Volume 1

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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    § 42. These diseases that thus complicate one another take, on account of their dissimilarity, each the place in the or¬ ganism suited for it. 43, 44. But quite otherwise is it on the accession of a stronger disease to a pre-existing one similar to it; in that case the latter will be removed and cured by the former. 45. Explanation of this phenomenon. 46. Instances of chronic diseases being cured by the acci¬ dental accession of another similar but stronger disease. 47-49. In cases where diseases come together in the course of nature, it is only one that displays similar symptoms that can remove and cure the other, a dissimilar disease can never do this; this should teach the physician what kind of medicines he can certainly cure with, namely, with homoeopathic ones alone. 50. Nature has but few diseases to send to the homoeopathic relief of other diseases, and these its remedial agents are accompanied by many inconveniences. 51. On the other hand, the physician has innumerable rem¬ edial agents, possessing great advantages over those. 52. There are but two chief methods of cure, the homoeo¬ pathic and the allopathic, which are exact opposites, they cannot approach each other or unite. 53. The homoeopathic is based on an infallible law of nature and proves itself as the only excellent one. 54. The allopathic appeared in many very differing systems following each other, all terming themselves rational methods of cure. This method saw in diseases only morbid matter which were classified and created a Materia Medica based on conjectures and compound prescriptions. 55. 56. The allopathic physicians possess in their hurtful method of treatment nothing but palliatives which still may retain the confidence of patients. Note.—Isopathy.