Hahnemann's defence of the Organon of rational medicine : and of his previous homoeopathic works against the attacks of Professor Hecker ; an explanatory commentary on the homoeopathic system / Translated by R.E. Dudgeon.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Hahnemann's defence of the Organon of rational medicine : and of his previous homoeopathic works against the attacks of Professor Hecker ; an explanatory commentary on the homoeopathic system / Translated by R.E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEFENCE OF THE ORGANON, ETC. My confidence in my countrymen makes me think that no honor-loving German can have read Hecker's 109 page long abusive articles against me (Annalen der gesammten Medicin,'^ July and September, 1810), without intense in- dignation ; a feeling akin to that which the public mani- fested towards Klotz for having in his Literaturbriefen, be- spattered the immortal Lessing and other distinguished men with his filthy venom. Nature may have required at least half a century to produce in civilized countries a man who could take a heart-felt pleasure in attacking conspicuous merit and dis- playing towards it an animosity of the fiercest and bitter- est character. Klotz and Hecker will always remain a remarkable manifestation of nature, as rare as it is defi- * [The full title of the periodical is '' Annalen der gesammten Medicin als Wissensehaft und als Kunst, zur JBeurtheilung ihrer neusten Ei'findungen, Theorien, Systeme und Heilmethoden, von August Friederich Hecker. Anglice: ^^ Annals of all Medicine as Science and as Art, for judging of its newest discoveries, theones, systems, and methods of cure, by August Friederich Seeker.'^ A most ambitious and comprehensive title, but apparently the enterprise did not meet with the success anticipated, for the peri- odical expired after an existence of only two years. ]