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.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ligature on polypi, by cutting out, or exciting sup- puration by means of local irritants in, indolent glandular swellings, by dissecting out encysted tu- mours (steatoma and meliceria), by their operations for aneurysm, and lacrymal and anal fistula, by re- moving with the knife scirrhous tumours of the breast, by amputating a limb affected with necrosis, &c., they cure the patient radically, and that their treatment is directed against the cause of the disease; and they also think, when they employ their repellent remedies, dry up old running ulcers in the legs with astringent applications of lead, copper, or oxyde of zinc, (aided always, by the simultaneous administration of purga- tives, which merely debilitate, but have no effect on the primary dyscrasia,) cauterize chancres, destroy condylomata locally, drive off itch from the sldn with sulphur, lead, mercurial or oxyde of zinc ointment, suppress ophthalmiee with solutions of lead or zinc, and drive away dragging pains from the limbs by means of opodeldoc, hartshorn liniment, or fumigations with cinnabar or amber; in every case they think they have removed the affection, conquered the disease, and conducted a rational treatment directed towards the cause. But what is the result? the new forms of disease that sooner or later, but inevitably appear, caused by this mode of treatment (but which they pretend are entirely new diseases,) ivhich are always worse than the original affections, sufficiently prove the error of their notions, and might and should open their eyes to the