Aphorism 194
§ 194 It is not useful, either in acute local diseases of recent origin or in local affections that have…
§ 194 It is not useful, either in acute local diseases of recent origin or in local affections that have…
§ 193 By means of this medicine, employed only internally (and, if the disease be but of recent origin, often…
§ 192 This is best effected when, in the investigation of the case of disease, along with the exact character…
§ 191 This is confirmed in the most unambiguous manner by experience, which shows in all cases that every powerful…
§ 190 All true medical treatment of a disease on the external parts of the body that has occurred from…
§ 189 And yet very little reflection will suffice to convince us that no external malady (not occasioned by some…
§ 188 These affections were considered to be merely topical, and were therefore called local diseases, as if they were…
§ 187 But those affections, alterations and ailments appearing on the external parts, that do not arise from any external…
§ 186 § 186 Fifth Edition Those so-called local maladies which have been produced a short time previously, solely by…
§ 185 Among the one-sided disease an important place is occupied by the so-called local maladies, by which term is…
§ 184 § 184 Fifth Edition In like manner, after each new dose of medicine has exhausted its action, the…
§ 183 Whenever, therefore, the dose of the first medicine ceases to have a beneficial effect (if the newly developed…
§ 182 Thus the imperfect selection of the medicament, which was in this case almost inevitable owing to the too…
§ 181 Let is not be objected that the accessory phenomena and new symptoms of this disease that now appear…
§ 180 In this case the medicine, which has been chosen as well as was possible, but which, for the…
§ 179 More frequently, however, the medicine first chosen in such a case will be only partially, that is to…
§ 178 It will, no doubt, sometimes happen that this medicine, selected in strict observance of the homoeopathic law, furnishes…
§ 177 In order to meet most successfully such a case as this, which is of very rare occurrence, we…
§ 176 There are, however, still a few diseases, which, after the most careful initial examination (§ 84 – §…
§ 175 In one-sided diseases of the first kind it is often to be attributed to the medical observer’s want…
§ 174 Their principal symptom may be either an internal complaint (e.g. a headache of many years’ duration, a diarrhoea…
§ 173 The only diseases that seem to have but few symptoms, and on that account to be less amenable…
§ 172 A similar difficulty in the way of the cure occurs from the symptoms of the disease being too…
§ 171 § 171 Fifth Edition In non-venereal chronic disease, those, therefore, that arise from psora, we often require, in…
§ 170 Hence in this as in every case where a change of the morbid state has occurred, the remaining…
§ 169 § 169 fifth Edition If, on the first examination of a disease and the first selection of a…
§ 168 We shall then be able much more readily to discover, among the known medicines, an analogue to the…
§ 167 Thus if there occur, during the use of this imperfectly homoeopathic remedy first employed, accessory symptoms of some…
§ 166 Such a case is, however, very rare, owing to the increased number of medicines whose pure effects are…
§ 165 If, however, among the symptoms of the remedy selected, there be none that accurately resemble the distinctive (characteristic),…
§ 164 The small number of homoeopathic symptoms present in the best selected medicine is no obstacle to the cure…
§ 163 In this case we cannot indeed expect from this medicine a complete, untroubled cure; for during its use…
§ 162 Sometimes happens, owing to the moderate number of medicines yet known with respect to their true, pure action,…
§ 161 § 161 Fifth Edition When I here limit the so-called homoeopathic aggravation, or rather the primary action of…
§ 160 But as the dose of a homoeopathic remedy can scarcely ever be made so small that it shall…
§ 159 § 159 Fifth Edition The smaller the dose of the homoeopathic remedy is, so much the slighter and…
§ 158 This slight homoeopathic aggravation during the first hours – a very good prognostic that the acute disease will…
§ 157 § 157 Fifth Edition But though it is certain that a homoeopathically selected remedy does, by reason of…
§ 156 There is, however, almost no homoeopathic medicine, be it ever so suitably chosen, that, especially if it should…
§ 155 § 155 Fifth Edition I say without any considerable disturbance. For in the employment of this most appropriate…
§ 154 If the antitype constructed from the list of symptoms of the most suitable medicine contain those peculiar, uncommon,…
§ 153 § 153 Fifth Edition In this search for a homoeopathic specific remedy, that is to say, in this…
§ 152 The worse of the acute disease is, of so much the more numerous and striking symptoms is it…
§ 151 But if the patient complain of a few violent sufferings, the physician will usually find, on investigation, several…
§ 150 If a patient complain of one or more trivial symptoms, that have been only observed a short time…
§ 149 § 149 Fifth Edition When the suitable homoeopathic remedy has been thus selected and rightly employed, the acute…
§ 148 § 148 Fifth Edition A medicine selected in this manner, which has the power and the tendency to…
§ 147 Whichever of these medicines that have been investigated as to their power of altering man’s health we find…
§ 146 The third point of the business of a true physician relates to the judicious employment of the artificial…
§ 145 § 145 Fifth Edition Of a truth, it is only by a very considerable store of medicines accurately…
§ 144 From such a materia medica everything that is conjectural, all that is mere assertion or imaginary should be…
§ 143 If we have thus tested on the healthy individual a considerable number of simple medicines and carefully and…
§ 142 But how some symptoms 1 of the simple medicine employed for a curative purpose can be distinguished amongst…
§ 141 But the best provings of the pure effects of simple medicines in altering the human health, and of…
§ 140 If the person cannot write, the physician must be informed by him every day of what has occurred…
§ 139 When the physician does not make the trial of the medicine on himself, but gives it to another…
§ 138 All the sufferings, accidents and changes of the health of the experimenter during the action of a medicine…
§ 137 The more moderate, within certain limits, the doses of the medicine used for such experiments are – provided…
§ 136 Although, as has been said, a medicine, on being proved on healthy subjects, cannot develop in one person…
§ 135 The whole of the elements of disease a medicine is capable of producing can only be brought to…
§ 134 All external influences, and more especially medicines, possess the property of producing in the health of the living…
§ 133 On experiencing any particular sensation from the medicine, it is useful, indeed necessary, in order to determine the…
§ 132 But when the object is, without reference to the sequential order of the phenomena and the duration of…
§ 131 If, however, in order to ascertain anything at all, the same medicine must be given to the same…
§ 130 If, at the very commencement, the first dose administered shall have been sufficiently strong, this advantage is gained,…
§ 129 If the effects that result from such a dose are but slight, a few more globules may be…
§ 128 § 128 Fifth Edition The most recent observations have shown that medicinal substances, when taken in their crude…
§ 127 The medicines must be tested on both males and females, in order also to reveal the alterations of…
§ 126 § 126 Fifth Edition The person who is proving the medicine must during the whole time of the…
§ 125 During all the time the experiment lasts the diet must be strictly regulated; it should be as much…
§ 124 For these experiments every medicinal substance must be employed quite alone and perfectly pure, without the admixture of…
§ 123 Each of these medicines must be taken in a perfectly simple, unadulterated form; the indigenous plants in the…
§ 122 In these experiments – on which depends the exactitude of the whole medical art, and the weal of…
§ 121 In proving medicines to ascertain their effects on the healthy body, it must be borne in mind that…
§ 120 Therefore medicines, on which depend man’s life and death, disease and health, must be thoroughly and most carefully…
§ 119 As certainly as every species of plant differs in its external form, mode of life and growth, in…
§ 118 Every medicine exhibits peculiar actions on the human frame, which are not produced in exactly the same manner…
§ 117 To the latter category belong the so-called idiosyncrasies, by which are meant peculiar corporeal constitutions which, although otherwise…
§ 116 Some symptoms are produced by the medicines more frequently – that is to say, in many individuals, others…
§ 115 Among these symptoms, there occur in the case of some medicines not a few which are partially, or…
§ 114 With the exception of these narcotic substances, in experiments with moderate doses of medicine on healthy bodies, we…
§ 113 The only exceptions to this are the narcotic medicines. As they, in their primary action, take away sometimes…
§ 112 In those older prescriptions of the often dangerous effects of medicines ingested in excessively large doses we notice…
§ 111 The agreement of my observations on the pure effects of medicines with these older ones – although they…
§ 110 I saw, moreover, that the morbid lesions which previous authors had observed to result from medicinal substances when…
§ 109 I was the first that opened up this path, which I have pursued with a perseverance that could…
§ 108 There is, therefore, no other possible way in which the peculiar effects of medicines on the health of…
§ 107 If, in order to ascertain this, medicines be given to sick persons only, even though they be administered…
§ 106 The whole pathogenetic effect of the several medicines must be known; that is to say, all the morbid…
§ 105 The second point of the business of a true physician related to acquiring a knowledge of the instruments…
Ground Plan of Organon: The book begins with a preface, table of contents, and introduction. Organon of Medicine consists of 291 aphorisms in the 6th edition, whereas the 5th edition contained 294 aphorisms. PartsA. The Doctrinal Part (§ 1-71)B. The Practical Part (§ 72 – 291)ConclusionParts Organon is divided into mainly two parts: A. The…
§ 104 When the totality of the symptoms that specially mark and distinguish the case of disease or, in other…
§ 103 In the same manner as has here been taught relative to the epidemic disease, which are generally of…
§ 102 In the course of writing down the symptoms of several cases of this kind the sketch of the…
§ 101 It may easily happen that in the first case of an epidemic disease that presents itself to the…
§ 100 In investigating the totality of the symptoms of epidemic and sporadic diseases it is quite immaterial whether or…
§ 99 On the whole, the investigation of acute diseases, or of such as have existed but a short time,…
§ 98 Now, as certainly as we should listen particularly to the patient’s description of his sufferings and sensations, and…
§ 97 Other individuals of an opposite character, however, partly from indolence, partly from false modesty, partly from a kind…
§ 96 Besides this, patients themselves differ so much in their dispositions, that some, especially the so-called hypochondriacs and other…