Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 41

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 41:

'Much more frequent than the natural diseases
associating with and complicating one another in the
same body are the morbid complication resulting from
the art of the ordinary practitioner, which the
inappropriate medical treatment (the allopathic
method) is apt to produce by the long-continued
employment of unsuitable drugs. To the natural
disease, which it is proposed to cure, there are then
added, by the constant repetition of the unsuitable
medical agent, the new, often very tedious, morbid
conditions corresponding to the nature of this agent;
these gradually coalesce with and complicate the
chronic malady which is dissimilar to them (which they
were unable to cure by similarity of action, that is,
homœopathically), adding to the old disease a new,
dissimilar, artificial malady of a chronic nature, and
thus give the patient a double in place of a single
disease, that is to say, render him much worse and
more difficult to cure, often quite incurable. Many of
the cases for which advice is asked in medical
journals, as also the records of other cases in
medical writings, attest the truth of this. Of a
similar character are the frequent cases in which the
venereal chancrous disease, complicated especially
with psora or with the venereal chancrous disease,
complicated especially with psora or with dyscrasia of
condylomatous gonorrhoea, is not cured by
long-continued or frequently repeated treatment with
large doses of unsuitable mercurial preparations, but
assumes its place in the organism beside the chronic
mercurial affection1 that has been in the meantime
gradually developed, and thus along with it often
forms a hideous monster of complicated disease (under
the general name of masked venereal disease), which
then, when not quite incurable, can only be
transformed into health with the greatest difficulty.
Footnote 1:

For mercury, besides the morbid symptoms which by
virtue of similarity can cure the venereal disease
homœopathically, has among its effects many others
unlike those of syphilis, for instance, swelling and
ulceration of bones, which, if it be employed in large
doses, causes new maladies and commit great ravages in
the body, especially when complicated with psora, as
is so frequently the case.'
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