Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann, translated from the fifth German edition, by R.E. Dudgeon, M.D.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 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, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By an accidental coincidence the day on which I have completed the translation of his master- piece, brings round the ninety-fifth anniversary of the birth of this extraordinary Reformer of the medical art. The advanced age to which he lived (he died but six years since) made it almost seem as if the Sage of a former epoch was privi- leged himself to hand down to posterity the discoveries he had made in a previous century for the benefit of all succeeding ages. The truth, which in the latest edition of the Organon attained its perfect development, first feebly dawned upon his mind in 1790, and six years later he recorded these imperfect glimmerings of the pure light in the periodical medical Journal of his friend Hufeland;* in 1805 ap- peared his “ Medicine of Experience,” + wherein the great principle is more boldly enunciated. The whole doctrine, systematized and illustrated, . * Essay on a new principle, &c., translated in the volume published by the British Homeopathic Association for 1848. } Translated in Vols. I and II of the British Journal of Homeo- pathy.