Minutus

Dear Colleagues

My emails about comments on Cure v Palliation (PLEASE SEE aph 1 BELOW!) did not raise any responses.

Hence my subsequent email about whether Minutus as a group would like to study the Organon.

Rgds
Soroush

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Dear Colleagues

As promised, we are going to go through the Organon 6 - SLOWLY!

Lois Hoffer has gone through the Organon from Original German word by word and done a linguistic
analysis.
She has covered up to 215 and will be resting for some time.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ha ... n/menu.htm

If you want this, I can add these too.

Best Regards
Soroush

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Hahnemann defines various terms etc as he progresses into the Organon. Sometime ago I made a
'mind-map' of the Organon and it was enlightening to get an over view of the whole book.

Here Hn states that Cure is our Only mission and then defines what is cure.
But what about palliation?
Can we please discuss.

§ 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.

§ 2
The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and
annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless
way, on easily comprehensible principles.

Dear Soroush

Lol. I think maybe people took you seriously when you said SLOWLY.

I'm interested. I find much of the Organon impenetrable (ga, where is spell check on this phone?!?).

Annette

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OK, as a tyro here, I would venture that palliation is a nice side-effect. Sometimes it's all we can get, for instance, in a complicated and long-standing Psoric case. But also it can signal that we're close, but no cigar, to the more effective simillimum for the deep-seated condition. Unless it suppresses something it shouldn't, it may not be a bad thing.

Just to open discussion,

ginny

Hello friends,

I believe it's too early to discuss palliation basing on these two paragraphs, as we don't have Hahnemann's definition of palliation here.

Here we may have 2 things to pay attention to:

1. Acting vs talking
2. Definition of cure

I fully agree with these two paragraphs and believe that palliation should be discussed later on.

Best wishes,

Andrew