines in large and
increasing doses, by the abuse of calomel, corrosive sublimate, mercurial ointment, nitrate of
silver, iodine and its ointments, opium, valerian, cinchona bark and quinine, foxglove, prussic
acid, sulphur and sulphuric acid, perennial purgatives1, venesections, shedding streams of blood,
leeches, issues, setons, etc., whereby the vital energy is sometimes weakened to an unmerciful
extent, sometimes, if it do not succumb, gradually abnormally deranged (by each substance in a
peculiar manner) in such a way that, in order to maintain life against these inimical and
destructive attacks, it must produce a revolution in the organism, and either deprive some part of
its irritability and sensibility, or exalt these to an excessive degree, cause dilatation or
contraction, relaxation or induration or even total destruction of certain parts, and develop faulty
organic alterations here and there in the interior or the exterior (cripple the body internally or
externally), in order to preserve the organism from complete destruction of the life by the ever -
renewed, hostile assaults of such destructive forces.2
1 The only possible case of plethora shows itself with the healthy woman, several days before her
monthly period, with a feeling of a certain fullness of womb and breasts, but without inflammation.
2 Among all imaginable methods for the relief of sickness, no greater allopathic, irrational or
inappropriate one can be thought of than this Brousseauic, debilitating treatment by means of
venesection and hunger diet, which for many years has spread over a large part of the earth. No
intelligent man can see in it anything medical, or medically helpful, whereas real medicines, even
if chosen blindly and administered to a patient, may at times prove of benefit in a given case of
sickness because they may accidentally have been homœopathic to the case. But from venesection,
healthy common sense can expect nothing more than certain lessening and shortening of life. It is a
sorrowful and wholly groundless fallacy that most and indeed all diseases depend on local
inflammation. Even for true local inflammation, the most certain and quickest cure is found in
medicines capable of taking away dynamically the arterial irritation upon which the inflammation is
based and this without the least loss of fluids and strength. Local venesections, even from the
affected part, only tend to increase renewed inflammation of these parts. And precisely so it is
generally inappropriate, aye, murderous to take away many pounds of blood from the veins in
inflammatory fevers, when a few appropriate medicines would dispel this irritated arterial state,
driving the hitherto quiet blood together with the disease in a few hours without the least loss of
fluids and strength. Such great loss of blood is evidently irreplaceable for the remaining
continuance of life, since the organs intended by the Creator for bloodmaking have thereby become so
weakened that while they may manufacture blood in the same quantity but not again of the same good
quality. And how impossible is it for this imagined plethora to have been produced in such
remarkable rapidity and so to drain it off by frequent venesections when yet an hour before the
pulse of this heated patient (before the fever and chill stage) was so quiet. No man, no sick person
has ever too much blood or too much strength. On the contrary, every sick man lacks strength,
otherwise his vital energy would have prevented the development of the disease. Thus it is
irrational and cruel to add to this weakened patient, a greater, indeed the most serious source of
debility that can be imagined. It is a murderous malpractice irrational and cruel based on a wholly
groundless and absurd theory instead of taking away his disease which is ever dynamic and only to be
removed by dynamic potencies.
Best Regards
Soroush
Among chronic diseases we must still, alas!, reckon those so commonly met with, artificially
produced in allopathic treatment by the prolonged use of violent heroic medicines in large and
increasing doses, by the abuse of calomel, corrosive sublimate, mercurial ointment, nitrate of
silver, iodine and its ointments, opium, valerian, cinchona bark and quinine, foxglove, prussic
acid, sulphur and sulphuric acid, perennial purgatives1, venesections, shedding streams of blood,
leeches, issues, setons, etc., whereby the vital energy is sometimes weakened to an unmerciful
extent, sometimes, if it do not succumb, gradually abnormally deranged (by each substance in a
peculiar manner) in such a way that, in order to maintain life against these inimical and
destructive attacks, it must produce a revolution in the organism, and either deprive some part of
its irritability and sensibility, or exalt these to an excessive degree, cause dilatation or
contraction, relaxation or induration or even total destruction of certain parts, and develop faulty
organic alterations here and there in the interior or the exterior (cripple the body internally or
externally), in order to preserve the organism from complete destruction of the life by the ever -
renewed, hostile assaults of such destructive forces.2
1 The only possible case of plethora shows itself with the healthy woman, several days before her
monthly period, with a feeling of a certain fullness of womb and breasts, but without inflammation.
2 Among all imaginable methods for the relief of sickness, no greater allopathic, irrational or
inappropriate one can be thought of than this Brousseauic, debilitating treatment by means of
venesection and hunger diet, which for many years has spread over a large part of the earth. No
intelligent man can see in it anything medical, or medically helpful, whereas real medicines, even
if chosen blindly and administered to a patient, may at times prove of benefit in a given case of
sickness because they may accidentally have been homœopathic to the case. But from venesection,
healthy common sense can expect nothing more than certain lessening and shortening of life. It is a
sorrowful and wholly groundless fallacy that most and indeed all diseases depend on local
inflammation. Even for true local inflammation, the most certain and quickest cure is found in
medicines capable of taking away dynamically the arterial irritation upon which the inflammation is
based and this without the least loss of fluids and strength. Local venesections, even from the
affected part, only tend to increase renewed inflammation of these parts. And precisely so it is
generally inappropriate, aye, murderous to take away many pounds of blood from the veins in
inflammatory fevers, when a few appropriate medicines would dispel this irritated arterial state,
driving the hitherto quiet blood together with the disease in a few hours without the least loss of
fluids and strength. Such great loss of blood is evidently irreplaceable for the remaining
continuance of life, since the organs intended by the Creator for bloodmaking have thereby become so
weakened that while they may manufacture blood in the same quantity but not again of the same good
quality. And how impossible is it for this imagined plethora to have been produced in such
remarkable rapidity and so to drain it off by frequent venesections when yet an hour before the
pulse of this heated patient (before the fever and chill stage) was so quiet. No man, no sick person
has ever too much blood or too much strength. On the contrary, every sick man lacks strength,
otherwise his vital energy would have prevented the development of the disease. Thus it is
irrational and cruel to add to this weakened patient, a greater, indeed the most serious source of
debility that can be imagined. It is a murderous malpractice irrational and cruel based on a wholly
groundless and absurd theory instead of taking away his disease which is ever dynamic and only to be
removed by dynamic potencies.
Best Regards
Soroush