Organon of homœopathic medicine. / by Samuel Hahnemann.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1836
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    example, as loss of appetite, insonmolency, &c.) acquire a still greater degree of precision ; on the other, the special and more marked symptoms, which are even rare in epidemics, and belong elsewhere to a small number of diseases only, develope themselves and form the character of the disease.* It is true, that persons attacked with an epidemic have all a disease arising from the same source, and consequently equal; but the entire extent of an affection of this nature, togfether with the totality of the symptoms—a knowledge of which is necessary to form a complete image of the morbid state, and to choose according to that the homoeopathic remedy most in harmony with the ensemble of the symptoms—cannot be observed in the case of a single patient; in order to arrive at these, it will be requisite to abstract them from a view of the sufferings of several patients of different constitutions. • The physician who has already in a first case discerned an approxi- mate homoeopathic remedy will, by a study of successive ones, be ena- bled to prove whether the choice he made was appropriate, or this will point out to him a remedy that is still more suitable than the former, or even one that is better than all others. § 103. In the same manner as is here taught in reference to epidemic, and chiefly acute diseases, I had to investigate those of a miasmatic and chronic character, (always remaining identical in their nature,) and particularly psora. This examination was conducted with much more accuracy than had hitherto been observed, in order to grasp the disease in its entire compass, since different patients are affected with dissimilar symptoms, and each particular case embraces but one disjointed part, as it were, of the symptoms constituting the totality of one and the same disease. Hence it is manifest, that the totality of the symptoms appertaining to such a chronic malady, to psora in particular, could only be collected by the examination of numerous individual patients, and without obtaining an entire view, and forming a collective image of that malady, the medicines (viz. the antipsorics) which are efficient for its entire removal, and which, at the same time, are the true remedies for the particular cases of it, could not be discovered.