Organon of medicine / by Samuel Hahnemann ; translated from the fifth German edition, by R. E. Dudgeon.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel Christian Friedrich, 1755-1843.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Organon of medicine / by Samuel Hahnemann ; translated from the fifth German edition, by R. E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    § LXX. From what has been already adduced, we cannot - fail to draw the following inferences: That every thing of a really morbid character and which ought to be cured, that the physi- cian can discover in diseases, consists solely in the sulferings of the patient, and the sensible alterations in his health, in a word, solely in the sum total of the symptoms, by means of which the disease demands the medicine requisite for its relief, whilst on the other hand, every internal cause assigned to it, every occult quality or imaginary material morbific principle, is nothing but an empty dream ; That this derangement of the health, which we term disease, can only be converted into health by another revolution in the health by means of medicines, whose sole curative power, con- sequently, can only consist in deranging man’s health, that is to say, in a peculiar excitation of morbid symptoms, and is learned with most distinctness and purity by testing them on healthy individuals; That, according to all experience, a natural disease can never be cured by medicines that possess the power of producing in the healthy individual an alien morbid state (dissimilar morbid symptoms) differing from that of the