Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 74
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2002 9:08 am
Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 74:
'Among chronic diseases we must still, alas!, reckon
those so commonly met with, artificially produced in
allopathic treatment by the prolonged use of violent
heroic medicines in large and increasing doses, by the
abuse of calomel, corrosive sublimate, mercurial
ointment, nitrate of silver, iodine and its ointments,
opium, valerian, cinchona bark and quinine, foxglove,
prussic acid, sulphur and sulphuric acid, perennial
purgatives1, venesections, shedding streams of blood,
leeches, issues, setons, etc., whereby the vital
energy is sometimes weakened to an unmerciful extent,
sometimes, if it do not succumb, gradually abnormally
deranged (by each substance in a peculiar manner) in
such a way that, in order to maintain life against
these inimical and destructive attacks, it must
produce a revolution in the organism, and either
deprive some part of its irritability and sensibility,
or exalt these to an excessive degree, cause
dilatation or contraction, relaxation or induration or
even total destruction of certain parts, and develop
faulty organic alterations here and there in the
interior or the exterior (cripple the body internally
or externally), in order to preserve the organism from
complete destruction of the life by the ever -
renewed, hostile assaults of such destructive forces
2.
Footnotes:
1 The only possible case of plethora shows itself with
the healthy woman, several days before her monthly
period, with a feeling of a certain fullness of womb
and breasts, but without inflammation.
2 Among all imaginable methods for the relief of
sickness, no greater allopathic, irrational or
inappropriate one can be thought of than this
Brousseauic, debilitating treatment by means of
venesection and hunger diet, which for many years has
spread over a large part of the earth. No intelligent
man can see in it anything medical, or medically
helpful, whereas real medicines, even if chosen
blindly and administered to a patient, may at times
prove of benefit in a given case of sickness because
they may accidentally have been homœopathic to the
case. But from venesection, healthy common sense can
expect nothing more than certain lessening and
shortening of life. It is a sorrowful and wholly
groundless fallacy that most and indeed all diseases
depend on local inflammation. Even for true local
inflammation, the most certain and quickest cure is
found in medicines capable of taking away dynamically
the arterial irritation upon which the inflammation is
based and this without the least loss of fluids and
strength. Local venesections, even from the affected
part, only tend to increase renewed inflammation of
these parts. And precisely so it is generally
inappropriate, aye, murderous to take away many pounds
of blood from the veins in inflammatory fevers, when a
few appropriate medicines would dispel this irritated
arterial state, driving the hitherto quiet blood
together with the disease in a few hours without the
least loss of fluids and strength. Such great loss of
blood is evidently irreplaceable for the remaining
continuance of life, since the organs intended by the
Creator for bloodmaking have thereby become so
weakened that while they may manufacture blood in the
same quantity but not again of the same good quality.
And how impossible is it for this imagined plethora to
have been produced in such remarkable rapidity and so
to drain it off by frequent venesections when yet an
hour before the pulse of this heated patient (before
the fever and chill stage) was so quiet. No man, no
sick person has ever too much blood or too much
strength. On the contrary, every sick man lacks
strength, otherwise his vital energy would have
prevented the development of the disease. Thus it is
irrational and cruel to add to this weakened patient,
a greater, indeed the most serious source of debility
that can be imagined. It is a murderous malpractice
irrational and cruel based on a wholly groundless and
absurd theory instead of taking away his disease which
is ever dynamic and only to be removed by dynamic
potencies.'
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Aphorism 74:
'Among chronic diseases we must still, alas!, reckon
those so commonly met with, artificially produced in
allopathic treatment by the prolonged use of violent
heroic medicines in large and increasing doses, by the
abuse of calomel, corrosive sublimate, mercurial
ointment, nitrate of silver, iodine and its ointments,
opium, valerian, cinchona bark and quinine, foxglove,
prussic acid, sulphur and sulphuric acid, perennial
purgatives1, venesections, shedding streams of blood,
leeches, issues, setons, etc., whereby the vital
energy is sometimes weakened to an unmerciful extent,
sometimes, if it do not succumb, gradually abnormally
deranged (by each substance in a peculiar manner) in
such a way that, in order to maintain life against
these inimical and destructive attacks, it must
produce a revolution in the organism, and either
deprive some part of its irritability and sensibility,
or exalt these to an excessive degree, cause
dilatation or contraction, relaxation or induration or
even total destruction of certain parts, and develop
faulty organic alterations here and there in the
interior or the exterior (cripple the body internally
or externally), in order to preserve the organism from
complete destruction of the life by the ever -
renewed, hostile assaults of such destructive forces
2.
Footnotes:
1 The only possible case of plethora shows itself with
the healthy woman, several days before her monthly
period, with a feeling of a certain fullness of womb
and breasts, but without inflammation.
2 Among all imaginable methods for the relief of
sickness, no greater allopathic, irrational or
inappropriate one can be thought of than this
Brousseauic, debilitating treatment by means of
venesection and hunger diet, which for many years has
spread over a large part of the earth. No intelligent
man can see in it anything medical, or medically
helpful, whereas real medicines, even if chosen
blindly and administered to a patient, may at times
prove of benefit in a given case of sickness because
they may accidentally have been homœopathic to the
case. But from venesection, healthy common sense can
expect nothing more than certain lessening and
shortening of life. It is a sorrowful and wholly
groundless fallacy that most and indeed all diseases
depend on local inflammation. Even for true local
inflammation, the most certain and quickest cure is
found in medicines capable of taking away dynamically
the arterial irritation upon which the inflammation is
based and this without the least loss of fluids and
strength. Local venesections, even from the affected
part, only tend to increase renewed inflammation of
these parts. And precisely so it is generally
inappropriate, aye, murderous to take away many pounds
of blood from the veins in inflammatory fevers, when a
few appropriate medicines would dispel this irritated
arterial state, driving the hitherto quiet blood
together with the disease in a few hours without the
least loss of fluids and strength. Such great loss of
blood is evidently irreplaceable for the remaining
continuance of life, since the organs intended by the
Creator for bloodmaking have thereby become so
weakened that while they may manufacture blood in the
same quantity but not again of the same good quality.
And how impossible is it for this imagined plethora to
have been produced in such remarkable rapidity and so
to drain it off by frequent venesections when yet an
hour before the pulse of this heated patient (before
the fever and chill stage) was so quiet. No man, no
sick person has ever too much blood or too much
strength. On the contrary, every sick man lacks
strength, otherwise his vital energy would have
prevented the development of the disease. Thus it is
irrational and cruel to add to this weakened patient,
a greater, indeed the most serious source of debility
that can be imagined. It is a murderous malpractice
irrational and cruel based on a wholly groundless and
absurd theory instead of taking away his disease which
is ever dynamic and only to be removed by dynamic
potencies.'
***********************************************
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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