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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    each of which was at variance with the rest and self-contradictory. Each of these subtile expositions at first threw the readers into stupified amazement at the incomprehensible wisdom contained in it, and attracted to the system-monger a number of followers, who re-echoed his unnatural sophistry, to none of whom, however, was it of the slightest use in enabling them to cure better, until a new system, often dia- metrically opposed to the first, thrust that aside, and in its turn gained a shortlived renown. None of them, however, was in consonance with nature and ex- perience; they were mere theoretical webs, constructed by cunning intellects out of pretended consequences, which could not be made use of in practice, in the treatment at the sick-bed, on account of their exces- sive subtilty and repugnance to nature, and only served for empty disputations. Simultaneously, but quite independent of all these theories, there sprung up a mode of treatment with mixtures of unknown medicinal substances, against forms of disease arbitrarily set up, and directed to- wards some material object, completely at variance with nature and experience, hence, as may be sup- posed, with a bad result—such is old medicine, Allopathy as it is termed. | ‘ Without disparaging the services which many ~ physicians have rendered to the sciences auxiliary to medicine, to natural philosophy and chemistry, to natural history in its various branches, and to that of man in particular, anthropology, physiology and