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.

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    disease to be cured (never, therefore, by an allopathic mode of treatment) and that even in nature no cure ever takes place, in which an inherent disease is removed, annihilated and cured by the accession of another disease dissimilar to it, be the new one ever so strong; That, moreover, all experience proves, that, by means of medicines which have a tendency to produce in the healthy individual an artificial morbid symptom, antagonistic to the single symptom of disease sought to be cured, the cure of a long standing affection will never be effected, but merely a very transient allevia- tion, always followed by aggravation; and that, in a word, this antipathic and merely palliative mode of treatment in long standing diseases of a serious character is quite in- capable of effecting the desired object; That, however, the third and only other possible mode of treatment (the homoeopathic), in which there is employed for the totality of the symp- toms of the natural disease, a medicine capable of producing the most similar symptoms pos- sible in the healthy individual, is the only efficacious method of treatment, whereby dis- eases, as mere dynamic derangements of the vital force, are overpowered, and being thus easily, perfectly and permanently extinguished, must necessarily cease to exist—and for this mode of procedure we have the example of