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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    anatomy), as also from what they could deduce from a comparison of the phenomena and functions in healthy life (physiology) with their endless alterations in the innumerable morbid states (pathology, semeio- tics), to draw conclusions relative to the invisible process whereby the changes which take place in the inward being of man in diseases are effected—a dim picture of the imagination, which theoretical medicine regarded as its 'prima causa morhi} and thus it was at ^ It would have been much more consonant with sane human reason and with the nature of things, had they, in order to be able to cure a disease, regarded the exciting cause as the causa morhi, and endeavoured to discover that, and thus been enabled success- fully to employ the mode of treatment which had shewn itself usehd in maladies having the same exciting cause, in those also of a similar oi’igin, as for example, the same mercury is efficacious in an ulcer of the glans after impure coitus, as in aU previous venereal chancres—• if, I say, they had discovered the exciting cause of all other (non- venereal) chronic diseases to be an infection at one period or another with the itch miasm (psora), and had found for all these a common method of treatment, regard being had for the peculiarities of each individual case, whereby all and each of these chronic diseases might have been cured, then might they with justice have boasted that in the treatment of chronic diseases they had in view the otily available and useful causa morhorum chronicorum {non venereoruni), and with this as a basis they might have treated such diseases with the best results. But during these many centuries they were unable to cure the millions of chronic diseases, because they knew not then- origin in the psoric miasm (which was fii'st discovered and after- wards provided with a suitable plan of treatment by homoeopatliy), and yet they vaunted that they alone kept in view the prima causa