Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 60
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 8:21 am
Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 60:
'If these ill-effects are produced, as may very
naturally be expected from the antipathic employment
of medicines, the ordinary physician imagines he can
get over the difficulty by giving, at each renewed
aggravation, a stronger dose of the remedy, whereby an
equally transient suppression1 is effected; and as
there then is a still greater necessity for giving
ever - increasing quantities of the palliative there
ensues either another more serious disease or
frequently even danger to life and death itself, but
never a cure of a disease of considerable or of long
standing.
Footnotes:
1 All usual palliatives given for the suffering of the
sick have (as is seen here) as after-effects an
increase of the same suffering and the older
physicians had to repeat them in ever stronger doses
in order to achieve a similar modification, which
however, was never permanent and never sufficient to
prevent an increased recurrence of the ailment. But
Brousseau, who twenty-five years before contended
against the senseless mixing of different drugs in
prescription and thereby ending its reign in France,
(for which mankind is grateful to him) introduced his
so-called physiological system (without taking note of
the homœopathic method then already established), a
method of treatment, while effectively lessening and
permanently preventing the return of all the
sufferings, was applicable to all diseases of mankind;
a thing that the palliatives then in use were not
capable of affecting.
Being able to heal disease with mild innocent remedies
and thus establish health, Brousseau found the easier
way to quiet the sufferings of patients more and more
at the cost of their life and at last to extinguish
life wholly - a method of treatment that, alas, seemed
sufficient to his contemporaries. In the degree that
the patient retains his strength will his ailments be
apparent and the more intensely will he feel his
pains. He moans and groans and cries out and calls for
help more and more vociferously so that the physician
cannot come any too soon to give relief. Brousseau
needed only to depress the vital force, to lessen it
more and more and behold, the more frequently the
patient was bled, the more leeches and cupping glasses
sucked out the vital fluid (for the innocent
irreplaceable blood was according to him responsible
for almost all ailments). In the same proportion the
patient lost strength to feel pain or to express his
aggravated condition by violent complaint and
gestures. The patient appears more quiet in proportion
as he grows weaker, the bystanders rejoice in his
apparent improvement, ready to return to the same
measures on the renewal of his sufferings - be they
spasms, suffocation, fears or pain, for they had so
beautifully quieted him before and gave promise of
further ease. In disease of long duration and when the
patient retained some strength, he was deprived of
food, put on a "hunger diet," in order to depress life
so much more successfully and inhibit the restless
states. The debilitated patient feels unable to
protest against further similar measures of
blood-letting leeches, vesication, warm baths and so
forth to refuse their employment. That death must
follow such frequently repeated reduction and
exhaustion of the vital energy is not noticed by the
patient, already robbed of all consciousness, and the
relatives, blinded by the improvements even of the
last sufferings of the patient by means of blood
letting and warm baths, cannot understand and are
surprised when the patient quietly slips away.
"But God knows the patient on his bed of sickness was
not treated with violence, for the prick of a small
lancet is not really painful and the gum Arabic
solution (Eau de Gourme, almost the only medicine that
Brousseau used) was mild in taste and without apparent
action - the bite of the leeches insignificant and the
blood letting by the physician done quietly while the
luke warm baths could only soothe, hence the disease
from the very start must have been fatal, so that the
patient, notwithstanding all efforts of the physician,
had to leave the earth." In this way the relatives,
and especially the heirs of the dear departed,
consoled themselves.
The physicians in Europe and elsewhere accepted this
convenient treatment of all diseases according to a
single rule, since it saved them from all further
thinking (the most laborious of all work under the
sun). They only had to take care "to assuage the pangs
of conscience and console themselves that they were
not the originators of this system and this method of
treatment, that all the other thousands of
Brousseauists did the same and that possibly
everything would cease with death anyway as was taught
by their master." In this way many thousand physicians
were miserably misled to shed (with cold heart) the
warm blood of their patients that were capable of cure
and thereby rob millions of men gradually of their
life, according to Brousseau’s method, more than fell
on Napoleon’s battlefields. Was it perhaps necessary
by the disposition of God for that system of Brousseau
which destroyed medically the life of curable patients
to precede homœopathy in order to open the eyes of the
world to the only true science and art of medicine,
homœopathy, in which curable patients find health and
new life when this most difficult of all arts is
practised by an indefatigable discriminating physician
in a pure and conscientious manner?'
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Aphorism 60:
'If these ill-effects are produced, as may very
naturally be expected from the antipathic employment
of medicines, the ordinary physician imagines he can
get over the difficulty by giving, at each renewed
aggravation, a stronger dose of the remedy, whereby an
equally transient suppression1 is effected; and as
there then is a still greater necessity for giving
ever - increasing quantities of the palliative there
ensues either another more serious disease or
frequently even danger to life and death itself, but
never a cure of a disease of considerable or of long
standing.
Footnotes:
1 All usual palliatives given for the suffering of the
sick have (as is seen here) as after-effects an
increase of the same suffering and the older
physicians had to repeat them in ever stronger doses
in order to achieve a similar modification, which
however, was never permanent and never sufficient to
prevent an increased recurrence of the ailment. But
Brousseau, who twenty-five years before contended
against the senseless mixing of different drugs in
prescription and thereby ending its reign in France,
(for which mankind is grateful to him) introduced his
so-called physiological system (without taking note of
the homœopathic method then already established), a
method of treatment, while effectively lessening and
permanently preventing the return of all the
sufferings, was applicable to all diseases of mankind;
a thing that the palliatives then in use were not
capable of affecting.
Being able to heal disease with mild innocent remedies
and thus establish health, Brousseau found the easier
way to quiet the sufferings of patients more and more
at the cost of their life and at last to extinguish
life wholly - a method of treatment that, alas, seemed
sufficient to his contemporaries. In the degree that
the patient retains his strength will his ailments be
apparent and the more intensely will he feel his
pains. He moans and groans and cries out and calls for
help more and more vociferously so that the physician
cannot come any too soon to give relief. Brousseau
needed only to depress the vital force, to lessen it
more and more and behold, the more frequently the
patient was bled, the more leeches and cupping glasses
sucked out the vital fluid (for the innocent
irreplaceable blood was according to him responsible
for almost all ailments). In the same proportion the
patient lost strength to feel pain or to express his
aggravated condition by violent complaint and
gestures. The patient appears more quiet in proportion
as he grows weaker, the bystanders rejoice in his
apparent improvement, ready to return to the same
measures on the renewal of his sufferings - be they
spasms, suffocation, fears or pain, for they had so
beautifully quieted him before and gave promise of
further ease. In disease of long duration and when the
patient retained some strength, he was deprived of
food, put on a "hunger diet," in order to depress life
so much more successfully and inhibit the restless
states. The debilitated patient feels unable to
protest against further similar measures of
blood-letting leeches, vesication, warm baths and so
forth to refuse their employment. That death must
follow such frequently repeated reduction and
exhaustion of the vital energy is not noticed by the
patient, already robbed of all consciousness, and the
relatives, blinded by the improvements even of the
last sufferings of the patient by means of blood
letting and warm baths, cannot understand and are
surprised when the patient quietly slips away.
"But God knows the patient on his bed of sickness was
not treated with violence, for the prick of a small
lancet is not really painful and the gum Arabic
solution (Eau de Gourme, almost the only medicine that
Brousseau used) was mild in taste and without apparent
action - the bite of the leeches insignificant and the
blood letting by the physician done quietly while the
luke warm baths could only soothe, hence the disease
from the very start must have been fatal, so that the
patient, notwithstanding all efforts of the physician,
had to leave the earth." In this way the relatives,
and especially the heirs of the dear departed,
consoled themselves.
The physicians in Europe and elsewhere accepted this
convenient treatment of all diseases according to a
single rule, since it saved them from all further
thinking (the most laborious of all work under the
sun). They only had to take care "to assuage the pangs
of conscience and console themselves that they were
not the originators of this system and this method of
treatment, that all the other thousands of
Brousseauists did the same and that possibly
everything would cease with death anyway as was taught
by their master." In this way many thousand physicians
were miserably misled to shed (with cold heart) the
warm blood of their patients that were capable of cure
and thereby rob millions of men gradually of their
life, according to Brousseau’s method, more than fell
on Napoleon’s battlefields. Was it perhaps necessary
by the disposition of God for that system of Brousseau
which destroyed medically the life of curable patients
to precede homœopathy in order to open the eyes of the
world to the only true science and art of medicine,
homœopathy, in which curable patients find health and
new life when this most difficult of all arts is
practised by an indefatigable discriminating physician
in a pure and conscientious manner?'
***********************************************
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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