Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 38
Posted: Wed May 22, 2002 2:55 pm
Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 38:
'II. Or the new dissimilar disease is the stronger.
In this case the disease under which the patient
originally labored, being the weaker, will be kept
back and suspended by the accession of the stronger
one, until the latter shall have run its course or
been cured, and then the old one reappears uncured.
Two children affected with a kind of epilepsy remained
free from epileptic attacks after infection with
ringworm (tinea) but as soon as the eruption on the
head was gone the epilepsy returned just as before, as
Tulpius1 observed. The itch, as Schopf 2 saw,
disappeared on the occurrence of the scurvy, but after
the cure of the latter it again broke out. So, also
the pulmonary phthisis remained stationary when the
patient was attacked by a violent typhus, but went on
again after the latter had run its course.3 If mania
occur in a consumptive patient, the phthisis with all
its symptoms is removed by the former; but if that go
off, the phthisis returns immediately and proves
fatal.4 When measles and smallpox are prevalent at the
same time, and both attack the same child, the measles
that had already broken out is generally checked by
the smallpox that came somewhat later; nor does the
measles resume its course until after the cure of the
smallpox; but it not infrequently happens that the
inoculated smallpox is suspended for four days by the
supervention of the measles, as observed by Manget,5
after the desquamation of which the smallpox completes
its course. Even when the inoculation of the smallpox
had taken effect for six days, and the measles then
broke out, the inflammation of the inoculation
remained stationary and the smallpox did not ensue
until the measles had completed its regular course of
seven days.6 In an epidemic of measles, that disease
attacked many individuals on the fourth or fifth day
after the inoculation of smallpox and prevented the
development of the smallpox until it had completed its
own course, whereupon the smallpox appeared and
proceeded regularly to its termination.7 The true,
smooth, erysipelatous-looking scarlatina of Sydenham,
with sore throat, was checked on the fourth day by the
eruption of cow-pox, which ran its regular course, and
not till it was ended did the scarlatina again
establish itself; but on another occasion, as both
diseases seem to be of equal strength, the cow-pox was
suspended on the eighth day by the supervention of the
true, smooth scarlatina of Sydenham,8 and the red
areola of the former disappeared until the scarlatina
was gone, wherein the cow-pox immediately resumed its
course, and went on its regular termination.9 The
measles suspended the cow-pox; on the eighth day, when
the cow-pox had nearly attained its climax, the
measles broke out; the cow-pox now remained
stationary, and did not resume and complete its course
until the desquamation of the measles, had taken
place, so that on the sixteenth day it presented the
appearance it otherwise would have shown on the tenth
day, as Kortum10 observed.
Even after the measles had broken out the cow-pox
inoculation took effect, but did not run its course
until these measles had disappeared, as Kortum
likewise witnessed.
I myself saw the mumps (angina parotidea) immediately
disappear when the cow-pox inoculation had taken
effect and had nearly attained its height; it was not
until the complete termination of the cow-pox and the
disappearance of its red areola that this febrile
tumefaction of the parotid and submaxillary glands,
that is caused by a peculiar miasm, reappeared and ran
its regular course of seven days.
And thus it is with all dissimilar disease; the
stronger suspends the weaker (when they do not
complicate one another, which is seldom the case with
acute disease), but they never cure one another.'
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Aphorism 38:
'II. Or the new dissimilar disease is the stronger.
In this case the disease under which the patient
originally labored, being the weaker, will be kept
back and suspended by the accession of the stronger
one, until the latter shall have run its course or
been cured, and then the old one reappears uncured.
Two children affected with a kind of epilepsy remained
free from epileptic attacks after infection with
ringworm (tinea) but as soon as the eruption on the
head was gone the epilepsy returned just as before, as
Tulpius1 observed. The itch, as Schopf 2 saw,
disappeared on the occurrence of the scurvy, but after
the cure of the latter it again broke out. So, also
the pulmonary phthisis remained stationary when the
patient was attacked by a violent typhus, but went on
again after the latter had run its course.3 If mania
occur in a consumptive patient, the phthisis with all
its symptoms is removed by the former; but if that go
off, the phthisis returns immediately and proves
fatal.4 When measles and smallpox are prevalent at the
same time, and both attack the same child, the measles
that had already broken out is generally checked by
the smallpox that came somewhat later; nor does the
measles resume its course until after the cure of the
smallpox; but it not infrequently happens that the
inoculated smallpox is suspended for four days by the
supervention of the measles, as observed by Manget,5
after the desquamation of which the smallpox completes
its course. Even when the inoculation of the smallpox
had taken effect for six days, and the measles then
broke out, the inflammation of the inoculation
remained stationary and the smallpox did not ensue
until the measles had completed its regular course of
seven days.6 In an epidemic of measles, that disease
attacked many individuals on the fourth or fifth day
after the inoculation of smallpox and prevented the
development of the smallpox until it had completed its
own course, whereupon the smallpox appeared and
proceeded regularly to its termination.7 The true,
smooth, erysipelatous-looking scarlatina of Sydenham,
with sore throat, was checked on the fourth day by the
eruption of cow-pox, which ran its regular course, and
not till it was ended did the scarlatina again
establish itself; but on another occasion, as both
diseases seem to be of equal strength, the cow-pox was
suspended on the eighth day by the supervention of the
true, smooth scarlatina of Sydenham,8 and the red
areola of the former disappeared until the scarlatina
was gone, wherein the cow-pox immediately resumed its
course, and went on its regular termination.9 The
measles suspended the cow-pox; on the eighth day, when
the cow-pox had nearly attained its climax, the
measles broke out; the cow-pox now remained
stationary, and did not resume and complete its course
until the desquamation of the measles, had taken
place, so that on the sixteenth day it presented the
appearance it otherwise would have shown on the tenth
day, as Kortum10 observed.
Even after the measles had broken out the cow-pox
inoculation took effect, but did not run its course
until these measles had disappeared, as Kortum
likewise witnessed.
I myself saw the mumps (angina parotidea) immediately
disappear when the cow-pox inoculation had taken
effect and had nearly attained its height; it was not
until the complete termination of the cow-pox and the
disappearance of its red areola that this febrile
tumefaction of the parotid and submaxillary glands,
that is caused by a peculiar miasm, reappeared and ran
its regular course of seven days.
And thus it is with all dissimilar disease; the
stronger suspends the weaker (when they do not
complicate one another, which is seldom the case with
acute disease), but they never cure one another.'
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Minutus appreciates your fruitful contribution!
=====
"Life is beautiful, if you look at it in a beautiful way."
Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
Website: http://www.minutus.org
Email: ashahrdar@yahoo.com
Mailing list: http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/minutus
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