ChappellRx--Paragraphs 101-103-GROUP TOTALITY CONCEPT
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:10 pm
Organon Paragraphs 101-103 are show that Hahnemann EXPLICITLY invented the
conceptual basis for group remedies. We use these concepts during acute
epidemics. Chappell has adapted them to chronic disease.
(Dudgeon--5th and 6th editions are apparently identical):
§ 101
It may easily happen that in the first case of an epidemic disease that
presents itself to the physician¹s notice he does not at once obtain a
knowledge of its complete picture, as it is only by a close observation of
several cases of every such collective disease that he can become conversant
with the totality of its signs and symptoms. The carefully observing
physician can, however, from the examination of even the first and second
patients, often arrive so nearly at a knowledge of the true state as to have
in his mind a characteristic portrait of it, and even to succeed in finding
a suitable, hom¦opathically adapted remedy for it.
§ 102
In the course of writing down the symptoms of several cases of this kind the
sketch of the disease picture becomes ever more and more complete, not
more spun out and verbose, but more significant (more characteristic), and
including more of the peculiarities of this collective disease; on the one
hand, the general symptoms (e.g., loss of appetite, sleeplessness, etc.)
become precisely defined as to their peculiarities; and on the other, the
more marked and special symptoms which are peculiar to but few diseases and
of rarer occurrence, at least in the same combination, become prominent and
constitute what is characteristic of this malady.1 All those affected with
the disease prevailing at a given time have certainly contracted it from one
and the same source and hence are suffering from the same disease; but the
whole extent of such an epidemic disease and the totality of its symptoms
(the knowledge whereof, which is essential for enabling us to choose the
most suitable hom¦opathic remedy for this array of symptoms, is obtained
by a complete survey of the morbid picture) cannot be learned from one
single patient, but is only to be perfectly deduced (abstracted) and
ascertained from the sufferings of several patients of different
constitutions.
1 The physician who has already, in the first cases, been able to choose a
remedy approximating to the hom¦opathic specific, will, from the subsequence
cases, be enabled either to verify the suitableness of the medicine chosen,
or to discover a more appropriate, the most appropriate hom¦opathic remedy.
§ 103
In the same manner as has here been taught relative to the epidemic disease,
which are generally of an acute character, the miasmatic chronic maladies,
which, as I have shown, always remain the same in their essential nature,
especially the psora, must be investigated, as to the whole sphere of their
symptoms, in a much more minute manner than has ever been done before, for
in them also one patient only exhibits a portion of their symptoms, a
second, a third, and so on, present some other symptoms, which also are but
a (dissevered, as it were), portion of the totality of the symptoms which
constitute the entire extent of this malady, so that the whole array of the
symptoms belonging to such a miasmatic, chronic disease, and especially to
the psora, can only be ascertained from the observation of very many single
patients affected with such a chronic disease, and without a complete
survey and collective picture of these symptoms the medicines capable of
curing the whole malady hom¦opathically (to wit, the antipsorics) cannot be
discovered; and these medicines are, at the same time, the true remedies of
the several patients suffering from such chronic affections.
conceptual basis for group remedies. We use these concepts during acute
epidemics. Chappell has adapted them to chronic disease.
(Dudgeon--5th and 6th editions are apparently identical):
§ 101
It may easily happen that in the first case of an epidemic disease that
presents itself to the physician¹s notice he does not at once obtain a
knowledge of its complete picture, as it is only by a close observation of
several cases of every such collective disease that he can become conversant
with the totality of its signs and symptoms. The carefully observing
physician can, however, from the examination of even the first and second
patients, often arrive so nearly at a knowledge of the true state as to have
in his mind a characteristic portrait of it, and even to succeed in finding
a suitable, hom¦opathically adapted remedy for it.
§ 102
In the course of writing down the symptoms of several cases of this kind the
sketch of the disease picture becomes ever more and more complete, not
more spun out and verbose, but more significant (more characteristic), and
including more of the peculiarities of this collective disease; on the one
hand, the general symptoms (e.g., loss of appetite, sleeplessness, etc.)
become precisely defined as to their peculiarities; and on the other, the
more marked and special symptoms which are peculiar to but few diseases and
of rarer occurrence, at least in the same combination, become prominent and
constitute what is characteristic of this malady.1 All those affected with
the disease prevailing at a given time have certainly contracted it from one
and the same source and hence are suffering from the same disease; but the
whole extent of such an epidemic disease and the totality of its symptoms
(the knowledge whereof, which is essential for enabling us to choose the
most suitable hom¦opathic remedy for this array of symptoms, is obtained
by a complete survey of the morbid picture) cannot be learned from one
single patient, but is only to be perfectly deduced (abstracted) and
ascertained from the sufferings of several patients of different
constitutions.
1 The physician who has already, in the first cases, been able to choose a
remedy approximating to the hom¦opathic specific, will, from the subsequence
cases, be enabled either to verify the suitableness of the medicine chosen,
or to discover a more appropriate, the most appropriate hom¦opathic remedy.
§ 103
In the same manner as has here been taught relative to the epidemic disease,
which are generally of an acute character, the miasmatic chronic maladies,
which, as I have shown, always remain the same in their essential nature,
especially the psora, must be investigated, as to the whole sphere of their
symptoms, in a much more minute manner than has ever been done before, for
in them also one patient only exhibits a portion of their symptoms, a
second, a third, and so on, present some other symptoms, which also are but
a (dissevered, as it were), portion of the totality of the symptoms which
constitute the entire extent of this malady, so that the whole array of the
symptoms belonging to such a miasmatic, chronic disease, and especially to
the psora, can only be ascertained from the observation of very many single
patients affected with such a chronic disease, and without a complete
survey and collective picture of these symptoms the medicines capable of
curing the whole malady hom¦opathically (to wit, the antipsorics) cannot be
discovered; and these medicines are, at the same time, the true remedies of
the several patients suffering from such chronic affections.