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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    § clxii—clxxi. Rules for treatment, when the supply of known medicines is too small to allow a perfect homoeopathic remedy to be dis- covered. clxxii—clxxxiv. Rules for the treatment of diseases with too few symp- toms : one-sided diseases. clxxxv—cciii. Treatment of diseases with local symptoms; their external treatment is always injurious. cciv, ccv. All chronic affections and diseases properly so called (that are not merely produced and maintained by a bad mode of living), must be cm’ed only from within, by the homoeopathic medicines appropriate for the miasm that lies at their root, ccvi. Preliminary investigation of the miasm that lies at their root, of the simple miasm, or its complications with a second (or even with a third). ccvii. Enquiry into the treatments previously employed, ccviii, ccix. The other preliminary enquiries necessary for the apprehen- sion of the morbid picture of the chronic disease, ccx—ccxxx. Treatment of the so-called mental or moral diseases, ccxxxi, ccxxxii. The intermittent and alternating diseases, ccxxxiii, ccxxxiv. The periodical intermittent diseases, ccxxxv—ccxliv. The intermittent fevers, ccxlv—ccli. Mode of using the remedies. Note.—Eepetition of the doses. [Later instructions and experience on this point.] cciii—cclvi. Signs of commencing improvement. cclvii, cclviii. False predilection for favourite remedies and improper aversion to other medicines, cclix—cclxi. Regimen in chronic diseases. Note.—Injurious things in the habits of life, cclxii, cclxiii. Diet in acute diseases. cclxiv—cclxvi. Selection of the most energetic, most genuine medicines. Note.—Change effected on some substances in their preparation for food, cclxvii. Preparation of the most powerful and most durable forms of medicines from plants that can be obtained fresh, cclxviii. Dry vegetable substances. Note.—Preparation of powders, so that they shall keep, cclxix—cclxxi. The mode of preparing crude medicinal substances, peculiar to homoeopathy, so as to develop their curative powers to the utmost. [Note.—Later technical improvements.]