Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 67
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 7:41 am
Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 67:
'These incontrovertible truths, which spontaneously
offer themselves to our notice and experience, explain
to us the beneficial action that takes place under
homœopathic treatment; while, on the other hand, they
demonstrate the perversity of the antipathic and
palliative treatment of diseases with antagonistically
acting medicines 1.
Footnotes:
1 Only in the most urgent cases, where danger to life
and imminent death allow no time for the action of a
homœopathic remedy - not hours, sometimes not even
quarter-hours, and scarcely minutes - in sudden
accidents occurring to previously healthy individuals
-for example, in asphyxia and suspended animation from
lightning, from suffocation, freezing, drowning, etc.
-is it admissible and judicious, at all events as a
preliminary measure to stimulate the irritability and
sensibility (the physical life) with a palliative, as
for instance, with gentle electrical shocks, with
clysters of strong coffee, with a stimulating odor,
gradual application of heat, etc. When this
stimulation is effected, the play of the vital organs
again goes on in its former healthy manner, for there
is here no disease* to be removed, but merely an
obstruction and suppression of the healthy vital
force. To this category belong various antidotes to
sudden poisoning: alkalies from mineral acids, hepar
sulphuris for metallic poisons, coffee and camphora
(and ipecacuanha) for poisoning by opium, etc.
It does not follow that a homoeopathic medicine has
been ill selected for a case of disease because some
of the medicinal symptoms are only antipathic to some
of the less important and minor symptoms of the
disease; if only the others, the stronger well-marked
(characteristic), and peculiar symptoms of the disease
are covered and matched by the same medicine with
similarity of symptoms - that is to say, overpowered,
destroyed and extinguished; the few opposite symptoms
also disappear of themselves after the expiry of the
term of action of the medicament, without retarding
the cure in the least.
* And yet the new sect that mixes the two systems
appeals (though in vain) to this observation, in order
that they may have an excuse for encountering
everywhere such exceptions to the general rule in
diseases, and to justify their convenient employment
of allopathic palliatives, and of other injurious
allopathic trash besides, solely for the sake of
sparing themselves the trouble of seeking for the
suitable homœopathic remedy for each case of disease -
and thus conveniently appear as homœopathic
physicians, without being such. But their performances
are on a par with the system they pursue; they are
corrupting.'
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Aphorism 67:
'These incontrovertible truths, which spontaneously
offer themselves to our notice and experience, explain
to us the beneficial action that takes place under
homœopathic treatment; while, on the other hand, they
demonstrate the perversity of the antipathic and
palliative treatment of diseases with antagonistically
acting medicines 1.
Footnotes:
1 Only in the most urgent cases, where danger to life
and imminent death allow no time for the action of a
homœopathic remedy - not hours, sometimes not even
quarter-hours, and scarcely minutes - in sudden
accidents occurring to previously healthy individuals
-for example, in asphyxia and suspended animation from
lightning, from suffocation, freezing, drowning, etc.
-is it admissible and judicious, at all events as a
preliminary measure to stimulate the irritability and
sensibility (the physical life) with a palliative, as
for instance, with gentle electrical shocks, with
clysters of strong coffee, with a stimulating odor,
gradual application of heat, etc. When this
stimulation is effected, the play of the vital organs
again goes on in its former healthy manner, for there
is here no disease* to be removed, but merely an
obstruction and suppression of the healthy vital
force. To this category belong various antidotes to
sudden poisoning: alkalies from mineral acids, hepar
sulphuris for metallic poisons, coffee and camphora
(and ipecacuanha) for poisoning by opium, etc.
It does not follow that a homoeopathic medicine has
been ill selected for a case of disease because some
of the medicinal symptoms are only antipathic to some
of the less important and minor symptoms of the
disease; if only the others, the stronger well-marked
(characteristic), and peculiar symptoms of the disease
are covered and matched by the same medicine with
similarity of symptoms - that is to say, overpowered,
destroyed and extinguished; the few opposite symptoms
also disappear of themselves after the expiry of the
term of action of the medicament, without retarding
the cure in the least.
* And yet the new sect that mixes the two systems
appeals (though in vain) to this observation, in order
that they may have an excuse for encountering
everywhere such exceptions to the general rule in
diseases, and to justify their convenient employment
of allopathic palliatives, and of other injurious
allopathic trash besides, solely for the sake of
sparing themselves the trouble of seeking for the
suitable homœopathic remedy for each case of disease -
and thus conveniently appear as homœopathic
physicians, without being such. But their performances
are on a par with the system they pursue; they are
corrupting.'
***********************************************
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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