Organon of homœopathic medicine. / by Samuel Hahnemann.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1836
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    performed according to nature, and how man is to proceed in effecting the same object. § 44. Two diseases that resemble each other closely can neither repel (as in the first of the three preceding hypotheses, I.), nor suspend each other (as in the second, II.), so that the old one re-appears after the cessation of the new one ; nor, finally, (as in the third, III.), can they exist beside each other in the same organism, and form a double or complicated disease. § 45. No ! Two diseases that differ greatly in their species,’ but which bear a strong resemblance in their develop- ment and effects—that is to say, in the symptoms which they produce, always mutually destroy each other when they meet together in the system. The stronger annihilates the weaker ; nor is it difficult to conceive how this is performed. Two dissimilar diseases may co-exist in the body, because their dissimilitude would allow of their occupying two distinct regions. But, in the present case, the stronger disease which makes its appearance, exercises an influence upon the same parts as the old one, and even throws itself, in preference, upon those which have till now been attacked by the latter, so that the old disease finding no other organ to act upon, is necessarily extinguished.® Or to express it in other terms, as soon as the vital powers, which have till then been deranged by a morbific cause, are attacked with greater energy by a new power very analogous to the former, but more intense, they no longer receive any impression but from the latter, while the preceding one, reduced to a state of mere dynamic power without matter, must cease to exist. ' See the note attached to § 26. 2 In the same way that the light of a lamp is rapidly effaced from the retina by a sunbeam which strikes the eye with greater force. § 46. Many examples might be adduced where nature has cured diseases homoeopathically by other diseases which excited similar symptoms. But if precise and indisputable facts alone be required, it will be necessary to confine our- selves to the few diseases which arise from some permanent