Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 58
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 10:15 am
Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 58:
'If, in estimating the value of this mode of employing
medicines, we should even pass over the circumstance
that it is an extremely faulty symptomatic treatment
(v. note to § 7), wherein the practitioner devotes his
attention in a merely one-sided manner to a single
symptom, consequently to only a small part of the
whole, whereby relief for the totality of the disease,
which is what the patient desires, cannot evidently be
expected, - we must, on the other hand, demand of
experience if, in one single case where such
antipathic employment of medicine was made use of in a
chronic or persisting affection, after the transient
amelioration there did not ensue an increased
aggravation of the symptom which was subdued at first
in a palliative manner, an aggravation, indeed, of the
whole disease? And every attentive observer will agree
that, after such short antipathic amelioration,
aggravation follows in every case without exception,
although the ordinary physician is in the habit of
giving his patient another explanation of this
subsequent aggravation, and ascribes it to malignancy
of the original disease, now for the first time
showing itself, or to the occurrence of quite a new
disease 1.
Footnote:
Little as physicians have hitherto been in the habit
of observing accurately, the aggravation that so
certainly follows such palliative treatment could not
altogether escape their notice. A striking example of
this is to be found in J. H. Schulze’s Diss. qua
corporis humani momentanearum alterationum specimina
quoedam expenduntur, Halae, 1741, § 28. Willis bears
testimony to something similar (Pharm. rat., § 7, cap.
I, p.298): "Opiata dolores atroscissimos plerumque
sedant atque indolentiam - procurant, camque -
aliquamdiu et pro stato quodam tempore continuant, quo
spatio elapso dolores mox recrusescunt et brevi ad sol
itam ferociam augentur." And also at page 295:
"Exactis opii viribus illico redeunt tormina, nec
atrocitatem suam remittunt, nisi dum ab eodem pharmaco
rursus incantuntur." In like manner J. Hunter (On the
Venereal Disease, p.13) says that wine and cordials
given to the weak increase the action without giving
real strength, and the powers of the body are
afterwards sunk proportionally as they have been
raised, by which nothing can be gained, but a great
deal may be lost.'
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Aphorism 58:
'If, in estimating the value of this mode of employing
medicines, we should even pass over the circumstance
that it is an extremely faulty symptomatic treatment
(v. note to § 7), wherein the practitioner devotes his
attention in a merely one-sided manner to a single
symptom, consequently to only a small part of the
whole, whereby relief for the totality of the disease,
which is what the patient desires, cannot evidently be
expected, - we must, on the other hand, demand of
experience if, in one single case where such
antipathic employment of medicine was made use of in a
chronic or persisting affection, after the transient
amelioration there did not ensue an increased
aggravation of the symptom which was subdued at first
in a palliative manner, an aggravation, indeed, of the
whole disease? And every attentive observer will agree
that, after such short antipathic amelioration,
aggravation follows in every case without exception,
although the ordinary physician is in the habit of
giving his patient another explanation of this
subsequent aggravation, and ascribes it to malignancy
of the original disease, now for the first time
showing itself, or to the occurrence of quite a new
disease 1.
Footnote:
Little as physicians have hitherto been in the habit
of observing accurately, the aggravation that so
certainly follows such palliative treatment could not
altogether escape their notice. A striking example of
this is to be found in J. H. Schulze’s Diss. qua
corporis humani momentanearum alterationum specimina
quoedam expenduntur, Halae, 1741, § 28. Willis bears
testimony to something similar (Pharm. rat., § 7, cap.
I, p.298): "Opiata dolores atroscissimos plerumque
sedant atque indolentiam - procurant, camque -
aliquamdiu et pro stato quodam tempore continuant, quo
spatio elapso dolores mox recrusescunt et brevi ad sol
itam ferociam augentur." And also at page 295:
"Exactis opii viribus illico redeunt tormina, nec
atrocitatem suam remittunt, nisi dum ab eodem pharmaco
rursus incantuntur." In like manner J. Hunter (On the
Venereal Disease, p.13) says that wine and cordials
given to the weak increase the action without giving
real strength, and the powers of the body are
afterwards sunk proportionally as they have been
raised, by which nothing can be gained, but a great
deal may be lost.'
**********************************************
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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