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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    17T cesses of the abnormally deranged vital force, which are disposed to finish their course more or less quickly, but always in a moderate time—they are termed acute diseases—; and partly diseases of such a character, that, with small, often imperceptible beginnings, dyna- mically derange the living organism, each in its own peculiar manner, and cause it gradually to deviate from the healthy condition, in such a way, that the automatic vital energy, called vital force, whose office is to preserve the health, only opposes to them at the commencement, as during their progress, imperfect, unsuitable, useless resistance, but is unable, of itself, to extinguish them, but must helplessly allow (them to spread and) itself to be ever more and more abnormally deranged, until at length the organism is destroyed; these are termed chronic diseases. They arise from infection with a chronic miasm. § LXXIII. As regards acute diseases, they are partly of such a kind as attack human beings individually, the exciting cause being injurious agencies to which they were particularly exposed. Excesses in food, or an insufficient supply of it, severe physical impressions, chills, over-heatings, dissipation, strains, &c., or psychical 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 re- turns to its dormant state, if the acute diseases were