Volume 2

Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1922
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Credit: Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    § 28, 29. Attempt to explain this therapeutic law of nature. 30-33. The human body is much more disposed to let its state of health be altered by medicinal forces than by natural disease. 34, 35. The correctness of the homoeopathic therapeutic law is shown in the want of success attending every homoeo¬ pathic treatment of a long-standing disease, and in this also, that two natural diseases meeting together in the body, if they be dissimilar to each other, do not remove or cure one another. 36. I. The older disease existing in the body, if it be equally as strong or stronger, keeps away from the patient a new dissimilar disease. 37. Thus under unhomceopathic treatment that is not vio¬ lent, chronic diseases remain as they were. 38. II. Or a new, stronger disease, attacking an individual already ill, suppresses only, as long as it lasts, the old disease that is dissimilar to it, already present in the body, but never removes it. 39. It is just in this way that violent treatment with allo- . pathic drugs does not cure a chronic disease, but sup¬ presses it only as long as the action of the powerful medicines, which are unable to excite any symptoms similar to the disease, lasts; after that, the chronic dis¬ ease makes its appearance as bad as or worse than before. 40. III. Or the new disease, after having long acted on the body, joins the old one that is dissimilar to it, and thence arises a double (complex) disease; neither of these two dissimilar diseases removes the other. 41. Although in the course of nature, it is not seldom that two dissimilar diseases meet in the same organism but this happens much more frequently in the ordinary prac- long-continued employment of powerful, inappropriate (allopathic) medicine, associates itself with the old natural disease, which is dissimilar to (and therefore not curable by) the former, and the chronic patient now becomes doubly diseased.