Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 46
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Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 46:
'Many examples might be adduced of disease which, in
the course of nature, have been homœopathically cured
by other diseases presenting similar symptoms, were it
not necessary, as our object is to speak about
something determinate and indubitable, to confine our
attention solely to those (few) disease which are
invariably the same, arise from a fixed miasm, and
hence merit a distinct name.
Among these the smallpox, so dreaded on account of the
great number of its serious symptoms, occupies a
prominent position, and it has removed and cured a
number of maladies with similar symptoms.
How frequently does smallpox produce violent
ophthalmia, sometimes even causing blindness! And see!
By its inoculation Dezoteux1 cured a chronic
ophthalmia permanently, and Leroy2 another.
An amaurosis of two years’ duration, consequent on
suppressed scald head, was perfectly cured by it,
according to Klein.3
How often does smallpox cause deafness and dyspnoea!
And both these chronic diseases it removed on reaching
its acme, as J. Fr. Closs4 observed.
Swelling of the testicle, even of a very severe
character, is a frequent symptom of small-pox, and on
this account it was enabled, as Klein5 observed, to
cure, by virtue of similarity, a large hard swelling
of the left testicle, consequently on a bruise. And
another observer6 saw a similar swelling of the
testicle cured by it.
Among the troublesome symptoms of small-pox is a
dysenteric state of the bowels; and it subdued, as Fr.
Wendt7 observed, a case of dysentery, as a similar
morbific agent.
Smallpox coming on after vaccination, as well on
account of its greater strength as its great
similarity, at once removes entirely the cow-pox
homœopathically, and does not permit it to come to
maturity; but, on the other hand, the cow-pox when
near maturity does, on account of its great
similarity, homœopathically diminish very much the
supervening smallpox and make it much milder 8, as
Muhry 9 and many others testify.
The inoculated cow-pox, whose lymph, besides the
protective matter, contains the contagion of a general
cutaneous eruption of another nature, consisting of
usually small, dry (rarely large, pustular) pimples,
resting on a small red areola, frequently conjoined
with round red cutaneous spots and often accompanied
by the most violent itching, which rash appears in not
a few children several days before, more frequently,
however, after the red areola of the cow-pock, and
goes off in a few days, leaving behind small, red,
hard spots on the skin; - the inoculated cow-pox, I
say, after it has taken, cures perfectly and
permanently, in a homœopathic manner, by the
similarity of this accessory miasm, analogous
cutaneous eruptions of children, often of very long
standing and of a very troublesome character, as a
number of observers assert.10
The cow-pox, a peculiar symptom of which is to cause
tumefaction of the arm11, cured, after it broke out, a
swollen half-paralyzed arm.12
The fever accompanying cow-pox, which occurs at the
time of the production of the red areola, cured
homœopathically intermittent fever in two individuals,
as the younger Hardege13 reports, confirming what J.
Hunter14 had already observed, that two fevers
(similar diseases) cannot co-exist in the same body.
The measles bear a strong resemblance in the character
of its fever and cough to the whooping-cough, and
hence it was that Bosquillon15 noticed, in an epidemic
where both these affections prevailed, that many
children who then took measles remained free from
whooping-cough during that epidemic. They would all
have been protected from, and rendered incapable of
being infected by, the whooping-cough in that and all
subsequent epidemics, by the measles, if the
whooping-cough were not a disease that has only a
partial similarity to the measles, that is to say, if
it had also a cutaneous eruption similar to what the
latter possesses. As it is, however, the measles can
but preserve a large number from whooping-cough
homœopathically, and that only in the epidemic
prevailing at the time.
If, however, the measles come in contact with a
disease resembling it in its chief symptom, the
eruption, it can indisputably remove, and effect a
homœopathic cure of the latter. Thus a chronic
herpetic eruption was entirely and permanently
(homœopathically) cured 16 by the breaking out of the
measles, as Kortum17 observed. An excessively burning
miliary rash on the face, neck, and arms, that had
lasted six years, and was aggravated by every change
of weather, on the invasion of measles assumed the
form of a swelling of the surface of the skin; after
the measles had run its course the exanthema was
cured, and returned no more.18
Footnotes:
1 Traite de l’inoculation, p.189.
2 Heilkunde fur Mutter, p.384.
3 Interpres clinicus, p.293.
4 Neue Heilart der Kinderpocken. Ulm, 1769, p.68; and
Specim., obs. No. 18.
5 Op. cit.
6 Nov. Act. Nat. cur., vol, I, obs. 22.
7 Nachricht Von dem Krankeninstitut zu Erlangen, 1783.
8 A new footnote is added here in the Sixth Edition,
as follows:
This seems to be the reason for this beneficial
remarkable fact namely that since the general
distribution of Janner’s Cow-pox vaccination, human
small-pox never again appeared as epidemically or
virulently as 40-45 years before when one city visited
lost at least one-half and often three-quarters of its
children by death of this miserable pestilence.
9 Willian, Ueber die Kuhpockenimpfung, aus dem Engl.,
mit Zusatzen G.P. Muhry, Gottingen, 1808.
10 Especially Clavier, Hurel and Desmormeaux, in the
Bulletin des sciencs medicales, publie par les membres
de l’ Eure, 1808, also in the Journal de medicine
continue, vol. xv, p.206.
11 Balhorn, in Hufeland’s Journal, 10, ii.
12 Stevenson, in Duncan’s Annals of Medicine, lustr.
2, vol. I, pt. 2, No. 9.
13 In Hufeland’s Journal, xxiii.
14 On the Veneral Disease, p.4.
15 Cullen’s Elements of Practical Medicine, pt. 2, I,
3, ch. vii.
16 Or at least that symptom was removed.
17 In Hufeland’s Journal, xx, 3, p.50.
18 Rau, Ueber d. Werth des hom.Heilv., Heidelb., 1824,
p.85.'
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Aphorism 46:
'Many examples might be adduced of disease which, in
the course of nature, have been homœopathically cured
by other diseases presenting similar symptoms, were it
not necessary, as our object is to speak about
something determinate and indubitable, to confine our
attention solely to those (few) disease which are
invariably the same, arise from a fixed miasm, and
hence merit a distinct name.
Among these the smallpox, so dreaded on account of the
great number of its serious symptoms, occupies a
prominent position, and it has removed and cured a
number of maladies with similar symptoms.
How frequently does smallpox produce violent
ophthalmia, sometimes even causing blindness! And see!
By its inoculation Dezoteux1 cured a chronic
ophthalmia permanently, and Leroy2 another.
An amaurosis of two years’ duration, consequent on
suppressed scald head, was perfectly cured by it,
according to Klein.3
How often does smallpox cause deafness and dyspnoea!
And both these chronic diseases it removed on reaching
its acme, as J. Fr. Closs4 observed.
Swelling of the testicle, even of a very severe
character, is a frequent symptom of small-pox, and on
this account it was enabled, as Klein5 observed, to
cure, by virtue of similarity, a large hard swelling
of the left testicle, consequently on a bruise. And
another observer6 saw a similar swelling of the
testicle cured by it.
Among the troublesome symptoms of small-pox is a
dysenteric state of the bowels; and it subdued, as Fr.
Wendt7 observed, a case of dysentery, as a similar
morbific agent.
Smallpox coming on after vaccination, as well on
account of its greater strength as its great
similarity, at once removes entirely the cow-pox
homœopathically, and does not permit it to come to
maturity; but, on the other hand, the cow-pox when
near maturity does, on account of its great
similarity, homœopathically diminish very much the
supervening smallpox and make it much milder 8, as
Muhry 9 and many others testify.
The inoculated cow-pox, whose lymph, besides the
protective matter, contains the contagion of a general
cutaneous eruption of another nature, consisting of
usually small, dry (rarely large, pustular) pimples,
resting on a small red areola, frequently conjoined
with round red cutaneous spots and often accompanied
by the most violent itching, which rash appears in not
a few children several days before, more frequently,
however, after the red areola of the cow-pock, and
goes off in a few days, leaving behind small, red,
hard spots on the skin; - the inoculated cow-pox, I
say, after it has taken, cures perfectly and
permanently, in a homœopathic manner, by the
similarity of this accessory miasm, analogous
cutaneous eruptions of children, often of very long
standing and of a very troublesome character, as a
number of observers assert.10
The cow-pox, a peculiar symptom of which is to cause
tumefaction of the arm11, cured, after it broke out, a
swollen half-paralyzed arm.12
The fever accompanying cow-pox, which occurs at the
time of the production of the red areola, cured
homœopathically intermittent fever in two individuals,
as the younger Hardege13 reports, confirming what J.
Hunter14 had already observed, that two fevers
(similar diseases) cannot co-exist in the same body.
The measles bear a strong resemblance in the character
of its fever and cough to the whooping-cough, and
hence it was that Bosquillon15 noticed, in an epidemic
where both these affections prevailed, that many
children who then took measles remained free from
whooping-cough during that epidemic. They would all
have been protected from, and rendered incapable of
being infected by, the whooping-cough in that and all
subsequent epidemics, by the measles, if the
whooping-cough were not a disease that has only a
partial similarity to the measles, that is to say, if
it had also a cutaneous eruption similar to what the
latter possesses. As it is, however, the measles can
but preserve a large number from whooping-cough
homœopathically, and that only in the epidemic
prevailing at the time.
If, however, the measles come in contact with a
disease resembling it in its chief symptom, the
eruption, it can indisputably remove, and effect a
homœopathic cure of the latter. Thus a chronic
herpetic eruption was entirely and permanently
(homœopathically) cured 16 by the breaking out of the
measles, as Kortum17 observed. An excessively burning
miliary rash on the face, neck, and arms, that had
lasted six years, and was aggravated by every change
of weather, on the invasion of measles assumed the
form of a swelling of the surface of the skin; after
the measles had run its course the exanthema was
cured, and returned no more.18
Footnotes:
1 Traite de l’inoculation, p.189.
2 Heilkunde fur Mutter, p.384.
3 Interpres clinicus, p.293.
4 Neue Heilart der Kinderpocken. Ulm, 1769, p.68; and
Specim., obs. No. 18.
5 Op. cit.
6 Nov. Act. Nat. cur., vol, I, obs. 22.
7 Nachricht Von dem Krankeninstitut zu Erlangen, 1783.
8 A new footnote is added here in the Sixth Edition,
as follows:
This seems to be the reason for this beneficial
remarkable fact namely that since the general
distribution of Janner’s Cow-pox vaccination, human
small-pox never again appeared as epidemically or
virulently as 40-45 years before when one city visited
lost at least one-half and often three-quarters of its
children by death of this miserable pestilence.
9 Willian, Ueber die Kuhpockenimpfung, aus dem Engl.,
mit Zusatzen G.P. Muhry, Gottingen, 1808.
10 Especially Clavier, Hurel and Desmormeaux, in the
Bulletin des sciencs medicales, publie par les membres
de l’ Eure, 1808, also in the Journal de medicine
continue, vol. xv, p.206.
11 Balhorn, in Hufeland’s Journal, 10, ii.
12 Stevenson, in Duncan’s Annals of Medicine, lustr.
2, vol. I, pt. 2, No. 9.
13 In Hufeland’s Journal, xxiii.
14 On the Veneral Disease, p.4.
15 Cullen’s Elements of Practical Medicine, pt. 2, I,
3, ch. vii.
16 Or at least that symptom was removed.
17 In Hufeland’s Journal, xx, 3, p.50.
18 Rau, Ueber d. Werth des hom.Heilv., Heidelb., 1824,
p.85.'
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