Minutus

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 39:

'Now the adherents of the ordinary school of medicine
saw all this for so many centuries; they saw that
Nature herself cannot cure any disease by the
accession of another, be it ever so strong, if the new
disease be dissimilar to that already present in the
body. What shall we think of them, that they
nevertheless went on treating chronic disease with
allopathic remedies, namely, with medicines and
prescriptions capable of producing God knows what
morbid state - almost invariably, however, one
dissimilar to the disease to be cured? And even though
physicians did not hitherto observe nature
attentively, the miserable results of their treatment
should have taught them that they were pursuing an
inappropriate, a false path. Did they not perceive
when they employed, as was their custom, and
aggressive allopathic treatment in a chronic disease,
that thereby they only created an artificial disease
dissimilar to the original one, which, as long as it
was kept up, merely held in abeyance, merely
suppressed, merely suspended the original disease,
which latter, however, always returned, and must
return, as soon as the diminished strength of the
patient no longer admitted of a continuance of the
allopathic attacks on the life? Thus the itch
exanthema certainly disappears very soon from the skin
under the employment of violent purgatives, frequently
repeated; but when the patient can no longer stand the
factitious (dissimilar) disease of the bowels, and can
take no more purgatives, then either the cutaneous
eruption breaks out as before, or the internal psora
displays itself in some bad symptom, and the patient,
in addition to his undiminished original disease, has
to endure the misery of a painful ruined digestion and
impaired strength to boot. So, also, when the ordinary
physicians keep up artificial ulcerations of the skin
and issues on the exterior of the body, with the view
of thereby eradicating a chronic disease, they can
NEVER cure them by that means, as such artificial
cutaneous ulcers are quite alien and allopathic to the
internal affection; but inasmuch as the irritation
produced by several tissues is at least sometimes a
stronger (dissimilar) disease than the indwelling
malady, the latter is thereby sometimes silenced and
suspended for a week or two. But it is only suspended,
and that for a very short time, while the patient’s
powers are gradually worn out. Epilepsy, suppressed
for many years by means of issues, invariably
recurred, and in an aggravated form, when they were
allowed to heal up, as Pechlin1 and others testify.
But purgatives for itch, and issues for epilepsy,
cannot be more heterogeneous, more dissimilar
deranging agents - cannot be more allopathic, more
exhausting modes of treatment - than are the customary
prescriptions, composed of unknown ingredients, used
in ordinary practice for the other nameless,
innumerable forms of disease. These likewise do
nothing but debilitate, and only suppress or suspend
the malady for a short time without being able to cure
it, and when used for a long time always add a new
morbid state to the old disease.'
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