Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 73

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 73:

'As regards acute diseases, they are either of such a
kind as attack human beings individually, the exciting
cause being injurious influences to which they were
particularly exposed. Excesses in food, or an
insufficient supply of it, severe physical impression,
chills, over heatings, dissipation, strains, etc., or
physical irritations, mental emotions, and the like,
are exciting causes of such acute febrile affections;
in reality, however, they are generally only a
transient explosion of latent psora, which
spontaneously returns to its dormant state if the
acute diseases were not of too violent a character and
were soon quelled. Or they are of such a kind as
attack several persons at the same time, here and
there (sporadically), by means of meteoric or telluric
influences and injurious agents, the susceptibility
for being morbidly affected by which is possessed by
only a few persons at one time. Allied to these are
those diseases in which many persons are attacked with
very similar sufferings from the same cause
(epidemically); these diseases generally become
infectious (contagious) when they prevail among
thickly congregated masses of human beings. Thence
arise fevers1, in each instance of a peculiar nature,
and, because the cases of disease have an identical
origin, they set up in all those they affect an
identical morbid process, which when left to itself
terminates in a moderate period of time in death or
recovery. The calamities of war, inundations and
famine are not infrequently their exciting causes and
producers - sometimes they are peculiar acute miasms
which recur in the same manner (hence known by some
traditional name), which either attack persons but
once in a lifetime, as the smallpox, measles,
whooping-cough, the ancient, smooth, bright red
scarlet fever2 of Sydenham, the mumps, etc., or such
as recur frequently in pretty much the same manner,
the plague of the Levant, the yellow fever of the
sea-coast, the Asiatic cholera, etc.
Footnotes:

1. The homœopathic physician, who does not entertain
the foregone conclusion devised by the ordinary school
(who have fixed upon a few names of such fevers,
besides which mighty nature dare not produce any
others, so as to admit of their treating these disease
according to some fixed method), does not acknowledge
the names goal fever, bilious fever, typhus fever,
putrid fever, nervous fever or mucous fever, but
treats them each according to their several
peculiarities.

2. Subsequently to the year 1801 a kind of pupura
miliaris (roodvonk), which came from the West, was by
physicians confounded with the scarlet fever,
notwithstanding that they exhibited totally different
symptoms, that the latter found its prophylatic and
curative remedy in belladonna, the former in aconite,
and that the former was generally merely sporadic,
while the latter was invariable epidemic. Of late
years it seems as if the two occasionally joined to
form an eruptive fever of a peculiar kind, for which
neither the one nor the other remedy, alone, will be
found to be exactly homœopathic.'
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