Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 45

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 45

'No! Two diseases, differing, it is true, in kind 1
but very similar in their phenomena and effects and in
the sufferings and symptoms they severally produce,
invariably annihilate one another whenever they meet
together in the organism; the stronger disease namely,
annihilates the weaker, and that for this simple
reason, because the stronger morbific power when it
invades the system, by reason of its similarity of
action involves precisely the same part of the
organism that were previously affected by the weaker
morbid irritation, which, consequently, can no longer
act on these parts, but is extinguished 2, or (in
other words), the new similar but stronger morbific
potency controls the feelings of the patient and hence
the life principle on account of its peculiarity, can
no longer feel the weaker similar which becomes
extinguished - exists no longer - for it was never
anything material, but a dynamic - spirit-like -
(conceptual) affection. The life principle henceforth
is affected only and this but temporarily by the new,
similar but stronger morbific potency.
Footnotes:

1 Vide, supra, § 26, note

2 Just as the image of a lamp’s flame is rapidly
overpowered and effaced from our retina by the
stronger sunbeam impinging on the eye.'
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